Clip retries: give up immediately when the source has no footage at that window (empty recording / past the end)

OP OpenVibers committed 15 Sept 2026 · baf73a900d · 1 file, +4 −1

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CMxJm1dB8rdsaMSgNjVa82

Changes

ddiff --git a/server/vod/clip-jobs.js b/server/vod/clip-jobs.js
iindex 9294cb8..f7a82ff 100644
---- a/server/vod/clip-jobs.js
++++ b/server/vod/clip-jobs.js
@@@ -85,7 +85,10 @@ async function _recutClip(clipId, { reason = 'recut' } = {}) {
  
  function fail(clipId, clip, attempt, error) {
      const msg = String(error || 'cut failed').slice(0, 500);
--    const more = attempt < MAX_ATTEMPTS;
++    // Nothing to retry when the source itself has no footage there (empty recording, window
++    // past the end of what was captured): give up now instead of burning the whole ladder.
++    const hopeless = /No decodable footage|Error opening input: End of file|Source VOD no longer exists|Invalid data found when processing input/i.test(msg);
++    const more = attempt < MAX_ATTEMPTS && !hopeless;
      const mins = BACKOFF_MIN[Math.min(attempt - 1, BACKOFF_MIN.length - 1)];
      const nextAt = more ? new Date(Date.now() + mins * 60000).toISOString().replace('T', ' ').slice(0, 19) : null;
      db.run("UPDATE clips SET status = 'failed', cut_error = ?, cut_next_at = ? WHERE id = ?", [msg, nextAt, clipId]);