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chore: stop tracking ffmpeg/ffprobe dev-seed binaries

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They're >100MB each, redundant with the app's existing first-run download
(ffmpegSetup.ts), and blocked publishing the repo to GitHub (100MB file
limit). Gitignore them instead; npm run dev falls back to that download
when the seed is absent. Working-tree copies are kept locally for dev.
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Devon Bontrager
2026-07-16 12:00:21 -04:00
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@@ -6,15 +6,17 @@ asar archive) and are committed here so a fresh clone builds and runs.
`ffmpeg.exe` + `ffprobe.exe` are **NOT shipped in the installer** — they're the bulk of
its size, so they're downloaded on first run into `userData/bin` (see
`src/main/ffmpegSetup.ts`, pinned in `src/main/config.ts`). The copies here are used only
as a **dev seed** — `ensureManagedFfmpeg` copies them into `userData/bin` so `npm run dev`
needs no download — and are excluded from the shipped build.
`src/main/ffmpegSetup.ts`, pinned in `src/main/config.ts`). Dropping copies here is an
**optional dev seed** — `ensureManagedFfmpeg` copies them into `userData/bin` so
`npm run dev` needs no download — but at ~107MB each (over GitHub's 100MB file limit)
they're **gitignored, not committed**. Without the seed, `npm run dev` just triggers the
same first-run download the shipped app uses.
```
resources/bin/
├── yt-dlp.exe (bundled + committed)
├── ffmpeg.exe (dev seed only — excluded from the installer)
├── ffprobe.exe (dev seed only — excluded from the installer)
├── ffmpeg.exe (optional dev seed — gitignored, excluded from the installer)
├── ffprobe.exe (optional dev seed — gitignored, excluded from the installer)
└── aria2c.exe (optional, bundled)
```