feat(setup): fetch ffmpeg on first run instead of bundling it #11

2026-07-08T05:41:59-04:00

debont80 commented

2026-07-08 05:41:59 -04:00

Ship a smaller installer that no longer carries ffmpeg.exe/ffprobe.exe
(the bulk of its size). On first run they are downloaded from a pinned
upstream archive (gyan 8.1.2), verified against a pinned SHA-256, and
unpacked with the OS tar.exe into the managed userData/bin dir -- the
same place as the self-updating yt-dlp, so they survive app updates and
portable re-extraction. A hard onboarding gate blocks the app until they
are present, with a "locate existing ffmpeg" folder-picker fallback for
offline machines and a Repair action in Settings > About.

The updater's streaming/checksum/redirect/idle-timeout download loop is
extracted to lib/verifiedDownload.streamVerifiedFile and shared by both
the app-installer download and the ffmpeg fetch; the updater's public
behaviour and error strings are unchanged (its boundary tests still pass).
No new npm dependency: extraction uses the System32 bsdtar resolved by
absolute path (audit F3).

Note: this commit also carries pre-existing, in-progress aria2c/network
and updater-token work that was already uncommitted in the working tree
and is entangled with the above in shared files (updater.ts, ipc.ts,
preload/index.ts, mockApi.ts, shared/ipc.ts, plus the settings/network
files and aria2c.exe). It was not cleanly separable by path, so it is
included here rather than split out.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 noreply@anthropic.com

Ship a smaller installer that no longer carries ffmpeg.exe/ffprobe.exe (the bulk of its size). On first run they are downloaded from a pinned upstream archive (gyan 8.1.2), verified against a pinned SHA-256, and unpacked with the OS tar.exe into the managed userData/bin dir -- the same place as the self-updating yt-dlp, so they survive app updates and portable re-extraction. A hard onboarding gate blocks the app until they are present, with a "locate existing ffmpeg" folder-picker fallback for offline machines and a Repair action in Settings > About. The updater's streaming/checksum/redirect/idle-timeout download loop is extracted to lib/verifiedDownload.streamVerifiedFile and shared by both the app-installer download and the ffmpeg fetch; the updater's public behaviour and error strings are unchanged (its boundary tests still pass). No new npm dependency: extraction uses the System32 bsdtar resolved by absolute path (audit F3). Note: this commit also carries pre-existing, in-progress aria2c/network and updater-token work that was already uncommitted in the working tree and is entangled with the above in shared files (updater.ts, ipc.ts, preload/index.ts, mockApi.ts, shared/ipc.ts, plus the settings/network files and aria2c.exe). It was not cleanly separable by path, so it is included here rather than split out. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

debont80 added 1 commit 2026-07-08 05:42:00 -04:00

feat(setup): fetch ffmpeg on first run instead of bundling it eb53de2ea5

Ship a smaller installer that no longer carries ffmpeg.exe/ffprobe.exe
(the bulk of its size). On first run they are downloaded from a pinned
upstream archive (gyan 8.1.2), verified against a pinned SHA-256, and
unpacked with the OS tar.exe into the managed userData/bin dir -- the
same place as the self-updating yt-dlp, so they survive app updates and
portable re-extraction. A hard onboarding gate blocks the app until they
are present, with a "locate existing ffmpeg" folder-picker fallback for
offline machines and a Repair action in Settings > About.

The updater's streaming/checksum/redirect/idle-timeout download loop is
extracted to lib/verifiedDownload.streamVerifiedFile and shared by both
the app-installer download and the ffmpeg fetch; the updater's public
behaviour and error strings are unchanged (its boundary tests still pass).
No new npm dependency: extraction uses the System32 bsdtar resolved by
absolute path (audit F3).

Note: this commit also carries pre-existing, in-progress aria2c/network
and updater-token work that was already uncommitted in the working tree
and is entangled with the above in shared files (updater.ts, ipc.ts,
preload/index.ts, mockApi.ts, shared/ipc.ts, plus the settings/network
files and aria2c.exe). It was not cleanly separable by path, so it is
included here rather than split out.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

debont80 merged commit 6db27b946f into main

2026-07-08 05:42:11 -04:00

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Reference: debont80/AeroFetch#11