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feat(website): track the demo loops, declare them as videos, keep them out of the page load - #980

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Summary

Follow-up to #978: the demo loops are now tracked, checked in CI, declared to search engines, and lighter on the page they sit in.

Tracking. The loops live on R2, so nothing in the repository said which files were online, and nothing in CI would notice a page naming a loop nobody uploaded.

  • website/media/loops.json: every published file of the current cut by size and SHA-256, plus each loop's duration.
  • website/scripts/media/publish-loops.mjs: uploads a cut (cf CLI) and writes that record and the generated block of src/lib/demo-loop.ts (base URL, durations, publication date), so code and record cannot disagree.
  • website/scripts/media/encode-loops.sh: the encoder settings.
  • website/scripts/check-loops.mjs, a new step in the docs workflow (npm run check:loops -- --live): every loop the pages use is published, and every recorded file answers on the CDN at its recorded size. Paced under the zone's per-IP rate limit (an unpaced first version tripped it).
  • website/media/README.md: making a new cut, and the Cloudflare set-up.

The masters and the production pipeline that makes them are archived outside this repository (R2 masters/, off the public domain, and the openscreen-demo-production repo).

SEO. Each page that presents a loop declares it as a schema.org VideoObject in the server HTML: a translated title (new, 18 loops x 8 locales), the existing translated screen-reader label as description, poster, 1080p H.264 file, duration and publication date. A homepage stage declares every tab's loop, since each is one click away; nothing is declared where a loop is not shown. Homepage: 11 VideoObjects, feature pages 3-4, no duplicates, all required fields.

Performance. Lighthouse, median of three runs, before the loops landed vs now:

page perf LCP CLS
home desktop 98 → 98 1.12 → 1.18 s 0
home mobile 75 → 75 6.0 → 6.3 s (simulated, noisy) 0
captions desktop 99 → 98 0.92 → 1.11 s 0
captions mobile 83 → 83 4.65 → 4.64 s 0

SEO and best practices 100 everywhere, before and after. The captions page had regressed to 1.26 s with #978 alone: its first loop's poster (the page's largest paint) only appeared after hydration, and a 1 MB clip downloaded inside the page load. The poster is now a native lazy <img> in the server HTML and no video source is attached before the load event. Preloading the poster at high priority was measured and dropped (mobile LCP 5.3 s).

Type of change

  • Feature
  • Performance

Release impact

  • No release note needed

Desktop impact

  • Not platform-specific

Testing

npm run typecheck, npm test, npm run i18n:check, check:media, check:recreation, check:loops -- --live (and shown to fail on a missing file and on a one-byte size mismatch), full npm run build in all eight locales, VideoObject nodes parsed out of the built HTML, Lighthouse 12 against a production build of this branch and of the commit before #978.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Demo videos now display a poster image while loading and load video content when it’s needed near the viewport, helping pages feel more responsive.
    • Demo videos include localized titles and structured video information for search engines across supported languages.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Demo playback now respects autoplay settings and explicit playback requests, so videos play only when permitted or requested.

The loops live on R2, so nothing in the repository said which files were
online, and nothing in CI would notice a page naming a loop nobody uploaded:
the page would just show an empty box.

- media/loops.json: every published file of the current cut, by size and
  SHA-256, and each loop's duration.
- scripts/media/publish-loops.mjs: uploads a cut with the cf CLI and writes
  that record, plus the generated block in src/lib/demo-loop.ts (base URL,
  durations, publication date), so the code and the record cannot disagree.
- scripts/media/encode-loops.sh: the encoder settings, out of a scratchpad.
- scripts/check-loops.mjs, run by the docs workflow with --live: the names
  the pages use are all published, and every recorded file answers on the CDN
  at its recorded size. Paced to six requests per 0.75 s, under the zone's
  per-IP rate limit (the first, unpaced version tripped it).
- media/README.md: how a new cut is made, and the Cloudflare set-up.
Every page that presents a loop now carries its schema.org VideoObject in
the server HTML: a name and a description in the page's language (a new
short title per loop, translated, and the existing screen-reader label),
the poster as thumbnail, the 1080p H.264 file as content, the duration and
the cut's publication date from the publish record. A homepage stage
declares all of its tabs' loops, since each is one click away; nothing is
declared on a page that does not show the loop, which is the line Google's
structured-data policy draws.

The comment that ruled VideoObject out was about the recreation's webcam
fragment, which is still not declared; it now says so.
…keep video out of the page load

Lighthouse on the captions page, whose first loop sits in the first screen:
the loop's poster is the page's largest paint, and it only appeared once the
bundle had hydrated (859 ms render delay), while a 1 MB clip downloaded
inside the page load. Desktop LCP went from 0.92 s before the loops to 1.26 s.

- The poster is now an <img loading="lazy"> in the server HTML, under the
  video: the browser fetches it natively near the viewport, before any
  script, and a reader without JavaScript sees it.
- No video source before the window's load event.

Desktop LCP 1.26 s -> 1.11 s, mobile back to the pre-loops figure (4.64 s
simulated against 4.65 s). Preloading the poster at high priority was tried
and dropped: on a throttled phone it pushed LCP to 5.3 s.
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Walkthrough

The change adds a demo-loop media publishing pipeline and live manifest checks. It updates demo-loop loading to render posters separately from videos and adds localized VideoObject metadata for loop pages.

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Demo loop delivery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Encode and publish demo-loop media
website/scripts/media/encode-loops.sh, website/scripts/media/publish-loops.mjs, website/media/loops.json, website/src/lib/demo-loop.ts, website/media/README.md
The encoding script creates video variants and posters. The publishing script uploads files, records their metadata and durations, and updates generated site metadata. The manifest and README record the media and publishing workflow.
Validate loop manifest in CI
website/scripts/check-loops.mjs, website/package.json, .github/workflows/docs.yml
The checker compares the manifest with site metadata and optionally checks CDN files. The package script and docs workflow run the live check.
Render posters and defer video sources
website/src/components/DemoLoop/index.tsx, website/src/components/DemoLoop/styles.module.css
DemoLoop renders a lazy-loaded poster image. It adds video sources after page load when its visibility and playback conditions are met.
Declare localized VideoObject metadata
website/src/lib/structured-data.ts, website/src/components/DemoLoop/labels.ts, website/src/components/DemoLoop/index.tsx, website/src/components/Films/index.tsx, website/i18n/code.source.json, website/i18n/*/code.json
The site creates VideoObject data from loop metadata and localized titles. Films declares metadata for all tab loops, and the locale files add translated titles and descriptions.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

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  participant Encoder as encode-loops.sh
  participant FFmpeg as ffmpeg
  participant Publisher as publish-loops.mjs
  participant FFprobe as ffprobe
  participant R2 as Cloudflare R2
  participant Manifest as media/loops.json
  participant Metadata as src/lib/demo-loop.ts
  Encoder->>FFmpeg: encode video variants and poster
  Publisher->>FFprobe: read 1080p H.264 durations
  Publisher->>R2: upload encoded files
  Publisher->>Manifest: write cut and file metadata
  Publisher->>Metadata: update generated URL, durations, and date
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 96380

Publication can leave incomplete or inconsistent demo-loop media, while a stalled CDN request can delay the docs workflow. Resolve these issues before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 96380

The changes remain focused on public website media, with no demonstrated new access to privileged credentials. The main concern is that publication does not enforce the documented rule against rewriting an existing cut, which can undermine rollback. Deployment checks reduce accidental breakage but cannot undo changes already made to published media.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: The new publisher sends uploads to the requested cut without enforcing the documented never-rewrite contract. Reusing an active cut can alter media referenced by existing pages before validation or deployment succeeds; reverting website code would still reference the same keys. Separate metadata writes also leave recoverable local drift after interruption. Fresh-folder instructions and deployment gating mitigate normal publication, but do not enforce namespace ownership or undo remote changes.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated remote-write path targets public demo media under loops/ in openscreen-media. Its effective exposure is website visitors and crawlers consuming those keys. Broader account, private-master, or cross-environment exposure cannot be determined without the publisher credential and bucket policies.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A pull-request author can change both the manifest base and matching metadata to direct live HEAD checks elsewhere. This does not establish a newly privileged attack path: the same build already executes repository-controlled package scripts, requests carry no explicit credentials, and the check has no deployment or publication authority. Runner-level outbound isolation remains unverified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The build uses read-only contents permission and checkout without persisted credentials. Media checks issue unauthenticated HEAD requests. Documentation describes CDN GET/HEAD restrictions, disabled r2.dev access, and per-IP rate limiting, but no deployed configuration was supplied to verify those controls.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Missing expected variants and live size mismatches fail validation before website deployment. These are useful drift controls, not an atomic publication boundary: the publisher accepts the directory subset before validation, and the encoder's existing-poster sentinel does not prove all variants remain complete.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Enforce the fresh-cut contract before remote mutation, allowing retries only when content identity agrees. Preflight complete variants and generated markers, then stage local record updates together. These measures would strengthen publication ownership and rollback; they are proposals, not evidence of an exploitable security vulnerability.
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Review comments at @website/scripts/check-loops.mjs:
- Line 60: Add a finite per-attempt timeout and abort signal to the fetch call
in the CDN check so a stalled request rejects; preserve the existing retry and
failed-URL reporting behavior so the batch can proceed.

Review comments at @website/scripts/media/encode-loops.sh:
- Line 21: Update the skip condition in the loop-processing flow of the
encode-loops script: do not use the poster file alone to identify a completed
encode. Write the poster to a temporary file and rename it into place only after
a successful encode, and skip only when all five expected outputs exist.

Review comments at @website/scripts/media/publish-loops.mjs:
- Around line 82-90: Before the upload loop guarded by `opts["no-upload"]`,
check whether the `loops/${opts.cut}/` cut already has published objects and
reject the upload if it does; do not let `cf r2 objects put` overwrite existing
keys. Only allow recovery through an explicit, verified path that preserves
every published object’s bytes.
- Around line 52-80: Before the upload and metadata-writing steps, validate that
the files collected by the publisher include every required variant for each
loop name; reject the cut with a clear error listing missing files if any are
absent. Keep this completeness check after the existing filename scan and before
any publication side effects.

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  • website/i18n/fr/code.json
  • website/i18n/ja/code.json
  • website/i18n/pt-BR/code.json
  • website/i18n/zh-CN/code.json
  • website/i18n/zh-TW/code.json
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  • website/media/loops.json
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  • website/scripts/media/publish-loops.mjs
  • website/src/components/DemoLoop/index.tsx
  • website/src/components/DemoLoop/labels.ts
  • website/src/components/DemoLoop/styles.module.css
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From the review of #980:
- publish-loops refuses an incomplete cut (a loop the site names, or any
  loop in --dir, without all five files) before uploading or writing
  anything.
- publish-loops refuses to rewrite a published cut: it lists the folder in
  R2 and compares each object's ETag, the MD5 of a single-part upload, with
  the local file. Different bytes, or objects --dir lacks, stop the run with
  nothing sent; equal files are skipped, so re-running an interrupted upload
  is safe. Tested on the live cut: 90 files recognised, none re-sent.
- encode-loops writes each output under a temporary name and renames it once
  its encode succeeded, and skips a master only when all five outputs exist,
  rather than trusting a poster that may be all an interrupted run left.
- check-loops gives every CDN request a 15 s deadline, so a stalled
  connection fails its URL instead of holding the workflow.
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