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fix: treat recordings without audio as a non-error transcription state #637

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40 changes: 40 additions & 0 deletions src/components/ai-edition/TranscriptionStatus.test.tsx
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Expand Up @@ -114,4 +114,44 @@ describe("TranscriptionStatusDot", () => {
expect(container.querySelector("svg")).toBeNull();
expect(container.querySelector("span")).toHaveAttribute("title", "mediaStage.transcriptReady");
});

it("renders amber dot and clean title for silent media (no-audio)", () => {
const { container } = render(
<TranscriptionStatusDot
view={{
assetId: "a",
status: "failed",
failure: {
kind: "no-audio",
message:
"No decodable audio in /tmp/silent.mp4: Output file #0 does not contain any stream",
},
}}
/>,
);
const span = container.querySelector("span");
expect(span).toHaveStyle({ background: "#f59e0b" });
expect(span).toHaveAttribute("title", "mediaStage.noAudioTrack");
});

it("renders danger dot and detail title for actual error failure", () => {
const { container } = render(
<TranscriptionStatusDot
view={{
assetId: "a",
status: "failed",
failure: {
kind: "error",
message: "whisper-server exited unexpectedly",
},
}}
/>,
);
const span = container.querySelector("span");
expect(span).toHaveStyle({ background: "var(--danger)" });
expect(span).toHaveAttribute(
"title",
"mediaStage.transcriptionFailed — whisper-server exited unexpectedly",
);
});
});
11 changes: 9 additions & 2 deletions src/components/ai-edition/TranscriptionStatus.tsx
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Expand Up @@ -105,7 +105,10 @@ export function TranscriptionStatusDot({
</Loader2>
);
}
const { fill, halo } = DOT_COLOR[view.status];
const isSilence = view.failure?.kind === "no-audio" || view.failure?.kind === "unsupported-audio";
const { fill, halo } = isSilence
? { fill: "#f59e0b", halo: "0 0 0 3px rgba(245, 158, 11, 0.2)" }
: DOT_COLOR[view.status];
return (
<span
style={{
Expand All @@ -117,7 +120,11 @@ export function TranscriptionStatusDot({
flexShrink: 0,
}}
aria-label={label}
title={view.failure?.message ? `${label} — ${view.failure.message}` : label}
title={
view.failure?.kind === "error" && view.failure?.message
? `${label} — ${view.failure.message}`
: label
}
/>
);
}
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15 changes: 12 additions & 3 deletions src/components/ai-edition/v4/MediaStage.tsx
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Expand Up @@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ export function MediaStage({
: { assetId: "", status: "idle" };
const selectedBusy =
selectedTranscription.status === "running" || selectedTranscription.status === "queued";
const selectedSilence =
selectedTranscription.failure?.kind === "no-audio" ||
selectedTranscription.failure?.kind === "unsupported-audio";

const handleImport = async () => {
if (!projectId) {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -308,13 +311,17 @@ export function MediaStage({
borderRadius: 9999,
background:
selectedTranscription.status === "failed"
? "var(--danger-soft)"
? selectedSilence
? "var(--warn-soft)"
: "var(--danger-soft)"
: selectedTranscription.status === "ready"
? "var(--success-soft)"
: "var(--accent-soft)",
color:
selectedTranscription.status === "failed"
? "var(--danger)"
? selectedSilence
? "var(--warn)"
: "var(--danger)"
: selectedTranscription.status === "ready"
? "var(--success)"
: "var(--accent)",
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -452,7 +459,9 @@ export function MediaStage({
{selectedBusy
? transcriptionLabel(selectedTranscription)
: selectedTranscription.status === "failed"
? t("mediaStage.generationFailedHint")
? selectedSilence
? t("mediaStage.noAudioTrackHint")
: t("mediaStage.generationFailedHint")
: t("mediaStage.notGeneratedHint")}
</span>
)}
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23 changes: 23 additions & 0 deletions src/lib/ai-edition/store/transcriptionStore.test.ts
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Expand Up @@ -195,6 +195,29 @@ describe("useTranscriptionStore", () => {
expect(transcribeMocks.transcribeAsset).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
});

it("remembers NoAudioTrackError as a no-audio verdict and does not toast an error", async () => {
const err = Object.assign(
new Error(
"Error invoking remote method 'stt:transcribe': NoAudioTrackError: No decodable audio in /path/to/rec.mp4: Output file #0 does not contain any stream",
),
{ name: "NoAudioTrackError" },
);
transcribeMocks.transcribeAsset.mockRejectedValue(err);
loadDocument(makeDoc(["asset_1"]));

const { sync } = useTranscriptionStore.getState();
sync(useProjectStore.getState().document);
await whenTranscriptionIdle();

const job = useTranscriptionStore.getState().jobs.asset_1;
expect(job?.status).toBe("failed");
expect(job?.failure?.kind).toBe("no-audio");
expect(useProjectStore.getState().document?.assets[0].transcriptionFailure?.kind).toBe(
"no-audio",
);
expect(toastMocks.error).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
});

it("skips an asset that already carries a persisted failure on a fresh load", async () => {
const doc = makeDoc(["asset_1"]);
loadDocument({
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22 changes: 22 additions & 0 deletions src/lib/ai-edition/transcription/status.test.ts
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Expand Up @@ -64,6 +64,28 @@ describe("classifyTranscriptionError", () => {
).toBe("no-audio");
});

it("recognises native extraction NoAudioTrackError", () => {
const err = Object.assign(
new Error("No decodable audio in /tmp/rec.mp4: Output file #0 does not contain any stream"),
{
name: "NoAudioTrackError",
},
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Test the error.name classifier without a matching message.

The native test message contains "No decodable audio". The message pattern classifies it as "no-audio" even if the name === "NoAudioTrackError" check fails. Use a non-matching message in this test, or add a separate case.

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-			new Error("No decodable audio in /tmp/rec.mp4: Output file `#0` does not contain any stream"),
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new Error("No decodable audio in /tmp/rec.mp4: Output file #0 does not contain any stream"),
{
name: "NoAudioTrackError",
},
new Error("Native extraction failed"),
{
name: "NoAudioTrackError",
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In `@src/lib/ai-edition/transcription/status.test.ts` around lines 69 - 72, Update
the test case around the NoAudioTrackError fixture to use an error message that
does not match the “No decodable audio” classifier, so the expected result
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);
const failure = classifyTranscriptionError(err);
expect(failure.kind).toBe("no-audio");
expect(isPermanentFailure(failure.kind)).toBe(true);
});

it("recognises remote IPC wrapped NoAudioTrackError", () => {
const failure = classifyTranscriptionError(
new Error(
"Error invoking remote method 'stt:transcribe': NoAudioTrackError: No decodable audio in C:\\test\\rec.mp4: Output file #0 does not contain any stream",
),
);
expect(failure.kind).toBe("no-audio");
expect(isPermanentFailure(failure.kind)).toBe(true);
});

it("recognises an audio codec the caption path cannot read", () => {
const failure = classifyTranscriptionError(
new Error("Audio codec not supported for captions: ac-3"),
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13 changes: 10 additions & 3 deletions src/lib/ai-edition/transcription/status.ts
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Expand Up @@ -117,12 +117,19 @@ export type PersistableFailureKind = Exclude<TranscriptionFailureKind, "error">;

/**
* Map an exception out of `transcribeAsset` onto a failure the UI can explain.
* The two deterministic cases come from `extractMono16kWebDemuxer` — it is the
* only layer that knows whether the container actually holds audio.
* The deterministic silence cases come from `electron/stt/extractAudio` (`NoAudioTrackError`,
* "No decodable audio") or renderer extraction (`extractMono16kWebDemuxer`).
*/
export function classifyTranscriptionError(error: unknown): TranscriptionFailure {
const message = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
if (/no audio track/i.test(message) || /zero audio frames/i.test(message)) {
const name = (error as { name?: string })?.name ?? "";
if (
name === "NoAudioTrackError" ||
/noaudiotrackerror/i.test(message) ||
/no decodable audio/i.test(message) ||
/no audio track/i.test(message) ||
/zero audio frames/i.test(message)
) {
return { kind: "no-audio", message };
}
if (/audio codec not supported/i.test(message)) {
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