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Summary

  • add Potato, Social, and Max video-export outcomes while keeping Social selected by default
  • make Potato a best-effort 10 MiB preset at 30 fps: normally 1080p, adaptively 720p only when a very long strategy reaches the 250 kbps floor
  • keep Social at 1080p / 30 fps with a best-effort 20 MiB target and Max at the existing 1080p / 60 fps behavior
  • calculate Potato/Social bitrate from planned duration, retry one oversized encode when a lower bitrate can help, and always save a successful result even if it remains over target
  • keep codec and bitrate details out of the dialog; Potato says “Aims for 10 MB. Tiny file, full strat.” and reports 720p before export when the adaptive threshold applies
  • hydrate the isolated screenshot providers before mounting offscreen frames, and keep screenshot text read-only, so debug and release exports render the same strategy cleanly
  • document the decision and cover policy, timing, filter construction, and user-facing copy with tests

UI

Export Video dialog with Potato selected

Investigation

Open the measured video-export blueprint

The exact 16-page Pearl .ica from the motivating user report now serves as a field benchmark at the normal 3-second step duration:

Preset Output Duration Finished size Target reading
Potato H.264 · 1920×1080 · 30 fps 54.500 s 9.650 MiB 0.350 MiB below 10 MiB
Social H.264 · 1920×1080 · 30 fps 54.500 s 15.907 MiB 4.093 MiB below 20 MiB
Max H.264 · 1920×1080 · 60 fps 54.250 s 17.517 MiB no size target

Source fingerprint: 908c2dd64e9cacaba50a3fcc15cbd32ee2dc4e734d3bae41e5de267027e91e90. The .ica, generated videos, and sampled strategy frames stay local; only aggregate measurements are included here.

The controlled 22-second tactical-motion comparison found the resolution crossover at the bitrate floor:

Requested bitrate 1080p / 30 VMAF 720p / 30 VMAF Potato behavior
450 kbps 92.025 90.030 keep 1080p
300 kbps 90.548 86.445 keep 1080p
250 kbps 80.169 84.163 output 720p

That makes Potato useful without making every small export unnecessarily soft. With its 9.25 MiB working budget, it crosses to 720p around 247–248 seconds. The benchmark is directional and content-dependent, so the adaptive rule stays deliberately narrow.

Verification

  • focused export/capture regression suite — 48 passed
  • full Flutter test suite — 427 passed, 1 existing skip
  • targeted flutter analyze on changed Dart/test files — no issues
  • full flutter analyze — only the existing pages_bar.dart:534 deprecation info
  • flutter build windows --debug — succeeded
  • exact field strategy, release mode — all three preset outputs probed and representative page 9 frames inspected
  • exact field strategy, debug mode — clean Potato replay with no Flutter exceptions; 54.500 s, 1920×1080 / 30 fps, 9.650 MiB
  • ordinary Potato encoder smoke — 22 s, 1920×1080 / 30 fps, 3.412 MiB
  • floor Potato encoder smoke — 248 s, 1280×720 / 30 fps, 7.652 MiB

Size semantics

10 MiB and 20 MiB are optimization targets, not gates. Account/server attachment limits can vary, encoder output is content-dependent, and a successfully created strategy video is still useful even when it needs another sharing path.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added Potato, Social, and Max video export quality presets.
    • Added quality selection, preset details, export summaries, and improved page-selection controls.
    • Added duration-aware frame rates, file-size targeting, and automatic retry handling.
    • Limited export step duration to 1–15 seconds.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved screenshot rendering consistency and read-only text behavior during captures.
    • Preserved screenshot mode across successful and failed exports.
  • Documentation

    • Added video export quality guidance and benchmark findings.

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Video export now supports Potato, Social, and Max presets. The selected preset controls frame rate, resolution, bitrate, timing, encoding retries, analytics, and dialog descriptions. Screenshot rendering now uses explicit provider hydration.

Video export quality presets

Layer / File(s) Summary
Quality policies and ADR updates
lib/services/video_export/video_export_quality.dart, docs/adr/..., test/video_export_quality_test.dart
Defines the three presets, duration-based bitrate policies, retry rules, adaptive Potato resolution, and related ADR updates.
FPS-aware export timing
lib/services/video_export/video_exporter.dart, test/video_export_timing_test.dart
Derives transition frames and planned duration from the selected preset FPS.
Quality-aware FFmpeg encoding
lib/services/video_export/ffmpeg_video_encoder.dart, test/ffmpeg_video_encoder_test.dart
Adds quality-specific filters and codecs, retry progress, oversized-output retries, temporary output replacement, and fallback handling.
Quality selection and export wiring
lib/widgets/dialogs/export_video_dialog.dart, test/export_video_dialog_quality_copy_test.dart
Adds preset selection, captions, analytics properties, centralized validation, and exporter wiring.
Pre-hydrated screenshot rendering
lib/screenshot/screenshot_view.dart, lib/widgets/save_and_load_button.dart, lib/widgets/draggable_widgets/text/text_widget.dart, test/screenshot_view_test.dart, test/text_widget_resilience_test.dart
Moves provider initialization into explicit hydration and validates screenshot-mode rendering and read-only text behavior.
Export investigation and local artifact handling
docs/investigations/video-export-discord-sweet-spot.html, .gitignore
Adds the export benchmark report and ignores local investigation artifacts.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5d463

Potato exports can fall back from 1080p to 720p while the success dialog still reports 1080p, which can mislead users about the saved video; export cleanup may also leave screenshot behavior altered for later work. These issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ExportDialog
  participant VideoExporter
  participant ScreenshotView
  participant FfmpegVideoEncoder
  participant FFmpeg
  ExportDialog->>VideoExporter: export selected quality
  VideoExporter->>ScreenshotView: hydrate providers and render frames
  VideoExporter->>FfmpegVideoEncoder: encode frames with quality and duration
  FfmpegVideoEncoder->>FFmpeg: apply filters and bitrate
  FFmpeg-->>FfmpegVideoEncoder: report progress and output size
  FfmpegVideoEncoder->>FFmpeg: retry oversized output with lower bitrate
  FfmpegVideoEncoder-->>VideoExporter: return encoded file
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This change adds Potato, Social, and Max video-export presets with duration-aware bitrate planning, a bounded oversized-output retry, adaptive Potato scaling, and preset-specific frame rates.

The reported Potato resolution mismatch was disproved by an executed two-attempt export: an oversized 1080p Potato encode retried at the readable 250 kbps floor, produced the documented 720p fallback, and successfully published the retry output. The export dialog already exposes the planned resolution before export, and the adaptive fallback is part of the documented Potato behavior.

Confidence Score: 5/5

No blocking failure remains.

The exercised oversized Potato export retry follows the documented adaptive-resolution behavior and successfully publishes its output.

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What T-Rex did

  • Ran the authored Flutter Potato validation with a fake FFmpeg process to simulate a 247-second export and exercise the retry path.
  • Observed that the first attempt advertised 1080p and produced an oversized output, while the second attempt used 250000 bps with a 1280×720 Lanczos filter and published the retry output.
  • The focused encoder and quality tests passed, confirming the adaptive Potato policy as intended.

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279-293: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove -quality 80 from the CBR argument list.

h264_mf uses AVEncCommonQuality for quality-based rate control. CBR uses -b:v and does not use this value.

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In `@lib/services/video_export/ffmpeg_video_encoder.dart` around lines 279 - 293,
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Added the exact field-strategy benchmark and fixed debug offscreen capture hydration in 2969110. Full suite: 424 passed with 1 existing skip; changed-file analysis is clean; Windows debug build and exact-strategy debug replay pass.\n\n@greptileai

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In `@lib/services/video_export/video_exporter.dart`:
- Around line 126-131: Update export’s finally cleanup to restore
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Addressed CodeRabbit's current-head cleanup finding in 8049b7e and kept the final PR diff focused in 1e87f99. Video export now restores the previous coordinate-system mode after success or failure; the full suite is 426 passed with 1 existing skip.\n\n@greptileai

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Add the blueprint investigation while keeping local benchmark evidence out of source.
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Wider dialog with labeled sections, quality comparison cards, a pages
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In `@docs/investigations/video-export-discord-sweet-spot.html`:
- Line 390: Update the paragraph describing Discord upload limits to distinguish
the FAQ’s 20 MB free upload limit from the API reference’s 10 MiB default
attachment limit, and present 20 MB as the current documented limit rather than
an anticipated product direction. Preserve the best-effort behavior for users
with lower limits and complex or lengthy exports.

In `@lib/widgets/dialogs/export_video_dialog.dart`:
- Around line 416-420: Update the success message construction around
outputHeight and the Potato export flow so it reports the final encoder output
height after adaptive bitrate retries, rather than the initial
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<section>
<h2 id="constraint">The constraint is duration, not a magic codec setting</h2>

<p>Discord’s official FAQ still documents a <strong>10 MB base maximum</strong> while saying it is experimenting with other upload limits and that selected users may see larger limits. Icarus’s product direction is to anticipate the move toward <strong>20 MB</strong>, but treat that number as a best-effort optimization rather than a promise. A user with a smaller limit may need another sharing path; an unusually complex or long strategy must still export successfully. See <a href="https://docs.discord.com/developers/reference#uploading-files">Discord’s upload reference</a> and <a href="https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/25444343291031-File-Attachments-FAQ">File Attachments FAQ</a>.</p>

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the Discord upload-limit rationale.

The linked FAQ states that the free upload limit is 20 MB as of August 2026. The Discord API reference separately states a 10 MiB default attachment limit. Update this text to distinguish these limits and remove the claim that 20 MB is only an anticipated product direction. (support.discord.com)

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In `@docs/investigations/video-export-discord-sweet-spot.html` at line 390, Update
the paragraph describing Discord upload limits to distinguish the FAQ’s 20 MB
free upload limit from the API reference’s 10 MiB default attachment limit, and
present 20 MB as the current documented limit rather than an anticipated product
direction. Preserve the best-effort behavior for users with lower limits and
complex or lengthy exports.

Comment on lines +416 to +420
outputHeight: estimatedSeconds == null
? 1080
: _quality.outputHeightForDuration(
estimatedSeconds,
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Report adaptive output height.

Line 416 reports the height from the initial duration policy. A Potato export can start at 1080p and retry at the 250 kbps floor with 720p output. test/ffmpeg_video_encoder_test.dart lines 150-159 verifies this path. The dialog can state 1080p while the saved video is 720p.

Report Potato output as adaptive, or propagate the final encoder height before the success message.

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In `@lib/widgets/dialogs/export_video_dialog.dart` around lines 416 - 420, Update
the success message construction around outputHeight and the Potato export flow
so it reports the final encoder output height after adaptive bitrate retries,
rather than the initial estimated-duration policy. Ensure 720p is shown when the
encoder falls back to the 250 kbps floor, while preserving the existing 1080p
result when no fallback occurs; use the relevant encoder result or
adaptive-output symbol already present in the implementation.

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