webm: a film's pictures coded beside each other, and a progress bar that counts them by donislawdev · Pull Request #167 · donislawdev/TestingFilesGenerator

donislawdev · 2026-10-06T18:39:59Z

What changes for a user

A WebM film is made several times faster. A 30 minute 1920x1080 film at the default settings (2 GB) went from 611.7 s to 67.9 s on a 16 thread machine, and the file has the same SHA-256 as before.
The progress bar, in the window and on the command line, counts a film's pictures as well as its bytes. Before, it stood at about 5% while the pictures were coded and estimated three hours for that ten minute run, because most of a film's bytes are padding written in its last seconds. Now the estimate is within two seconds of the time really left from the tenth second on.

How

internal/format/video/ahead.go - the pictures of one film are independent, so helpers code them while the writer takes them in order. The writer always codes too, and helpers come from one count for the whole process (GOMAXPROCS less one), because the engine already writes a file per thread. A helper's panic is kept and raised by the writer, where the engine turns it into the run's error as before. Pictures.Close waits for the helpers. New concurrency site, listed in concurrency_test.go and on the race detector's watched list.
picture.go - painters share one film and repaint only the clock's and the square's strips, widened to even rows, onto planes made once from the gradient. That makes a helper cheap in memory. WholePicture keeps the old way as the reference.
format.Plan.Work and format.Worked - what a file costs beyond its bytes, reported through the write context, not the writer, because a damaged file is written through the damage. engine.Progress gains WorkDone/WorkTotal. Files whose cost is their bytes declare none and report what they did before.

Measured


coding 48 pictures of 1920x1080, 1/2/4/8/12/16 goroutines	1.00x / 1.81x / 3.24x / 5.12x / 6.95x / 7.60x, sizes identical
owner's film end to end, CLI	611.7 s -> 67.9 s, same SHA-256
4K, 20 s, one thread vs many	29.8 s -> 5.4 s, same SHA-256
webm allocations per default film	408 -> 474-477 at 16, 4 and 1 threads, ceiling 512 unchanged

Guards (each reddened by hand)

TestAFilmPaintsOnlyWhatChangesAndGetsTheWholePicture - 12 sizes, with and without label, both clock shapes.
TestAFilmCodedBySeveralGoroutinesHasTheBytesOfOne - and asserts helpers really coded under 8 threads and none under 1.
TestAFilmStoppedHalfWayLeavesNoHelperRunning - -race clean.
TestAFilmsProgressMovesWithItsPicturesNotItsPadding - and a text file reports work equal to bytes.

Not covered

No guard that the window and the command line take the percentage from the work rather than the bytes (both are unexported, and the command line bar draws only on a terminal).
No guard that a helper's panic ends the run with an error rather than the process - a panic cannot be injected into the encoder from the guards.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Film pictures are now encoded across available processor cores, improving encoding performance.
Improvements
- Progress percentages and remaining-time estimates now reflect picture-encoding work as well as bytes written, providing a more informative estimate during video encoding.
- Updated the WebM changelog with a 68-second encoding benchmark for a 30-minute 1920×1080 film on 16 threads.

…s, nine times sooner A film is its pictures, each a whole picture through gav1d on one goroutine. A thirty minute 1920x1080 film at a change a second was 1800 pictures and 611.7 s on one core of sixteen. The pictures are independent, so internal/format/video/ahead.go codes them on helpers and the writer takes them in order. The goroutine writing a film always codes, and the helpers come from one count for the whole process, GOMAXPROCS less one, because the engine above already writes a file per thread. A helper's panic is kept and raised by the writer, where the engine turns it into the run's error as before. Pictures.Close waits for the helpers. Each painter now repaints only the rows that change - the clock's band and the square's, widened to whole pairs of rows - onto planes made once from the gradient, so a helper costs a few megabytes rather than two full frames. WholePicture keeps the old way as the reference. Measured on the same order end to end: 611.7 s before, 67.9 s after, and the 2 GB file has the same SHA-256. The golden hashes did not move. Guards: the strip painter gives the whole picture at twelve sizes, a film coded with helpers has the bytes of one coded alone and helpers really coded it, and a film stopped half way leaves no helper running. Each reddened by hand. The race detector watches ahead.go. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

A film's bytes are mostly padding written in its last seconds. Counting bytes, the bar stood at five percent while the pictures were coded and the estimate for a thirty minute 1920x1080 film said three hours for a run of ten minutes - 1315 s for one of 66 s on the parallel coder. format.Plan gains Work: what writing a file costs beyond its bytes, counted as the bytes that would take as long to write. A generator reports it through format.Worked on the context it writes under, not through the writer, because a damaged file is written through the damage. The engine keeps work beside bytes in every report and squares both up when a file ends. Every file whose cost is its bytes declares no Work, so its reports are what they were. webm declares its pictures' work from their pixels and reports each change as its cluster is written. The window and the command line take the percentage and the time left from the work. The line still shows the bytes. Measured on the owner's film with tools/probes/filmeta: the estimate from the work is within two seconds of the time really left from the tenth second on. Guard: a film's work runs well ahead of its bytes while the pictures are written, it ends on both totals, and a text file reports work equal to its bytes at every step. Reddened by hand by taking the report out. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Video pictures are painted in changing strips and can be encoded concurrently by helper goroutines. WebM plans report picture work alongside bytes. Engine, CLI, and GUI progress percentages and remaining-time estimates now use work totals.

Changes

WebM encoding and progress

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Strip-based picture rendering `internal/format/video/picture.go`, `internal/guard/filmahead_test.go`	Picture painting now converts changing image strips. `WholePicture` renders a full-image reference, and tests compare its output with strip-based rendering.
Ordered parallel picture encoding `internal/format/video/ahead.go`, `internal/format/video/choose.go`, `internal/format/video/stream.go`, `internal/format/webm/webm.go`, `internal/guard/concurrency_test.go`, `internal/guard/filmahead_test.go`, `.github/workflows/ci.yml`	A helper crew encodes offered picture jobs, and the picture stream returns results in order. Reserve sampling also uses jobs. Tests cover helper use, output consistency, and cancellation. The CI watched-file list is unchanged.
Work-based progress reporting `internal/format/format.go`, `internal/engine/engine.go`, `internal/engine/parallel.go`, `internal/format/video/stream.go`, `internal/format/webm/webm.go`, `internal/cli/progress.go`, `internal/gui/window/run.go`, `internal/gui/window/runreport.go`, `internal/guard/filmahead_test.go`, `CHANGELOG.md`	Plans and engine reports track work separately from bytes. WebM reports work for picture changes, and CLI and GUI progress displays use work totals. Tests check video and plain-file progress behavior.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant WebMWriter
  participant writeClusters
  participant Pictures
  participant Crew
  participant PictureEncoder
  WebMWriter->>writeClusters: write clusters
  writeClusters->>Pictures: request picture with At
  Pictures->>Crew: offer picture jobs
  Crew->>PictureEncoder: encode offered picture
  Pictures-->>writeClusters: return coded picture

Suggested labels: bug, performance, ui

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d2a40

Add tests for both progress displays and qualify the changelog’s performance claim before merging.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Tests For Changed Behavior	⚠️ Warning	The PR adds non-UI panic-handling behavior for picture helpers, but no test covers it. In `internal/format/video/ahead.go`, `crew.code` recovers a helper panic into `job.panicked` (lines 168–175), and…	Add a focused test that forces a picture-code panic on a helper, verifies that the writer receives the panic and that the engine returns the expected generator error instead of terminating the process, and confirms helper goroutines are cle…

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title identifies parallel WebM picture coding and progress tracking that counts pictures. It is specific and relevant to the main changes.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers	✅ Passed	The pull request adds no agent instruction files or `.env` files. The added lines contain no credentials, personal email addresses, private URLs, local absolute paths, machine or user identifiers, or …
No Hardcoded Ui Styling	✅ Passed	The PR changes two Fyne GUI files. Their diff only switches progress calculations to `WorkDone`/`WorkTotal` and updates explanatory comments. It adds no control styling literals or copied controls.
No Obvious Performance Problems	✅ Passed	The reviewed diff adds parallel picture coding with a bounded helper queue and repaints only changed image strips. Picture and progress accounting run per film change, not through an unbounded collect…
Desktop Robustness	✅ Passed	The PR adds no desktop-robustness failure. The GUI run still reports progress and supports cancellation; `onGenerate` rejects a second run while `busy.occupied` is true. Window close calls `Stop` on a…
Safe File Parsing	✅ Passed	The PR adds no file parser or importer. The changed WebM code writes generated video data through `io.Writer`; `video.Read` remains an unchanged reader of the request’s in-memory properties map. The `…
System Changes Are Reversible	✅ Passed	The PR does not add or change code that modifies network rules, proxies, firewall state, system time, process hooks, services, registry entries, or drivers. The added runtime calls read GOMAXPROCS, an…
Clear User-Facing Text	✅ Passed	The PR changes the WebM changelog and adds an ordering diagnostic. The changelog distinguishes coded pictures from playback frames. The diagnostic identifies the out-of-order picture request and state…
No Resource Leaks	✅ Passed	No resource leak was introduced. `crew` limits helpers with the process-wide `helping` counter and uses a bounded channel (`ahead.go`). `Pictures.Close` calls `crew.stop`, which closes the queue and w…
Scope, Duplication And Docs	✅ Passed	The PR scope matches the title and description. The description covers parallel picture coding, changed-strip painting, helper lifecycle, work-based progress, and guards. The diff also adds the CI rac…

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Explanation

The PR adds non-UI panic-handling behavior for picture helpers, but no test covers it. In internal/format/video/ahead.go, crew.code recovers a helper panic into job.panicked (lines 168–175), and crew.wait re-panics on the writer goroutine (lines 179–187). This matters because engine.writeWithoutCrashing converts panics to run errors only on the goroutine that calls the generator (internal/engine/crash.go, lines 114–123). The new internal/guard/filmahead_test.go tests painting, output parity, progress, and cancellation, but not panic propagation; the PR description also says this behavior is not covered. The test diff adds tests and does not delete or weaken existing tests.

Resolution

Add a focused test that forces a picture-code panic on a helper, verifies that the writer receives the panic and that the engine returns the expected generator error instead of terminating the process, and confirms helper goroutines are cleaned up. Add a narrow injectable coding seam or factor the helper job runner so the test can trigger the panic deterministically.

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Review comments at @CHANGELOG.md:
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- Line 61: Add tests that verify the CLI percentage from
`core.Percent(pr.WorkDone, pr.WorkTotal)` using reports whose byte and work
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