Attach still wins whenever discovery finds a server (health probe, UDP
beacon, main-store lock). When nothing answers, the VJ now boots the
standalone asset-server's Host instead of a bare AssetServer: catalog +
CAS plus the ai-content library publisher over local/ai_content_library,
so a self-hosted VJ sees the same rows asset-ui publishes — not an empty
seed store. The fallback root is the user's main library when one holds a
catalog (server.lock arbitrates the race; losing it means attach). Both
planes bind 127.0.0.1 and no beacon runs: a private host is not a thing
the network can discover. HostConfig grows a blob_refs knob so the VJ
keeps its reference-import policy; the store decision is logged at boot.
Squashed from work:
- vj decks: sync is a held lock — pinned master, per-pump rate servo
- vj: the deck explorer opens on music
- frametween: the VJ's in-betweener becomes a library — the whole mode set, one definition
- frametween: the gate says which tier moved the picture, from pixels
- frametween: BGRA words go in as they are, and a host may own the clock
- vj: archive.org as a content source
- platform: native file and save dialogs, in-house on all three desktops
- vj: rounder slider caps, and the cap body reads as a blob
- ai-hub: makepad-asset-ai becomes makepad-ai-hub at libs/ai/hub, the chat pane becomes makepad-chat-ui, the service bin
- vj: DREAM runs execute in the app — pipelines.rs becomes the run it used to watch (aicore §9 / F1)
- vj: plain generations execute in the app too — the store's job queue loses its last vj client (aicore §9 / F2)
- asset-creator: the runner — generate one thing and put it in the catalog, one implementation for every surface (aicore
- importer + asset-server host: the coordination era ends (aicore P7)
- client + chat dispatcher: the dead wire comes out (aicore P7/P8)
- zero-warning sweep, round five — vj and chat-ui
- zero-warning sweep, round six — three cascades
- zero-warning sweep, round seven — the last two
Squashed from work; the fine-grained history is under tag archive/work-2026-08-26:
- vj: the music explorer gets IMPORT, and catalog controls fold away in local mode
- vjfx: three lanes land — engine hooks + hold stage, the videomesh engine, and the audio picture
- vj: the thumbnail pipeline becomes one honest machine, and effects go livecodable
- vj: thumbnails become mp4 — hardware-coded sheets at measured-4K cells, and the bake stops racing the GPU
- store: the ceremony dies — batch publish, one transaction, and the engine stops re-reading its own log
- store: the ceremony dies — batch publish, one transaction, and the engine stops re-reading its own log
- vj: the console grows real transports, and the deck stops lying about reverse
- vj: reverse earns a memory, and the effects stop aging
- vj: video goes NV12 end to end, and the GPU does the unpacking
- vj: windows hands the main thread one megabyte, and the script tree wants two
- vj: the GPU learns to see motion — realtime frame tweening on every deck
- vj: the tweener learns — RIFE runs on the Mac and feeds the warp
- vj: the classical tweener grows up, and every deck gets a tween chip
- models: an interrupted install can never load broken
- vj: the transport becomes a platter — velocity in, position out, one map
- vj: the tween presenter reads the platter — one clock per deck, cued once at the frame on screen
- vj: the presenter switch lands without its scaffolding
- vj: the next pair's fields are fetched ahead of the change under the capacity law — a pair change costs an ordinary beat; macos: the layer's own display link paces the frame when the system offers it, the old path stays as fallback
- vj: AI3 subdivides adaptively — one, three or seven neural frames per pair, chosen from measured synth time against the pair's own period, with classical flow between them and a 7-3-1-FL fallback; the deck shows the depth
- vj: local store, lyrics and model plumbing, and the frame-interpolator's device parity check
- vj: DJ-tab scroll knobs, title-click reset, crossfade fix, stem headroom — plus the pre-Ampere CUDA fix (#1193)
- vj: the deck explorer lists music-tagged audio, the sfx surface filters by tag not category, the track list fills the window, and the modal host has no layout footprint
Co-authored-by: Rogier de Leeuw <vjroger@gmail.com>
- INSTALL MODELS under the music explorer: a download dialog naming both
MIT weight sets (BS-RoFormer splitter 527MB, whisper large-v3-turbo
1.6GB), where they land and their licenses; resumable sha256-pinned
downloads through the asset-ai downloader (featureless dep — the same
slice the asset UI links); cancel mid-flight (the button flips to
CANCEL, .part resumes later), MB progress, and the row disappears on a
provisioned machine. When the last model lands the loaded decks
separate immediately: the stems worker now re-probes the checkpoint
per job instead of latching its absence, and the lyrics transcriber
unlatches too (the Apple fallback yields to whisper mid-session).
- DrawWaveLane's stem palette moves from instance inputs to uniforms:
36 vertex inputs blew D3D11's vs_5_0 limit of 32 (error X4506), which
left the music decks with NO waveform at all on Windows.
- --remote HOST:PORT binds a named interface so another machine can
drive an app over the LAN (fleet-box testing); bare --remote stays
loopback.
- queue chip: the + glyph centres in its 26x18 box.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A VJ console that is its own asset store: five surfaces (VIDEO program tiles,
MUSIC DJ decks, SFX, EFFECT slots, LIGHTS) over the asset server, driven by
APC40 hardware or the screen.
The transport is the centre of it. The SWEEP LAW: one direction, one beat
step, and a pacer that never hiccups — a loop wrap is never fast-forwarded and
the grid keeps no holes. On top of that: bracket-to-bracket scrub math so the
playhead learns the user's trim, SCRATCH as a sprung shuttle on every deck
transport, ping-pong and per-slot mute, hot-standby decks, one rate authority,
and beat sync that fits a whole clip into N bars at a musical rate while
cached loops keep real wrapping pts so the phase survives.
VARIABLE FRAMERATE VIDEO IMPORT measures the flow field a clip needs without a
model (libs/video_flow), which is what makes free-rate bounce-looping GPU
playback possible; the enhance pipe uprezes and tweens a deck clip in one
decode and one encode, with the motion vectors inside the mp4.
The console itself: makepad orange and the brand lockup, Blender-style BPM,
system tooltips, popover sliders, bracket trim handles, one button family and
a no-push band, doc-labeled slot dials with MIDI learn and strict typing, a
BEATS dropdown and slow-biased jog, an IMPORT panel that arms, runs and stops,
and BLAST — one press invents a visual for every parallel pipe. Generation
runs six jobs in flight across the fleet, and a job row names what it made.
The library grid fills as a relay — page, detail, manifest, blob, decode,
texture — and every hand-off used to be picked up by the 20Hz poll timer, so
each hop cost a tick however fast the store answered. The hand-offs now run on
the frame while anything is owed, manifests jump the queue like the details
that produced them, and resolve/decode/worker width all widen while nobody is
on stage and narrow together the moment the program window opens or a deck
plays. The visible page resolves first. Measured on the same warm cache: a
48-tile page 4.7s -> 1.9s, a tab's first visit 4.3s -> 1.1s, decode wait 48ms
-> 9ms, a second visit painted in the same frame with zero decodes, and no
UI hitches across the session.
Also here: wave analysis (tempo, grid, downbeat, tiles) with a judge suite
that scores the detector against click tracks and a human drummer, stem
separation, karaoke lyric display, Art-Net/DMX light control, and an output
window that projects without janking on Windows mouse movement.
466 tests, zero warnings.
