ARRFLIX — my own premium streaming service: AI-upscaled masters, best-quality everything, no compromise. https://arrflix.s8n.ru
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s8n 6288c57781 doc 26 INC4: black band + 4K HDR slow transcode + v2 test + methodology audit
Two regressions slipped through INC1-3:

INC4a -- BLACK BAND behind every detail-page carousel
  Pre-existing 2026-05-08 home-page rule painted .emby-scroller {bg:#000
  !important} UNSCOPED. Hits every carousel inside .itemDetailPage incl
  admin-only More from Season N, More Like This. INC1-3 transparent-scope
  list missed .emby-scroller / .verticalSection / .padded-top-focusscale.
  Fixed by extending scope.

INC4b -- VIDEO 'BLACK SCREEN' on play
  Not actually black-screen. CPU-only nullstone cannot sustain real-time
  4K HEVC HDR tonemap+x264 transcode -- 0.5x realtime, ffmpeg takes ~6s
  per 3s segment. With user resume seeks adding restart overhead, total
  wait ~18s before browser readyState rises. User saw black, gave up.
  Fix: disable EnableTonemapping (R&M fake HDR per doc 21) + cap
  RemoteClientBitrateLimit=20Mbps on every user (1080p target, no 4K
  scale). Headless v2 test confirms HEVC + AV1 episodes now hit
  readyState=3/4 within wait window; 4K HDR R&M still slow (heaviest).

INC4 testing methodology audit -- bin/headless-test-v2.py
  v1 only logged in as guest and never clicked Play. v2 runs both admin
  and guest, walks 3 codec-tagged items per role (HEVC/AV1/H.264),
  clicks Play, captures <video> state, sweeps DOM for opaque bgs over
  backdrop layer. False positives: off-viewport #reactRoot + collapsed
  .mainDrawer (negative coords). Allowlist refinement TODO.

Open: 4K HDR sources still slow even post-fix. Real fix path = pre-
transcode masters to 1080p H.264 SDR via separate batch, OR migrate to
10.11.8 with vaapi/qsv driver fixed.
2026-05-09 01:46:47 +01:00
assets Rename: nasflix → ARRFLIX + apply Cineplex theme 2026-05-08 02:57:34 +01:00
bin doc 26 INC4: black band + 4K HDR slow transcode + v2 test + methodology audit 2026-05-09 01:46:47 +01:00
compose-dev doc 14: theme audit + detail-page backdrop diagnosis (read-only) 2026-05-08 04:27:28 +01:00
docs doc 26 INC4: black band + 4K HDR slow transcode + v2 test + methodology audit 2026-05-09 01:46:47 +01:00
snapshots/2026-05-08-pre-elegantfin redact: scrub leaked Jellyfin admin API token from public repo 2026-05-08 15:36:14 +01:00
web-overrides web: english-lockdown shim — pin locale + hide switchers 2026-05-08 17:04:03 +01:00
.gitignore doc 26 INC4: black band + 4K HDR slow transcode + v2 test + methodology audit 2026-05-09 01:46:47 +01:00
ADMIN-GUIDE.md Rename: nasflix → ARRFLIX + apply Cineplex theme 2026-05-08 02:57:34 +01:00
docker-compose.yml Branding fixes: triple-logo overlap + Quick Connect disable + index.html override 2026-05-08 03:09:25 +01:00
README.md readme: tighten tagline to match repo bio (no compromise) 2026-05-08 16:54:40 +01:00
ROADMAP.md ROADMAP: action owner = s8n 2026-05-08 17:25:56 +01:00

ARRFLIX

My own premium streaming service. No compromise.


ARRFLIX is my personal streaming service. One library, hand-curated, no filler — every show and film is the best version I could put together. Where the source allows, masters are 4K. Where it doesn't, they're AI-upscaled until they look better than the disc ever did. The reference example: my Rick and Morty Season 1 is a 4K HDR upscale that beats the original broadcast. That's the standard for everything that lands here.

It's not a clone of a public streamer. It's the version I wished existed: the quality bar of a boutique release group, the polish of a flagship app, and a library I actually want to watch.

What you get

  • Best-quality everything. 4K where the source supports it, AI-upscaled masters where it doesn't. No 480p filler, no junk encodes.
  • Curated, not crawled. Every title is hand-imported, hand-cleaned, and hand-checked before it goes live. Junk files, sample clips, and stray artwork never make it in.
  • Polished metadata. Posters, backdrops, episode stills, cast, and descriptions are all locked to the canonical source — no wrong-show matches, no broken artwork, no foreign-language drift.
  • English-first UI, every account. No surprise German Play buttons, no browser-locale roulette. Every user is pinned to a consistent experience.
  • Custom theming. ARRFLIX wordmark, ARRFLIX-red accent (#E50914), loading splash, and a Netflix-grade dark UI. Jellyfin's stock chrome is hidden — the brand is the surface.
  • Per-user home layouts. Resume, Next Up, and Latest Media tuned the way I actually use the app. No "My Media" tile clutter.
  • Subtitles done right. Sidecar files named to spec, OpenSubtitles integration, ffmpeg-extracted tracks where embedded.

Live at

Endpoint is LAN / tailnet only. There is no public exposure — if you're not on the network, you're not getting in. By design.


How it works (technical)

ARRFLIX runs on self-hosted infrastructure on nullstone. The repo you're looking at is also the deploy source-of-truth: the compose file, library structure, theming overrides, and operational playbooks all live here. The streaming engine itself is unbranded plumbing — invisible behind the ARRFLIX surface.

Operators / future-me, the technical reference is split across:

  • ADMIN-GUIDE.md — single-page day-to-day ops: adding users, importing media, fixing scrapes, theme breakage, emergency rollback.
  • ROADMAP.md — what's done, what's open, what's deferred.
  • docs/ — research-grade reference docs (artwork, metadata, subtitles, theming, file-structure rules, per-library themes, cleanup, filename normalization, force-English, branding leaks, splash, audits).

Repo lives at https://git.s8n.ru/s8n/ARRFLIX (mirror: https://flexhub.s8n.ru/s8n/ARRFLIX).


ARRFLIX — a one-person streaming service that punches above its weight.