Point the camera at whoever is speaking (2.7.4) - #174
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Five clips cut from one Riverside recording spent between a third and three fifths of their frames on the wall beside the speaker, and the clip that framed cleanly sat on the wrong person for a 29 second turn. The crop validator asked where the biggest face was, not where the speaker it was following was. These two sit at very different distances from their own cameras, 845px of face against 518px, so a correct crop onto the quieter one looked like a crop onto nobody and every keyframe was pulled back to the same person. Measured against the turns, the camera was on the speaker 16% of the time; it is now on them 98%. The layout was read only from the episode-wide face_map, and a face_map cached before mixed layouts existed carries no is_mixed_layout key, so the default made a mixed recording look uniform. That sent it down a path that holds one position across a layout change: right for the split screen stretches, and pointed at nothing every time the source cut to a fullscreen shot. Layout is now judged from the clip's own frames, which takes 37-60% of frames with nobody in them down to 1-3%. Behind those, three things that were quietly wrong: Seats came from splitting face positions at the midline, so three sampled frames past the centre minted a second seat and one person who leaned became two. A seat now needs a frame holding both faces at once. Mouth motion, which decides who is talking on a split screen, was compared against the previous sample. Samples are capped at 300 an episode, so on an hour of video the two frames were twelve seconds apart and it measured nothing but the passage of time. It now compares adjacent frames. A turn whose track had no detections took the speaker's episode-wide anchor without checking anybody stood on it, at any length for the first turn. It now keeps the anchor only when a face the clip actually saw lands inside it. The mixed path also dropped a sample interval of video at every cut, subtracted the dissolve from its offsets a second time so video ran shorter than its own audio, and cross-faded each part's re-encoded audio when both sides of every dissolve are the same moment of the same recording. Video and audio now land within a frame of the source.
A failed cross-dissolve fell back to a static crop of the longest run. That position is right for the run it came from and wrong for every other layout in the clip: on a recording that cuts between a split screen and a fullscreen shot it is a hold on the wall for a third of the length, which is what the five clips from this episode look like. Forcing the stitch to fail shows 59% of frames with nobody in them. Only the join failed, so keep the framing and drop the join: one cut per run, encoded the same way and concatenated. Same 1% as the dissolve, and the static crop is now the last resort rather than the first.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request adds frame-aware face tracking and mixed-layout handling. It updates seat clustering, mouth analysis, crop centering, followed-face lookup, anchor validation, video assembly fallbacks, tests, and version metadata. ChangesFace tracking and mixed-layout processing
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to Some clips can lose a video segment while keeping the full audio track, causing audio and video to fall out of sync for the remainder of the clip. This is a high-impact correctness risk that should be fixed before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant FaceAnalysis
participant FaceTrackHelpers
participant VideoProcessor
participant FFmpeg
FaceAnalysis->>FaceTrackHelpers: provide frame positions and detections
FaceTrackHelpers-->>VideoProcessor: return seats, layout status, and face centers
VideoProcessor->>FFmpeg: encode cropped parts
VideoProcessor->>FFmpeg: join parts with xfade and source audio
FFmpeg-->>VideoProcessor: return joined video or concat fallback
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1507-1533: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winA skipped part desynchronizes the mapped source audio.
The part loop calls
continuewhen the encode fails or the range is under 0.1s. The video timeline then omits that range, but the audio comes from the whole source (-map {source_index}:a) starting at 0.-shortestonly trims the tail. Every frame after the omitted range plays against audio from a later moment, so the clip loses lip sync for the rest of its length.Detect the gap and skip the xfade branch when the encoded parts do not tile the source.
🔧 Proposed fix: fall back to hard cuts when a run is dropped
r = proc_run(cmd, timeout=_FFMPEG_TIMEOUT, check=False) if r.returncode != 0: continue part_paths.append(part_path) measured = _get_media_duration_seconds(part_path) or (seg_end - seg_start) part_specs.append((part_path, measured, pad)) + + # Any dropped run leaves a hole in the video timeline while the + # mapped source audio still runs from 0, so the dissolve path + # would push the whole clip out of sync. + parts_tile_source = len(part_specs) == len(runs)- if len(part_paths) < 2: + if len(part_paths) < 2 or not parts_tile_source: log_event("crop", "fallback", reason="mixed_too_few_parts", parts=len(part_paths), to="hard-cuts")Also applies to: 1551-1592
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In `@backend/services/video_processor.py`:
- Around line 1641-1644: Update the comment above best_run to accurately state
that the fallback selects the longest run based on r[1] - r[0], without changing
the selection logic or crop_for behavior.
In `@tests/test_face_track_helpers.py`:
- Around line 386-390: Move the __main__ unittest entry point to after the final
test class in tests/test_face_track_helpers.py, ensuring FollowedFaceCxAtTests
and all subsequent tests are defined before unittest.main() executes; remove the
earlier block and retain a single entry point at the file end.
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In `@backend/services/video_processor.py`:
- Around line 1507-1533: Track whether any run is skipped in the part-building
loop around _get_media_duration_seconds, including both the under-0.1-second
range and failed proc_run results. If a run is dropped, bypass the xfade
assembly and use the existing hard-cut path so the mapped full-source audio
remains synchronized; retain the current xfade behavior only when encoded parts
tile the source.
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Five clips from one Riverside episode spent 37-60% of their frames on the wall beside the speaker, and the clip that framed cleanly sat on the wrong person for a 29 second turn.
The crop validator asked where the biggest face was, not where the speaker it was following was. The two sit at different distances from their cameras, 845px of face against 518px, so a correct crop onto the quieter one looked like a crop onto nobody and every keyframe was pulled back to the same person.
A failed cross-dissolve fell back to a static crop of the longest run, which is right for that run and wrong for every other layout in the clip.
Behind those: seats came from splitting positions at the midline so one person who leaned became two; mouth motion was compared against the previous sample, twelve seconds away on an hour of video; a turn with no detections took its speaker's episode-wide anchor without checking anybody stood on it. The mixed path also dropped a sample interval of video per cut and ran its video shorter than its own audio.
Measured against ground-truth speaker turns from per-frame mouth motion in the source:
Clips 1-4 are monologues, so 100% there is one speaker and never switching. Clip 5 is the only real back-and-forth.
701 tests pass, up from 689. Go is not installed here, so
cli/VERSIONwas written by hand rather than bygo generate; the bytes match whatgen-version.shproduces.Summary by CodeRabbit
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