@torrent-tv/proxy 2.89.7 → 2.89.8

package/routes/stream/get.js

@@ -1,416 +1,416 @@
-/**
- * @file Byte-range aware torrent file streaming endpoint.
- *
- * Accepts either a `sourceKey` (registered via POST /api/sources) or a raw
- * `sourceType` + `source` pair.  Responds with HTTP 206 for range requests
- * and HTTP 200 for full-file requests.
- */
-
-import { open } from "node:fs/promises";
-import { parseRange } from "../../utils/parse-range.js";
-import { logger } from "../../utils/logger.js";
-
-/**
- * The same fragments, with every wait for the next one marked: `mark(true)`
- * before it is asked for and `mark(false)` when it has come. The time between
- * is time the encoder reading this response waits for its input.
- *
- * @template T
- * @param {AsyncIterable<T>} source
- * @param {(waiting: boolean) => void} mark
- * @returns {AsyncGenerator<T>}
- */
-async function* markingWaits(source, mark) {
-  const iterator = source[Symbol.asyncIterator]();
-  try {
-    while (true) {
-      mark(true);
-      let step;
-      try {
-        step = await iterator.next();
-      } finally {
-        mark(false);
-      }
-      if (step.done) {
-        return;
-      }
-      yield step.value;
-    }
-  } finally {
-    await iterator.return?.();
-  }
-}
-
-/**
- * Resolve source parameters from the query string.
- * Prefers a registered `sourceKey`; falls back to inline `sourceType`+`source`.
- *
- * @param {import("fastify").FastifyRequest["query"]} query
- * @param {ReturnType<import("../../store/source-registry.js").createSourceRegistry>} sourceRegistry
- * @returns {{ sourceType: string, source: string, sourceKey: string }}
- */
-function getSourceParams(query, sourceRegistry) {
-  const sourceKey = typeof query.sourceKey === "string" ? query.sourceKey : "";
-  const sourceTypeFromQuery = typeof query.sourceType === "string" ? query.sourceType : "";
-  const sourceFromQuery = typeof query.source === "string" ? query.source : "";
-
-  const sourceRecord = sourceKey ? sourceRegistry.get(sourceKey) : null;
-  const sourceType = sourceRecord?.sourceType ?? sourceTypeFromQuery;
-  const source = sourceRecord?.source ?? sourceFromQuery;
-  return { sourceType, source, sourceKey };
-}
-
-/**
- * How long a request may wait for a torrent that is still being added.
- *
- * Adding a magnet takes as long as its metadata does — seconds when peers
- * answer, forever when none do — and `getTorrent` waits for it. Awaiting that
- * with no bound is what made this route answer nothing at all.
- */
-const TORRENT_READY_TIMEOUT_MS = 10_000;
-
-/**
- * The torrent for a source, or a `TORRENT_NOT_READY` error once the wait has
- * gone on long enough to be worth reporting.
- *
- * The underlying add is NOT cancelled: it keeps running and warms the pool, so
- * the client's next attempt is likely to find it ready.
- *
- * @param {import("../../services/torrent/torrent-pool.js").TorrentPool} torrentPool
- * @param {string} sourceType
- * @param {string} source
- * @returns {Promise<import("webtorrent").Torrent>}
- */
-async function waitForTorrent(torrentPool, sourceType, source) {
-  let timer = null;
-  const expiry = new Promise((_resolve, reject) => {
-    timer = setTimeout(() => {
-      const error = new Error("Torrent metadata is not available yet.");
-      error.code = "TORRENT_NOT_READY";
-      reject(error);
-    }, TORRENT_READY_TIMEOUT_MS);
-    timer.unref?.();
-  });
-  try {
-    return await Promise.race([torrentPool.getTorrent(sourceType, source), expiry]);
-  } finally {
-    if (timer) {
-      clearTimeout(timer);
-    }
-  }
-}
-
-/**
- * Stream a torrent file over HTTP with byte-range support.
- *
- * GET /stream
- *
- * @param {import("fastify").FastifyRequest} req
- * @param {import("fastify").FastifyReply} reply
- * @param {{ sourceRegistry: ReturnType<import("../../store/source-registry.js").createSourceRegistry>, torrentPool: import("../../services/torrent/torrent-pool.js").TorrentPool }} deps
- * @returns {Promise<void>}
- */
-/**
- * The whole file for this source and index, if this proxy has one.
- *
- * The source key IS the identity: `torrent:<infohash>`, the same for a magnet
- * and for a `.torrent` file of the same content. Nothing the torrent would have
- * told us is needed to find the file, which is the point — asking the torrent
- * would add it back.
- *
- * @param {{ wholeFiles?: Map<string, { path: string, length: number, name: string }> }} torrentPool
- * @param {string} sourceKey
- * @param {number} fileIndex
- * @returns {{ path: string, length: number, name: string } | null}
- */
-function wholeFileFor(torrentPool, sourceKey, fileIndex) {
-  const held = torrentPool?.wholeFiles;
-  if (!(held instanceof Map) || held.size === 0 || !sourceKey.startsWith("torrent:")) {
-    return null;
-  }
-  const infoHash = sourceKey.slice("torrent:".length).toLowerCase();
-  return held.get(`${infoHash}/${fileIndex}`) ?? null;
-}
-
-/**
- * Serve a whole file off the disk, with ranges.
- *
- * @param {import("fastify").FastifyRequest} req
- * @param {import("fastify").FastifyReply} reply
- * @param {{ path: string, length: number, name: string }} file
- * @param {import("node:fs/promises").FileHandle} handle - Already open; closed for HEAD.
- * @returns {Promise<void> | void}
- */
-function serveWholeFile(req, reply, file, handle) {
-  const disposition = `inline; filename*=UTF-8''${encodeURIComponent(file.name)}`;
-  if (req.method === "HEAD") {
-    reply.hijack();
-    reply.raw.writeHead(200, {
-      "Accept-Ranges": "bytes",
-      "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream",
-      "Content-Length": String(file.length),
-      "Content-Disposition": disposition
-    });
-    reply.raw.end();
-    return;
-  }
-  reply.header("Accept-Ranges", "bytes");
-  reply.header("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream");
-  reply.header("Content-Disposition", disposition);
-  const range = parseRange(req.headers.range, file.length);
-  if (!range) {
-    reply.header("Content-Length", String(file.length));
-    return reply.send(handle.createReadStream());
-  }
-  const { start, end } = range;
-  reply.code(206);
-  reply.header("Content-Length", String(end - start + 1));
-  reply.header("Content-Range", `bytes ${start}-${end}/${file.length}`);
-  return reply.send(handle.createReadStream({ start, end }));
-}
-
-export async function handleStreamGet(req, reply, { sourceRegistry, torrentPool, noteInputBytes = null, noteInputWaiting = null }) {
-  const fileIndexRaw = typeof req.query.fileIndex === "string" ? req.query.fileIndex : "";
-  const fileIndex = Number(fileIndexRaw);
-  const { sourceType, source, sourceKey } = getSourceParams(req.query, sourceRegistry);
-
-  if (!sourceType || !source || !Number.isInteger(fileIndex) || fileIndex < 0) {
-    return reply
-      .code(400)
-      .send({ error: "sourceKey or sourceType+source with fileIndex are required." });
-  }
-
-  // A FILE DOWNLOADED WHOLE IS A FILE, and reading it needs no torrent: no
-  // piece store, no memory ceiling, no eviction, no revival from a spill, and
-  // nothing that can refuse the read for want of memory. The check comes before
-  // the torrent is asked for on purpose — asking would add it back.
-  //
-  // The infohash is in the source key (`torrent:<infohash>`), so this needs
-  // nothing the torrent would have told us.
-  const whole = wholeFileFor(torrentPool, sourceKey, fileIndex);
-  if (whole) {
-    let handle;
-    try {
-      // Open before committing headers: the disk owner may have removed an
-      // announced file. An open descriptor also preserves a live POSIX read.
-      handle = await open(whole.path, "r");
-    } catch (error) {
-      if (error.code !== "ENOENT") throw error;
-      const key = `${sourceKey.slice("torrent:".length).toLowerCase()}/${fileIndex}`;
-      if (torrentPool.wholeFiles.get(key) === whole) torrentPool.wholeFiles.delete(key);
-    }
-    if (handle) {
-      if (req.method === "HEAD") await handle.close();
-      try {
-        return serveWholeFile(req, reply, whole, handle);
-      } catch (error) {
-        await handle.close().catch(() => undefined);
-        throw error;
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-  let torrent;
-  try {
-    torrent = await waitForTorrent(torrentPool, sourceType, source);
-  } catch (error) {
-    if (error instanceof Error && error.code === "TORRENT_NOT_READY") {
-      // Say so, rather than holding the connection until the client gives up.
-      // Reproduced 2026-08-04 on a magnet whose metadata never arrived: both a
-      // ranged GET and a HEAD returned nothing at all for the full 30 s the
-      // probe was willing to wait, and the route had written neither a status
-      // nor a header — from the client that is indistinguishable from the proxy
-      // having died, and it left no trace in the log either.
-      reply.header("Retry-After", "1");
-      return reply.code(503).send({ error: "Torrent metadata is not available yet." });
-    }
-    const message = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
-    return reply.code(500).send({ error: `Failed to load torrent source: ${message}` });
-  }
-
-  const file = torrent.files[fileIndex];
-  if (!file) {
-    return reply.code(404).send({ error: "File index was not found in torrent." });
-  }
-
-  // HEAD asks what a GET would return, not for the bytes. Fastify serves HEAD
-  // from this same handler, which used to mean a HEAD started a read of the
-  // WHOLE file: the body was discarded by Node, but the read ran on, the
-  // response never finished, and the next request on that keep-alive connection
-  // waited behind it. Measured on the field host: the keyframe-index HEAD
-  // returned headers in 23 ms and then held the connection until its 15 s
-  // timeout, which is where the 73 s transcode-session create went.
-  if (req.method === "HEAD") {
-    // Written to the raw response on purpose. Answering through `reply.send()`
-    // with no payload makes Fastify set `content-length: 0`, which is worse
-    // than useless here: the keyframe index asks for the file size with this
-    // very request and treats 0 as "no index available", silently falling back
-    // to an invented segment grid. Hijacking leaves the response to us, and
-    // Node omits the body for HEAD by itself.
-    reply.hijack();
-    reply.raw.writeHead(200, {
-      "Accept-Ranges": "bytes",
-      "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream",
-      "Content-Length": String(file.length),
-      "Content-Disposition": `inline; filename*=UTF-8''${encodeURIComponent(file.name)}`
-    });
-    reply.raw.end();
-    return;
-  }
-
-  const range = parseRange(req.headers.range, file.length);
-  // Prioritize the pieces at this read position so a seek (a request at a new
-  // byte offset) downloads first instead of waiting behind the sequential
-  // backlog — this is what caused ~15-18 s stalls when seeking into an
-  // undownloaded region.
-  // Only the encoder's own input read tracks where the viewer is. Everything
-  // else that comes through here — the codec probe, the keyframe index, a
-  // subtitle fetch — reads the file's edges, and treating those as a viewer
-  // position made every session start and every encoder restart look like a
-  // burst of seeks (measured: two spurious "the viewer moved" per start).
-  torrentPool.prioritizeByteRange(torrent, fileIndex, range ? range.start : 0, undefined, {
-    wholeFileRead: range === null,
-    isPlaybackRead: req.query.reader === "playback"
-  });
-
-  const start = range ? range.start : 0;
-  const end = range ? range.end : file.length - 1;
-  const contentLength = end - start + 1;
-
-  // Written straight out of the torrent's shared memory when that is available:
-  // no copy on either thread, at the cost of doing the writing by hand, because
-  // only the write callback tells us when a piece may be released. Falls back to
-  // the ordinary stream for sources without a shared pool.
-  // How far ahead of its own read head this reader should ask the swarm for.
-  // Supplied by whoever knows the media's byte rate — the transcode session
-  // puts it on the ffmpeg input URL, sized in seconds of playback — because
-  // this thread knows only bytes, and 32 MB is half a minute of a 1080p film
-  // but four seconds of a disc remux. Absent or unusable, the reader's own
-  // default stands.
-  const windowBytesRaw = Number(req.query.windowBytes);
-  const windowBytes =
-    Number.isFinite(windowBytesRaw) && windowBytesRaw > 0 ? windowBytesRaw : undefined;
-
-  // Which transcode session this read feeds, when it feeds one. Put on the URL
-  // by the session that builds it, because this route otherwise knows only a
-  // file — and two sessions can read one file, so the file cannot stand in for
-  // the session.
-  const sessionId = typeof req.query.session === "string" ? req.query.session : "";
-  // Which run of that output, so the time its input waits is that run's.
-  const runToken = Number(req.query.run);
-  const markWaits = noteInputWaiting && Number.isInteger(runToken)
-    ? (waiting) => noteInputWaiting(runToken, waiting)
-    : null;
-
-  const fragments = typeof file.createFragmentReader === "function"
-    ? file.createFragmentReader({ start, end, windowBytes })
-    : null;
-
-  if (fragments) {
-    reply.hijack();
-    reply.raw.writeHead(range ? 206 : 200, {
-      "Accept-Ranges": "bytes",
-      "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream",
-      "Content-Length": String(contentLength),
-      "Content-Disposition": `inline; filename*=UTF-8''${encodeURIComponent(file.name)}`,
-      ...(range ? { "Content-Range": `bytes ${start}-${end}/${file.length}` } : {})
-    });
-
-    // A client that goes away mid-response must stop the read, or pieces keep
-    // being fetched for nobody.
-    reply.raw.once("close", () => fragments.cancel());
-
-    let sent = 0;
-    try {
-      for await (const fragment of markWaits ? markingWaits(fragments, markWaits) : fragments) {
-        if (reply.raw.writableEnded || reply.raw.destroyed) {
-          fragment.release();
-          break;
-        }
-        await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-          reply.raw.write(fragment.bytes, (error) => (error ? reject(error) : resolve()));
-        });
-        sent += fragment.bytes.length;
-        // Say so, if this read belongs to a transcode session. It is the only
-        // proof that a session which has produced nothing yet is nevertheless
-        // being fed: the encoder's own progress cannot move until its first
-        // frame is decoded, and a viewer waiting for that first frame was being
-        // told the proxy had died while the swarm was delivering to it. Field
-        // 2026-09-03: 46.3 s on one piece, `processedSeconds` frozen at the
-        // start position throughout, and the browser gave up 0.4 s before the
-        // piece landed.
-        if (noteInputBytes) {
-          noteInputBytes(sessionId, fragment.bytes.length);
-        }
-        // Only now are these bytes gone: the piece can be unpinned, and the
-        // slot it occupies reused. Releasing before this point corrupts the
-        // response silently.
-        fragment.release();
-      }
-      // THE BODY MUST BE AS LONG AS THE HEADER PROMISED, and nothing checked.
-      //
-      // `Content-Length` is committed before the first byte, and the reader can
-      // finish early in silence: its `close()` ends the iteration with no
-      // accounting, and only the `fail()` path is logged. A client then has a
-      // response shorter than declared, and ffmpeg's mp4 demuxer — which holds
-      // the sample table and asks for samples past what arrived — starts
-      // parsing at wrong offsets. That is exactly `Invalid NAL unit size` with
-      // a negative length and `missing picture in access unit`: 2138 of them in
-      // one field session on a COPIED picture, where no encoder touches a frame.
-      //
-      // A single clean read of the same file through this route produced none,
-      // and four concurrent ones produced none; what the field session also had
-      // was a piece store whose readers wanted every piece it could hold, and
-      // 100 of 1395 evictions took a piece a reader had declared. So this says
-      // whether the body was short — which either names the cause or removes
-      // the last candidate.
-      if (sent !== contentLength) {
-        logger.error(
-          `stream: read of "${file.name}" bytes ${start}-${end} ENDED SHORT — ` +
-          `${sent} of ${contentLength} bytes sent under a Content-Length that promised all of them. ` +
-          "Whatever is reading this has a truncated body and no way to know it."
-        );
-      }
-      reply.raw.end();
-    } catch (error) {
-      // The body is already committed by its headers, so there is nothing
-      // useful to send instead — drop the connection and let the client retry.
-      // But say why: swallowing this made the route close connections with no
-      // status and no trace, which from the client looks like the proxy died
-      // and from the log looks like nothing happened at all.
-      // WHOSE end it was. A write cancelled because the consumer went away is
-      // the ordinary end of a read: ffmpeg is terminated on every seek and
-      // whenever the look-ahead bound suspends it, and its connection closes
-      // with it. Reported as a failure, that line fired several times a minute
-      // during healthy playback — and on 2026-08-09 it was read as the cause of
-      // broken audio, which it was not. A read that ends because the reader
-      // left is not a fault and must not be dressed as one; anything else is.
-      const message = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
-      const consumerLeft = req.raw.aborted || reply.raw.destroyed || /ECANCELED|EPIPE|ERR_STREAM_DESTROYED/.test(message);
-      const line =
-        `stream: read of "${file.name}" bytes ${start}-${end} ended after ` +
-        `${sent} of ${contentLength} bytes: ${message}`;
-      if (consumerLeft) {
-        logger.debug(`${line} (the reader disconnected — expected on an encoder restart)`);
-      } else {
-        logger.warn(line);
-      }
-      reply.raw.destroy();
-    }
-    return;
-  }
-
-  reply.header("Accept-Ranges", "bytes");
-  reply.header("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream");
-  reply.header("Content-Disposition", `inline; filename*=UTF-8''${encodeURIComponent(file.name)}`);
-
-  if (!range) {
-    reply.header("Content-Length", String(file.length));
-    return reply.send(file.createReadStream());
-  }
-
-  reply.code(206);
-  reply.header("Content-Length", String(contentLength));
-  reply.header("Content-Range", `bytes ${start}-${end}/${file.length}`);
-  return reply.send(file.createReadStream({ start, end }));
-}
+/**
+ * @file Byte-range aware torrent file streaming endpoint.
+ *
+ * Accepts either a `sourceKey` (registered via POST /api/sources) or a raw
+ * `sourceType` + `source` pair.  Responds with HTTP 206 for range requests
+ * and HTTP 200 for full-file requests.
+ */
+
+import { open } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { parseRange } from "../../utils/parse-range.js";
+import { logger } from "../../utils/logger.js";
+
+/**
+ * The same fragments, with every wait for the next one marked: `mark(true)`
+ * before it is asked for and `mark(false)` when it has come. The time between
+ * is time the encoder reading this response waits for its input.
+ *
+ * @template T
+ * @param {AsyncIterable<T>} source
+ * @param {(waiting: boolean) => void} mark
+ * @returns {AsyncGenerator<T>}
+ */
+async function* markingWaits(source, mark) {
+  const iterator = source[Symbol.asyncIterator]();
+  try {
+    while (true) {
+      mark(true);
+      let step;
+      try {
+        step = await iterator.next();
+      } finally {
+        mark(false);
+      }
+      if (step.done) {
+        return;
+      }
+      yield step.value;
+    }
+  } finally {
+    await iterator.return?.();
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Resolve source parameters from the query string.
+ * Prefers a registered `sourceKey`; falls back to inline `sourceType`+`source`.
+ *
+ * @param {import("fastify").FastifyRequest["query"]} query
+ * @param {ReturnType<import("../../store/source-registry.js").createSourceRegistry>} sourceRegistry
+ * @returns {{ sourceType: string, source: string, sourceKey: string }}
+ */
+function getSourceParams(query, sourceRegistry) {
+  const sourceKey = typeof query.sourceKey === "string" ? query.sourceKey : "";
+  const sourceTypeFromQuery = typeof query.sourceType === "string" ? query.sourceType : "";
+  const sourceFromQuery = typeof query.source === "string" ? query.source : "";
+
+  const sourceRecord = sourceKey ? sourceRegistry.get(sourceKey) : null;
+  const sourceType = sourceRecord?.sourceType ?? sourceTypeFromQuery;
+  const source = sourceRecord?.source ?? sourceFromQuery;
+  return { sourceType, source, sourceKey };
+}
+
+/**
+ * How long a request may wait for a torrent that is still being added.
+ *
+ * Adding a magnet takes as long as its metadata does — seconds when peers
+ * answer, forever when none do — and `getTorrent` waits for it. Awaiting that
+ * with no bound is what made this route answer nothing at all.
+ */
+const TORRENT_READY_TIMEOUT_MS = 10_000;
+
+/**
+ * The torrent for a source, or a `TORRENT_NOT_READY` error once the wait has
+ * gone on long enough to be worth reporting.
+ *
+ * The underlying add is NOT cancelled: it keeps running and warms the pool, so
+ * the client's next attempt is likely to find it ready.
+ *
+ * @param {import("../../services/torrent/torrent-pool.js").TorrentPool} torrentPool
+ * @param {string} sourceType
+ * @param {string} source
+ * @returns {Promise<import("webtorrent").Torrent>}
+ */
+async function waitForTorrent(torrentPool, sourceType, source) {
+  let timer = null;
+  const expiry = new Promise((_resolve, reject) => {
+    timer = setTimeout(() => {
+      const error = new Error("Torrent metadata is not available yet.");
+      error.code = "TORRENT_NOT_READY";
+      reject(error);
+    }, TORRENT_READY_TIMEOUT_MS);
+    timer.unref?.();
+  });
+  try {
+    return await Promise.race([torrentPool.getTorrent(sourceType, source), expiry]);
+  } finally {
+    if (timer) {
+      clearTimeout(timer);
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Stream a torrent file over HTTP with byte-range support.
+ *
+ * GET /stream
+ *
+ * @param {import("fastify").FastifyRequest} req
+ * @param {import("fastify").FastifyReply} reply
+ * @param {{ sourceRegistry: ReturnType<import("../../store/source-registry.js").createSourceRegistry>, torrentPool: import("../../services/torrent/torrent-pool.js").TorrentPool }} deps
+ * @returns {Promise<void>}
+ */
+/**
+ * The whole file for this source and index, if this proxy has one.
+ *
+ * The source key IS the identity: `torrent:<infohash>`, the same for a magnet
+ * and for a `.torrent` file of the same content. Nothing the torrent would have
+ * told us is needed to find the file, which is the point — asking the torrent
+ * would add it back.
+ *
+ * @param {{ wholeFiles?: Map<string, { path: string, length: number, name: string }> }} torrentPool
+ * @param {string} sourceKey
+ * @param {number} fileIndex
+ * @returns {{ path: string, length: number, name: string } | null}
+ */
+function wholeFileFor(torrentPool, sourceKey, fileIndex) {
+  const held = torrentPool?.wholeFiles;
+  if (!(held instanceof Map) || held.size === 0 || !sourceKey.startsWith("torrent:")) {
+    return null;
+  }
+  const infoHash = sourceKey.slice("torrent:".length).toLowerCase();
+  return held.get(`${infoHash}/${fileIndex}`) ?? null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Serve a whole file off the disk, with ranges.
+ *
+ * @param {import("fastify").FastifyRequest} req
+ * @param {import("fastify").FastifyReply} reply
+ * @param {{ path: string, length: number, name: string }} file
+ * @param {import("node:fs/promises").FileHandle} handle - Already open; closed for HEAD.
+ * @returns {Promise<void> | void}
+ */
+function serveWholeFile(req, reply, file, handle) {
+  const disposition = `inline; filename*=UTF-8''${encodeURIComponent(file.name)}`;
+  if (req.method === "HEAD") {
+    reply.hijack();
+    reply.raw.writeHead(200, {
+      "Accept-Ranges": "bytes",
+      "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream",
+      "Content-Length": String(file.length),
+      "Content-Disposition": disposition
+    });
+    reply.raw.end();
+    return;
+  }
+  reply.header("Accept-Ranges", "bytes");
+  reply.header("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream");
+  reply.header("Content-Disposition", disposition);
+  const range = parseRange(req.headers.range, file.length);
+  if (!range) {
+    reply.header("Content-Length", String(file.length));
+    return reply.send(handle.createReadStream());
+  }
+  const { start, end } = range;
+  reply.code(206);
+  reply.header("Content-Length", String(end - start + 1));
+  reply.header("Content-Range", `bytes ${start}-${end}/${file.length}`);
+  return reply.send(handle.createReadStream({ start, end }));
+}
+
+export async function handleStreamGet(req, reply, { sourceRegistry, torrentPool, noteInputBytes = null, noteInputWaiting = null }) {
+  const fileIndexRaw = typeof req.query.fileIndex === "string" ? req.query.fileIndex : "";
+  const fileIndex = Number(fileIndexRaw);
+  const { sourceType, source, sourceKey } = getSourceParams(req.query, sourceRegistry);
+
+  if (!sourceType || !source || !Number.isInteger(fileIndex) || fileIndex < 0) {
+    return reply
+      .code(400)
+      .send({ error: "sourceKey or sourceType+source with fileIndex are required." });
+  }
+
+  // A FILE DOWNLOADED WHOLE IS A FILE, and reading it needs no torrent: no
+  // piece store, no memory ceiling, no eviction, no revival from a spill, and
+  // nothing that can refuse the read for want of memory. The check comes before
+  // the torrent is asked for on purpose — asking would add it back.
+  //
+  // The infohash is in the source key (`torrent:<infohash>`), so this needs
+  // nothing the torrent would have told us.
+  const whole = wholeFileFor(torrentPool, sourceKey, fileIndex);
+  if (whole) {
+    let handle;
+    try {
+      // Open before committing headers: the disk owner may have removed an
+      // announced file. An open descriptor also preserves a live POSIX read.
+      handle = await open(whole.path, "r");
+    } catch (error) {
+      if (error.code !== "ENOENT") throw error;
+      const key = `${sourceKey.slice("torrent:".length).toLowerCase()}/${fileIndex}`;
+      if (torrentPool.wholeFiles.get(key) === whole) torrentPool.wholeFiles.delete(key);
+    }
+    if (handle) {
+      if (req.method === "HEAD") await handle.close();
+      try {
+        return serveWholeFile(req, reply, whole, handle);
+      } catch (error) {
+        await handle.close().catch(() => undefined);
+        throw error;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  let torrent;
+  try {
+    torrent = await waitForTorrent(torrentPool, sourceType, source);
+  } catch (error) {
+    if (error instanceof Error && error.code === "TORRENT_NOT_READY") {
+      // Say so, rather than holding the connection until the client gives up.
+      // Reproduced 2026-08-04 on a magnet whose metadata never arrived: both a
+      // ranged GET and a HEAD returned nothing at all for the full 30 s the
+      // probe was willing to wait, and the route had written neither a status
+      // nor a header — from the client that is indistinguishable from the proxy
+      // having died, and it left no trace in the log either.
+      reply.header("Retry-After", "1");
+      return reply.code(503).send({ error: "Torrent metadata is not available yet." });
+    }
+    const message = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
+    return reply.code(500).send({ error: `Failed to load torrent source: ${message}` });
+  }
+
+  const file = torrent.files[fileIndex];
+  if (!file) {
+    return reply.code(404).send({ error: "File index was not found in torrent." });
+  }
+
+  // HEAD asks what a GET would return, not for the bytes. Fastify serves HEAD
+  // from this same handler, which used to mean a HEAD started a read of the
+  // WHOLE file: the body was discarded by Node, but the read ran on, the
+  // response never finished, and the next request on that keep-alive connection
+  // waited behind it. Measured on the field host: the keyframe-index HEAD
+  // returned headers in 23 ms and then held the connection until its 15 s
+  // timeout, which is where the 73 s transcode-session create went.
+  if (req.method === "HEAD") {
+    // Written to the raw response on purpose. Answering through `reply.send()`
+    // with no payload makes Fastify set `content-length: 0`, which is worse
+    // than useless here: the keyframe index asks for the file size with this
+    // very request and treats 0 as "no index available", silently falling back
+    // to an invented segment grid. Hijacking leaves the response to us, and
+    // Node omits the body for HEAD by itself.
+    reply.hijack();
+    reply.raw.writeHead(200, {
+      "Accept-Ranges": "bytes",
+      "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream",
+      "Content-Length": String(file.length),
+      "Content-Disposition": `inline; filename*=UTF-8''${encodeURIComponent(file.name)}`
+    });
+    reply.raw.end();
+    return;
+  }
+
+  const range = parseRange(req.headers.range, file.length);
+  // Prioritize the pieces at this read position so a seek (a request at a new
+  // byte offset) downloads first instead of waiting behind the sequential
+  // backlog — this is what caused ~15-18 s stalls when seeking into an
+  // undownloaded region.
+  // Only the encoder's own input read tracks where the viewer is. Everything
+  // else that comes through here — the codec probe, the keyframe index, a
+  // subtitle fetch — reads the file's edges, and treating those as a viewer
+  // position made every session start and every encoder restart look like a
+  // burst of seeks (measured: two spurious "the viewer moved" per start).
+  torrentPool.prioritizeByteRange(torrent, fileIndex, range ? range.start : 0, undefined, {
+    wholeFileRead: range === null,
+    isPlaybackRead: req.query.reader === "playback"
+  });
+
+  const start = range ? range.start : 0;
+  const end = range ? range.end : file.length - 1;
+  const contentLength = end - start + 1;
+
+  // Written straight out of the torrent's shared memory when that is available:
+  // no copy on either thread, at the cost of doing the writing by hand, because
+  // only the write callback tells us when a piece may be released. Falls back to
+  // the ordinary stream for sources without a shared pool.
+  // How far ahead of its own read head this reader should ask the swarm for.
+  // Supplied by whoever knows the media's byte rate — the transcode session
+  // puts it on the ffmpeg input URL, sized in seconds of playback — because
+  // this thread knows only bytes, and 32 MB is half a minute of a 1080p film
+  // but four seconds of a disc remux. Absent or unusable, the reader's own
+  // default stands.
+  const windowBytesRaw = Number(req.query.windowBytes);
+  const windowBytes =
+    Number.isFinite(windowBytesRaw) && windowBytesRaw > 0 ? windowBytesRaw : undefined;
+
+  // Which transcode session this read feeds, when it feeds one. Put on the URL
+  // by the session that builds it, because this route otherwise knows only a
+  // file — and two sessions can read one file, so the file cannot stand in for
+  // the session.
+  const sessionId = typeof req.query.session === "string" ? req.query.session : "";
+  // Which run of that output, so the time its input waits is that run's.
+  const runToken = Number(req.query.run);
+  const markWaits = noteInputWaiting && Number.isInteger(runToken)
+    ? (waiting) => noteInputWaiting(runToken, waiting)
+    : null;
+
+  const fragments = typeof file.createFragmentReader === "function"
+    ? file.createFragmentReader({ start, end, windowBytes })
+    : null;
+
+  if (fragments) {
+    reply.hijack();
+    reply.raw.writeHead(range ? 206 : 200, {
+      "Accept-Ranges": "bytes",
+      "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream",
+      "Content-Length": String(contentLength),
+      "Content-Disposition": `inline; filename*=UTF-8''${encodeURIComponent(file.name)}`,
+      ...(range ? { "Content-Range": `bytes ${start}-${end}/${file.length}` } : {})
+    });
+
+    // A client that goes away mid-response must stop the read, or pieces keep
+    // being fetched for nobody.
+    reply.raw.once("close", () => fragments.cancel());
+
+    let sent = 0;
+    try {
+      for await (const fragment of markWaits ? markingWaits(fragments, markWaits) : fragments) {
+        if (reply.raw.writableEnded || reply.raw.destroyed) {
+          fragment.release();
+          break;
+        }
+        await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+          reply.raw.write(fragment.bytes, (error) => (error ? reject(error) : resolve()));
+        });
+        sent += fragment.bytes.length;
+        // Say so, if this read belongs to a transcode session. It is the only
+        // proof that a session which has produced nothing yet is nevertheless
+        // being fed: the encoder's own progress cannot move until its first
+        // frame is decoded, and a viewer waiting for that first frame was being
+        // told the proxy had died while the swarm was delivering to it. Field
+        // 2026-09-03: 46.3 s on one piece, `processedSeconds` frozen at the
+        // start position throughout, and the browser gave up 0.4 s before the
+        // piece landed.
+        if (noteInputBytes) {
+          noteInputBytes(sessionId, fragment.bytes.length);
+        }
+        // Only now are these bytes gone: the piece can be unpinned, and the
+        // slot it occupies reused. Releasing before this point corrupts the
+        // response silently.
+        fragment.release();
+      }
+      // THE BODY MUST BE AS LONG AS THE HEADER PROMISED, and nothing checked.
+      //
+      // `Content-Length` is committed before the first byte, and the reader can
+      // finish early in silence: its `close()` ends the iteration with no
+      // accounting, and only the `fail()` path is logged. A client then has a
+      // response shorter than declared, and ffmpeg's mp4 demuxer — which holds
+      // the sample table and asks for samples past what arrived — starts
+      // parsing at wrong offsets. That is exactly `Invalid NAL unit size` with
+      // a negative length and `missing picture in access unit`: 2138 of them in
+      // one field session on a COPIED picture, where no encoder touches a frame.
+      //
+      // A single clean read of the same file through this route produced none,
+      // and four concurrent ones produced none; what the field session also had
+      // was a piece store whose readers wanted every piece it could hold, and
+      // 100 of 1395 evictions took a piece a reader had declared. So this says
+      // whether the body was short — which either names the cause or removes
+      // the last candidate.
+      if (sent !== contentLength) {
+        logger.error(
+          `stream: read of "${file.name}" bytes ${start}-${end} ENDED SHORT — ` +
+          `${sent} of ${contentLength} bytes sent under a Content-Length that promised all of them. ` +
+          "Whatever is reading this has a truncated body and no way to know it."
+        );
+      }
+      reply.raw.end();
+    } catch (error) {
+      // The body is already committed by its headers, so there is nothing
+      // useful to send instead — drop the connection and let the client retry.
+      // But say why: swallowing this made the route close connections with no
+      // status and no trace, which from the client looks like the proxy died
+      // and from the log looks like nothing happened at all.
+      // WHOSE end it was. A write cancelled because the consumer went away is
+      // the ordinary end of a read: ffmpeg is terminated on every seek and
+      // whenever the look-ahead bound suspends it, and its connection closes
+      // with it. Reported as a failure, that line fired several times a minute
+      // during healthy playback — and on 2026-08-09 it was read as the cause of
+      // broken audio, which it was not. A read that ends because the reader
+      // left is not a fault and must not be dressed as one; anything else is.
+      const message = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
+      const consumerLeft = req.raw.aborted || reply.raw.destroyed || /ECANCELED|EPIPE|ERR_STREAM_DESTROYED/.test(message);
+      const line =
+        `stream: read of "${file.name}" bytes ${start}-${end} ended after ` +
+        `${sent} of ${contentLength} bytes: ${message}`;
+      if (consumerLeft) {
+        logger.debug(`${line} (the reader disconnected — expected on an encoder restart)`);
+      } else {
+        logger.warn(line);
+      }
+      reply.raw.destroy();
+    }
+    return;
+  }
+
+  reply.header("Accept-Ranges", "bytes");
+  reply.header("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream");
+  reply.header("Content-Disposition", `inline; filename*=UTF-8''${encodeURIComponent(file.name)}`);
+
+  if (!range) {
+    reply.header("Content-Length", String(file.length));
+    return reply.send(file.createReadStream());
+  }
+
+  reply.code(206);
+  reply.header("Content-Length", String(contentLength));
+  reply.header("Content-Range", `bytes ${start}-${end}/${file.length}`);
+  return reply.send(file.createReadStream({ start, end }));
+}