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Fix VideoToolbox fallback and encode error reporting

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Brooklyn Halmstad
2026-04-01 21:00:48 -04:00
parent b35a130c3a
commit d9160f414c
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web/src/components/JobManager.tsx
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@@ -234,6 +234,27 @@ function explainFailureSummary(summary: string): string {
return "Encoding produced an empty output file. This usually means FFmpeg crashed silently. Check the logs below for FFmpeg output.";
}
if (
normalized.includes("videotoolbox") ||
normalized.includes("vt_compression") ||
normalized.includes("err=-12902") ||
normalized.includes("mediaserverd") ||
normalized.includes("no capable devices")
) {
return "The VideoToolbox hardware encoder failed. This can happen when the GPU is busy, the file uses an unsupported pixel format, or macOS Media Services are unavailable. Retry the job — if it keeps failing, CPU fallback is available in Settings → Hardware.";
}
if (
normalized.includes("encoder fallback") ||
normalized.includes("fallback detected")
) {
return "The hardware encoder was unavailable and fell back to software encoding, which was not allowed by your settings. Enable CPU fallback in Settings → Hardware, or retry when the GPU is less busy.";
}
if (normalized.includes("ffmpeg failed")) {
return "FFmpeg failed during encoding. Check the logs below for the specific error. Common causes: unsupported pixel format, codec not available, or corrupt source file.";
}
return summary;
}