fix: keep room playback reporting independent of subtitles

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Summary

A pending subtitle request can leave a replacement video playing while the room still reports buffering at the saved offset. New participants then start at that stale position. During a play-queue transition, the same wait also prevents periodic playback reporting from restarting.

• Finish source readiness and publish the actual playback state independently of subtitle setup. Subtitle failures report a warning without restarting otherwise healthy video.
• Guard subtitle parsing and renderer creation against track replacement, source cancellation, and teardown, including overlapping requests.
• Include reported state, source-changing state, and masking state in sanitized playback diagnostics so a mismatch with the video element is directly observable.

Verification

• Added two regression cases that fail on the original code: pending subtitles freeze the projected host timeline and prevent the next item's periodic reports from restarting. Both pass with this change.
• npm run test:ci: 171 Node tests and 584 frontend tests passed.
• npm run test:node: 171 passed again after updating the diagnostic allowlist.
• npm run lint: passed.
• npm run build: passed.
• Coverage observes periodic timeline sends while subtitles remain pending and renderer attachment for the current track. It also includes delayed subtitle failures (including null/undefined rejections) without video reload, late parser completion after replacement or teardown, cancelled source ownership, and simultaneous subtitle requests. Existing paused-recovery and cancellation tests pass.

The regression is reproduced locally. Production logs show video progressing without recovery completion and reporting stopping after a media transition, but do not identify the specific pending subtitle operation. This patch has not been deployed or verified against that live client session.

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• The change is focused and targets dev.
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• Documentation or release notes were updated when needed.
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• All actionable CodeRabbit findings are fixed or answered with rationale.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Playback recovery and timeline reporting continue while subtitles are loading, rather than waiting for subtitle setup to finish.
  • Prevented cancelled or outdated subtitle requests from replacing the current track or creating a renderer.
  • Subtitle loading failures for the active video now display a warning; cancelled requests and failures from outdated sources are ignored.

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📝 Walkthrough

Playback diagnostics now include additional player-state fields. Subtitle requests use currentness checks to prevent superseded work from setting up a renderer. Source replacement and recovery continue while subtitle loading is pending, with non-abort failures reported for the current source.

Changes: Playback and subtitle lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Playback diagnostic fields packages/syncloungeserver/src/socketserver/playbackdiagnostics.js, src/store/modules/slplayer/actions.js, test/playbackdiagnostics.test.js	The diagnostic allowlist accepts reportedState, sourceChanging, and stateMasked. Playback diagnostics include these fields, and tests verify that the sanitizer preserves them.
Subtitle request lifecycle src/store/modules/slplayer/subtitleActions.js, src/store/modules/slplayer/actions.js, src/__tests__/subtitle-startup-lifecycle.test.js	Subtitle actions check request currentness around asynchronous parsing and renderer setup. Lifecycle tests cover superseded requests, destruction, video-source cancellation, and simultaneous requests. CHANGE_SUBTITLES passes options to subtitle setup.
Source replacement and recovery src/store/modules/slplayer/actions.js, src/__tests__/stream-recovery.test.js	Source replacement starts subtitle loading asynchronously. Abort errors and failures from replaced sources are ignored; other current-source failures emit a diagnostic and show a warning. Recovery and queue-transition tests check timeline reporting while subtitle setup is pending and recovery after setup fails.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e82f0

The change decouples playback reporting from subtitle loading. Remaining concerns are narrow subtitle error-handling edge cases and test-strength improvements, so the change is mergeable with minor follow-up.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Passed checks: 5 passed

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/__tests__/stream-recovery.test.js:
- Line 251: Update the recovery test around the
START_PERIODIC_PLEX_TIMELINE_UPDATE assertion to verify externally observable
behavior: trigger the periodic action using a controlled timer and assert that a
subsequent timeline report is sent before resolving subtitles. Do not rely only
on context.dispatch recording the action request.
- Around line 233-235: Update the stream recovery test around HANDLE_ERROR to
use a controllably settled subtitle promise: retain its rejection function,
await recovery, then reject the promise. Verify that the subtitle-failure
diagnostic appears and LOAD_PLAYER_SRC is not called again after recovery.

Review comments at @src/__tests__/subtitle-startup-lifecycle.test.js:
- Around line 70-71: Update the startup lifecycle test to assert that the mocked
insertElementBeforeVideo call receives the current renderer’s libjassSubsWrapper
exactly once, in addition to the existing renderer assertions.

Review comments at @src/store/modules/slplayer/actions.js:
- Line 305: Update the catch handler for CHANGE_SUBTITLES to check that the
rejection value is non-null before reading its name. Preserve the AbortError and
sourceRevision suppression behavior, while allowing null or undefined rejections
to reach the subtitle warning path.

Review comments at @src/store/modules/slplayer/subtitleActions.js:
- Line 216: Move the initial ensureSource() ownership check in the subtitle
startup flow inside the existing cancellation handling so an AbortError is
treated as a no-op, while keeping the check before DESTROY_ASS.

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📒 Files selected for processing: 6

• packages/syncloungeserver/src/socketserver/playbackdiagnostics.js
• src/__tests__/stream-recovery.test.js
• src/__tests__/subtitle-startup-lifecycle.test.js
• src/store/modules/slplayer/actions.js
• src/store/modules/slplayer/subtitleActions.js
• test/playbackdiagnostics.test.js

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