fix(preview): stop the native free-run at the end of the programme

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Summary

At the end of the last clip, the preview's free-run wrapped to the first clip. The app stops its playhead at the end and never followed, so its paused seeks (a source time, no clip) searched the first clip's file: clip 1's picture on clip 3.

• The free-run now holds the last clip's last frame, whether the clip ends on a trim or on its file's last frame, and no longer prefetches or switches past the last clip (next_clip_index and Player::reached_end in live.rs).
• A single-clip project, or a last clip trimmed at its end, also stops at the end instead of looping, as the app's playhead does.

Related issue

Closes #997

Type of change

• Bug fix

Release impact

• Patch

Desktop impact

• Windows
• macOS
• Linux

Testing

• New playback_off_the_end_of_the_programme_stays_on_the_last_clip (Windows, real GPU): a three-clip programme (a red file, then a blue file twice), played off the end, paused, then seeked inside the last clip. It fails on main with the first clip's red, for an untrimmed and for a trimmed last clip.
• cargo test -p openscreen-compositor --lib: 400 passed. The one failure is local: the worktree has no vendored ffmpeg.
• Not done: macOS, the app with a rebuilt addon.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Live playback now stops on the final clip instead of restarting from the beginning.
  • When playback reaches the end, the last image remains on screen. Seeking within the final clip also keeps playback on that clip.

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Playback stops on the final scene clip instead of wrapping to the first. At the final clip’s end or decoder EOF, the playback loop clears accumulated playback time and holds the current image. A hardware-gated regression test checks playback past the programme end and seeking within the final clip.

Changes

Final Clip Playback

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Clip successor and advancement crates/compositor/src/live.rs	Prefetching and clip advancement use a shared lookup that returns no successor for the final clip. The final clip no longer wraps to the first.
Final clip stop and regression test crates/compositor/src/live.rs, crates/compositor/src/pipeline_windows.rs	Player::reached_end checks the clip timestamp and decoder EOF while accounting for pending repositioned frames. The playback loop clears its accumulator and holds the image at the final clip’s end. The regression test checks playback past the programme end and seeking within the final clip.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6afd9

Playback appears to retain the last clip, but the regression test should also confirm that it reaches the final frame. This is a bounded test-coverage concern rather than a demonstrated playback failure.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the preview free-run fix at the end of the programme.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description covers the change, linked issue, bug-fix type, release and desktop impact, and testing results. It also states which testing was not done. The missing screenshots section is not critic…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	[#997] live.rs now stops free-run at the final clip. reached_end holds the composed frame at the clip boundary or file EOF, and detects when the next due frame would fall outside a trimmed clip. T…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The playback changes and the Windows fixture and regression-test changes directly support the end-of-programme preview behavior in [#997]. No unrelated changes appear in the reviewed diff.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 83.33% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 12 functions across 2 files.

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Review comments at @crates/compositor/src/live.rs:
- Around line 1844-1845: Update Player::reached_end and its call in the render
loop to check the next frame’s timestamp against both clip.source_end_sec and
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crates/compositor/src/pipeline_windows.rs (1)

2980-3008: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that playback reaches the end region.

held.source_time_sec < last_end_sec also passes when playback remains at the initial 0.1 seconds. The later seek replaces that position, so its assertions do not detect the stalled playback. Add a lower bound with tolerance for the 25 fps frame interval.

Suggested fix

             assert!(
                 held.source_time_sec < last_end_sec,
                 "end {last_end_sec}: held a frame past the clip's end, at {:.3} s",
                 held.source_time_sec
             );
+            assert!(
+                held.source_time_sec > last_end_sec - 0.1,
+                "end {last_end_sec}: playback did not advance near the clip's end, at {:.3} s",
+                held.source_time_sec
+            );

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Review comment at @crates/compositor/src/pipeline_windows.rs around lines 2980 -
3008:
Update the end-of-playback assertions in the test to also require
held.source_time_sec to be within a small tolerance of last_end_sec, accounting
for the 25 fps frame interval; retain the existing upper-bound assertion so the
held frame cannot be past the clip’s end.

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Review comments at @crates/compositor/src/pipeline_windows.rs:
- Around line 2980-3008: Update the end-of-playback assertions in the test to
also require held.source_time_sec to be within a small tolerance of
last_end_sec, accounting for the 25 fps frame interval; retain the existing
upper-bound assertion so the held frame cannot be past the clip’s end.

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