A room whose peers have all left is a code nobody is using, but the relay
kept it bound to the creator's reconnect capability and rejected every
other create with room_exists. The app compounded it: enterRoom only
promoted to host on room_not_found, so tapping a recent code landed the
user in the retained room as a guest of a host that was never coming
back, until the cleanup sweep finally dropped the room.
Create now replaces a room with no connected peers, and enterRoom hosts
the code when its probe join finds an empty room. An occupied room still
rejects create, including from its previous owner, and a host that is
merely disconnected still reclaims its peer ID through join with the
matching token.
Guest switch dispatch pre-marked its dedup key and fired-and-forgot, so
any failure (fetch error, reload busy with an auto-advance, navigation
race with the host exiting) silently stranded the guest on the old media.
A CurrentPlaybackDispatcher now marks a key handled only after the sink
reports success against the committed identity, with a serialized
in-flight slot, timeout, and generation reset; the reconciler re-offers
unattached media on every host heartbeat, making the heartbeat the retry
channel. Fetches that outlive their dispatch are re-validated against the
current snapshot so a stale switch can't override the live one.
hostExitedPlayer now rides the controller's ordered message queue with
host authentication instead of racing state handling in the provider.
Replaces the imperative play/pause/seek/positionSync message soup with a
single host-authored PlaybackState (seq-ordered, anchor-extrapolated,
phase machine: loading/waitingForPeers/paused/playing) that doubles as
the heartbeat, plus guest status reports and host-applied control
requests. Fixes the guest seek-back loop while the host loads (readiness
was keyed on a pre-load !buffering snapshot and heartbeats broadcast
frozen positions), adds real group buffering coordination (stall grace,
scheduled simultaneous resumes, 15s safety timeout), rate-nudge drift
correction with passthrough-aware seek fallback, session-scoped message
handling (no lost messages during episode-switch detach gaps), and an
expected-state ledger replacing the racy remote-action flag.
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