Replace PreviewOverlay's bare <video controls> with a vidstack-driven
player wrapping the same source URL. Vidstack's default video layout
provides a polished chrome (gradient bottom bar, large play overlay,
hover-revealed scrubber) and registers <media-player>/<media-provider>
custom elements that vendor the browser quirks.
To keep first-frame latency low, PhotoTile starts a hover-warm fetch
of the playback URL after a short (120 ms) delay — a single Range
request of the first 512 KB pages the backend's pre-transcoded MP4
cache file into the OS page cache and lands in the browser's HTTP
cache, so when the player mounts and issues its own bytes=0- request
the response is satisfied from disk. Each hash is warmed at most once
per session; AbortController cancels hovers that don't commit.
The vidstack modules are dynamically imported on mount so they never
run during SvelteKit's static prerender — they side-effect
customElements.define() calls which would crash under SSR.
Replace the legacy mule-image backend with PhotoPrism plus a thin
SvelteKit client and a Node sidecar for endpoints PhotoPrism doesn't
expose (file rename), and add a two-phase migrator (metadata via PUT,
heaps → albums) for the existing Postgres library.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
