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claudeandClaude Opus 5 97866e6623 Install the whole backend from one script; queue log; UI fixes
install_comfyui.sh becomes install_backend.sh and now builds everything the app
needs, not just the speech half:

- Step 7 runs normalizer/setup.sh --model, which fetches both models: the open
  inflection model first, so the install gets as far as it can before anything
  can ask for credentials, then the gated fine-tune.
- A missing Hugging Face account is no longer fatal. Accepting a licence is the
  one thing an installer cannot do, so the rest installs, the verification
  reports "fallback only (gated model missing)", and the summary prints the
  three commands that finish it.
- --skip-normalizer, disk requirement 35 -> 55 GB, removal instructions and the
  step list updated to match.

Queue logging — queue.log in the first queued video's job folder, which for a
single-video run is its own:

- Records what went wrong rather than what happened: warnings, tracebacks,
  ffmpeg errors, guard rejections, clips cut off mid-word or that crashed the
  backend, and the --regen line carrying their numbers.
- ComfyUI failures *and* restarts, so the log shows the recovery rather than
  reading as though the run simply stopped. GUI-initiated backend actions go in
  too; they never pass through a job's pipe.
- A failure also dumps the job's last 15 lines. Keyword matching alone is not
  enough — ffmpeg says "Invalid data found when processing input" and nothing
  that looks like an error.

UI:

- The output pane follows new output only while already at the bottom. Scroll up
  and it stays there; scroll back down and it resumes. Reading an earlier
  warning during a run was impossible while every ffmpeg progress frame yanked
  the view to the end.
- The ComfyUI button's status dot is drawn as its own canvas item, so it can be
  green (answering) or amber (holds the port, does not answer). A "." inside the
  label could only ever be the same grey as the words.

comfyui.log is capped at 120,000 lines, trimmed on backend start and every five
minutes. Rewritten in place, never replaced: tee holds it open in append mode,
so swapping the inode would leave the backend writing to an unlinked file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 09:48:20 +02:00
claudeandClaude Opus 5 e201aadc3e Add subtitle dictionaries, Polish number normalizer, ComfyUI lifecycle control
Text processing before TTS:

- dictionary.txt rewrites words and phrases (km/h, np., units). Rules compile
  into one alternation applied in a single pass, so replacements never chain
  and longest-literal wins. Case-sensitive, whole-word.
- A per-queue second dictionary, written by the GUI into the first video's job
  folder and merged with the shared one (--dictionary-extra).
- ALL-CAPS blocks become Title Case rather than sentence case: lowercasing
  destroyed proper nouns inside captions ("NASA - MARGO MADISON") and invited
  the normalizer to "correct" the name. Paired clips in output/clips/all-caps
  showed the TTS reads both casings the same.

normalizer/ — digits to spoken Polish, in its own venv because it needs
transformers>=5, which must not touch ComfyUI's pinned versions:

- Two backends. Plain integers go to num2words for the value and a general
  Polish LLM for the case; times, dates, decimals and identifiers go to a 0.6B
  fine-tune. Measured on 40 real subtitle lines, each is clearly better than
  the other on its half. 74% of numbered blocks take the first leg.
- Guards on every answer: runaway length, repetition loops, invalid bytes,
  leftover digits, a lost minus sign, a changed number, a lost word. A failure
  falls back to num2words, which is nominative but never wrong about the value.
- ComfyUI is asked to unload before normalizing; a normalizer that does not fit
  in VRAM is spilled to RAM silently at 5x the cost.

Backend lifecycle:

- ComfyUI is found by port through /proc, so a backend started by hand is
  managed too. SIGTERM escalates to SIGKILL, and a suspended process is killed
  outright since it never runs its handlers.
- A clip that kills the backend is retried three times, each with a different
  seed (the aborts are seed-dependent, not text-dependent), then skipped and
  reported so an overnight queue keeps moving.
- start_comfyui.sh execs python, so the script's PID is ComfyUI's.
- GUI gains ComfyUI and Queue dictionary buttons; quitting stops the backend.

--resume-from now reuses the job folder's tts_input.srt instead of reparsing
the subtitles, so block N still pairs with clip_NNNN.flac.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 21:55:31 +02:00
claudeandClaude Opus 5 7e2cee02e5 Survive a ComfyUI crash, retry clips the model cuts short
Crash recovery
  ComfyUI's queue and history do not persist across a restart, so a prompt
  submitted before a crash exists nowhere afterwards. The old poll loop waited
  on that dead prompt for ever, and its error branch skipped the backoff, so it
  hammered the closed port four times a second printing "Poll error" on every
  attempt.

  run_workflow() replaces wait_for_completion(). It reports once when the
  backend goes away and once when it returns, polls every 3s in between, and on
  reconnect checks both /history and /queue: if the prompt is in neither, the
  queue did not survive and the clip is submitted again. When it cannot tell, it
  assumes the job is still alive — resubmitting a running job would waste a
  generation.

  It also starts ComfyUI itself, via the script named by [comfy] start_command,
  in a new terminal window. Guarded by a 90s cooldown and 3 attempts per run so
  a backend that dies during startup cannot spawn an endless stream of windows;
  the window pauses on exit so a failed start leaves its error on screen. Falls
  back to a background launch with a log file when there is no display. Set
  [comfy] autostart = no, or pass --no-comfy-autostart, to turn it off.

Clips cut short mid-word
  About one clip in twelve comes back truncated: the model stops before the line
  is finished. Measured on raw ComfyUI output, 6 of 80 recent clips, and 15 of
  472 in one episode. It is invisible in the text but obvious in the audio — a
  finished clip decays to about -65 dB, a cut one stops at about -16 dB.

  Truncated clips are now regenerated with a distant seed, up to
  [tts] truncation_retries extra attempts, and a run that still has bad clips
  ends by printing them as a ready-made --regen list. --check-clips reports the
  same for a job already on disk.

  Worth recording what this is NOT: the trailing-silence trimming added earlier
  was suspected, and cleared. It only cuts silence that runs to end of file, so
  a pause between words never triggers it — verified against six synthetic cases
  including a 1.2s mid-clip pause, and against real clips containing pauses. The
  truncation is present in ComfyUI's own output before this script touches it.

settings.ini
  New: [tts] truncation_retries, [comfy] autostart and start_command, all
  documented in place. The editor renders yes/no keys as a dropdown.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 14:12:33 +02:00
claudeandClaude Opus 5 200d221816 Add graphical queue (ui.py), fix runaway-clip padding
ui.py — graphical front-end
  Queue several videos and run them one after another. Each job shells out to
  lektor_ai_comfy.py with ordinary command-line arguments, so the terminal
  script stays the single source of truth and remains usable on its own.

  Videos chosen together in one multi-select form a linked set whose settings
  move together; blocks added with + stay independent. Subtitles are found
  beside the video automatically, picked manually, or chosen from the video's
  embedded tracks. REGENERATE / RESUME / RE-BUILD map to --regen,
  --resume-from and --rebuild; RESUME pre-fills the last clip on disk, since an
  interrupted run can leave that one half-written. A Settings dialog edits
  settings.ini in place, rewriting only the value lines so the file's comments
  survive — configparser would have dropped all 29 of them. Closing asks first,
  and names the queued jobs that would be discarded.

  tkinter, so no new dependencies. It needs a Tk with real fonts: the system
  one after `apt install python3-tk`. Under miniforge's Python it still runs but
  falls back to X11 bitmap fonts, which the UI detects and reports.

  Reading the child's pipe deliberately avoids text=True. Text mode enables
  universal newlines, which rewrites a lone carriage return as a newline — so
  ffmpeg's progress bars redrew as a new line per update instead of animating.
  Wheel events are bound per widget rather than with bind_all, so scrolling
  stops at a widget's limit instead of spilling into whatever is behind it, and
  can no longer change a dropdown's value in passing.

start_lektor_ui.sh
  Picks a Python that has tkinter, preferring the system one for its fonts.

Runaway clip padding
  When the model fails to emit a stop token it generates until --max-tokens is
  exhausted: a two-second line becomes a 136s clip. Placement uses a
  push-forward cursor, so that padding delayed every clip after it — measured
  on one film, 1807 of 2075 clips were pushed late, the worst by 981 seconds,
  which is why the voiceover fell silent over later dialogue.

  Clips are now trimmed before they are saved. Two padding modes occur and both
  are handled: digital silence, found with silencedetect; and a steady tone that
  sits above any sane silence threshold, found by its flatness instead — tone
  tails spread 3-5 dB across their windows where speech spreads 43-61 dB.

  --trim-silence repairs jobs generated before this, in place and without
  regenerating anything. Applied to the six existing jobs it removed 77 clips'
  worth of padding, about 1h55m, leaving every job within a few seconds of its
  subtitle timing.

--embedded-sub-index
  Selects an embedded subtitle track by ffmpeg stream index instead of
  prompting, for the UI and for scripted runs. Interactive behaviour is
  unchanged when it is omitted.

settings.ini — voice gudowski_short_3, temperature 0.6.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 12:36:59 +02:00