0.3.0: Movies & Shows tab (films and series, with on-the-fly audio conversion)

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Adds a Movies & Shows tab next to Live TV.

Why

Anthony's line had 53,531 live channels, 213,348 movies and 46,051 series (1.19M episodes). hdtilt only showed the live channels. Its films are MKV with AC-3 / E-AC-3 audio. The provider returns 500 for .ts or .mp4, so a browser can't play them as served.

What

• Browse: categories → titles (newest first) → a show's seasons and episodes, via POST /api/vod. Nothing loads the whole catalogue.
• Search: covers every title. The server builds a compact index once per line (typed arrays, one build at a time, kept for an hour). The first search on this line took ~6 s; later ones ~12 ms.
• Playback (src/server/remux.js vod mode): ffprobe reads length and codecs (/hls/<b64>/info.json). Video is copied and audio becomes stereo AAC, delivered as fMP4 HLS (HEVC tagged hvc1 for Safari). #EXT-X-START makes a growing playlist start at 0. A seek past what's converted starts a new session there (?vod=1&t=). An .mp4 with ordinary codecs plays directly.
• Continue watching: resumes where you stopped, next episode auto-plays, ◀/▶ seek 10 s/30 s, n jumps to the next episode.
• Plain M3U: /movie/ and /series/ entries appear in the same tab.
• MCP: a movies_shows tool.
• Fix: a play() rejected by a newer source (AbortError) was treated as an autoplay block. That muted the video after a seek or a fast zap.

Tested

• bun test: 78 pass with ffmpeg. New test/vod.test.js includes an end-to-end MKV + AC-3 → HLS + AAC conversion.
• Headless Chrome against the real line, 19/19:
  • 368 categories load; a 1080p MKV movie plays with audio decoded.
  • +30 s and a seek to 1h03m both work; Continue watching keeps the position.
  • Search "matrix" → 94 results.
  • Lost in Space → 28 episodes; an episode plays with audio.
  • Back works; on a phone-width screen the categories open from ☰.

Notes

• Memory: in a fresh process, building both search indexes peaked at ~800 MB RSS. Each index holds ~50 MB, and builds are serialised. The container limit is 2 GB.
• HEVC (the 4K titles) is copied, not transcoded, so it plays only where the browser decodes HEVC (Safari, and Chrome/Edge with hardware support).

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