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>## What is Mantequilla Soft?

>Mantequilla Soft is an open-source Hive initiative focused on building the tooling that makes Hive apps smoother, faster, and easier to work with.

>We believe great infrastructure should feel invisible—quietly doing its job, letting developers build, and users enjoy the experience, like butter melting into the workflow.

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This report summarizes the development, infrastructure, and integration work completed this week by the Mantequilla-Soft team across Snapie, 3Speak, and Hive ecosystem tooling.

Snapie Player Improvements - @tibfox

• Added autoplay support with sound-first fallback to muted

• Displays an info button when muted

• Autoplay is skipped on Chrome due to unreliable autoplay policies
• Fixed pillarboxing issues for vertical videos rendered inside 16:9 desktop containers
• Added a local testing page covering all player layout modes
• Implemented play / pause / seek controls via postMessage for iframe embeds
• Cleaned up logging by replacing console.log with a centralized debugLog utility

Hive Frontend Embed Fixes (3Speak) - @eddiespino & @meno

• Coordinated with multiple Hive frontends to restore and improve 3Speak video embeds:

• Contacted PeakD (Asgarth)

• Coordinated with Ecency (Good-karma)
• Submitted a Merge Request for Hive.blog
• Shared and maintained centralized embed documentation:
  https://play.3speak.tv/embed-demo-local.html

3Speak Preview Environment - @eddiespino

• Created a dedicated preview branch and deployment at preview.3speak.tv

• Purpose:

• Test new features safely

• Reduce the risk of breaking production
• Improve QA and release confidence before merging into main

Frontend Improvements & Cleanup - @kesolink

• Added moment.js for improved and consistent date handling

• Improved vote estimation logic:

• Better handling of user voting power

• More accurate effective vesting share calculations
• Updated estimate logic in hiveUtils.js using dynamic blockchain properties
• Refactored community navigation in the video player to support direct community links
• Improved loading states and error handling in tooltip components
• Updated the NotFound page to use proper internal navigation links
• Removed unused code and comments across the codebase for readability

Feed & Config Refactoring - @kesolink

• Updated Feed component to consistently use FEED_URL from config
• Added TAG_FEED_URL and centralized API endpoints in config.js
• Updated TagFeed and Trending pages to use the new endpoints

• Removed unnecessary debug logs from:

• Feed

• UserProfilePage
• Modal components
• Improved maintainability and consistency across frontend API calls

MacOS SourceBuffer Quota Fix (Critical Playback Issue) - @meno

Problem

• Videos failed with MEDIA_ERR_DECODE (code 3) on macOS
• Issue occurred across Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Edge
• Linux browsers were unaffected

Root Cause

• macOS enforces a strict SourceBuffer memory quota (~150 MB)
• Player exceeded this quota during playback due to aggressive buffering

Solution (macOS-wide)

• Reduced buffer size to 20s / ~20MB (from 30s / 30MB)

• Implemented aggressive buffer cleanup:

• Removes old buffered segments on stalls

• Keeps only ~10 seconds behind the playhead
• Periodic cleanup every 5 seconds during playback

• Reduced initial bandwidth selection on macOS:

• Starts at 3 Mbps instead of 5 Mbps

• Applies to all browsers on macOS, not Safari-specific

Result

• Memory usage stays well below system limits
• Videos now play reliably across all macOS browsers

SnapieVideoPlayer Backend Updates

Status-Based Placeholder System - @meno

Implemented a unified placeholder system for the videos collection, matching existing embed-video behavior.

Status Handling Overview

• Deleted videos → show deletion placeholder
• Processing videos → show processing placeholder
• Failed videos → show failure placeholder
• Published / Scheduled videos → serve real video

Key Improvements

• Added status and isPlaceholder fields to API responses
• Verified and normalized all known video status values
• Maintains the full 4-tier CDN fallback system:
  BunnyCDN → Supernode → Hotnode → Audionode

Codebase Refactor & Best Practices - @meno

• Introduced constants for all video statuses (no magic strings)

• Added shared helper functions for:

• Parameter validation

• Placeholder URL generation
• Status-based video resolution
• Reduced code duplication by ~40%
• Enforced consistent error handling and HTTP responses
• Added JSDoc documentation throughout

View Count Protection

• Fixed /api/view endpoint so views are only counted for playable videos

• Views are incremented only for:

• published

• scheduled
• publish_later
• publish_manual

• Prevents analytics inflation from:

• Deleted

• Processing
• Failed videos
• API now clearly reports whether a view was counted

Deployment & Metrics

• Repository: snapievideoplayer
• Commit: 04f976d
• Files changed: 1
• Insertions: +230
• Deletions: −78

Status: ✅ Deployed and production-ready

Weekly Summary

This week focused on:

• Improving video and audio playback reliability across Hive frontends
• Hardening infrastructure against platform-specific issues (macOS)
• Cleaning up and modernizing frontend and backend code
• Establishing safer release workflows via preview environments
• Improving long-term maintainability and analytics integrity

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YouTube Mirror:

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