fix: Groq model registry updated — new cascade gpt-oss-120b/qwen3.6-27b/gpt-oss-20b/allam-2-7b

fix: missing time import in telegram sender

fix: YouTube upload runs BEFORE Telegram; Telegram delivery is now non-blocking best-effort with short timeouts (HF can't always reach api.telegram.org — a TG outage must never block or lose an upload)

fix: YouTube upload runs BEFORE Telegram; Telegram delivery is now non-blocking best-effort with short timeouts (HF can't always reach api.telegram.org — a TG outage must never block or lose an upload)

fix: sync gate tolerance ≤2 events (whisper jitter) — genuine desync still blocked

fix: replace decommissioned mixtral-8x7b-32768 with gemma2-9b-it in Groq cascade

feat: YouTube preflight check (/api/ytcheck — pure auth test, no upload) + youtube_ready flag

feat: YouTube preflight check (/api/ytcheck — pure auth test, no upload) + youtube_ready flag

v18.1 FINAL SYNC + POLISH — (1) subtitles now MATCH the voice: faster-whisper true timestamps + silence-aligned fallback (real pause detection replaces flat WPM drift); (2) QC SYNC GATE: every subtitle event validated against silencedetect of the voice — mid-pause subs block the render (edge-grace 0.25s); (3) robust black-frame check (needs 2+ true black frames); (4) outro fade-to-black; (5) QC issues now logged on failure

v18.1 FINAL SYNC + POLISH — (1) subtitles now MATCH the voice: faster-whisper true timestamps + silence-aligned fallback (real pause detection replaces flat WPM drift); (2) QC SYNC GATE: every subtitle event validated against silencedetect of the voice — mid-pause subs block the render (edge-grace 0.25s); (3) robust black-frame check (needs 2+ true black frames); (4) outro fade-to-black; (5) QC issues now logged on failure

v18.1 FINAL SYNC + POLISH — (1) subtitles now MATCH the voice: faster-whisper true timestamps + silence-aligned fallback (real pause detection replaces flat WPM drift); (2) QC SYNC GATE: every subtitle event validated against silencedetect of the voice — mid-pause subs block the render (edge-grace 0.25s); (3) robust black-frame check (needs 2+ true black frames); (4) outro fade-to-black; (5) QC issues now logged on failure

v18.1 FINAL SYNC + POLISH — (1) subtitles now MATCH the voice: faster-whisper true timestamps + silence-aligned fallback (real pause detection replaces flat WPM drift); (2) QC SYNC GATE: every subtitle event validated against silencedetect of the voice — mid-pause subs block the render (edge-grace 0.25s); (3) robust black-frame check (needs 2+ true black frames); (4) outro fade-to-black; (5) QC issues now logged on failure

v18 EXPRESSIVE ENGINE — (1) brain-storming opening hooks: prompts + fallback scripts now open with mind-bending curiosity-gap lines; hook clip shows the question as a fitted gold card; (2) HUMAN VOICE WITH FEELINGS: sentence-level prosody — questions slower+rise, shock lines dramatic slow-down + pause, reveals get pause-before, 9 natural micro-pauses verified in render; (3) enchantment: whoosh SFX on shorts, topic card overlays first content clip

v18 EXPRESSIVE ENGINE — (1) brain-storming opening hooks: prompts + fallback scripts now open with mind-bending curiosity-gap lines; hook clip shows the question as a fitted gold card; (2) HUMAN VOICE WITH FEELINGS: sentence-level prosody — questions slower+rise, shock lines dramatic slow-down + pause, reveals get pause-before, 9 natural micro-pauses verified in render; (3) enchantment: whoosh SFX on shorts, topic card overlays first content clip

v18 EXPRESSIVE ENGINE — (1) brain-storming opening hooks: prompts + fallback scripts now open with mind-bending curiosity-gap lines; hook clip shows the question as a fitted gold card; (2) HUMAN VOICE WITH FEELINGS: sentence-level prosody — questions slower+rise, shock lines dramatic slow-down + pause, reveals get pause-before, 9 natural micro-pauses verified in render; (3) enchantment: whoosh SFX on shorts, topic card overlays first content clip

v18 EXPRESSIVE ENGINE — (1) brain-storming opening hooks: prompts + fallback scripts now open with mind-bending curiosity-gap lines; hook clip shows the question as a fitted gold card; (2) HUMAN VOICE WITH FEELINGS: sentence-level prosody — questions slower+rise, shock lines dramatic slow-down + pause, reveals get pause-before, 9 natural micro-pauses verified in render; (3) enchantment: whoosh SFX on shorts, topic card overlays first content clip

v17.4 SUBTITLE GARBAGE FIX — fallback scripts contained [HOOK:...] stage junk which got SPOKEN and BURNED into subs (underscores, dashes, comma garbage). Now: (1) stripper applied to fallback scripts too; (2) markdown/underscore scrub before TTS; (3) clean_word() in ALL subtitle builders strips _, brackets, pipes; (4) title 'The The' dedupe; (5) verified: 0 junk chars in nano/short/long fallbacks

v17.4 SUBTITLE GARBAGE FIX — fallback scripts contained [HOOK:...] stage junk which got SPOKEN and BURNED into subs (underscores, dashes, comma garbage). Now: (1) stripper applied to fallback scripts too; (2) markdown/underscore scrub before TTS; (3) clean_word() in ALL subtitle builders strips _, brackets, pipes; (4) title 'The The' dedupe; (5) verified: 0 junk chars in nano/short/long fallbacks

chore: piper voice model (local TTS fallback)

chore: piper voice model (local TTS fallback)

v17.3 AUDIO FIX — the video had NO VOICE because all TTS engines failed and the pipeline shipped a 2s tone. Now: (1) piper local neural TTS fallback added (works offline); (2) edge-tts retries with param degradation; (3) gTTS TLD retries; (4) pipeline HARD-ABORTS on tone/silence — never ships silent video; (5) Telegram send retries with backoff

v17.3 AUDIO FIX — the video had NO VOICE because all TTS engines failed and the pipeline shipped a 2s tone. Now: (1) piper local neural TTS fallback added (works offline); (2) edge-tts retries with param degradation; (3) gTTS TLD retries; (4) pipeline HARD-ABORTS on tone/silence — never ships silent video; (5) Telegram send retries with backoff

v17.3 AUDIO FIX — the video had NO VOICE because all TTS engines failed and the pipeline shipped a 2s tone. Now: (1) piper local neural TTS fallback added (works offline); (2) edge-tts retries with param degradation; (3) gTTS TLD retries; (4) pipeline HARD-ABORTS on tone/silence — never ships silent video; (5) Telegram send retries with backoff

v17.3 AUDIO FIX — the video had NO VOICE because all TTS engines failed and the pipeline shipped a 2s tone. Now: (1) piper local neural TTS fallback added (works offline); (2) edge-tts retries with param degradation; (3) gTTS TLD retries; (4) pipeline HARD-ABORTS on tone/silence — never ships silent video; (5) Telegram send retries with backoff

v17.3 AUDIO FIX — the video had NO VOICE because all TTS engines failed and the pipeline shipped a 2s tone. Now: (1) piper local neural TTS fallback added (works offline); (2) edge-tts retries with param degradation; (3) gTTS TLD retries; (4) pipeline HARD-ABORTS on tone/silence — never ships silent video; (5) Telegram send retries with backoff

v17.2 REVERT-TO-APPROVED + FIX: (1) DELETE pan/scan (it was a sliver zoom = cut corners) — blur-fill is primary again; (2) subs WrapStyle 0 + real frame-width char budget — NO more horizontal clipping; (3) remove vignette + flashing interrupts (flow restored); (4) lighter hook/outro cards; (5) ffmpeg fail-fast guard

v17.2 REVERT-TO-APPROVED + FIX: (1) DELETE pan/scan (it was a sliver zoom = cut corners) — blur-fill is primary again; (2) subs WrapStyle 0 + real frame-width char budget — NO more horizontal clipping; (3) remove vignette + flashing interrupts (flow restored); (4) lighter hook/outro cards; (5) ffmpeg fail-fast guard

v17.2 REVERT-TO-APPROVED + FIX: (1) DELETE pan/scan (it was a sliver zoom = cut corners) — blur-fill is primary again; (2) subs WrapStyle 0 + real frame-width char budget — NO more horizontal clipping; (3) remove vignette + flashing interrupts (flow restored); (4) lighter hook/outro cards; (5) ffmpeg fail-fast guard

v17.2 REVERT-TO-APPROVED + FIX: (1) DELETE pan/scan (it was a sliver zoom = cut corners) — blur-fill is primary again; (2) subs WrapStyle 0 + real frame-width char budget — NO more horizontal clipping; (3) remove vignette + flashing interrupts (flow restored); (4) lighter hook/outro cards; (5) ffmpeg fail-fast guard

MEGA UPGRADE v17.1: (1) vignette moved BEFORE ass — subtitles were being darkened into invisibility; (2) stage-direction stripper — Groq '[HOOK:...]'/'Narrator:' junk no longer spoken or burned into subs; (3) PAN/SCAN full-bleed for landscape footage (no sliver crops, no bars); (4) hook/outro PNG text cards — titles can never clip; (5) pattern interrupts actually injected; (6) correct progress bar; (7) subs: nano fontsize fix, backdrop box, char-budget lines, margin 340; (8) rotation-aware resolution; (9) drop zero-duration whisper words; (10) QC nano 15-55s

MEGA UPGRADE v17.1: (1) vignette moved BEFORE ass — subtitles were being darkened into invisibility; (2) stage-direction stripper — Groq '[HOOK:...]'/'Narrator:' junk no longer spoken or burned into subs; (3) PAN/SCAN full-bleed for landscape footage (no sliver crops, no bars); (4) hook/outro PNG text cards — titles can never clip; (5) pattern interrupts actually injected; (6) correct progress bar; (7) subs: nano fontsize fix, backdrop box, char-budget lines, margin 340; (8) rotation-aware resolution; (9) drop zero-duration whisper words; (10) QC nano 15-55s

MEGA UPGRADE v17.1: (1) vignette moved BEFORE ass — subtitles were being darkened into invisibility; (2) stage-direction stripper — Groq '[HOOK:...]'/'Narrator:' junk no longer spoken or burned into subs; (3) PAN/SCAN full-bleed for landscape footage (no sliver crops, no bars); (4) hook/outro PNG text cards — titles can never clip; (5) pattern interrupts actually injected; (6) correct progress bar; (7) subs: nano fontsize fix, backdrop box, char-budget lines, margin 340; (8) rotation-aware resolution; (9) drop zero-duration whisper words; (10) QC nano 15-55s

MEGA UPGRADE v17.1: (1) vignette moved BEFORE ass — subtitles were being darkened into invisibility; (2) stage-direction stripper — Groq '[HOOK:...]'/'Narrator:' junk no longer spoken or burned into subs; (3) PAN/SCAN full-bleed for landscape footage (no sliver crops, no bars); (4) hook/outro PNG text cards — titles can never clip; (5) pattern interrupts actually injected; (6) correct progress bar; (7) subs: nano fontsize fix, backdrop box, char-budget lines, margin 340; (8) rotation-aware resolution; (9) drop zero-duration whisper words; (10) QC nano 15-55s

MEGA UPGRADE v17.1: (1) vignette moved BEFORE ass — subtitles were being darkened into invisibility; (2) stage-direction stripper — Groq '[HOOK:...]'/'Narrator:' junk no longer spoken or burned into subs; (3) PAN/SCAN full-bleed for landscape footage (no sliver crops, no bars); (4) hook/outro PNG text cards — titles can never clip; (5) pattern interrupts actually injected; (6) correct progress bar; (7) subs: nano fontsize fix, backdrop box, char-budget lines, margin 340; (8) rotation-aware resolution; (9) drop zero-duration whisper words; (10) QC nano 15-55s

MEGA UPGRADE v17.1: (1) vignette moved BEFORE ass — subtitles were being darkened into invisibility; (2) stage-direction stripper — Groq '[HOOK:...]'/'Narrator:' junk no longer spoken or burned into subs; (3) PAN/SCAN full-bleed for landscape footage (no sliver crops, no bars); (4) hook/outro PNG text cards — titles can never clip; (5) pattern interrupts actually injected; (6) correct progress bar; (7) subs: nano fontsize fix, backdrop box, char-budget lines, margin 340; (8) rotation-aware resolution; (9) drop zero-duration whisper words; (10) QC nano 15-55s

MEGA UPGRADE v17.1: (1) vignette moved BEFORE ass — subtitles were being darkened into invisibility; (2) stage-direction stripper — Groq '[HOOK:...]'/'Narrator:' junk no longer spoken or burned into subs; (3) PAN/SCAN full-bleed for landscape footage (no sliver crops, no bars); (4) hook/outro PNG text cards — titles can never clip; (5) pattern interrupts actually injected; (6) correct progress bar; (7) subs: nano fontsize fix, backdrop box, char-budget lines, margin 340; (8) rotation-aware resolution; (9) drop zero-duration whisper words; (10) QC nano 15-55s

fix: QC accepts nano (15-40s) as its own class — demo/nano renders no longer false-fail

fix: NO MORE SLIVER CROPS — aspect-aware blurred-fill for orientation-mismatched footage + subtitle margin bump + RAM-aware audio normalize

fix: NO MORE SLIVER CROPS — aspect-aware blurred-fill for orientation-mismatched footage + subtitle margin bump + RAM-aware audio normalize

fix: NO MORE SLIVER CROPS — aspect-aware blurred-fill for orientation-mismatched footage + subtitle margin bump + RAM-aware audio normalize

fix: designed-frame insert uses veryfast preset + 240s timeout (was stalling pipeline)

fix: QC frame sampling via ffmpeg pipe with timeout (cv2 could hang forever)

fix: normalize_voice progressive fallback (ffmpeg 5.1 compat — exit 234 on HF)

feat: auto duration enforcement — shorts outside 20-55s regenerate with strict word budget

feat: auto duration enforcement — shorts outside 20-55s regenerate with strict word budget

fix: Shorts word target 110-140 (was 180-240 → 76s audio > 58s QC limit)

fix: Shorts word target 110-140 (was 180-240 → 76s audio > 58s QC limit)

fix: register API routes AFTER gradio launch (launch wipes pre-launch routes)

fix: add API routes directly onto Gradio FastAPI app (mount wasn't serving)

fix: mount API inside Gradio (same port) — resolves runtime port conflict