`web-1080` was asked for whenever the source was at least 720 tall, so a 720p
video was upscaled to 1080p — the exact thing the image ladder is careful never
to do. The output was a 14.6 MB file that looks worse than the 7.8 MB one beside
it, and it cost 84 seconds of a single core on an idle box. Under a running sync
that overran av-club's 255 s idle timeout and homepage_video.mp4 failed
outright, which is the only reason the waste was noticed.
A rung is now made only when the source is at least that tall. `web-480` becomes
a floor rather than a rung, so a source smaller than 720 still gets something
instead of nothing or an enlargement. An unreadable height makes everything: a
probe that told us nothing is not evidence the video is small.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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