jellyfin sidecar: server registry, video façade and byte pass-through

officer-jellyfin owns the whole Jellyfin contract: the instance URL, the access
token, the Jellyfin user it belongs to and the DeviceId its sessions are keyed
by. The platform side is a 17-line proxy holding no credentials.

Servers are a registry, not a single row — this machine runs four instances and
the owner switches between them. The password is never stored: it is traded once
for an access token through AuthenticateByName, and only that token is persisted,
encrypted.

Two doors. /_officer/* is a hand-written JSON façade for the things the browser
should not have to know — the user id in the path, the Fields lists that decide
whether a grid has posters, the PlaybackInfo negotiation. /_jf/* is a GET-only,
allow-listed byte pass-through for images, video, HLS and subtitles; it keeps
Jellyfin's own paths because a master playlist references its segments
relatively, so any renaming would mean rewriting m3u8 bodies.

TranscodingUrl arrives with api_key=<access token> in its query string and would
otherwise be handed straight to a video element. It is stripped before anything
is returned; the pass-through re-adds the credential as a header.

Video only — Officer's own player owns audio, so music collections are filtered
out of the library list.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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import { createSidecarProxy } from '../../sidecar/create-proxy';
// /api/jellyfin/* — auth, then forward to officer-jellyfin. No routes of its own and no Jellyfin knowledge:
// this file must never grow app logic.
//
// The sidecar owns the Jellyfin contract and holds its credentials.
//
// `timeoutSeconds` is generous because this proxy carries VIDEO. A direct-play stream holds one connection
// open for the length of the film, and the first request against a fresh transcode waits on ffmpeg starting
// up. The default 60s idle drop would cut both.
const proxy = createSidecarProxy({
name: 'jellyfin',
prefix: '/api/jellyfin',
timeoutSeconds: 3600,
});
export const jellyfinRouter = proxy.router;
/** Base URL of the sidecar's HTTP server, or null if it hasn't reported in yet. */
export const getJellyfinServerUrl = proxy.getHttpUrl;