Fix progress reporting and desktop responsiveness during encode

The progress bar barely moved and the window showed "not responding"
during long encodes: ffmpeg's carriage-return stats line flushes rarely
over a pipe, and the transcode saturated the CPU.

- Drive progress from ffmpeg's structured `-progress pipe:1` output
  (`-stats_period 0.5 -nostats`) and parse out_time/progress in
  process_stdout, giving steady frequent updates (verified ~2/sec via the
  live executor pipe vs ~1 per whole encode before).
- Run the encoder under `nice -n 10` so the compositor keeps a CPU slice
  (avconv gets the nice prefix too).

Also round pad/crop targets to even dimensions and use positive crop
offsets, fixing an odd-height (e.g. 1079) MPEG-2 error surfaced when
burning in subtitles on a 1080p source.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/devedeng/avconv.py

@@ -148,6 +148,10 @@ class avconv(devedeng.avbase.avbase):
         else:
             self.final_length = video_length
         self.command_var = []
+        # lower priority so the desktop stays responsive during the transcode
+        self.command_var.append("nice")
+        self.command_var.append("-n")
+        self.command_var.append("10")
         self.command_var.append("avconv")
         if start_offset and start_offset > 0:
             self.command_var.append("-ss")
@@ -228,16 +232,19 @@ class avconv(devedeng.avbase.avbase):
             if (file_project.width_midle != file_project.original_width) or (file_project.height_midle != file_project.original_height):
                 if (cmd_line != ""):
                     cmd_line += ",fifo,"
-                x = int((file_project.width_midle -
+                # MPEG-2 / yuv420p needs even dimensions; round to even so the
-                         file_project.original_width) / 2)
+                # aspect math can't produce an odd pad/crop target (e.g. 1079).
-                y = int((file_project.height_midle -
+                mid_w = file_project.width_midle - (file_project.width_midle % 2)
-                         file_project.original_height) / 2)
+                mid_h = file_project.height_midle - (file_project.height_midle % 2)
+                x = int((mid_w - file_project.original_width) / 2)
+                y = int((mid_h - file_project.original_height) / 2)
                 if (x > 0) or (y > 0):
-                    cmd_line += "pad=" + str(file_project.width_midle) + ":" + str(
+                    cmd_line += "pad=" + str(mid_w) + ":" + str(
-                        file_project.height_midle) + ":" + str(x) + ":" + str(y) + ":0x000000"
+                        mid_h) + ":" + str(x) + ":" + str(y) + ":0x000000"
                 else:
-                    cmd_line += "crop=" + str(file_project.width_midle) + ":" + str(
+                    # crop x/y are the (positive) top-left offset into the source
-                        file_project.height_midle) + ":" + str(x) + ":" + str(y)
+                    cmd_line += "crop=" + str(mid_w) + ":" + str(
+                        mid_h) + ":" + str(abs(x)) + ":" + str(abs(y))
 
             if (file_project.width_final != file_project.width_midle) or (file_project.height_final != file_project.height_midle):
                 if (cmd_line != ""):

src/devedeng/ffmpeg.py

@@ -176,7 +176,20 @@ class ffmpeg(devedeng.executor.executor):
         else:
             self.final_length = video_length
         self.command_var = []
+        # run the encoder at a lower priority so the desktop/GUI stays
+        # responsive while a heavy transcode saturates the CPU
+        self.command_var.append("nice")
+        self.command_var.append("-n")
+        self.command_var.append("10")
         self.command_var.append("ffmpeg")
+        # emit structured, steadily-paced progress on stdout (pipe:1) instead of
+        # the carriage-return stats line, which barely updates over a pipe; this
+        # is what keeps the progress bar moving (see process_stdout)
+        self.command_var.append("-progress")
+        self.command_var.append("pipe:1")
+        self.command_var.append("-stats_period")
+        self.command_var.append("0.5")
+        self.command_var.append("-nostats")
         # input seek (for splitting a long movie across discs); placed before
         # -i so ffmpeg seeks quickly and the output starts at offset 0
         if start_offset and start_offset > 0:
@@ -263,12 +276,18 @@ class ffmpeg(devedeng.executor.executor):
             if (file_project.width_midle != file_project.original_width) or (file_project.height_midle != file_project.original_height):
                 if (cmd_line != ""):
                     cmd_line += self._filter_sep
-                x = int((file_project.width_midle - file_project.original_width) / 2)
+                # MPEG-2 / yuv420p needs even dimensions; the aspect math can
-                y = int((file_project.height_midle - file_project.original_height) / 2)
+                # yield an odd width/height (e.g. 1079), which makes ffmpeg
+                # error or corrupt a frame. Round the pad/crop target to even.
+                mid_w = file_project.width_midle - (file_project.width_midle % 2)
+                mid_h = file_project.height_midle - (file_project.height_midle % 2)
+                x = int((mid_w - file_project.original_width) / 2)
+                y = int((mid_h - file_project.original_height) / 2)
                 if (x > 0) or (y > 0):
-                    cmd_line += "pad=" + str(file_project.width_midle) + ":" + str(file_project.height_midle) + ":" + str(x) + ":" + str(y) + ":0x000000"
+                    cmd_line += "pad=" + str(mid_w) + ":" + str(mid_h) + ":" + str(x) + ":" + str(y) + ":0x000000"
                 else:
-                    cmd_line += "crop=" + str(file_project.width_midle) + ":" + str(file_project.height_midle) + ":" + str(x) + ":" + str(y)
+                    # crop x/y are the (positive) top-left offset into the source
+                    cmd_line += "crop=" + str(mid_w) + ":" + str(mid_h) + ":" + str(abs(x)) + ":" + str(abs(y))
 
             if (file_project.width_final != file_project.width_midle) or (file_project.height_final != file_project.height_midle):
                 if (cmd_line != ""):
@@ -706,9 +725,49 @@ class ffmpeg(devedeng.executor.executor):
         return (final_path)
 
     def process_stdout(self, data):
-
+        # ffmpeg -progress emits newline-delimited key=value pairs on stdout,
+        # e.g. out_time=00:01:23.456 / out_time_ms=83456000 / progress=continue.
+        # This updates steadily over a pipe, unlike the carriage-return stats.
+        if self.progress_bar is None:
+            return
+        for line in data:
+            line = line.strip()
+            if line.startswith("out_time_ms=") or line.startswith("out_time_us="):
+                try:
+                    micros = float(line.split("=", 1)[1])
+                except (ValueError, IndexError):
+                    continue
+                seconds = micros / 1000000.0
+                self._set_progress_fraction(seconds)
+            elif line.startswith("out_time="):
+                value = line.split("=", 1)[1]
+                parts = value.split(":")
+                seconds = 0.0
+                ok = True
+                for e in parts:
+                    try:
+                        seconds = seconds * 60.0 + float(e)
+                    except ValueError:
+                        ok = False
+                        break
+                if ok:
+                    self._set_progress_fraction(seconds)
+            elif line == "progress=end":
+                self.progress_bar[1].set_fraction(1.0)
+                self.progress_bar[1].set_text("100.0%")
         return
 
+    def _set_progress_fraction(self, seconds):
+        if (self.progress_bar is None) or (not self.final_length):
+            return
+        t = seconds / float(self.final_length)
+        if t < 0.0:
+            t = 0.0
+        if t > 1.0:
+            t = 1.0
+        self.progress_bar[1].set_fraction(t)
+        self.progress_bar[1].set_text("%.1f%%" % (100.0 * t))
+
     def process_stderr(self, data):
 
         pos = data[0].find("time=")