fix(playback): keep asking for Embedded MPV support while the answer is inconclusive

Keeping the saved player on an inconclusive answer left a mounted player
stuck on it: the session controller asked for support once, in its
constructor, and the session effect never starts while unsupported, so the
player did not recover after the login shell answered. The settings page
held its one answer the same way.

`watchEmbeddedMpvSupport()` asks again every 3 s until the answer is final
or the surface is destroyed. The player controller and the settings page
facade load support through it, so playback starts by itself and the
Embedded MPV option appears without reopening the page.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -195,10 +195,14 @@ result stands, and probes again once the shell answers. Every other answer,
including a missing `mpv` after the shell answered, is final. An inconclusive
answer is not a verdict on the machine: never persist a decision made from it.
The settings store resets a saved Embedded MPV selection only on a final
unsupported answer; on an inconclusive one the selection stays, and the player
asks again when playback starts. The command palette and the settings search
keep a final answer for the session, but probe again on their next use after
an inconclusive one.
unsupported answer; on an inconclusive one the selection stays. Surfaces that
stay mounted on one answer, the player (`EmbeddedMpvSessionController`) and the
settings page, load support through `watchEmbeddedMpvSupport()`
(`@iptvnator/shared/interfaces`), which asks again every
`EMBEDDED_MPV_SUPPORT_RECHECK_MS` until the answer is final: a player mounted
in that window starts playback by itself once `mpv` is found. The command
palette and the settings search ask on demand; they keep a final answer for
the session, but probe again on their next use after an inconclusive one.
When `embedded-mpv` is the saved player, the settings store schedules an idle `prepareEmbeddedMpv()` call. This intentionally moves the first native addon load away from the click-to-play path. It can still block the Electron main process briefly because Node native addon loading is synchronous, but doing it during idle is less visible than doing it when the user clicks a video. Actual MPV session creation still happens on playback because it needs the current Electron window handle and viewport bounds.
@@ -982,7 +986,7 @@ Defensive practice for this component:
Concrete bugs from the audit, recorded so they don't get reintroduced:
- **Infinite session-create loop.** `EmbeddedMpvSessionController.startSession` once wrote `this.support.set(prepared)` after the `prepareEmbeddedMpv` round-trip. The component's session-creation effect tracks `this.support()`, so the write fired the effect → cleanup disposed the session → new session was created → prepare ran again → support was set again. Symptom: endless "Loading stream…" spinner. Fix: do not write `support` inside `startSession`; the constructor's `loadSupport()` already populates it including capabilities.
- **Infinite session-create loop.** `EmbeddedMpvSessionController.startSession` once wrote `this.support.set(prepared)` after the `prepareEmbeddedMpv` round-trip. The component's session-creation effect tracks `this.support()`, so the write fired the effect → cleanup disposed the session → new session was created → prepare ran again → support was set again. Symptom: endless "Loading stream…" spinner. Fix: do not write `support` inside `startSession`; the constructor's `watchSupport()` already populates it including capabilities.
- **Stream restart on volume change.** The session-creation effect once read `this.volume()` directly to pass to `startSession`'s `initialVolume`. Each volume tick re-ran the effect, disposing and recreating the session — for VOD/series this restarted playback from the beginning. Fix: read it via `untracked(() => this.volume())`. Subsequent volume changes flow through `controller.applyVolume()`, never through the effect graph.
- **Spurious `timeUpdate` re-emits and `volume.set` calls.** The session-fan-out effect calls `scheduleControlsHide()`, which reads `isPlaying`, `menus.anyOpen`, `statusLabel`, and `controlsVisible`. Those reads became tracked deps, so opening any popover, pausing, or hovering re-ran the body. No loop in isolation, but a parent that wires `timeUpdate` back into `playback.startTime` would have hit the volume-restart bug class. Fix: wrap the side-effect block in `untracked()` so the effect listens only to session changes.
- **2 Hz no-op stalled-tracker re-runs.** Position polling updates `session` around 2 Hz. Tracking the full session would re-run stalled logic for snapshots with unchanged status, so the controller tracks only `sessionStatus` and invokes `EmbeddedMpvStalledTracker.track` inside `untracked()`, avoiding full-session reruns.