---
name: "Video Accessibility Old"
client: "TBD"
status: active
tech: []
local_path: /Users/ai_leed/Documents/Projects/Oliver/video-accessibility-old
deploy:
url:
server:
tags:
  - project
created: 2026-04-30
---

## Overview
> New project — fill in during first session.

## Tech Stack
- **Frontend:**
- **Backend:**
- **Infrastructure:**

## Deployment
- **Local path:** `/Users/ai_leed/Documents/Projects/Oliver/video-accessibility-old`

## Sessions
### 2026-05-14 – Stop the application on SSH optical
**Asked:** Stop the application on SSH optical server and redirect to https://optical-dev.oliver.solutions/video-accessibility/
**Done:** Backed up configuration, stopped containers, patched config, restarted Apache, and verified redirect working.

### 2026-05-01 – AD text update not syncing to
**Asked:** AD text update not syncing to transcription file | Deployed fix to optical server with targeted patch and API restart | routes_jobs.py
**Done:** | API restart, backup created, patch applied at line 1410 | routes_jobs.py, routes_jobs.py.bak

### 2026-05-01 – AD text changes not persisting to
**Asked:** AD text changes not persisting to transcription file | Reviewed optical server deployment and restarted accessible-video-api backend container | accessible-video-api service, /opt/video-accessibility
**Done:** AD text persistence | Fixed transcription file sync issue, deployed to optical server without git update | transcription.ts, accessible-video-api

### 2026-05-01 – Fix AD text not updating in
**Asked:** Fix AD text not updating in transcription file and deploy changes to optical server.
**Done:** Applied patch to optical server and restarted backend container to apply changes.

### 2026-05-01 – Fix AD text edits not reflecting
**Asked:** Fix AD text edits not reflecting in the transcription file and deploy to optical server.
**Done:** Root cause identified in update_job_vtt_content endpoint; regeneration logic added to sync VTT changes with descriptive_transcript.txt.

### 2026-05-01 – Fix AD text updates not reflecting
**Asked:** Fix AD text updates not reflecting in the transcription file.
**Done:** Added regeneration of descriptive_transcript.txt after VTT updates in update_job_vtt_content function.

### 2026-04-30 – SSH into optical server and download
**Asked:** SSH into optical server and download the entire video-accessibility project backup.
**Done:** Successfully downloaded 443 project files from the server to video-accessibility-old/ directory.


## Change Log
| Date | Requested | Changed | Files |
|------|-----------|---------|-------|
| 2026-05-14 | Server redirect setup | Stop containers, patch Apache config, enable HTTPS redirect | Apache config, Docker containers |
| 2026-05-01 | Video pause handling | Analyzed rendering algorithm, examined Whisper service integration | VideoRenderer.ts, WhisperService.ts |
| 2026-05-01 | Bug fix | Frontend sends empty string instead of undefined for audio_description_vtt, added Pydantic validator on backend | QCDetail.tsx, schemas/job.py |
| 2026-05-01 | AD text edit bug | Transcript file not updating on manual edits | transcription_service.py, docker-compose.yml |
| 2026-05-01 | AD and CC transcript bugs | transcript file update logic, CC upload error handling, Docker rebuild requirement | transcription.ts, uploadHandler.ts, Dockerfile |
| 2026-05-01 | Fix AD text sync, deploy to optical | Update text sync logic, redeploy container | transcription handler, docker config |
| 2026-05-01 | Debug AD sync issue, deploy to optical | Fixed container image rebuild, added transcript logging, verified file sync | /opt/video-accessibility, container config |
| 2026-05-01 | Docker image rebuild | Add volume mount for transcription file, rebuild image with updated code | Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml |
| 2026-05-01 | AD text sync issue | Add file update logic on AD text change, set up server monitoring | transcription handler, optical server config |
| 2026-05-01 | AD text sync issue, CC file upload test | File sync logic, logging, server deployment | video-accessibility codebase, transcription file, server logs |
| 2026-05-01 | AD text sync issue | Added debug logging to transcript block, reviewed server logs | optical server /opt/video-accessibility, transcript handling code |
| 2026-05-01 | Debug AD text sync, Deploy to server | Fixed text update sync, Created new repo, Force pushed, Pulled locally | transcription file, optical server repo, local repo config |
| 2026-05-01 | AD text sync issue & server deployment | Fixed transcription file updates, changed git remote, committed and pushed changes | /opt/video-accessibility |
| 2026-05-01 | Pydantic validation fix | Added field_validator for empty adVtt handling, convert empty strings to None | VttUpdateRequest class, optical server config |
| 2026-05-01 | AD text sync issue, server deployment | Update routes_jobs.py and validation.py with pending fixes, change git remote from video-accessibility.git to video-accessibility-old.git | routes_jobs.py, validation.py |
| 2026-05-01 | AD text sync fix | Update transcription file on AD text change, restart backend container | /opt/video-accessibility, backend service |
| 2026-05-01 | AD text sync fix | Add transcript regeneration after VTT update, remove git requirement | ingest_and_ai.py, translate_and_synthesize.py |
| 2026-05-01 | AD text sync bug | Add descriptive_transcript.txt regeneration after VTT updates | transcription_service.py |
| 2026-04-30 | Project backup | Downloaded 443 files excluding node_modules, preserved all configs and source structure | video-accessibility-old/ |

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