Files: previews — a toggle that shows a thumbnail per image and video, made by ffmpeg on the machine's GPU where it has one, cached under the data dir

A previews button on the Files tab turns the icon column into a 256 px thumbnail for
every image and video row, loaded as rows scroll near. internal/thumbs probes what the
machine can do rather than assuming it: ffmpeg and ffprobe, every /dev/dri/renderD*
opened and exercised, vainfo's decode profiles per node where it exists. A video goes to
the first GPU that lists its codec, with ffmpeg's own software fallback behind it and a
CPU retry behind that; images decode on the CPU, JPEGs at a reduced DCT size. Previews
are kept under <data dir>/thumbs/ keyed by path, size and mtime, with undecodable files
remembered too. Root mode makes them through the same root helper the file reads use.
Where ffmpeg is missing the tab offers to install it; where a render node exists but is
closed to the daemon's user, it offers a drop-in adding the group and a restart.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

cmd/hamlab/main.go

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ import (
 	"hamlab/internal/store"
 	"hamlab/internal/tasks"
 	hterm "hamlab/internal/term"
+	"hamlab/internal/thumbs"
 	"hamlab/internal/tlsauto"
 	"hamlab/internal/updates"
 	"hamlab/internal/web"
@@ -82,6 +83,8 @@ func main() {
 	switch cmd { // commands that don't read the config
 	case "fs": // privileged helper for the Files tab (run as root by the daemon)
 		os.Exit(files.Helper(flag.Args()[1:], os.Stdin, os.Stdout, os.Stderr))
+	case "thumb": // privileged helper for the Files tab's previews in root mode (run as root by the daemon)
+		os.Exit(thumbs.Helper(flag.Args()[1:], os.Stdin, os.Stdout, os.Stderr))
 	case "space-walk": // helper for the Space tab: measure mountpoints, stream the tree back
 		os.Exit(space.Helper(flag.Args()[1:], os.Stdin, os.Stdout, os.Stderr))
 	case "drm-clients": // privileged helper for the GPU readings: who has the GPU open (run as root by the daemon)