From 623e82fb161d5b51dec965077dafaf1ec5a6c5a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mattias Tall <mattias.tall@ucr.uu.se>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 17:30:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix player crash: remove premature pollForFile in
 handleDownloadAndPlay

The unified effect already gates polling on dlStatus===complete, but
handleDownloadAndPlay was still calling pollForFile immediately on click,
before the download even started.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 frontend/src/pages/Watch.jsx | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/Watch.jsx b/frontend/src/pages/Watch.jsx
index e8dc555..072bf09 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/Watch.jsx
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/Watch.jsx
@@ -720,8 +720,7 @@ export default function Watch() {
   const handleDownloadAndPlay = useCallback(() => {
     setPlayRequested(true);
     downloadMut.mutate();
-    pollForFile(`/files/${youtubeVideoId}.mp4`);
-  }, [downloadMut, pollForFile, youtubeVideoId]);
+  }, [downloadMut]);
 
   const saveProgress = useCallback((secs) => {
     if (!video?.id) return;