Correct three claims that three weeks of matches disproved

The cookie expiry is not the session lifetime. A session died six days into a
cookie with 76 days left on it, returning 403 {"error":"Unauthenticated"} and
a Set-Cookie that deleted the thing. Nothing local showed it. The replacement
then survived seven days, so the lifetime is not a week either -- it is
unpredictable, and only the server can answer. The old reasoning for not
automating login was arithmetic built on the 90 day figure; the decision
survives on its real merits, but the mitigation changes from refreshing
quarterly to checking before every match.

The entry id names the feed, not the match. 0_xm5vrrw6 came back three weeks
apart for video, 0_z236v0e7 twice for audio. catcher.py is unaffected -- it
dedupes on liveness, not identity -- but nothing should ask it "have I
recorded this game".

The audio feed does not reliably end itself. On 2026-09-12 it went to digital
silence at -91 dB and served that silence to the 180 min cap. The one audio
stream that self-terminated is now the outlier of three. The cap is
load-bearing on both feed types.

Also records the scheduled-task startup hang and the warm-start habit it
forces, and the per-minute sizes measured for both feeds.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Fr1fLMnVGNAKH5L2BmhMxn

catcher.py

@@ -32,8 +32,10 @@ BROWSER = os.environ.get("BRFC_BROWSER", "firefox")
 # ends cleanly. Pad past 90 min for half-time, stoppage and post-match.
 DURATION_MIN = int(os.environ.get("BRFC_DURATION_MIN", "150"))
 
-# Kaltura entry id (e.g. 0_xm5vrrw6) identifies the match. Every manifest for
-# one game -- master and each variant, each with its own token -- shares it.
+# Kaltura entry id (e.g. 0_xm5vrrw6). Every manifest for one game -- master and
+# each variant, each with its own token -- shares it. It names the *feed*, not
+# the match: the same id came back three weeks apart (see README). That is fine
+# here, because the dedupe below is on liveness, not on "seen this before".
 ASSET_RE = re.compile(r"/(\d+_[a-z0-9]+)/", re.I)
 
 _procs = {}                 # asset key -> Popen of the running downloader