FEATURE: propogate improvements from CLI version to web-backend

web/backend/api/split.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-"""Split task endpoint."""
+"""Split task endpoint (JSON tracklist)."""
 
 from fastapi import APIRouter, HTTPException, BackgroundTasks
 
@@ -24,6 +24,29 @@ async def start_split(request: SplitRequest, background_tasks: BackgroundTasks):
             detail=f"Task {task_id} is already {status['status']}"
         )
 
+    # Build options dict from request
+    options = {
+        "container": request.container,
+        "audio_codec": request.audio_codec,
+        "video_codec": request.video_codec,
+        "subtitle_codec": request.subtitle_codec,
+        "video_quality": request.video_quality,
+        "drop_video": request.drop_video,
+        "drop_subs": request.drop_subs,
+        "number_tracks": request.number_tracks,
+        "replace_bad_chars": request.replace_bad_chars,
+        "replacement_char": request.replacement_char,
+        "bad_chars": request.bad_chars,
+        "skip_existing": request.skip_existing,
+        "output_template": request.output_template,
+        "album": request.album,
+        "comment": request.comment,
+        "no_comment": request.no_comment,
+        "comment_stream": request.comment_stream,
+        "merge_comments": request.merge_comments,
+        "comment_separator": request.comment_separator,
+    }
+
     task_manager.update_task(
         task_id,
         status=TaskStatus.PROCESSING,
@@ -31,9 +54,14 @@ async def start_split(request: SplitRequest, background_tasks: BackgroundTasks):
         message="Preparing to split..."
     )
 
-    background_tasks.add_task(run_split_task, task_id, request.tracklist, request.options)
+    background_tasks.add_task(
+        run_split_task,
+        task_id,
+        request.tracklist,
+        options
+    )
 
     return SplitResponse(
         task_id=task_id,
         status=TaskStatus.PROCESSING
-    )
+    )