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+/**
+ * Shared scrub-preview bubble for the casting progress bars.
+ *
+ * Renders the trickplay tile (when trickplay data is available) with the scrub
+ * time as plain text above it, or just the scrub time as plain text. It does NO
+ * positioning of its own — the slider places it via its `bubbleWidth` prop.
+ */
+
+import { Image } from "expo-image";
+import { View } from "react-native";
+import { Text } from "@/components/common/Text";
+import type { useTrickplay } from "@/hooks/useTrickplay";
+import { formatTrickplayTime } from "@/utils/casting/helpers";
+
+type TrickplayReturn = ReturnType<typeof useTrickplay>;
+
+interface CastTrickplayBubbleProps {
+  /** Current trickplay image URL/coordinates, or null. */
+  trickPlayUrl: TrickplayReturn["trickPlayUrl"];
+  /** Parsed trickplay metadata, or null. */
+  trickplayInfo: TrickplayReturn["trickplayInfo"];
+  /** Scrub time to display. */
+  trickplayTime: { hours: number; minutes: number; seconds: number };
+  /** Trickplay tile width in px (220 main player, 140 mini-player). */
+  tileWidth: number;
+}
+
+export function CastTrickplayBubble({
+  trickPlayUrl,
+  trickplayInfo,
+  trickplayTime,
+  tileWidth,
+}: CastTrickplayBubbleProps) {
+  const timeText = (
+    <Text
+      style={{
+        color: "#fff",
+        fontSize: 13,
+        fontWeight: "600",
+        textAlign: "center",
+        textShadowColor: "rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85)",
+        textShadowOffset: { width: 0, height: 1 },
+        textShadowRadius: 3,
+      }}
+    >
+      {formatTrickplayTime(trickplayTime)}
+    </Text>
+  );
+
+  // No trickplay: just the plain time text.
+  if (!trickPlayUrl || !trickplayInfo) {
+    return timeText;
+  }
+
+  const { x, y, url } = trickPlayUrl;
+  const tileHeight = tileWidth / (trickplayInfo.aspectRatio ?? 1.78);
+
+  return (
+    <View style={{ width: tileWidth, alignItems: "center", gap: 4 }}>
+      {timeText}
+      <View
+        style={{
+          width: tileWidth,
+          height: tileHeight,
+          borderRadius: 8,
+          overflow: "hidden",
+          backgroundColor: "#1a1a1a",
+        }}
+      >
+        <Image
+          cachePolicy='memory-disk'
+          style={{
+            width: tileWidth * (trickplayInfo.data?.TileWidth ?? 1),
+            height: tileHeight * (trickplayInfo.data?.TileHeight ?? 1),
+            transform: [
+              { translateX: -x * tileWidth },
+              { translateY: -y * tileHeight },
+            ],
+          }}
+          source={{ uri: url }}
+          contentFit='cover'
+        />
+      </View>
+    </View>
+  );
+}