feat(vegas): let live content keep its place in the ticker

Live content used to preempt Vegas outright: while any plugin reported
live priority the display controller refused to run the ticker at all and
showed a full-screen scoreboard instead. Keeping the marquee meant not
seeing live scores; seeing live scores meant losing the marquee.

Two changes, both off by default.

vegas_scroll.live_in_ticker keeps the ticker running through a live game.
Three places assumed the takeover and all three now honour it: the
controller's gate, the coordinator's per-frame pause, and the rotation
switch that would otherwise move current_mode_index underneath a ticker
that never yields.

And the rotation is no longer a strict round robin. It was one slot per
plugin per cycle, so with a dozen plugins enabled a live score came round
once a lap and could be minutes old on screen. A plugin can now hold
several slots, placed by Smooth Weighted Round-Robin -- the same
scheduler the sports plugins already use to rotate their own games. The
property that matters is that repeats are spread through the cycle
rather than clumped: three in a row and then silence would be worse than
no boost at all.

Weight comes from the plugin first, via a new optional
get_vegas_priority_weight(), then from the core: live content earns
live_weight, everything else 1. So existing plugins gain the behaviour
without changes, and the hook exists for the one thing the core cannot
work out -- the core can see that a game is live but not whose, so only
the plugin can say a favorite is playing.

Documented in ADVANCED_FEATURES (worked example, why weights are per
plugin not per game, and that frequency is not freshness),
CONFIG_REFERENCE, PLUGIN_API_REFERENCE, and the config template.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Udr6MfaFLUPhX5Fgo67Jf5
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@@ -125,6 +125,32 @@ class VegasModeConfig:
plugin_order: List[str] = field(default_factory=list)
excluded_plugins: Set[str] = field(default_factory=set)
# --- Live content in the ticker -------------------------------------
#
# By default a live game preempts Vegas entirely: the display controller
# refuses to run the ticker while any plugin reports live priority, and you
# get the full-screen scoreboard instead. Set live_in_ticker to keep the
# marquee running and let live content take extra turns within it.
#
# The rotation is otherwise a strict round robin -- every plugin appears
# exactly once per cycle -- so with a dozen plugins enabled a live score
# comes round once a lap and can be minutes old on screen. Weighting lets a
# plugin claim several slots per cycle instead.
#
# Weights are per plugin, not per game: a scoreboard showing four live
# games still occupies one slot at a time, and rotates its own games within
# that slot using its own favorite_live_boost.
live_in_ticker: bool = False
# Slots per cycle for a plugin reporting live content. 1 disables the boost
# and restores the plain round robin.
live_weight: int = 3
# Slots per cycle for a plugin whose live content involves a favorite team.
# Only plugins implementing get_vegas_priority_weight() can claim this --
# the core cannot tell whose game is on, so the plugin reports it.
favorite_live_weight: int = 5
# Performance settings
target_fps: int = 125 # Target frame rate
buffer_ahead: int = 2 # Number of plugins to buffer ahead
@@ -175,6 +201,12 @@ class VegasModeConfig:
overflow_mode=str(vegas_config.get('overflow_mode', 'rotate')),
plugin_order=list(vegas_config.get('plugin_order', [])),
excluded_plugins=set(vegas_config.get('excluded_plugins', [])),
live_in_ticker=bool(vegas_config.get('live_in_ticker', False)),
# Clamped: a weight below 1 would drop the plugin from the rotation
# entirely, and a very large one starves everything else.
live_weight=max(1, min(10, int(vegas_config.get('live_weight', 3)))),
favorite_live_weight=max(
1, min(10, int(vegas_config.get('favorite_live_weight', 5)))),
target_fps=int(vegas_config.get('target_fps', 125)),
buffer_ahead=int(vegas_config.get('buffer_ahead', 2)),
frame_based_scrolling=vegas_config.get('frame_based_scrolling', True),