test(ts): grade table emission points across two exporters - #3947
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Every check in test/ts grades one stream in isolation, and no single stream can answer whether a table's emission points come from the broadcast or from the exporter that emitted them: from inside one capture a timer and an anchor look identical. Only a second leg, joining at a different moment, separates them. table-anchor.py compares the two. The measurement is the PTS of the frame each table was emitted against -- export ts writes the due tables and then the frame's PES packets into one buffer, so the first PES header after a table gives the PTS of the frame that triggered it. Agreement is the emission points both legs used over those either used, counted only inside the media time the captures share, so a late join costs nothing. run.sh --pair subscribes twice against one broadcast, the second leg joining --pair-join seconds late, and grades the pair. The late join is the point: two exporters started together can agree on a cadence by having started together, which is the confound. On a real round-trip this separates PAT/PMT, which anchor to the media and agree across legs, from SDT, which does not.
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MERGE Positive improvement. This is the dual-exporter measurement #2825 asked for: whether table emission points are a property of the broadcast or of the exporter that happened to emit them. A single capture cannot answer that, and the late-join arm correctly removes the co-start confound that would make two timers look like they agree. Worth the complexity. Different approach: packet-byte compare or same-start dual subscribe would not isolate this property. A unit mock of Nits (non-blocking): This is an automated review, not the maintainer's decision |
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. WalkthroughThe TS test harness adds a pair mode that starts a second exporter after a configurable delay and compares both captures with Priority: ⬇️ Low Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The opt-in pair check can report success while missing valid PMT emissions. Preserve PAT continuation bytes before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@test/ts/run.sh`:
- Line 288: Update the PAIR_JOIN timing in the test runner so the source and
second exporter overlap long enough to produce at least 8 shared emissions;
reject join delays that cannot meet this threshold, or increase DURATION for the
documented example. Preserve the pair-mode grading behavior.
- Line 396: Update the pair-run flow around `harness_reap "$SUB_B_PID"` to
record and check the second exporter’s exit status before treating the run as
successful, so partial output cannot mask a nonzero exit. Preserve the forced
cleanup behavior for subscribers that are still running.
In `@test/ts/table-anchor.py`:
- Line 122: Update anchors() to buffer and reassemble complete PAT sections
across TS packets before parsing program entries and collecting PMT PIDs; do not
cap PAT parsing at the first packet boundary.
- Around line 159-177: Update `agreement()` and its `main()` call site to derive
the shared scoring window from capture-wide media PTS bounds, while keeping
table emission sets for agreement counts. Add a helper to obtain each capture’s
bounds from its packets, and pass those bounds into `agreement()` so later
missing emissions are included in the comparison.
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Propagate the second exporter’s exit status.
capture_b runs under harness_reap, which discards the child status. If the exporter exits nonzero after writing partial data, the nonempty-file check can pass and the pair run can report success. Record and check the second exporter’s status before the success path. Keep the forced cleanup behavior for still-running subscribers.
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In `@test/ts/run.sh` at line 396, Update the pair-run flow around `harness_reap
"$SUB_B_PID"` to record and check the second exporter’s exit status before
treating the run as successful, so partial output cannot mask a nonzero exit.
Preserve the forced cleanup behavior for subscribers that are still running.
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…points The scoring window was derived from the table emission points being compared, which is itself a false pass: a leg that stops emitting a table halfway through pulls the upper bound back to its own last emission, so the partner's later emissions fall outside the window and the desertion scores 100%. Verified -- silencing SDT on one leg after the halfway point previously reported 15/15 at 100.00% PASS, and now reports 31 against 15 at 48.39% FAIL. The window now comes from the media the two captures carry. Also from review: - PAT sections are reassembled across packets. A PAT carrying more than about forty programmes does not fit in one, and stopping at the packet boundary found only the programmes that landed in the first one, with no error to say so. - --pair defaults to a 45s duration and refuses a run leaving under 25s of overlap. At the previous 20s default with a 5s join the legs shared 15s, about seven SDT emissions against a floor of eight, so the table this mode exists to check quietly dropped to report-only. - --min-window (default 20s) refuses a verdict on too little shared media, for the same reason: a capture that came up short is the commonest way this grades clean. - --live and --pair now error rather than combining; they grade different things. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Thanks — the review caught a real defect, and one of the four points was a genuine false pass rather than a hardening suggestion. Fixed: the agreement window was derived from the emissions it was scoring. That is self-defeating, and I confirmed it before changing anything. Silencing SDT on one leg after the halfway point — a leg that simply stops emitting a table — previously reported: because the upper bound pulled back to that leg's last emission, putting the partner's later emissions outside the window. Desertion scored as perfect agreement. The window now comes from the media the two captures carry, and the same case reports: Also fixed:
Not taken: gating on the second exporter's exit status. Both exporters exit non-zero at normal teardown — the publisher drops its producers without Controls after the change: identity passes at 100 % on every table; decimating every second PAT/PMT emission on one leg fails those two at 50.60 % and 51.63 % and leaves the rest at 100 %; the desertion case above fails. The SDT finding reproduces on the new defaults — 40.6 s window, 20 and 21 emissions, 0.00 % agreement at 0.549 s of phase. I am filing it as a separate issue so this PR stays a test contribution and the product decision has its own thread. One note on CI: the failing check is |
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- Around line 125-130: Update the PUSI handling in anchors() to append the
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Consume the pointer bytes before resetting section.
A PUSI packet can contain bytes that complete the buffered PAT before the next section starts. Lines 125-130 discard those bytes and replace section. This drops a valid multi-packet PAT when its final bytes precede a new section in the same packet.
A dropped PAT omits its PMT PIDs. anchors() then does not watch those PMT emissions, and the pair check can pass without grading them. Append the pointer-byte prefix to the active section, process completed sections, then consume every new section in the remaining payload. ETSI permits sections to finish and subsequent sections to begin in one TS payload. (etsi.org)
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In `@test/ts/table-anchor.py` around lines 125 - 130, Update the PUSI handling in
anchors() to append the pointer-byte prefix to the buffered section and process
any completed sections before parsing the remaining payload. Continue consuming
section starts until the payload is exhausted, preserving sections that finish
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Correcting my note on CI — "fails about 1 in 12 on Only one step fails, and it is not one this PR can reach. On the latest run:
The assertion is a sample-count threshold, and the streams are in sync when it fails: Median skew is 0 ms in both. It is not drifting; it is landing just under the proportion-within-window bar after a rejoin. It is not specific to this branch. #3934, which is unrelated, fails the same For completeness, this branch is I have no rerun rights, so I cannot demonstrate the flake by re-running it myself. If it is useful I am happy to open a separate issue for the rejoin sync threshold with the numbers above — it looks like a genuine flake worth tightening or quarantining rather than something to keep re-rolling, but that is your call and I did not want to file noise against your CI unasked. |
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Not enabling auto-merge. Smoke failed again on the same assertion, and it is not this PR. The failing step is The first run here was Check and Test are green. Smoke is not a required check, but it failed twice for a reason outside this PR, so the merge stays off. CodeRabbit's note on (written by Grok 4.7) |
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Follows up on #2825, where you said the anchor-point measurement was the one worth having:
This is that measurement, against a real round-trip through a relay.
What it measures
Every other check in
test/tsgrades one stream in isolation, and no single stream can answer thequestion this one asks: are a table's emission points a property of the broadcast, or of the
exporter that happened to emit them? From inside one capture a timer and an anchor look identical —
both produce a table every so often. Only a second leg, joining at a different moment, separates them.
That matters because two exporters of one broadcast are how redundancy is built. A receiver merging
two legs, or cutting from one to the other, needs them to agree about where the tables sit.
run.sh --pairsubscribes twice against one broadcast, the second leg joining--pair-joinsecondslate, and grades the pair with a new
table-anchor.py. The late join is the point: two exportersstarted together can agree on a cadence by having started together, which is the confound.
The measurement is the PTS of the frame each table was emitted against.
export tswrites the duetables and then the frame's PES packets into one buffer, so the first PES header after a table gives
the PTS of the frame that triggered it. Agreement is the emission points both legs used over
those either used, counted only inside the media time the two captures share, so a late join costs
nothing.
What it found
On a 30 s round-trip with the second leg joining 8 s in:
PAT and PMT anchor to the media and agree across legs. SDT does not. Both legs emit SDT on the
same 2 s period, but the phase is set by when the exporter started, so the two grids never coincide.
It reproduces at other join offsets — joining 6 s in gives 5.26 % agreement at 0.480 s of phase — and
the offset is just wherever the second exporter happened to start.
Consequence: two
export tslegs of one broadcast are not interchangeable at the packet level, andno amount of running time brings them together.
I have not attempted a fix here, since where the SDT cadence should be anchored is your call —
it is the one table in this set with no natural media anchor, which may be exactly why it ended up on
a timer.
Scope and safety
--pairis opt-in. CI runsjust test ts,just test ts --liveandjust test ts-eit, none ofwhich are touched, so nothing in CI turns red. It is a gate you can enable once you have decided
what the SDT behaviour should be.
table-anchor.pyalso runs standalone against two captures you already have:Two things are deliberately not graded: a table seen on only one leg is reported without a verdict,
because that is a carriage question rather than an anchoring one; and TDT/TOT is report-only whatever
its agreement, since it carries wall-clock time and is supposed to track a clock. Tables with too
few emissions in the overlap are reported rather than graded, so a short window cannot manufacture a
verdict. PMT PIDs are discovered through the PAT rather than assumed.
Checks run
just fixthenjust check— clean.51.63 % and fails, while the untouched tables stay at 100 %.
just test ts(default arm) still passes unchanged.