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Summary

Plans the follow-ups from moq-dev/moq#8013 (VA-API H.265, vaapi on by default), now in the merge queue. The maintainer settled them on 2026-11-06 (/quest-unblock).

• New quest/m1/vaapi-radeonsi.md [M]. On an RX 9070 (radeonsi, Mesa 26.0.8), VA-API H.264 encode output doesn't decode: its first NAL unit has type 0, and main does the same. VPP NV12 conversion has a chroma offset, and rate control overshoots the bitrate. The quest finds whether moq-vaapi or the driver is at fault, then fixes the crate or refuses radeonsi so the next H.264 encoder takes over (NoEncoder without one). A driver-owned chroma offset or overshoot gets its own mitigation.
• New quest/m3/h265-min-width.md [S]. VCN 5 can't encode H.265 narrower than 384, and there's no software H.265 encoder, so a narrower rung fails to open. The encoder probe learns the driver's minimum and Kind::Auto passes over that candidate. The caller is moq-cli publish --video-codec h265, since moq-transcode has no H.265 output yet (per review).
• quest/m4/vaapi-render-tests.md gains two items: run the VA-API tests on each AMD/Intel render node, with the fixtures and Vulkan adapter on that node, and add H.265 decode fixtures (RASL pictures, 8-bit Main 10, and a 10-bit stream that must be refused).

Decisions

#8013 puts vaapi on by default in moq-cli and moq-transcode, so an AMD-only host would encode H.264 through radeonsi:

• Pull it and refuse radeonsi first / Pull it and keep vaapi opt-in
• ✅ Keep it queued and fix in m1 ("really? whatever fix it in m1")

radeonsi encode faults:

• ✅ m1: find the root cause (recommended)
• m3 beside vulkan-encode / Note in vulkan-encode only

H.265 below 384 wide on VCN 5:

• ✅ S quest in m3 (recommended)
• Fold into the radeonsi quest / Drop it

Test gaps (second render node, Main 10, RASL):

• ✅ Fold into vaapi-render-tests (recommended)
• Multi-GPU only / Drop both

Public API: none. Wire: none.

Follow-ups

None.

Decided 2026-11-07 (maintainer, /quest-complete): ✅ keep quest/m3/h265-min-width.md narrowed to the capture H.265 encode (moq import capture --codec h265), an [S] in m3, with H.265 transcode output out of scope. Not chosen: making H.265 transcode output a prerequisite inside the quest.

Review

mechanical fix by quest land watch: merged main at 9bf34b20dd4aa42f07d0a6270c758f00f92427cf with the quest merge driver (head 9a8179b)

mechanical fix by quest land watch: merged main at abbcc192d73c4987344a9b8f781cdfe8d5bf20b0 with the quest merge driver (head 94f787a)

Codex quest review, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort, reviewed head 369764b against origin/main (fba4180): 0 findings. Pullfrog's three threads on 5667134 (the H.265 caller's real CLI flag, radeonsi's driver-owned mitigations, the m3 index entry and title) are fixed in 369764b and answered.

Validation: quest check (603 documents ok) after merging origin/main.

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Warning

Two planning corrections in the new m3 quest: its premise (an H.265 rung in a moq-transcode ladder) has no current code path, and the suggested VA-API attribute reports a maximum, not a minimum. Both are documentation-only; details inline.

Reviewed changes

This pass read the full diff against main: one new m1 quest, one new m3 quest, one m4 test-quest update, and the two milestone index entries.

• quest/m1/vaapi-radeonsi.md — [M] quest to determine whether radeonsi's undecodable H.264 VA-API output is a moq-vaapi or driver bug, then fix it or refuse the node so Kind::Auto falls to OpenH264.
• quest/m3/h265-min-width.md — [S] quest to make H.265 rungs respect the encoder's minimum size, widening or dropping a rung instead of failing the encoder open.
• quest/m4/vaapi-render-tests.md — extends the existing test quest with per-render-node runs and three H.265 decode fixtures.
• quest/m1/README.md, quest/m3/README.md — index entries for the two new quests.

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Reviewed head f591d9a against base 0ed6ceb.

One P2 scope question at quest/m3/h265-min-width.md:4-7: the proposed consumer, moq-transcode, currently creates only H.264 output rungs. Its codec-selection prerequisite or the actual H.265-producing consumer needs to be named before this is actionable as a minimum-size fix.

Direction: the upstream-first investigation of radeonsi output, explicit refusal/fallback if necessary, and per-render-node/decode-fixture coverage fit the existing codec boundary. The recorded decision to keep #8013 queued and handle the known AMD H.264 failure in m1 is settled; this review does not reopen it. Likewise, the inline question preserves the decision to track the minimum-width follow-up in m3 and concerns its implementation scope, not whether to defer it.

Verification: GitHub-only static review of all five changed documents, surrounding plans, encoder selection/configuration, transcode ladder/catalog/encoder paths, GPU recipe, and #8013 plus the linked VA-API follow-ups. No tests, builds, quest commands, or hardware checks were run; the reported hardware failures were not reproduced. The visible Check run was still in progress when inspected.

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Walkthrough

The changes add two quest documents and update their m1 and m3 indexes. The m1 quest covers radeonsi H.264 encoding failures and a remediation plan. The m3 quest covers H.265 minimum-width handling. The m4 VA-API render test plan adds per-render-node execution and three H.265 cases.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 9a817

The documentation-only change is mergeable with awareness that its fallback plan needs clarification for builds without OpenH264.

Pre-merge checks: 5

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Description check		The description covers the radeonsi, H.265 minimum-width, and VA-API test plans.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @quest/m1/vaapi-radeonsi.md:
- Around line 43-45: Update the chroma-offset and bitrate-overshoot guidance in
the VAAPI RadeonSI plan to specify a mitigation for each defect when it is
driver-owned, rather than only recording a Mesa issue. Preserve the existing
approach of fixing defects owned by this project and ensure the mitigations
prevent affected output from being used.
- Around line 40-42: Update the goal and plan around refusing the radeonsi H.264
encoder so the fallback is explicitly conditional on OpenH264 being available;
state how builds without OpenH264 should handle the lack of another usable H.264
encoder without implying they can fall back to it.

Review comments at @quest/m4/vaapi-render-tests.md:
- Around line 47-48: Update the `just rs gpu` test plan to run VA-API tests only
on render nodes expected to support VA-API, rather than every node; use
`MOQ_VAAPI_DEVICE` to identify those expected devices and ensure tests still
fail if an expected device lacks its VA-API driver.
- Around line 47-48: Update the render-node test plan for `just rs gpu` to
require selecting the Vulkan adapter corresponding to each `MOQ_VAAPI_DEVICE`
and verifying both refer to the same physical GPU, so each test exercises that
node’s native rendering path.
- Around line 46-48: Update the VA-API test plan so the NV12 and I420 renderer
fixtures select the node specified by MOQ_VAAPI_DEVICE for allocation, ensuring
each just rs gpu iteration exercises its requested render node rather than
defaulting to the first suitable node.

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Follow-up review of 5667134 against base ce0a4f0, comparing the planning changes since reviewed head f591d9a and excluding inherited base changes.

My prior P2 H.265 consumer/prerequisite question is addressed. The goal now targets moq-cli's H.265 publishing path; the plan explicitly excludes adding H.265 output to moq-transcode and records its current H.264-only constructors and whole-pipeline probe failure. The minimum-size follow-up remains m3/S. No new findings in this delta.

This does not confirm the separate radeonsi mitigation thread is fixed: at this head quest/m1/vaapi-radeonsi.md:44-46 still says to record driver-owned chroma/bitrate faults with their Mesa issue, without the mitigation described in the author's reply. That existing thread should be reconciled with the committed plan.

Verification: GitHub-only static review of old/current plans and relevant encoder/CLI context. No quest commands, builds, tests, or hardware reproduction. Check remains in progress: https://github.com/moq-dev/moq/actions/runs/42327045076.

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Important

Two planning errors survive the rescope: the H.265 quest names a moq-cli publish --video-codec h265 invocation the CLI rejects, and the radeonsi plan still only files a Mesa issue for driver-owned defects that its own Goal promises are fixed.

Reviewed changes

This pass reviewed the delta since the previous pullfrog review (f591d9a): the two quest corrections, the m4 render-node expansion, and the origin/main merge.

• Rescoped h265-min-width.md — the goal now names a caller outside moq-transcode and records that the ladder has no H.265 output, so a future rung must apply the probe's minimum per rung and a failed probe must fail only that rung.
• Corrected the VA-API attribute claim — libva defines no minimum picture-size attribute, so the minimum comes from a failed open or a per-driver table, and VAConfigAttribMaxPictureWidth is gone.
• Qualified the radeonsi fallback — Kind::Auto falls to OpenH264 only in a build that has it; otherwise NoEncoder names the refused driver.
• Expanded the m4 render-node runs — AMD/Intel render nodes only, missing drivers still fail, fixtures allocate on the named node, and the Vulkan adapter is matched by DRM render minor.
• Merged origin/main — the m1 index gained the WebRTC vendor entry and dropped the texture readback entry; those lines are not this PR's content.

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Follow-up review of 369764b against base fba4180, comparing the delta from 5667134 and excluding the inherited push-to-talk changes.

The outstanding mitigation mismatch is addressed: the committed radeonsi plan now bypasses faulty VPP with conversion before upload and refuses the affected encoder for driver-owned bitrate overshoot. The H.265 plan also corrects the invocation to moq import capture --codec h265, matching CaptureArgs and the import-capture dispatch, and records the narrowed scope. No new actionable findings in this delta.

Verification: GitHub-only static inspection of the changed plans and CLI definitions/dispatch. No quest commands, tests, builds, or hardware reproduction. Check was still in progress: https://github.com/moq-dev/moq/actions/runs/42328740837.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

This pass reviewed the delta since the previous pullfrog review (5667134): the three documentation fixes and the origin/main merge.

• Wrote the radeonsi mitigations into the plan — a driver-owned chroma offset now skips VPP and converts to NV12 before upload, a driver-owned overshoot refuses the node for that encode, and the Mesa issue is linked either way, so the Goal no longer depends on moq-vaapi owning the defect.
• Corrected the H.265 caller — the Goal and the recorded decision now name moq import capture --codec h265 (CaptureArgs::codec), which is the flag that actually selects the encoder; verified VideoCodec::H265 maps to Codec::H265 with Kind::Auto.
• Retitled the quest and its m3 index entry — both now describe the probe/minimum selection work instead of widened or dropped ladder rungs, matching the rescope.
• Recorded the 2026-11-07 /quest-complete decision — H.265 transcode output is explicitly out of scope.
• Merged origin/main — no conflict with the planning claims; moq-transcode still has no output codec and Rung::encode still defaults to H.264.

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quest land watch: the merge queue removed this pull request at 369764b because it conflicts with main (merge_conflict).

The land fixer works on it in the background, and the watcher re-enqueues it at the back of the queue once it is fixed or judged flaky, or hands it back here with what it needs.

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quest land watch: armed auto-merge on this pull request at 94f787a, so it joins the back of the merge queue once its required checks pass, with main at abbcc19 merged in by the quest merge driver.

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quest land watch: the merge queue removed this pull request at 94f787a because it conflicts with main (merge_conflict).

The land fixer works on it in the background, and the watcher re-enqueues it at the back of the queue once it is fixed or judged flaky, or hands it back here with what it needs.

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quest land watch: armed auto-merge on this pull request at 9a8179b, so it joins the back of the merge queue once its required checks pass, with main at 9bf34b2 merged in by the quest merge driver.

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