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fix(audio): native playback stretches where audio arrives, and reports A/V lag - #8361
moq play --metrics now reports the presentation clock, so native rows in test/audio-quality grade av_lag_ms as the browser rows do. Native playback does not change here.
Finishes quest quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/native-av-lag.md (deleted, along with its links from the epic README and grading.md's Required).
Changes
moq_mux::sync::Consumer::position(at): the media time the presentation clock presents at an instant, Rust's counterpart to js/watchSync.now().
rs/moq-cli/src/play/metrics.rs: each sample writes clock, read at the same instant as the playhead, so analyze.ts reduces native samples to av_lag_ms unchanged. Left out while nothing is mapped.
test/audio-quality/README.md, schema.ts: av_lag_ms and clock are no longer documented as unset natively.
Decisions
2026-11-09 (maintainer, /quest-complete, recorded on main in the quest file): ✅ keep this PR's metrics half and revert its playback changes (rejected: land its stretch keyed to the lag at arrival). That stretch held audio on a clock that goes stale after a path-delay step (AAC step 0 → 614 underruns/min). This replaces the PR's earlier recorded decisions ("accept AAC step underruns", "p50 within one pitch period"), which went with it; the merge of origin/main reverted ring.rs, stretch.rs, the corpus, stretch.test.ts, and doc/concept/audio-jitter.md to main.
Review findings
The arrival-observation finding (OpenAI review, CodeRabbit) and Pullfrog's stale fast-threshold references: moot after the revert.
CodeRabbit's typed-Durationclock, atomic clock snapshot, and stretch-aware playhead: declined with replies on each thread.
No single PR: native av_lag_ms was never reported.
Follow-ups
Drop (owned already): the playhead projecting at wall rate while the stretch accelerates belongs to Grading and the Stretch model, which own native's lag budget and decision.
Models
Size: S
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, medium effort
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, medium effort (iterate, M)
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, medium effort (iterate, M)
Score: 9/10, The metric matches the analyzer's clock-minus-playhead contract without changing playback behavior; source review found no actionable defects, but builds and tests were not run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Native audio never settles behind its presentation clock
fix(audio): native playback stretches where audio arrives, and reports A/V lag
Nov 9, 2026
[P2] Observe arrivals before draining the staged window — rs/moq-audio/src/ring.rs:689–693. The written load is reached only after native.stretch.available() becomes zero; callbacks served entirely by staged output continue at lines 644–652 without observing arrivals. With 10 ms callbacks and 20 ms still staged, a burst that leaves the queue 10 ms above its target is first recorded two callbacks later as 10 ms below it. newest = written - rendered then preserves that drained depth, losing the actual excess until another arrival. This can suppress necessary acceleration and, once the deepest-history window expires, allow expansion caused by sampling delay rather than publisher drift. The error is a stretch-window delay, not the documented one-device-period approximation.
Direction: record newly published arrivals at callback entry, before rendering staged PCM, while keeping stretch decisions at window boundaries. Add a regression that pushes between partial reads of a staged window and verifies the recorded excess survives those ordinary reads.
The presentation-clock metric and shared corpus changes appear consistent with their consumers. The accepted AAC delay-step tradeoff is not raised again. Verification: static GitHub review only; no builds, tests, or audio measurements run. The head's Check run reports failure with no jobs exposed by GitHub, so CI was not verified.
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rs/moq-cli/src/play/metrics.rs
rs/moq-mux/src/sync.rs
test/audio-quality/README.md
test/audio-quality/clients/js/src/schema.ts
Walkthrough
Audio stretch decisions now use signed excess relative to the target. Native playback derives that excess from arrival history and rendered frames, while browser cases hold when native would expand. Playback samples now include an optional presentation-clock value from sync::Consumer::position. The documentation, shared corpus, tests, and metric descriptions reflect these changes.
Merge Risk: Low · previous review b93e1
Playback can retain some excess latency, and reported A/V lag can include sampling and stretch-projection error. These bounded issues permit merging with owner awareness and follow-up; documentation, typed-unit compliance, and focused tests also need attention.
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Actionable comments posted: 5
Nitpick comments: 2
rs/moq-audio/src/stretch.rs: 1
78-80: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Add native tests for pitch periods that exceed the excess.
With a 240-frame pitch and an excess of 1 or -1, removing the admission guard would still pass the PCM vectors and finite-input test. Assert unchanged PCM and length for both signs. Also test equality at the pitch boundary.
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Review comment at @rs/moq-audio/src/stretch.rs around lines 78 - 80:
Add native tests for the Accelerate and Expand paths around the pitch admission
guard: use a 240-frame pitch period with excess values of 1 and -1, and assert
that PCM and output length remain unchanged. Also cover the equality boundary
where the pitch period equals the absolute excess.
rs/moq-mux/src/sync.rs: 1
714-715: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Low value
Test the anchored clock position.
Add a test that anchors the clock and asserts the expected Consumer::position value. If this method returns None, native metrics omit clock and A/V lag becomes null. The analyzer test supplies synthetic clock values, so it cannot detect that regression.
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Add a test for Consumer::position that anchors the clock using the existing
clock setup, then asserts the expected position at a chosen Instant. Ensure the
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Review comments at @quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/native-stretch.md:
- Around line 44-45: Update the native expansion description around the
publisher/device clock comparison to state that expansion can occur when recent
arrival depths remain below the target, even when the clocks match; do not limit
the condition to publisher clock drift.
Review comments at @rs/moq-audio/src/ring.rs:
- Around line 644-646: Reorder arrival observation in the `self.stretch` drain
path so newly arrived audio is recorded before staged output is read and can be
played. Preserve the existing `native.stretch.read` and `native.arrivals.render`
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ms callback drains the staged output.
Review comments at @rs/moq-cli/src/play/metrics.rs:
- Line 253: Update the playhead reporting path around `clock.map(ms)` to account
for media progress actually rendered through the audio stretcher, rather than
projecting at wall-clock rate; preserve the existing clock mapping while
ensuring accelerated audio does not appear behind the presentation clock.
- Line 247: Update the metrics sampling path around
`self.presentation.position(now)` to capture the sample time and
presentation-clock state as one consistent snapshot. Compute the clock position
from that snapshot so a schedule change after time capture cannot affect the
sample.
- Line 43: Update the clock field in Sample from a bare floating-point value to
Option<Duration>, and convert the duration to floating-point milliseconds at
serialization so the existing metrics schema remains unchanged.
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Review comments at @rs/moq-audio/src/stretch.rs:
- Around line 78-80: Add native tests for the Accelerate and Expand paths around
the pitch admission guard: use a 240-frame pitch period with excess values of 1
and -1, and assert that PCM and output length remain unchanged. Also cover the
equality boundary where the pitch period equals the absolute excess.
Review comments at @rs/moq-mux/src/sync.rs:
- Around line 714-715: Add a test for Consumer::position that anchors the clock
using the existing clock setup, then asserts the expected position at a chosen
Instant. Ensure the test catches an unexpected None result without relying on
synthetic analyzer clock values.
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Describe the arrival-depth condition for expansion.
A sustained increase in network delay can leave recent arrivals below the target even when the publisher and device clocks match. Native playback can then expand. Describe the arrival-depth condition instead of limiting expansion to clock drift.
Suggested edit
--- "a/quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/native-stretch.md"+++ "b/quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/native-stretch.md"@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@
(decided 2026-11-08).
[moq-dev/moq#8361](https://github.com/moq-dev/moq/pull/8361) measured native
settling behind its clock the same way (A/V lag p50 up to 88 ms) and moves it
-onto that decision, with an expand only for a publisher clock slower than the-device's.+onto that decision, with native expansion when recent arrival depths remain+below the target.
Analysis samples NetEq's 48 kHz FIR on a virtual clock for other
device rates and uses floating-point peak refinement and fades. Those
arithmetic adaptations are documented, not claimed bit-identical to int16
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onto that decision, with an expand only for a publisher clock slower than the
device's.
onto that decision, with native expansion when recent arrival depths remain
below the target.
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Review comment at @quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/native-stretch.md around lines
44 - 45:
Update the native expansion description around the publisher/device clock
comparison to state that expansion can occur when recent arrival depths remain
below the target, even when the clocks match; do not limit the condition to
publisher clock drift.
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Moot: the maintainer decided on main (2026-11-09) to keep only this PR's metrics half and revert its playback changes, and main has since deleted native-stretch.md. The merge drops the file.
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Observe arrivals before draining staged output.
When audio arrives with 20 ms staged, two 10 ms callbacks can play before Arrivals::excess sees it. A 140 ms arrival peak against a 120 ms target can therefore appear on target, preventing acceleration and retaining extra latency. Record arrivals before draining staged output.
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Review comment at @rs/moq-audio/src/ring.rs around lines 644 - 646:
Reorder arrival observation in the `self.stretch` drain path so newly arrived
audio is recorded before staged output is read and can be played. Preserve the
existing `native.stretch.read` and `native.arrivals.render` behavior while
ensuring arrival tracking accounts for arrivals before either 10 ms callback
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Moot: the merge reverts the ring and stretch changes to main's versions per the maintainer's later decision recorded in quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/native-av-lag.md on main. Native's decision now belongs to the stretch model quest.
clock stores bare milliseconds, so Sample cannot enforce its unit. Store it as Option<Duration> and serialize it as floating-point milliseconds to preserve the metrics schema.
As per coding guidelines, “Typed units only (Duration, moq_net::Timestamp), never f64 seconds or bare millis.”
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Update the clock field in Sample from a bare floating-point value to
Option<Duration>, and convert the duration to floating-point milliseconds at
serialization so the existing metrics schema remains unchanged.
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Declining: Sample is the serialization schema shared with test/audio-quality, and every duration field in it (at, render, timestamp, delay, ...) is already Option<f64> milliseconds converted by ms() at construction. The typed value is the Duration from position(); converting clock alone would make it the one inconsistent field.
---------------- MODULEReviewModel ----------------
EXTENDSNaturals(* The sample captures an instant under reference 0; another task may move the reference to 100 before position reads the current reference. The finite values represent a schedule displacement, not clock units. *)VARIABLESphase,reference,captured,readingvars==<<phase,reference,captured,reading>>Init==/\phase="before"/\reference=0/\captured=0/\reading=0Capture==/\phase="before"/\phase'="captured"/\captured'=reference/\UNCHANGED<<reference,reading>>Move==/\phase="captured"/\reference=0/\reference'=100/\UNCHANGED<<phase,captured,reading>>Sample==/\phase="captured"/\reading'=reference/\phase'="done"/\UNCHANGED<<reference,captured>>Idle==/\phase="done"/\UNCHANGEDvarsNext==Capture\/Move\/Sample\/IdleConsistent==(phase#"done")\/(reading=captured)(* TLCINIT InitNEXT NextINVARIANT Consistent*)
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If an arrival moves the schedule after now is captured, position(now) uses the new schedule for the old instant. This can create a spurious A/V-lag sample and affect reported percentiles. Capture the time and presentation-clock state together.
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Review comment at @rs/moq-cli/src/play/metrics.rs at line 247:
Update the metrics sampling path around `self.presentation.position(now)` to
capture the sample time and presentation-clock state as one consistent snapshot.
Compute the clock position from that snapshot so a schedule change after time
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Declining: now is captured and position(now) read a few instructions apart, and the clock's reference only moves at an arrival earlier than any before it, which is rare after startup. Even then, using the newest reference for the same instant is the better reading, not a spurious one. Pairing them atomically would need the sync lock held across the playhead read for no measurable gain on p50/p95.
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Account for stretch in the reported playhead.
When audio is accelerated between writes, Playhead still projects at wall rate. A metrics sample can therefore report several milliseconds of A/V lag even when the rendered audio matches the presentation clock. Track rendered media progress through the stretcher when reporting the playhead.
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Review comment at @rs/moq-cli/src/play/metrics.rs at line 253:
Update the playhead reporting path around `clock.map(ms)` to account for media
progress actually rendered through the audio stretcher, rather than projecting
at wall-clock rate; preserve the existing clock mapping while ensuring
accelerated audio does not appear behind the presentation clock.
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Declining here: timestamp (the playhead) predates this PR and re-anchors on every write with the queued depth, so the projection error is bounded by what the stretch removes from the queued audio between writes. This PR only adds clock. Grading the playhead through the stretch belongs to the grading and stretch model quests (quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/grading.md, stretch.md), which own native's decision and its lag budget.
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ℹ️ No behavioral issues found — one minor stale-reference cleanup.
Reviewed changes
Arrival-based native decision (rs/moq-audio/src/ring.rs): Shared::written is published after each push, and Arrivals records the queue depth at each arrival (using written - rendered as the anchor), returning the newest arrival's excess above the target or, when neither of the last two rendered one-second halves reached it, the deepest shortfall.
Signed-excess stretch (rs/moq-audio/src/stretch.rs): process now takes excess: isize; accelerate and expand admit a pitch period only when it fits the excess, while fast still bypasses at NetEq's 20 ms granularity.
Native A/V lag (rs/moq-mux/src/sync.rs, rs/moq-cli/src/play/metrics.rs): additive sync::Consumer::position(Instant) plus a clock sample field, so analyze.ts grades av_lag_ms on native rows unchanged.
Shared spec, corpus, and browser test (doc/concept/audio-jitter.md, doc/concept/audio-jitter/stretch/corpus.json, js/watch/src/audio/stretch.test.ts): one shared ### Decision section, the corpus re-keyed from buffered/target to signed excess with unchanged PCM, and the browser test holding wherever native expands.
Quest bookkeeping (quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/{README,native-av-lag,native-stretch}.md): the finished quest is deleted, its README bullet removed, and its Nightly calibration rule folded into Native stretch's waiting item.
Harness docs (test/audio-quality/README.md, test/audio-quality/clients/js/src/schema.ts): av_lag_ms and clock are no longer documented as unset natively.
ℹ️ The moved fast threshold strands four "four times the target" references
The stretch now fast-accelerates at 20 ms of excess rather than at four times the target, but four comments and docs still use "the fast threshold" as a synonym for the old 4× distance. Each one now describes a rule the code no longer applies, and two of them (the CLI trim notes) read as if 20 ms of excess were not stretched.
Technical details
# The fast threshold moved to 20 ms, but four places still name 4× the target## Affected sites-`doc/concept/audio-jitter.md:753` — "The CLI's incoming-media trim is reserved for a distance at the fast threshold, not ordinary 20 ms drift": the fast threshold *is* 20 ms of excess now, so the contrast with 20 ms drift is gone. The CLI `fit` (`rs/moq-cli/src/play/timeline.rs:155`) still trims at `4 * (target + slack)`.
-`rs/moq-cli/src/play/media.rs:846` — "NetEq's fast threshold (four times target + granularity)": the parenthetical names a threshold `Stretch::decide` no longer uses (`rate * 20 / 1000`).
-`quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/native-stretch.md:35` — lists "4x fast threshold" among what the port retains; this PR replaces that rule (and the shared spec already dropped the claim).
-`quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/native-stretch.md:55` — "an incoming excess at the fast threshold trim[s]": the trim is still at 4×, but 20 ms of excess now fast-accelerates instead.
## Required outcome- Each site either spells the CLI/write-path distance as four times the target plus the 20 ms granularity, or says the stretch fast-accelerates at 20 ms of excess, whichever it actually describes.
## Suggested approach (optional)-`doc/concept/audio-jitter.md:753` and `native-stretch.md:55` describe the CLI `fit` trim, so name `4 * (target + 20 ms)` explicitly.
-`media.rs:846` and `native-stretch.md:35` describe the stretch, so drop the "4x"/"four times" wording.
Main recorded the maintainer's decision to keep sync::Consumer::position and
the metrics clock field and revert the playback changes, so ring, stretch,
corpus, and docs return to main's versions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Merged origin/main, which recorded the maintainer's newer decision on this PR (quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/native-av-lag.md, 2026-11-09): keep the metrics half and revert the playback changes. So the arrival-observation finding from the OpenAI review and the stale fast-threshold references from Pullfrog are moot: ring.rs, stretch.rs, the corpus, and doc/concept/audio-jitter.md are back to main's versions.
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Reviewed cc20984, accounting for merged base changes since previously reviewed b93e1d1. The current seven-file patch against cd560bd is metrics and documentation only.
The prior P2 arrival-observation finding is no longer applicable: the ring/stretch changes were reverted and are absent from the current PR diff. No new actionable defects found. Consumer::position delegates to the existing presentation-clock mapping; metrics use the same Instant as the playhead and omit an unmapped clock. Millisecond serialization matches the analyzer's clock-minus-timestamp calculation. Overall direction: the narrowed metrics change looks sound.
Verification limits: static GitHub review of the current patch, clock/metrics implementation, and analyzer; no builds, tests, audio measurements, or CI execution independently verified.
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ℹ️ No code issues — one housekeeping note about the PR title.
Reviewed changes
Reverted the playback half: the merge of origin/main returns rs/moq-audio/src/ring.rs, stretch.rs, the shared corpus, stretch.test.ts, and doc/concept/audio-jitter.md to main, so the branch no longer changes how native playback decides.
Kept the metrics half: moq_mux::sync::Consumer::position(Instant) exposes the presentation clock's media time, and rs/moq-cli/src/play/metrics.rs writes it as clock from the same Instant as the playhead, omitting it while the clock has no anchor.
Updated the harness docs: test/audio-quality/README.md and schema.ts no longer describe av_lag_ms/clock as unset natively.
Finished the quest: deleted native-av-lag.md and dropped its bullet from the epic README and grading.md's Required.
ℹ️ The PR title still promises the stretch this branch reverts
The title's first clause ("native playback stretches where audio arrives") describes playback code the merge removed, while the body says native playback does not change. A squash merge would record a behavior change that never landed.
Technical details
# Title describes reverted behavior## Affected sites- PR #8361 title — "fix(audio): native playback stretches where audio arrives, and reports A/V lag"
- PR body "Changes" / "Decisions" — states native playback does not change and the playback half was reverted on 2026-11-09
## Required outcome- The title describes the metrics-only change the branch now carries, so the squashed subject does not claim a reverted playback decision.
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moq play --metricsnow reports the presentation clock, so native rows intest/audio-qualitygradeav_lag_msas the browser rows do. Native playback does not change here.Finishes quest
quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/native-av-lag.md(deleted, along with its links from the epic README andgrading.md'sRequired).Changes
moq_mux::sync::Consumer::position(at): the media time the presentation clock presents at an instant, Rust's counterpart tojs/watchSync.now().rs/moq-cli/src/play/metrics.rs: each sample writesclock, read at the same instant as the playhead, soanalyze.tsreduces native samples toav_lag_msunchanged. Left out while nothing is mapped.test/audio-quality/README.md,schema.ts:av_lag_msandclockare no longer documented as unset natively.Decisions
mainin the quest file): ✅ keep this PR's metrics half and revert its playback changes (rejected: land its stretch keyed to the lag at arrival). That stretch held audio on a clock that goes stale after a path-delay step (AACstep0 → 614 underruns/min). This replaces the PR's earlier recorded decisions ("accept AAC step underruns", "p50 within one pitch period"), which went with it; the merge oforigin/mainrevertedring.rs,stretch.rs, the corpus,stretch.test.ts, anddoc/concept/audio-jitter.mdtomain.Review findings
Durationclock, atomic clock snapshot, and stretch-aware playhead: declined with replies on each thread.Public API and wire
moq_mux::sync::Consumer::position(Instant) -> Option<Duration>.Caused by
No single PR: native
av_lag_mswas never reported.Follow-ups
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quest reviewafter each round.01a1c635-4ef8-7710-a9b4-52662a7a79cc, round 1The metric matches the analyzer's clock-minus-playhead contract without changing playback behavior; source review found no actionable defects, but builds and tests were not run.