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fix(cli): moq play holds each rendition's catalog delay - #8362
moq play --delay auto now plays at max over subscribed renditions of (catalog delay + target), as the browser does (doc/concept/audio-jitter.md):
Video holds its rendition's catalog delay as its moq_mux::sync target (it has no jitter estimator), so a slow video encoder holds audio back to stay in sync.
Video's encoded retention and both subscriptions' min/max budgets (the max-delay decoder's with its warmup on top) follow the shared playout delay, whichever track set it: they grow via Consumer::set_delay by however far that delay trails past the subscription's own, so media the later schedule waits for is not evicted. Audio declaring a 5 s catalog delay therefore no longer leaves video at its 2 s budget.
Audio holds its jitter target plus its own catalog delay; the sink still sizes for jitter alone and follows the shared clock.
Both apply the delay at start and as soon as it changes, selecting on it beside their reads and waits rather than waiting for the next frame.
Each subscribed rendition's delay is carried on a watch channel in its Demand, raised by later catalog snapshots and never lowered. A dropped rendition releases its target with its track.
A fixed --delay ignores catalog delays and stays fixed.
A shared delay past audio's own 2 s budget (a slow video encoder) still plays in sync: audio holds decoded PCM until it is due rather than writing it to the speaker early, so the sink never needs more than its budget. When it releases a held frame, it writes the rest of the lead as silence ahead of it, since the ring keeps only its opening silence and never pads while stretching. Every audio wait (hold, resume, sequential) recomputes its deadline when the shared or catalog delay changes. While waiting for packets, audio also retargets the speaker as soon as the shared delay changes, rather than on its next write.
A held frame that starts an utterance gets no extra lead silence, since the sink already places it one target out.
Catalog delays are capped at the sink's Input::LATENCY_MAX (10 s), so a hostile catalog cannot make playback retain media without bound.
The refresh (max-delay) decoder also applies a delay rise while it is paused between frames.
Tests: play::media::tests::audio_holds_a_shared_delay_past_its_budget (audio opened at the production 50 ms lead with a 200 ms budget plays within 1 ms of due under a 1 s video delay; without the change it plays at least 150 ms early). play::video::tests::a_video_encoder_delay_delays_audio_to_match: audio at a 50 ms target is due 200 ms late once video with a 200 ms catalog delay arrives, follows a rise to 300 ms, and returns to 50 ms when video ends. It fails without the change. play::video::tests::an_audio_encoder_delay_grows_video_retention: audio targets 5 s, video states no delay and has a 2 s budget; the first picture plays at 5 s and the subscription asks for 5 s / 6.9 s. Without video following the shared delay, nothing plays by 5.5 s.
Also records the maintainer's 2026-11-09 decisions in quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/native-backpressure.md (no early audio start under the ring's cap) and quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/stretch-setting.md (delete AUTO_MAX_DELAY).
Maintainer, 2026-11-09: ✅ keep audio in sync past its 2 s limit in this PR (rejected: cap the shared delay at audio's 2 s limit; land with the bug and fix it in a follow-up).
Maintainer, 2026-11-09, accepted: ✅ hold decoded PCM upstream in moq-cli (rejected: set_delay + growable moq-audio ring). Native decode backpressure like JS is planned separately.
Mechanism, chosen while implementing: ✅ audio holds decoded PCM until it is due, so the sink and decoder budgets stay as they are (rejected: set_delay on moq_audio::decode::Consumer plus a speaker ring that grows). The decision named the latter, but the decoder is already read promptly, so its budget never limits a held delay. Growing the lock-free ring live would also mean moving the queued audio to the mixer thread or dropping it. Holding the PCM upstream gets the same sync with no moq-audio change.
Decided 2026-11-09 (maintainer, /quest-unblock): ✅ video's retention and subscription budgets follow the shared delay, whichever track set it, fixed in this PR with a test for audio declaring 5 s (rejected: accept as rare; delete AUTO_MAX_DELAY in this PR).
Decided 2026-11-09 (maintainer, /quest-unblock): ✅ defer audio starting ~150 ms early when the shared delay fits the sink's cap to native-backpressure.md, whose gate must not start audio early in that case, with a test (rejected: pad the missing lead now). Its browser-mirroring refill replaces this PR's padding path.
Decided 2026-11-09 (maintainer, /quest-unblock): ✅ record in stretch-setting.md that AUTO_MAX_DELAY is deleted in js/watch and moq play, with every budget it fed derived from delay + stretch. The 2 s is an arbitrary constant nobody can trace.
Choices made without asking
Video grows its budgets by the shared delay's excess over the delay its subscription was opened for (video_delay), not by the whole shared delay, so a shared delay at or below that default leaves the budgets as opened.
Video sets no target when its rendition states no delay, keeping today's behavior. A video-only broadcast with a small stated delay (below the 100 ms auto default) now plays at that delay, matching the browser's delay + spread with no spread.
Audio's resume lead (opening cushion of a replacement sink) is left at the jitter target; the shared clock's due already includes the encoder delay.
Impact
Public API: adds moq_mux::sync::Track::delay_changed (poll_delay_changed), which waits for the shared playout delay to change. Wire: none.
No single PR: native play never read catalog delays before this one.
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just check passes (6318 tests). cargo test -p moq-cli --features play play:: passes except play::media::tests::a_wide_delay_observes_the_whole_tune_in_burst fails with --features play because this host build has no software H264 encoder (NoEncoder("nothing compiled in for H264 at Software")), an environment gap unrelated to this change.
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Size: S
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, medium effort (iterate, S)
Score: 10/10, The incremental change consistently grows video retention and both subscription budgets with the shared delay, with no new issues found by source review; builds and tests were intentionally excluded.
Under --delay auto, video holds its rendition's catalog delay as its sync
target and audio adds its own to the jitter target, so a slow video encoder
delays audio to match, as the browser does. The delay follows catalog
updates and only rises; a fixed --delay stays fixed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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moq play holds each rendition's catalog delay
fix(cli): moq play holds each rendition's catalog delay
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Two remaining issues: the shared target can exceed what audio is allowed to buffer, and the refresh decoder misses delay updates while pacing a frame. Suggested fixes and concrete cases are inline.
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Playback now tracks catalog rendition delays through watch channels. Audio adds the held delay to its jitter target and retargets when the delay changes. Video updates subscription budgets, presentation timing, and frame retention as the held delay changes. Tests cover delay-related audio and video behavior. The README requirement and planning document about rendition-delay handling were removed.
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With an automatic delay, a rise in the shared delay can briefly stall audio reads. In a narrow case this lets the subscription drop media that should have been kept. The impact is small, but the loop should wake on shared delay changes before merge.
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Quest completion: deletes native-rendition-delay.md and removes its milestone ## Required line.
Video delay: a rendition's catalog delay now grows both video subscription budgets (the max-delay decoder's with warmup) and the video role target via Video::budget/hold.
Audio delay: Demand::hold carries each rendition's delay on a watch channel, and retarget re-applies jitter + delay to the audio role at start and on catalog updates.
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Fixed on inspection: the refresh decoder now handles catalog-delay changes during both timed and untimed inner waits (video.rs:661–677), addressing the previous retention finding.
Still open: audio cannot hold the full shared delay. The audio path is unchanged and still clamps the sink target to the 2 s auto budget (media.rs:895–901). The author's acknowledgment and pending maintainer decision do not yet change that behavior; the shared target and audio holding capacity still need a consistent policy.
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Major · The audio sink target is capped below the shared delay · media.rs:884-887
rs/moq-cli/src/play/media.rs:884-887 Major · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
The audio sink target is capped below the shared delay
In auto mode, a catalog delay can make audio due more than two seconds after arrival. The sink target remains capped at the decoder’s jitter-only maximum, so audio can play ahead of video. Raising the cap alone can also exceed the sink’s fixed ring capacity.
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The audio sink sizing in the `role.set_target` path accounts only for jitter
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Minor · Buffered audio keeps the old target after a delay rise · media.rs:648-655
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Buffered audio keeps the old target after a delay rise
If an automatic audio rendition raises the shared delay while PCM is queued and no new frame is written, the sink continues using its previous target. The video window uses the new schedule, so the queued audio can sound ahead of video until another write updates the sink or the audio drains.
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Update the retarget closure so a raised shared delay also refreshes the audio
sink’s target for already-queued PCM, without waiting for another frame write or
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Test delay rises while the refresh reader is parked.
The delay-rise test runs without a refresh decoder, and the refresh tests do not raise the delay. Add a test that raises the watched delay while refresh is parked. Check that its subscription budget grows before the reader resumes and that it retains the needed frames.
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Add a test for the refresh delay-update path using encoder.changed() and
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- Around line 884-887: The audio sink sizing in the `role.set_target` path
accounts only for jitter even though the target includes `stated` catalog delay;
update the sink’s effective limit to support the combined delay so audio does
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Audio waits on decoded media due further out than its sink holds, and
retargets the sink when the shared delay changes during a delivery gap.
Catalog delays cap at the sink's LATENCY_MAX. Adds
moq_mux::sync::Track::delay_changed.
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The refresh-wait fix remains intact. Upstream PCM pacing addresses the previous capacity mismatch in principle, but the audio-sync finding is not fully resolved: the new wait assumes the sink already holds its maximum budget, while production starts with only 50 ms of padding. Details and a focused regression direction are inline.
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✅ No new issues found.
Reviewed changes — This run re-reviewed the two commits since the prior pullfrog review at 9c0118e (9d7ba6b, 97da08f), which cover the audio hold past the sink's budget and the refresh decoder's parked delay rise. CI for this head was still in progress and no play build artifacts exist in this environment, so the new test was reviewed statically rather than executed.
Capped catalog delays — Demand::hold now clamps each rendition's delay to moq_audio::playback::Input::LATENCY_MAX, so a hostile catalog cannot make playback retain media past 10 s.
Audio holds past its sink budget — play_audio keeps decoded frames in the writer until due(start) - cap, retargets the sink from the last written end while waiting for packets, and grows the receive queue's age allowance to max_delay + schedule.delay(). The hold is bounded by shared_delay - cap because role.received pins the reference at the earliest arrival, so the enlarged allowance always covers it.
Refresh decoder follows parked rises — video.rs now selects on encoder.changed() in the max-delay decoder's park loop, applying the grown budget and the new sleep deadline without dropping frames the later schedule still waits for.
New sync API — moq_mux::sync::Track::poll_delay_changed/delay_changed(seen) waits for the shared delay to differ from a captured value; its predicate is evaluated on the first poll, so a change between the read and the wait is not missed.
Coverage — play::media::tests::audio_holds_a_shared_delay_past_its_budget exercises the new hold on a paused clock and fails without it.
The prior residual that a delay rise only reached the sink on the next write is now addressed by the role.delay_changed arm in the packet wait plus the writer-side hold.
The test can pass if later audio is dropped or mistimed. Check that the 0.25 samples total 5 * PACKET_DURATION and play continuously at the expected times.
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Update the test’s `recorder.played()` assertions to inspect the full held audio
burst, verify the 0.25 samples total `5 * PACKET_DURATION`, and confirm every
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- Around line 929-932: Update the playback wait around kio::clock::sleep_until
and role.delay_changed so catalog delay changes continue to retarget the final
frame’s deadline, including after the decoder reaches EOF. Keep applying delay
updates until the frame is played, rather than allowing the original deadline to
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- Around line 917-932: Update both earlier audio sleep points in the playback
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The remaining startup-padding finding is addressed on source inspection: held PCM now receives the missing lead ahead of it, measured against sink.buffered(), without adding the timestamp-gap silence twice (media.rs:940–981). The regression now uses the production 50 ms opening lead and checks the first audible sample within 1 ms of its due time. The common deadline helper also updates the hold, resume and sequential sleeps on delay changes. The earlier refresh-wait fix remains intact.
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Minor · The receive back-pressure loop does not wake when the shared delay changes. · media.rs:685-695
rs/moq-cli/src/play/media.rs:685-695 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
The receive back-pressure loop does not wake when the shared delay changes.
The loop limit is max_delay + schedule.delay(). The loop waits only on popped and on this rendition's stated channel.
Video or another track can raise the shared schedule delay while the loop is blocked. The loop then keeps its stale limit until the play task pops the next frame. The play task can be inside wait for much of that time, up to roughly the new delay minus cap. During that time receive stops reading, and the subscription can evict media that the raised delay should keep. This is a narrow case, because it needs a queue already older than the budget.
Wake on the schedule change as well. Read seen before each limit check so a change between the check and the wait is not missed.
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Review comment at @rs/moq-cli/src/play/media.rs around lines 685 - 695:
Update the receive back-pressure loop to observe shared schedule-delay changes
as well as queue pops and rendition updates. Read the current delay before
checking the queue limit, then wait for a change relative to that observed delay
so updates between the check and wait are not missed; preserve the existing
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The new lead-silence padding stacks on the sink's own resume cushion when a frame starts an utterance, so a press after a declared mute can play up to the sink budget (2 s) late once the shared delay exceeds it.
Reviewed changes — This run re-reviewed the two commits since the prior pullfrog review at 97da08f (41e4663, aebf851), which add the writer-side lead padding and make every audio wait follow delay changes.
Waits recompute — a wait closure now loops on the shared delay, the catalog delay, and the deadline, and is used by the resume, sequential, and held-media waits, so a change while asleep never leaves audio on a stale deadline.
Held-media lead silence — after waiting until due(start) - cap, play_audio writes the remaining lead as silence ahead of the frame, and fit uses timing.silence.max(short) so the existing hole silence is no longer added twice.
Tightened regression — audio_holds_a_shared_delay_past_its_budget now opens the sink at the production 50 ms lead and asserts the media sounds within 1 ms of due.
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Utterance frames skip the lead padding — short now applies only when the frame does not start an utterance (held_back && !utterance), since sink.next() already makes the ring place the frame one target out and hold sizes that target to the due time, so the prior double-padding no longer stacks.
Merged origin/main — the branch absorbs main's codec submission/receive split (#8372) into the video refresh loop, keeping the parked encoder.changed() selects and the delay-grown budgets intact.
Dangling quest link removed — stretch.md's ## Related no longer points at the native-rendition-delay.md this PR deletes, and no other quest or doc references it.
Incremental review since aebf851, accounting for the merge of main at 66f4f16.
No new actionable findings. The held_back && !utterance guard in rs/moq-cli/src/play/media.rs:944–955 avoids adding lead silence on top of the cushion supplied by sink.next()/Producer::resume(). Ordinary held-frame padding remains intact. The other playback differences since the previous review match the base-branch changes; the earlier delay-wait fixes remain present.
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✅ No new issues found.
Reviewed changes — this run re-reviewed the origin/main merge (c86bd00) and the follow-up b46a8eb, the only delta since the prior pullfrog review at adb9919.
Tests follow kio's new Instant API — both new regressions build their expected instants with Instant::checked_add, matching main's removal of panicking Instant + Duration (#8220); the due() comparison still pairs two Option<Instant> values, so the asserted instants are unchanged for non-overflowing inputs.
Merge preserves the PR's playback changes — against main, play/{media,video}.rs and sync.rs still carry exactly the PR's changes; main's contribution inside those files is its test-only saturating_add sweep plus fake.rs's sink arithmetic, so no non-test playback line moved.
New surface intact — moq_audio::playback::Input::LATENCY_MAX and moq_mux::sync::Track::poll_delay_changed survived the merge and are still the cap and the wait used by media.rs.
Video's encoded retention and both subscriptions' budgets now grow by however far
the shared playout delay trails past the subscription's own, whichever track set
it. Audio declaring a 5 s catalog delay no longer leaves video at its 2 s budget,
evicting pictures before they are due.
Records the maintainer's 2026-11-09 decisions in native-backpressure (no early
audio start under the ring's cap) and stretch-setting (delete AUTO_MAX_DELAY).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Incremental review after b46a8eb5857cb4bbc03fe2ad6565d7753ea42b72, which was previously checked as equivalent to the last published review after accounting for main. The merge base remains 1e8717adc6c1d0837c452f8dc71c5686afd9256e.
No new actionable findings. Video now derives its extra retention from the shared delay beyond its original subscription minimum, rather than only its own catalog delay. Both subscriptions receive the updated bounds, the refresh lane retains its warmup and observes changes while paced, and encoded-buffer retention uses the same extra delay.
The new paused-clock regression checks that an audio-driven 5 s schedule retains video's first picture beyond its original 2 s budget and updates the subscription to 5 s / 6.9 s.
Direction: this addresses the video-retention gap at the shared scheduling source. The within-cap early-audio behavior and removal of AUTO_MAX_DELAY remain explicitly deferred to the recorded follow-ups, not fixed by this commit.
Verification limits: GitHub-only source comparison and inspection of the affected playback, synchronization, and container paths. No tests or playback executed. The new regression does not exercise a shared-delay rise while the refresh decoder is parked. GitHub Check was still running when inspected.
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✅ No new issues found.
Reviewed changes — this run re-reviewed the single commit since the prior pullfrog review at b46a8eb (7346654), which makes video's budgets follow the shared playout delay however it was set.
Video retention follows the shared delay — Video::held now returns the shared delay's excess over min_delay, and Video::budget adds only that excess (plus the refresh warmup), so a 5 s audio catalog delay grows video's subscription from its own 2 s budget to 5 s / 6.9 s instead of leaving it to evict pictures that are still due.
Both video decoders follow the clock — the min-delay and refresh consumers read presentation.consume().delay() at start and re-apply the budget from role.delay_changed(shared) in every wait (queued-drain, read, refresh read, and the refresh park loop), so a rise reaches each subscription without waiting for a frame. The rendition's own catalog watch now only sets the video role target, and the shared clock carries it to the budgets.
Retention bounds stay consistent — the queued-drain stall and Buffer::push use max_delay + held, so the encoded retention that keeps a picture until its due time grows with the same value.
Coverage — an_audio_encoder_delay_grows_video_retention asserts the first picture survives to its 5 s due time and the subscription becomes {5 s, 6.9 s}; the prior a_video_encoder_delay_delays_audio_to_match had held at zero throughout, so this covers the growth path.
Quest decisions recorded — native-backpressure.md now records that the backpressure gate fixes early audio under the ring cap with a test, and stretch-setting.md records deleting AUTO_MAX_DELAY and deriving its budgets from delay + stretch.
The low budget is max(min_delay, shared) and the high budget is max_delay + max(0, shared - min_delay), so both stay at or above the shared playout target on every production path (Consumer::set_delay also only lets Delay::min move a start still to come). Reviewed statically: the --features play build is not available in this environment, and CI Check for 7346654 was still in progress at review time.
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Summary
moq play --delay autonow plays atmax over subscribed renditions of (catalog delay + target), as the browser does (doc/concept/audio-jitter.md):delayas itsmoq_mux::synctarget (it has no jitter estimator), so a slow video encoder holds audio back to stay in sync.Consumer::set_delayby however far that delay trails past the subscription's own, so media the later schedule waits for is not evicted. Audio declaring a 5 s catalog delay therefore no longer leaves video at its 2 s budget.delay; the sink still sizes for jitter alone and follows the shared clock.watchchannel in itsDemand, raised by later catalog snapshots and never lowered. A dropped rendition releases its target with its track.--delayignores catalog delays and stays fixed.Input::LATENCY_MAX(10 s), so a hostile catalog cannot make playback retain media without bound.Tests:
play::media::tests::audio_holds_a_shared_delay_past_its_budget(audio opened at the production 50 ms lead with a 200 ms budget plays within 1 ms of due under a 1 s video delay; without the change it plays at least 150 ms early).play::video::tests::a_video_encoder_delay_delays_audio_to_match: audio at a 50 ms target is due 200 ms late once video with a 200 ms catalog delay arrives, follows a rise to 300 ms, and returns to 50 ms when video ends. It fails without the change.play::video::tests::an_audio_encoder_delay_grows_video_retention: audio targets 5 s, video states no delay and has a 2 s budget; the first picture plays at 5 s and the subscription asks for 5 s / 6.9 s. Without video following the shared delay, nothing plays by 5.5 s.Also records the maintainer's 2026-11-09 decisions in
quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/native-backpressure.md(no early audio start under the ring's cap) andquest/m1/audio-jitter-target/stretch-setting.md(deleteAUTO_MAX_DELAY).Finishes
quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/native-rendition-delay.md.Decisions
Maintainer, 2026-11-09: ✅ keep audio in sync past its 2 s limit in this PR (rejected: cap the shared delay at audio's 2 s limit; land with the bug and fix it in a follow-up).
Maintainer, 2026-11-09, accepted: ✅ hold decoded PCM upstream in moq-cli (rejected:
set_delay+ growable moq-audio ring). Native decode backpressure like JS is planned separately.Mechanism, chosen while implementing: ✅ audio holds decoded PCM until it is due, so the sink and decoder budgets stay as they are (rejected:
set_delayonmoq_audio::decode::Consumerplus a speaker ring that grows). The decision named the latter, but the decoder is already read promptly, so its budget never limits a held delay. Growing the lock-free ring live would also mean moving the queued audio to the mixer thread or dropping it. Holding the PCM upstream gets the same sync with no moq-audio change.Decided 2026-11-09 (maintainer, /quest-unblock): ✅ video's retention and subscription budgets follow the shared delay, whichever track set it, fixed in this PR with a test for audio declaring 5 s (rejected: accept as rare; delete
AUTO_MAX_DELAYin this PR).Decided 2026-11-09 (maintainer, /quest-unblock): ✅ defer audio starting ~150 ms early when the shared delay fits the sink's cap to
native-backpressure.md, whose gate must not start audio early in that case, with a test (rejected: pad the missing lead now). Its browser-mirroring refill replaces this PR's padding path.Decided 2026-11-09 (maintainer, /quest-unblock): ✅ record in
stretch-setting.mdthatAUTO_MAX_DELAYis deleted injs/watchandmoq play, with every budget it fed derived fromdelay + stretch. The 2 s is an arbitrary constant nobody can trace.Choices made without asking
Video grows its budgets by the shared delay's excess over the delay its subscription was opened for (
video_delay), not by the whole shared delay, so a shared delay at or below that default leaves the budgets as opened.Video sets no target when its rendition states no
delay, keeping today's behavior. A video-only broadcast with a small stateddelay(below the 100 ms auto default) now plays at that delay, matching the browser'sdelay + spreadwith no spread.Audio's resume
lead(opening cushion of a replacement sink) is left at the jitter target; the shared clock'sduealready includes the encoder delay.Impact
Public API: adds
moq_mux::sync::Track::delay_changed(poll_delay_changed), which waits for the shared playout delay to change. Wire: none.Independent of moq-dev/moq#8349, moq-dev/moq#8276, moq-dev/moq#8220 beyond touching the same files; no metrics or stretch policy changes (owned by native-av-lag).
Caused by
No single PR: native play never read catalog delays before this one.
Checks
just checkpasses (6318 tests).cargo test -p moq-cli --features play play::passes exceptplay::media::tests::a_wide_delay_observes_the_whole_tune_in_burstfails with--features playbecause this host build has no software H264 encoder (NoEncoder("nothing compiled in for H264 at Software")), an environment gap unrelated to this change.Models
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quest reviewafter each round.01a1c18e-94c0-7bc3-9cc4-400b603e766e, round 6The incremental change consistently grows video retention and both subscription budgets with the shared delay, with no new issues found by source review; builds and tests were intentionally excluded.