fix(moq-mux): slice the TS export on the PCR grid - #3351
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| detail["outside_tolerance_pct"] <= args.release_pct_max, |
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When every PCR arrives consistently a little early or late but remains within --release-ms, this check passes regardless of total drift because the verdict considers only outside_tolerance_pct. For example, 25 ms PCR steps arriving every 30 ms pass the default 10 ms interval tolerance while accumulating roughly 4 seconds of drift over 20 seconds, so the nightly timing test misses a stream running 20% too slowly despite calculating and reporting that drift. Include an explicit accumulated-drift limit in the verdict. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)
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Fixed, by taking the reviewed copy of this file. This branch carried the version from before the review passes on #3335; 12bb938 replaces it with that branch's e7f1e3c.
The drift bound is now part of the verdict (--drift-ms, default 500 ms). The subtlety the fix had to get right is that unbounded accumulation and a settled offset both read as "drift": a sender that buffers builds a standing lag once and then runs at the media rate, and that lag cannot exceed the latency budget it is allowed to hold. So the total is the gate and the rate over the tail of the sample is reported beside it, which is what separates the two. An earlier version of this bound defaulted to 250 ms and failed this very PR spuriously, since the exporter is entitled to 500 ms.
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| pts = [(ticks, arrival) for _, ticks, arrival, _ in scan.pcr if arrival is not None] | ||
| if len(pts) < 3: | ||
| return ("pcr-release-timing", HARD, True, "not measured (no arrival stamps)", {}) |
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If the live exporter truncates after emitting exactly two PCRs, check_value_interval sees one valid interval while this branch marks release timing as passing, even though both samples have arrival stamps and no meaningful timing window was measured. Since run.sh also accepts a clean early exporter exit, an approximately 25 ms capture can make the new nightly timing gate succeed; treat insufficient live samples or duration as a hard failure instead. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)
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Correct, and not hypothetical: the exporter exits early on most runs of this rig, so a truncated capture carrying the timing gate was a live route to a green nightly.
Fixed in the reviewed copy taken by 12bb938. Live now requires a floor on both sample count (--live-min-pcr, default 20) and the share of the window spanned (--live-cover-pct, default 50), and a short sample is a hard failure rather than a pass. A file still reports "not measured", which is the honest verdict there, since a file has no arrival stamps in it at all.
Verified: a 0.060 s sample against a 20 s window now exits 1 with "insufficient live sample".
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This comment introduces an em dash, with additional occurrences in this file and test/ts/README.md, even though the repository writing rule explicitly prohibits em dashes in code comments, documentation, and other prose. Replace all introduced occurrences with permitted punctuation. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L119-L121
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Fixed. All em dashes are gone from test/ts/pcr-timing.py, test/ts/README.md and test/ts/run.sh as of 12bb938.
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| def check_value_interval(scan, args): | ||
| """PCR values must be spaced within the repetition limit.""" | ||
| iv = [(b[1] - a[1]) / 27_000.0 for a, b in zip(scan.pcr, scan.pcr[1:])] |
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When a capture crosses the MPEG-TS 33-bit PCR-base wrap, subtracting the raw 42-bit values produces a large negative interval. The value check then incorrectly accepts it as below the repetition limit, while the release check reports an enormous timing error and fails an otherwise valid stream. Unwrap PCR values modulo (1 << 33) * 300 before calculating intervals and drift. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)
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Fixed by the reviewed copy taken in 12bb938. PCR values are unwrapped modulo (1 << 33) * 300 in the scan, so the checks see a monotone timeline.
One refinement over the suggestion: only a drop past halfway is treated as a rollover, so a merely backwards PCR stays visible as the defect it is rather than being silently unwrapped away. A signalled discontinuity is excluded from both directions, since across a declared new time base the difference is neither a wrap nor a backwards clock and measures nothing.
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 4 included reviews per hour; 2 remain after this review. WalkthroughThe MPEG-TS exporter now buffers media spans and emits frames aligned to PCR grid slots. PCR continuity handling follows wire order. The delivery pacer tracks absorbed standing lag and applies it to scheduling decisions. The TS test rig adds live pipe grading for PCR release timing and packet position. Documentation and nightly CI now cover the new Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to PCR placement and release timing are substantially improved and broadly covered, but optional live-test threshold flags can fail instead of applying, and the pacing slack behavior retains a bounded latency concern. These should be understood or corrected before relying on the affected configurations. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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10-12: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUpdate the stale PCR pacing description.
Line 10 states the exporter "paces PCR once per media frame". This PR changes that: the exporter now slices output on the PCR grid and emits one frame per grid slot, so PCR pacing no longer follows media-frame boundaries. The new section you added at line 86 describes the grid basis, which contradicts this paragraph.
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-is VBR, inserts no null packets, and paces PCR once per media frame, so several -broadcast-shape checks are expected to flag. The report quantifies exactly where -and by how much. +is VBR, inserts no null packets, and paces PCR on a fixed media-time grid, so +several broadcast-shape checks are expected to flag. The report quantifies +exactly where and by how much.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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rs/moq-mux/src/container/ts/export_test.rs (1)
2322-2327: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winGuard
pcr_stamps_step_by_the_gridagainst a vacuous pass.
steps.iter().all(..)succeeds whenstepsis empty. If the fixture ever stops producing PCR frames, this test passes without checking anything.pcr_rides_the_bytes_it_labelsassertspcrs.len() > 100; add the same lower bound here so the release-timing property cannot silently stop being exercised.♻️ Proposed guard
let steps: Vec<i128> = pcrs.windows(2).map(|w| w[1].2 as i128 - w[0].2 as i128).collect(); + assert!(steps.len() > 100, "expected the full feed, got {} steps", steps.len()); let interval = PCR_INTERVAL.as_micros() as i128;🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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194-194: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueName the 27 MHz PCR rate.
The literal
27_000.0appears incheck_value_interval, twice incheck_release, and again incoincidence. Define one constant next toPKTandSYNC, for examplePCR_KHZ = 27_000.0, and use it in all four places.As per coding guidelines: "Avoid using magic numbers; use named constants instead".
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137-142: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winA single lost byte in
--livemode misgrades the rest of the capture.
scan_livealigns once, then reads fixed 188-byte blocks.Scan.feedcounts a wrong sync byte and returns, but the reader stays on the old byte offset. After one byte of slip, every later packet parses at the wrong offset, so PID, PCR, and continuity results are meaningless for the remaining window.scan_packetsintest/ts/compliance.py(Line 117) resynchronizes on the next0x47for this reason.Re-align when the sync byte is wrong, so the nightly arm reports the real defect instead of a cascade.
♻️ Re-align after a bad sync byte
while time.monotonic() - start < seconds: p = fd.read(PKT) if len(p) < PKT: return scan - scan.feed(p, time.monotonic()) + arrival = time.monotonic() + scan.feed(p, arrival) + if p[0] != SYNC: + # Realign: byte-by-byte until a sync byte lands, so one slipped byte + # does not misparse the whole remaining window. + while True: + b = fd.read(1) + if not b: + return scan + if b[0] == SYNC: + rest = fd.read(PKT - 1) + if len(rest) < PKT - 1: + return scan + scan.feed(b + rest, time.monotonic()) + break return scan🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@rs/moq-cli/src/subscribe.rs`:
- Around line 424-426: Update the pacing logic around Pacer::hurry so that when
the schedule is re-anchored, arrived is advanced to the same current-time epoch,
allowing subsequent frames to resume normal pacing. Add coverage for a buffered
producer with waited set to false on every frame, verifying that pacing resumes
after a hurry.
In `@rs/moq-mux/src/pace.rs`:
- Around line 106-108: Restrict calls to absorb to the monotonic/in-order pacing
branch so reordered timestamps do not advance the anchor or consume slack; keep
reordered frames on their existing scheduling path. Add a test verifying that
processing a reordered timestamp leaves slack() unchanged, using the relevant
pace test setup and absorb method.
In `@test/ts/pcr-timing.py`:
- Around line 54-58: Update parse_pcr to require adaptation_field_length p[4] to
be at least 7, while preserving the existing PCR_flag check, before reading p[6]
through p[11]. Return None for shorter adaptation fields so fabricated PCR
values cannot affect downstream statistics.
In `@test/ts/run.sh`:
- Around line 239-240: Separate compliance-only PASSTHRU options from the live
pcr-timing.py invocation in run.sh, preventing flags such as --pcr-repetition-ms
from reaching the timing parser; translate them only when an equivalent timing
option exists. Update test/ts/README.md to document the distinct option sets,
including --release-pct-max and --adjacent-pct-max, and revise the live usage
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In `@test/ts/README.md`:
- Around line 10-12: Update the PCR pacing description in the README paragraph
to reflect grid-based output slicing with one frame emitted per PCR-grid slot,
removing the claim that pacing occurs once per media-frame boundary. Keep the
surrounding VBR, null-packet, and broadcast-shape discussion unchanged.
---
Nitpick comments:
In `@rs/moq-mux/src/container/ts/export_test.rs`:
- Around line 2322-2327: Add a pcrs.len() > 100 assertion in
pcr_stamps_step_by_the_grid before computing or validating steps, matching the
guard used by pcr_rides_the_bytes_it_labels so the all() check cannot pass with
no PCR frames.
In `@test/ts/pcr-timing.py`:
- Line 194: Define a shared PCR_KHZ constant near PKT and SYNC, then replace
every 27_000.0 occurrence in check_value_interval, both check_release locations,
and coincidence with that constant.
- Around line 137-142: Update the scan_live read loop around Scan.feed to detect
a bad sync byte and realign to the next 0x47 boundary before continuing
fixed-size reads, matching scan_packets behavior. Preserve the existing
capture-window and short-read termination behavior while preventing one lost
byte from cascading misaligned packet parsing.
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| fn absorb(&mut self, at: Instant, now: Instant) -> Instant { | ||
| let behind = now.saturating_duration_since(at); | ||
| let shift = behind.min(self.lead.saturating_sub(self.slack)); |
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absorb also absorbs reorder depth, not only standing delivery lag.
pace routes both branches into absorb. On the reordered branch, at is deliberately placed before the anchor (anchor - (base - nanos)), so behind measures the reorder depth of that frame rather than the producer's delivery lag. Each such frame then slides the anchor forward until slack reaches lead.
Two effects follow for a source with B-frames: every later frame is scheduled up to lead later than its media instant, and Delivery's budget in rs/moq-cli/src/subscribe.rs becomes lead + slack, which is up to twice the configured lead before a hurry triggers.
Absorbing only on the monotonic branch keeps the measurement tied to arrival lateness of in-order frames.
♻️ Restrict absorption to the in-order branch
- let send_at = if nanos >= base {
- anchor.checked_add(duration(nanos - base))
+ let (send_at, in_order) = if nanos >= base {
+ (anchor.checked_add(duration(nanos - base)), true)
} else {
// A reordered (B-frame) timestamp can trail the anchor: pace it at that
// earlier instant instead of collapsing it onto the anchor, falling back
// to the anchor if the platform clock can't express it.
- Some(anchor.checked_sub(duration(base - nanos)).unwrap_or(anchor))
+ (Some(anchor.checked_sub(duration(base - nanos)).unwrap_or(anchor)), false)
};
match send_at {
- Some(at) if at.saturating_duration_since(now) <= self.lead => self.absorb(at, now),
+ Some(at) if at.saturating_duration_since(now) <= self.lead => {
+ if in_order { self.absorb(at, now) } else { at }
+ }
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the monotonic/in-order pacing branch so reordered timestamps do not advance the
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Not taking this one, though the observation is correct: pace does route both branches into absorb, and on the reordered branch at is placed before the anchor, so behind would measure reorder depth.
It can't fire on this path. After this PR the export stamps every frame at a grid slot boundary, and emit makes those monotone by construction: start is the previous span's end, end = to.as_nanos().max(start), and the comment there says it outright ("The clock only ever moves forward ... its bytes go out at the clock rather than dragging it backwards"). The PTS reordering is absorbed into the span/DTS arithmetic upstream of the stamp, so nanos >= base always holds for Delivery.
The other Pacer user is moq-srt, which takes Pacer::default() and so lead = 0. With a zero lead, absorb computes shift = behind.min(lead - slack) = 0 and returns at unchanged, so it is a no-op there regardless of branch.
So restricting absorption would change behaviour on a branch nothing currently reaches, which is the kind of speculative change this repo's root-cause rule is meant to keep out. I checked this empirically too, because it also bears on @t0ms's question below about what the standing lag is: a source encoded bframes=0 still built a ~494 ms lag that settled (tail rate -0.008 ms/s), which reorder absorption cannot produce. Caveats on that measurement are in my reply to them.
What I have done instead is document the invariant on Delivery so the next reader knows the epoch/anchor rules rather than having to re-derive them.
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| python3 "$DIR/pcr-timing.py" --live --seconds "$DURATION" --release-pct-max 1 $STRICT \ | ||
| ${PASSTHRU[@]+"${PASSTHRU[@]}"} >"$TMP/timing.out" 2>&1 |
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Separate compliance flags from pcr-timing.py flags in live mode. run.sh forwards PASSTHRU to pcr-timing.py, but PASSTHRU accepts compliance options such as --pcr-repetition-ms, which pcr-timing.py does not parse. --live --pcr-repetition-ms ... therefore exits with an argument error instead of grading. Keep compliance-only flags out of the live invocation, or translate them to the timing parser's names. Document the separate option sets, including --release-pct-max and --adjacent-pct-max, and update the live example.
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Grading moq-dev#3351 exposed the drift check as mis-specified. It bounded accumulated drift at 250 ms, below the 500 ms the exporter's own --latency-max entitles it to hold, so it failed a correct pipeline three runs out of three: measured against the grid-sliced export, the standing lag reaches 480 ms over the first ~48 s and then holds to within 0.017 ms/s over the next 40 s, against a plateau the design puts at --latency-max. A lag that settles and a pipe running slow are both "accumulated drift" and only the second is a defect, so bound the total at the budget the sender may hold and report the tail's rate beside it, which is what tells them apart. Verified: the grid-sliced export now passes at 20 s and 120 s windows, while a pipe whose per-interval error sits inside any percentage allowance still fails on the total. Also folds in --release-pct-max from moq-dev#3351, so the two copies do not diverge. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Verified this independently, and it does what it says. Two things you will want before merging, one of them mine. The fix holds against a matched controlSame host, same session, same rig, release profile, default
The merge-base arm reproduces #3334 exactly as filed, including the shape: 43.4% of its PCR packets are both adjacent to the previous one and released early, which is the clustering and the no-op sleep in the same measurement. On this PR both are gone. Your standing-lag claim measures out, and it is worth stating as a numberYou describe the export as running "a constant distance behind the media clock, which is the mux buffer", bounded by The lag builds to 480 ms over the first ~48 s and then stops, holding to +0.7 ms total across the remaining 70 s (a tail rate of -0.017 ms/s). Against a default I checked the rig is not supplying that ramp: grading This PR carries the pre-review copy of the harness
The other four (an One of the six was wrong, and grading this PR is what exposed itI added a hard bound on accumulated drift with a 250 ms default. That default is below the 500 ms your own Fixed in Both pass. A pipe whose per-interval error sits inside any percentage allowance but which never stops accumulating still fails on the total, so the term keeps its teeth. Worth knowing for the nightly: a 20 s window catches the lag mid-fill and cannot tell that from a slow pipe, so drift only becomes meaningful past roughly a minute. Take Your known limit is the same defect I measured from the other sideThe limit you record, that "byte position is uniform on a single rendition but lumpy across two", is what I independently measured with a two-host 1+1 merge oracle comparing two egress legs at equal RTP sequence numbers, continuity counters included:
So the lumpiness is not only a byte-position property, it is what stops two independent senders producing a mergeable pair, which is what ST 2022-7 seamless protection needs. Filed with the numbers on #2829. Your framing of the remedy, a byte buffer in the muxer drained at a measured rate, is consistent with what the multiset comparison shows. Also confirming the unrelated exit you flagged: |
…assing truncated captures Both of these are the check reporting a defect that is not there, or reporting a pass that is not there. Neither affects a conforming steady-state stream, which is why neither showed up until the analyser was pointed at legal boundary conditions on purpose. A signalled discontinuity failed twice over. 2.4.3.3 lets the continuity counter jump in a packet carrying discontinuity_indicator, which the continuity check already allowed, but 2.4.3.4 also lets the clock jump with it: the next PCR states a new time base rather than the next point on the old ramp. The value check read that as an 820 ms repetition breach and the release check as seconds of lateness, and the unwrap logic came close to absorbing the jump as a 33-bit rollover. Intervals spanning a declared new time base are now dropped from both checks and counted in the report instead, and accumulated drift is summed over the intervals actually graded, so it telescopes to the same figure on an unspliced sample and stays correct on a spliced one. check_release also returned a hard pass labelled "not measured (no arrival stamps)" whenever it held fewer than three timestamped PCRs. For a file that is right, since a file has no arrival times in it and there is nothing to grade. For --live it inverts the check: a producer that emitted two packets and exited produced a green run, and run.sh accepts a clean early exporter exit, so a capture of a few tens of milliseconds could carry the timing gate. Live now requires --live-min-pcr samples (20) spanning --live-cover-pct of the requested window (50%), and reports the shortfall rather than a pass. Reported by Codex on moq-dev#3351; the finding is correct and the route is not hypothetical, as the exporter exits early on most runs of the rig this was developed against. Verified against a fixture per condition: a signalled splice now passes every check and reports one discontinuity not counted; a placed 33-bit wrap still unwraps; a backwards PCR is still a defect; a legal duplicate, a short adaptation field with PCR_flag set, a mid-stream PCR-PID change, a visible loss and a clustered layout are all unchanged. A real broadcast capture and the x264 source used to grade moq-dev#3351 return identical verdicts before and after. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Two follow-ups, one of which corrects something I said above. The 480 ms lag: I attributed it more confidently than my evidence supports. I reported the The arm that separates them is one variable: encode the source The harness copy. Two more defects, found by pointing the analyser at conditions ISO 13818-1
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Thank you, both for the matched control and for coming back to correct your own attribution. Taking your points in order. The harnessTaken. 12bb938 replaces this branch's copy of You were right that two of those fixes bear directly on what this PR measures. I verified both by hand rather than taking them on description:
Your The lag: your first answer looks right, and the retraction was over-cautiousI ran the arm you specified but did not run. Source re-encoded With zero B-frames the lag still built to 494.3 ms and settled, tail rate -0.008 ms/s over the last 38.8 s, 4659 PCRs across a 120 s window. That is your settled signature, at your number, against a 500 ms budget, with no reorder depth in the stream to absorb. That is the outcome your discriminator assigns to the buffer, not to reorder absorption. It also agrees with what the code says: after this PR the exporter stamps every frame at a grid slot boundary, and Where my evidence is weaker than yours, stated plainly. This machine was heavily loaded throughout (load average 48 to 127 from unrelated builds), and it shows: that arm graded 32.45 % of intervals outside ±10 ms with p95 38 ms, against your 0 to 4 / 745 at p95 1.5 to 1.9 ms on a quiet host. The drift rate is a slope and largely survives that, which is why I trust the settling result; the absolute jitter does not. My control arm was worse still, starved rather than slow-paced (2695 PCRs where ~4800 were due, +1141 ms/s), so I do not have a clean matched pair of the kind you built, and I am not going to present one. So: suggestive and concordant with the code, not conclusive. If you have a quiet host and are willing, the The multi-rendition limitAgreed that it is the same defect from the other side, and #2829 is the right home for it with your merge-oracle numbers attached. Nothing in this PR moves it. Also confirmedThe (written by Claude Opus 5) |
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| Some(at) if at.saturating_duration_since(now) <= self.lead => at, | ||
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When lead is nonzero and a reordered B-frame has ts < base, its calculated instant is intentionally earlier than the anchor, but this arm passes that instant to absorb anyway. For example, a frame 100 ms behind the base received 1 ms later consumes 101 ms of slack, is collapsed to now, and shifts every subsequent frame 101 ms into the future, contradicting the documented behavior that reordered frames retain their earlier media instant. Only genuine forward-timeline lateness should adjust the standing-lag anchor. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)
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| // on the arrival clock, which is the whole thing this is here to avoid. | ||
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When the configured lead is near Duration::MAX and pace() has absorbed any nonzero slack from a late frame, the next call performs an overflowing Duration addition here and panics. This is reachable through the unbounded --latency-max input, and Pacer already has a regression test establishing Duration::MAX as valid, so combine these values with saturating_add rather than terminating the TS exporter. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)
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`ts::Export` emitted one Frame per media frame, so a clock packet could only ever land between frames, never among the bytes it labels, and a grid slot could only be revealed by a frame later than itself. #2967 made the PCR values an exact 25 ms ramp, but neither the byte position nor the release instant of a clock packet was constrained by it, so the grid could not be recovered from the wire. A span of the media timeline now closes when a timestamp passes the watermark, and its bytes are laid across the grid slots running up to its decode time, one Frame per slot: the slot's clock packet, then the share of the bytes that slice of the interval earns. Three consequences the layout has to respect, and they are why it looks like this rather than simpler: packet count between two PCRs tracks the difference between their values, each frame is stamped at its own slot boundary, and every byte still precedes the decode time of the unit it belongs to. That gives the exporter a constant standing lag, which is the mux buffer, and two things downstream assumed it had none. `Pacer` pinned its anchor on the first frame and never had room for it, so every later frame was due the instant it arrived and the sink wrote at the arrival cadence; it now slides the anchor back by however much a frame fell behind, up to the lead. `Delivery`'s arrival epoch only advanced when the export made it wait, which it no longer does, so the budget froze and hurried on a fixed cadence; reaching a scheduled instant advances it too. A clock packet carries no payload, so it repeats the counter of whatever preceded it on its PID. Slicing puts clock packets inside a frame's packet run, whose counters were assigned when the frame was muxed rather than when the bytes go out, so the counter comes from wire order now. Closes #3334. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`Delivery::deliver` measures a frame's schedule against `arrived`, the epoch a frame obtained without waiting could first have been queued at. A hurry re-anchors the pacer on the frame it delivers, but left the epoch where it was. `hurry` returns `now`, so `send_at == now` and the credit that advances the epoch on reaching a scheduled instant (`send_at > now`) can never fire on the frame that hurried. The next frame then walks forward from the new edge while the epoch stays behind, overshoots the budget by the same distance, and hurries too. The TS export holds a mux buffer and never makes the sink wait, so nothing else moves the epoch: the shed latches on and every later slot writes at the arrival cadence, which is what the pacing exists to prevent. The same staleness inverted the case already covered. `a_sink_that_cannot_keep_up_ sheds_the_lag` asserted that the frame after a hurry writes immediately, and it did, but only because the epoch was stale: that frame is 200ms of media past the newly anchored edge and well inside the budget, so pacing it is correct. The test now asserts that, and a stall loop covers the property it exists for, that a sink which goes on stalling goes on shedding. Also take `test/ts/pcr-timing.py` from #3335 at e7f1e3c, which is the reviewed copy: this branch carried the version from before that PR's review passes. Two of its fixes bear on what this PR measures. The continuity check false-positived on legally duplicated packets and on `discontinuity_indicator` (ISO 13818-1 2.4.3.3), which matters because this PR changes counter assignment; and `--seconds` did not bound a blocking read, so a producer holding the pipe open without writing hung the grader forever, which is the shape the nightly would hit. Widen the nightly live window to 120s. The drift term added in that harness cannot distinguish a mux buffer still filling from a pipe running slow over a 20s sample, so at the default it would not have been measuring anything. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| echo "error: PCR timing analysis failed (see round-trip logs below)" >&2 | ||
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In the TS timing nightly run, a publisher that exits nonzero after producing at least 50% of the 120-second window can still leave every timing check green, and this branch exits solely with GRADE_RC while ignoring the captured PUB_RC. This lets an import crash, timeout, or truncated publication late in the run produce a successful nightly result; require a successful publisher status in addition to the grader verdict. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)
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Fixed in 9c870e6. Confirmed by reading: PUB_RC was captured at line 273 and used only by dump_logs, and the live branch exited with GRADE_RC alone, in both arms actually. The live one is where it bites, because the sample floor this PR just took from #3335 rejects a window that came up short, not one that ended early, so a publisher dying past the 50% mark leaves a passing sample behind.
The arm now requires a clean publisher status as well as a clean verdict. 124 is not excused: timeout killing a stalled moq import ts is a failure of the same kind rather than a clean end. Documented in test/ts/README.md alongside the --live description.
This is squarely the shape of thing that arm exists to catch, and it would have reported it as green. Good find.
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| self.cc_errors.append((index, pid, (prev + 1) & 0x0F, cc)) | ||
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When two different payload packets on the same PID repeat a continuity counter once, this branch treats the second packet as a legal duplicate without comparing its bytes to the previous packet. MPEG-TS duplication requires the packet itself to be duplicated, so a real lost or misnumbered payload packet can pass this hard continuity check; retain the prior packet and only allow the repeated counter when the packet contents match. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)
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Verified and agreed, but routing it rather than fixing it here.
The defect is real: Scan.feed accepts cc == prev once on the strength of the counter alone, with no comparison of the packet bytes. ISO 13818-1 2.4.3.3 permits a duplicate, meaning the packet itself repeated, so a genuinely lost or misnumbered payload packet that happens to land on the previous counter passes a hard check. It also matters more here than it looks, since continuity is the check grading this PR's move of counter assignment to wire order.
Not fixing it in this PR because test/ts/pcr-timing.py is @t0ms's file from #3335, and this PR just took e7f1e3cc wholesale precisely so the two copies stop diverging. Patching it here would fork it again a commit later. Raising it on #3335 instead, which is where the file lives and where each fix has been landing with a fixture for the condition it covers.
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| def check_pcr_single_pid(scan, args): | ||
| """Every PCR must ride the one PID the PMT declares.""" | ||
| pids = collections.Counter(pid for _, _, _, pid in scan.pcr) | ||
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This hard check only verifies that PCR samples use at most one PID, despite its contract saying that PID must be the one declared by the PMT. In live mode run.sh replaces compliance.py with this analyzer, so a stream whose PMT announces one PID while every PCR rides another can pass all six checks even though receivers cannot locate the program clock; parse the PMT and compare its PCR_PID with the carrying PID. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)
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Verified and agreed, and it is a clean catch: the docstring says "Every PCR must ride the one PID the PMT declares" while the implementation only computes len(pids) <= 1 and never parses a PMT. The check under-delivers on its own stated contract, and your point about --live replacing compliance.py is what makes that gap reachable rather than academic: in that mode nothing else is looking at the PMT.
Same disposition as the sibling finding: pcr-timing.py belongs to #3335, and this PR just took that branch's e7f1e3cc so the copies stop diverging. Fixing it here would fork the file again immediately. Raising it there.
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The `--live` arm exited with the grader's verdict alone. The grader can only speak for what reached it, and the sample floor added with the reviewed harness rejects a window that came up short rather than one that ended early: a publisher crashing, timing out, or truncating late in the run still leaves enough behind for every check to pass. That is a broken round-trip reported as a good one, on the arm this branch wires into the nightly. `PUB_RC` was already captured and used for diagnostics; it is now a gate. 124 is `timeout` killing a stalled `moq import ts`, which is a failure of the same kind rather than a clean end, so it is not excused. Reported by Codex on #3351. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Re-verified on the merged build — The fix holds on real content. Upstream's own Correction 1 — the ~480 ms standing lag is neither mechanism I offered. I attributed it to the mux buffer filling, then hedged it toward Correction 2 — a growth I reported is a transient. First end-to-end arms read delivery latency rising +2153 ms across 90 s where every control was flat. That is the same standing lag ramping toward my rig's default What remains is not yours to fix, which is why there is no follow-up issue. My lane still misses the TR 101 290 P1 repetition gate on the wire (12.2 % of intervals above 40 ms). The cause is that a coded frame's bytes belong to its own 40 ms however large the frame is, so a 417 kB I-frame arrives as ~357 ms of carrier — the source's CBR mux had spread exactly those bytes across many frame periods against a T-STD buffer, and that schedule is not present in decode timestamps. #3351 places each slot's bytes at the media time the slot asserts, which is correct; the smoothing belongs downstream. It works there: the displacement is bounded at 761 ms on this clip and deterministic across replicates, and a groomer cushioned past it conserves 99.6 % of the programme at 0 continuity errors and exact CBR. #3334 is discharged. Thanks for writing it. |
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Closes #3334, and folds in #3335's harness as the thing that proves it.
Root cause.
ts::Exportemitted oneFrameper media frame, so a clock packet could only ever land between frames, never among the bytes it labels, and a grid slot could only be revealed by a frame later than itself. #2967 made the PCR values an exact 25 ms ramp, but neither the byte position nor the release instant of a clock packet was constrained by it, so the grid could not be recovered from the wire: consecutive clock packets sat one packet apart with the media heaped between the clusters, and their stamps were already in the past by the time the pacer saw them, so the sleep was a no-op.Fix. Slice the output on the grid instead of on media frames.
Frameper slot: the slot's clock packet, then the share of the bytes that slice of the interval earns. Packet count between two PCRs is then proportional to the difference between their values, each frame is stamped at its own slot boundary, and every byte still precedes the decode time of the unit it belongs to (T-STD).Pacerpinned its anchor on the first frame and never had room for a standing lag, so every later frame was due the instant it arrived and the sink wrote at the arrival cadence. It now slides the anchor back by however much a frame fell behind, up toleadin total (Pacer::slack).Delivery's arrival epoch only advanced when the export made it wait. The export now always has the next slot ready, so the epoch froze and the budget hurried roughly once a second, shedding the pacing it exists to protect. Reaching a scheduled instant advances it too. The trade: a one-off pre-queued backlog now paces out at the media rate rather than being shed, because from the sink it is indistinguishable from the mux buffer. Its size is bounded by the export's own--latency-max.Measured, same rig,
just test ts --live:The standing lag is the mux buffer, not absorbed reorder depth. The exporter now runs a constant distance behind the media clock, and two mechanisms predict the same curve: the buffer filling once, or
Pacer::absorbeating each B-frame's reorder depth (it is reached from both branches ofpace). Measured with the source re-encodedbframes=0, everything else identical: the lag still builds to 494 ms and settles (tail rate -0.008 ms/s), which reorder absorption cannot produce with no reorder depth in the stream. This agrees with the code, where slot boundaries are monotone by construction so the reordered branch is unreachable fromDelivery, andmoq-srtrunslead = 0whereabsorbis a no-op. Caveat: that run was on a heavily loaded machine and its per-interval jitter is correspondingly poor, so it is concordant rather than conclusive; the drift rate is a slope and survives the load, the absolute jitter does not.Known limit, not fixed here. When tracks with different cadences interleave, a span is however long it took the next timestamp to arrive, which is nothing like the media a frame's bytes represent, so byte position is uniform on a single rendition but lumpy across two. Evening that out needs the muxer to hold a byte buffer and drain it at a measured rate. The reordered two-rendition fixture is covered by a test that asserts what does hold (no adjacency, stamps on the grid) and says why the rest doesn't.
Harness.
test/ts/pcr-timing.pyis @t0ms's script from #3335, taken at that branch'se7f1e3cc, which is the reviewed copy: this PR originally carried the version from before #3335's review passes. Two of the fixes in it bear on what this PR measures. The continuity check false-positived on legally duplicated packets and ondiscontinuity_indicator(ISO 13818-1 2.4.3.3), which matters here because this change moves counter assignment to wire order, so the check is grading the fix. The 0 after stands either way (a checker that over-reports still reporting zero means zero), but the before figure was inflated by duplicates that were never defects, so it is withdrawn from the table above rather than quoted. Separately,--secondsdid not bound a blocking read, so a producer holding the pipe open without writing hung the grader forever, which is exactly the shape this rig's early exit produces.It is wired in under
run.sh --live(their offer) and runs nightly, not per-PR: it needs a real-time window to measure anything. The nightly runs it at--duration 120rather than the 20 s default, because the drift bound cannot distinguish a mux buffer still filling from a pipe running slow over a 20 s sample. Two rig calibrations came out of running it, both measured: the generated clip is now CBR with a 20 ms PCR (unconstrained,regulatereleased it unevenly and finished a 20 s clip in 17 s), andregulategets--wait-min 5(at the default it releases in ~50 ms chunks, p95 40 ms of jitter of its own).Unrelated bug surfaced by the live arm: the subscriber exits partway through with
TS track layout changed after PAT/PMT was emitted: '0.avc3' removed. It reproduces onmain(the existing arm's duration-fidelity check reports the same 0.61 ratio and passes it), so it is not from this change. The live arm reports it as a warning and grades the window it did get.Public API changes
moq_mux::Pacer::slack()- new, additive.pubitem added, renamed, or changed signature.ts::Export's surface (new/with_ts/with_catalog_format/with_latency/next/poll_next) is unchanged; what changed is what aFramecontains, which is documented on both.Test plan
just check,just test(both clean at the time of the original push; the follow-up commit'smoq-clitests were run directly, 4/4, and CI is the gate for the rest).pcr_rides_the_bytes_it_labels,pcr_stamps_step_by_the_grid,pcr_stays_among_the_bytes_across_reordered_tracks,payload_less_clock_packets_repeat_the_counter(moq-mux);absorbs_a_standing_delivery_lag,absorbed_lag_is_capped_by_the_lead,zero_lead_absorbs_nothing(Pacer);a_sink_that_cannot_keep_up_sheds_the_lag,a_buffered_producer_keeps_pacing(moq-cli).backlog_lag_is_bounded_by_the_latency_budgetis replaced by the first of those two, which encodes the rule that took its place.pacing_resumes_after_a_hurry_without_a_wait(moq-cli), covering a hurry that leaves the arrival epoch stale.a_sink_that_cannot_keep_up_sheds_the_lagis rewritten: it asserted that the frame after a hurry writes immediately, which was true only because of that stale epoch, and it now asserts the corrected pacing plus a stall loop proving a persistently slow sink still sheds.just test ts(the existing capture arm) andjust test ts --live(the new one): all six checks pass.Cross-package sync
No wire-format change: the PCR grid, its values, and the SETUP/framing are untouched, so no draft under
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