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fix(hang): play the head group once a missing group is proven too old - #3973

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Problem

Smoke's audio/video sync: after rejoin check fails (e.g. 70/80 samples within 200ms on #3962; 4/4 local just test smoke-media runs on main). For ~0.5s after rejoin the canvas holds a stale frame while audio is already live.

Since #3941 the browser negotiates lite-06, where an absent Group Start resolves from Max Age. When the player resubscribes to the idle fixture, the relay hands it the stale cached group 17 (1.7s behind the playhead). Group 18, the one aborted when the old subscription ended, never arrives, and live content resumes at 19. That's valid on the wire: groups can arrive with a hole.

The consumer then got stuck. It finished 17, pointed #active at the missing 18, and would not promote 19: with a non-zero budget only #checkMaxAge can break the stall, and that needs two buffered groups and then drops the oldest one. So when 20 arrived, it threw away 19, the live group that should have played next.

Approach

next()'s promotion guard already proves a hole with a zero budget. This generalizes that rule: the hole is proven once the head reaches past where presentation left off (#presentedEnd) by more than maxAge, because anything still missing would arrive too old to play. Then the head is promoted and played instead of dropped. A zero budget behaves as before.

Verification:

  • just test smoke-media: 4/4 failed before, 3/3 pass after, including all negative controls. after rejoin is at 30fps with a median skew of 0ms.
  • With lite-05 forced and no fix, rejoin passes 2/2, which confirms lite-06 as the trigger.
  • Regression tests in consumer.test.ts: a gap past the budget plays the head, and a gap within the budget waits until the head exceeds it. Both fail without the fix.
  • The existing test "age-skips a waited-out gap when only the head receives frames" asserted the old behavior (it dropped the head), so it was rewritten as the first regression test.

Impact

  • No public API or wire changes. This changes @moq/hang Container.Consumer behavior only: after a proven hole it delivers the head group instead of discarding it.

Alternatives

  • Widen the smoke threshold or add a retry. Rejected: that would hide a real playback bug.
  • Promote inside #checkMaxAge. Rejected: it runs before a parked reader sees the head, and its span rule legitimately ages out an undelivered head once a later group lands. The promotion guard in next() is where a parked decoder is woken on each head frame.

Follow-ups

  • On lite-06 a resubscribe to an on-demand publisher still gets its stale cached group first, so the picture shows one old frame for a sample or two (after rejoin sometimes reads ~42fps as it jumps to live). It's also unclear why the relay never forwards the aborted group 18 again. Both need a transport-side look.
  • after reattach reads ~45fps locally under both lite-05 and lite-06, versus 30fps in the last green nightly. It still passes; unrelated to this change.
  • No overlap with feat(watch): size the auto delay from the measured arrival estimator #3954 (jitter observation in #runGroup) or test(cli): reproduce wide-delay play tune-in stall #3946 (Rust moq-cli tune-in).

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The consumer’s next() promotion guard now checks whether the buffered head extends beyond the last presented end by more than the configured maxAge. Tests cover delivery after a gap exceeds the budget, including a case where the head grows past the budget while a read is pending.

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The fix unblocks playback after a missing group, but it can declare a gap expired too early. If the missing group arrives late, the player can receive older frames after newer ones and play them out of order. Tighten the expiry condition and add a late-arrival test before merging.

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In `@js/hang/src/container/consumer.ts`:
- Line 486: Update the hole-expiration check in the consumer path using
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Merged (squash, db73903).

  • Merged origin/main into the branch (main had also touched consumer.test.ts). js/hang tests (181), js/watch tests (222), tsc --noEmit and biome passed locally. CI was green on the merge commit.
  • CodeRabbit's "hole not proven" finding: I replied that a group arriving below the cursor is already delivered by design and placed downstream by timestamp, and a stricter rule would add a full maxAge stall on rejoin. CodeRabbit withdrew it and resolved the thread. Codex: no findings.

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fperex added a commit to fperex/moq that referenced this pull request Sep 24, 2026
Merges the 49 upstream commits in 7ee2b02..ffa5b81 onto PR #4 at
0bd542a.

Breaking upstream changes this brings: none carries a `!` marker.
Behavior changes worth knowing:
- moq-dev#3982 Container.Legacy.Producer.cut() now publishes a discontinuity
  marker group, and the audio encoder declares a demand gap with an
  endpoint marker.
- moq-dev#3973 the container consumer plays the head group once the gap from
  where presentation left off exceeds the age budget.
- moq-dev#3934 a refused getUserMedia is terminal until settings, devices or
  permission change; a camera source announces only once every enabled
  track is live.
- moq-dev#3935 catalog readers refuse updates with more than 64 renditions.
- moq-dev#3963 test/smoke is test/interop: `just test interop [--all]` and
  `just test media` replace `smoke` and `smoke-media`.

Upstream landed no audio playout target work in this range: the
audio-jitter-target quest only moved from quest/main to quest/m0, and
jitter.ts, rs/moq-audio's playout and doc/concept/audio-jitter.md are
untouched upstream, so the fork's estimator, rings, stall monitor and
corpus stay byte for byte as they were.

Conflicts:
- bun.lock: upstream's version, see the last line.
- doc/lib/js/net.md: upstream's Discovery line; keeps the fork's
  Error.Expired in Subscriptions.
- doc/lib/js/publish.md: announce row carries upstream's camera wait and
  the fork's latch; the refusal paragraph gains the busy-device retry.
- drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-hang.md: upstream's "until a later group
  begins", then the fork's mute endpoint rules, the last one shortened so
  the draft does not say the untrimmed next group twice.
- js/hang/src/container/consumer.test.ts: upstream's rewrite of the shared
  waited-out-gap test, whose expectation (resume at B) matches the fork's.
- js/justfile: upstream's interop path plus the fork's playout corpus.
- js/publish/src/audio/encoder.ts: see audio below.
- js/publish/src/element.ts: the fork's announce latch now closes only
  once upstream's readiness holds (every enabled track for a camera), so
  a refused microphone still withholds the broadcast and a device swap
  still keeps every subscriber.
- js/publish/src/source/camera.ts, microphone.ts: the fork's release wait
  and Attempt shape; a refusal goes through Retry.refused (below), and
  upstream's per-attempt error clear is dropped because the fork's Retry
  keeps a repeating busy error set until capture runs, which that clear
  would toggle once a retry.
- js/publish/src/source/retry.test.ts: the fake keeps both the fork's
  hold and upstream's denied switch.
- js/watch/src/audio/decoder.ts: the fork's #declareEnd and #onNext,
  with upstream's `group` in #onNext's argument.
- js/watch/src/audio/terminal.test.ts: both endpoint tests.
- package.json: the audio-quality workspace plus upstream's interop ones.
- rs/moq-cli/src/play/media.rs: upstream's shared engine and tail drain,
  on the fork's jitter buffer and device cushion.
- test/interop/clients/js-native/tsconfig.json: the fork's file, at the
  renamed path.

Audio, per file:
- js/publish/src/audio/encoder.ts: upstream's #end field and demand-gap
  marker effect stay as written. The fork's mute endpoint now reads and
  clears the same #end, so a pause and the demand gap after it are
  declared once, and #end keeps the fork's frame-duration fallback. The
  demand-gate comments said a demand gap is left for the subscriber to
  find; they now say it is declared.
- js/watch/src/audio/terminal.ts: upstream's endGroup rule merged clean;
  the fork's epoch and hole handling is untouched.
- js/hang/src/container/consumer.ts: upstream's promotion (moq-dev#3973) and the
  fork's walk in #checkMaxAge (c1f899e) fix the same held picture with
  different measures, and both are kept. Upstream's measures from where
  presentation left off, so it fires first on a lone head; the fork's
  measures from the head's own start and still covers a hole with
  nothing presented yet, or one only later groups prove. Comments on
  both say which covers what.
- js/hang/src/container/legacy.ts: upstream's cut() would throw writing
  its marker into a closed track; it now returns first, as the fork's
  #close already does, so cutting after the track closed stays a no-op.

Adapted outside the conflict markers:
- js/hang/src/container/consumer.test.ts: the fork's lone-group test
  starts from an empty first group, the case only the fork's walk covers;
  its old setup now resumes on upstream's rule at the first live frame.
- js/publish/src/audio/encoder.test.ts: the fake track has `closed`, a
  demand gap now expects its endpoint on both the fake and the real
  broadcast path, and a new test pins one marker for a pause and the
  demand gap after it.
- js/publish/src/source/retry.ts: Retry.refused retries a busy device
  (NotReadableError, AbortError) as the fork did and makes any other
  refusal terminal as upstream does; the fork's still-being-released
  camera test fails if every refusal is terminal.
- js/watch/src/audio/terminal.test.ts, js/watch/src/sync.replay.test.ts:
  the fork's Terminal.update calls carry `group`.
- doc/bin/cli.md: the retired rendition plays out all it buffered before
  the replacement starts; only the device cushion overlaps its fill.
- js/publish/README.md: busy devices are retried.
- test/audio-quality/clients/js/driver.ts, safari.ts: import the harness
  from test/interop.
- test/interop/clients/js/harness.ts, .github/workflows/nightly.yml,
  js/hang/src/container/stall.test.ts, js/watch/src/audio/decoder.test.ts:
  smoke naming follows the rename.

bun.lock was taken from upstream and must be regenerated with bun install.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
fperex added a commit to fperex/moq that referenced this pull request Sep 24, 2026
…it spans the budget"

This reverts commit c1f899e.

Upstream's moq-dev#3973 (db73903) fixes the same frozen picture on a lite-06
rejoin: next() plays the head once it reaches past where presentation
left off by more than the budget. Keeping both meant two mechanisms for
one case and a divergence from upstream in #checkMaxAge, so ours goes
and upstream's stays as it landed.

Conflicts, both against the upstream sync (12f9514):
- consumer.ts: the walk onto a lone head before the loop goes, along
  with the sentences the sync added to it. The loop's condition and its
  two comments are what they were before c1f899e.
- consumer.test.ts: upstream's two moq-dev#3973 tests stay exactly as upstream
  wrote them, and the fork's lone-group test, which the sync had
  rebuilt around an empty first group, goes. It only exercised our rule.

Also outside the conflict markers: the sync reworded upstream's comment
in next() to point at our walk. It is upstream's sentence again, so
consumer.ts differs from c1f899e's parent only by moq-dev#3973 and by
b92e6e1's covered-group debug log.

What upstream's rule does not cover, and ours did: a cursor below a
lone head with nothing presented yet (the first group closed empty and
the next never came). That now waits for a second group, as upstream
does.

just test media passes three times out of three on this tree, the
rejoin window in step each time: 38.2, 38.5 and 38.5 fps presented,
skew median 0 ms and p95 200 ms. The lane no longer discriminates this
case, though. With moq-dev#3973's promotion disabled too it still passed three
of three, and consumer logging over three more runs never saw the
rejoin leave the cursor on a missing group. The shape showed up once,
on the resume after a pause: a lone video head still downloading, 464
ms past where presentation left off against a 20 ms budget, which
moq-dev#3973 promoted at its first frame. Upstream's two moq-dev#3973 unit tests are
what hold the rule. js/hang's container tests pass, 169 of 169.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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