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Problem

moq export ts can lose one track while everything else keeps going. In #3533 video and primary audio stalled at the exporter while PSI and the other PIDs kept flowing and the relay kept sending. No TS-level check sees that; only a per-PID liveness detector on a subscriber caught it (T27). The importer reports per-PID liveness since #4502; the exporter reported nothing.

Approach

Follows quest/m2/ts-export-liveness.md.

  • Export::stats returns ts::Stats, one row per elementary stream written: units counts the PES (or section) written per frame, quiet is the time since the last one on the PCR the exporter writes. Same meter as the importer (Liveness), fed the output PCR, reset on a flagged discontinuity. Units count when a span leaves the mux buffer, so a rewind doesn't count what it drops. Rows are named by the suffix an import of the output would give the PID. Frame-sync fields stay zero.
  • moq export ts samples it once a second through ts::stats::Log, like moq import ts. No threshold in-tree.
  • Fixes the "TR 101 290 flags a gap over 40 ms" comment (V1.4.1 says 100 ms), the matching 40 ms defaults in compliance.py / pcr-timing.py, and the stale "VBR, no null packets, PCR per frame" sentence in test/ts.

Local run, primary audio PID dropped mid-run:

tsp -I file CNNiEMEA2.ts -P regulate --pcr-synchronous --wait-min 5 \
    -P filter --negate --pid 121 --after-packets 132000 | moq --connect $URL --broadcast stall.hang import ts
moq --connect $URL --broadcast stall.hang export ts > out.ts
INFO moq_mux::container::ts::stats: elementary stream stopped delivering access units pid=121 track=".mp2" units=729 quiet=Some(850ms)

In out.ts, PID 121 goes to zero after ~19 s while PAT, video, AC-3 and teletext carry on.

Impact

  • New Export::stats() -> ts::Stats (additive).
  • moq export ts logs a line when an elementary stream stops.
  • test/ts: --pcr-repetition-ms and --repetition-ms default to 100 instead of 40. pcr-value-interval is a hard check, so the default gate is looser; the exporter's grid is 25 ms either way.

Alternatives

  • Count at mux time: simpler, but counts spans a rewind throws away.
  • Name rows by MoQ track: track is &'static str on main; the owned String comes with the dev rename (quest/m1/ts-stats-module.md).
  • Keep 40 ms as a tighter house limit and only fix the attribution.

Follow-ups

  • SCTE-35 PIDs are sparse and flap in ts::stats::Log at its 1 s interval, somewhat more at egress than ingest (21 lines against 16 in the same run). No window in-tree by design, so this is for a consumer or a separate /quest-plan.

Export::stats returns ts::Stats with the import's per-PID row for every
elementary stream written: units, and quiet on the output's own PCR. The
other fields stay zero at egress. `moq export ts` logs a row that stops
advancing, as `moq import ts` does. Quest: quest/m2/ts-export-liveness.md.

Also corrects the PCR repetition limit to TR 101 290 V1.4.1's 100 ms in
the exporter comment and the test/ts grader defaults, and describes the
exporter's current padding in test/ts.

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One P2 finding inline: queued output can be counted and then discarded on an error/resume.

Direction: Reusing the ingest schema and PCR-based meter is a focused approach; the additive Export::stats() API needs no wire change. Keep the span buffering, but tie accounting to returned output (or roll back discarded queued slices); counting during mux would have the same problem. The shared logger avoids unnecessary new policy.

Verification: Read all nine changed files and relevant source, buffering, discontinuity, resume and logging paths. Both new liveness tests pass in the CI Test job; Check, Platform, Android and Interop report success. No local Rust/Nix toolchain was available; the error/resume case below was traced, not executed.

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Comment thread rs/moq-mux/src/container/ts/export.rs Outdated
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for (pid, units) in std::mem::take(&mut self.span_units) {
self.liveness.delivered(pid, units);
}

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[P2] Commit liveness at the returned-output boundary

emit() only queues these bytes. poll_next() then calls mux() and fill() (lines 891–895) before returning a queued frame, so either can fail after this count advances. For example, a valid AAC frame followed by an 8,185-byte AAC frame causes advance() to queue/count the valid unit, then ADTS framing rejects the next frame and poll_next() returns Err without returning the valid unit. resume() calls rewind(), which clears that queue but leaves liveness intact. Thus units permanently includes unwritten output, and the PCR meter at line 1998 can include discarded clock packets too. Apply the unit/PCR updates when the corresponding output is returned, or roll back discarded queued slices. Please cover the error/resume path with a regression comparing stats against returned PES units.

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Fixed in 3c80593. Each queued frame now carries its own tally of PCRs and unit starts, applied in pop() when the frame is returned, so a rewind() that clears the queue drops those counts too. export_stats_skip_output_a_failure_discards covers your AAC case (a valid frame, then one ADTS can't frame, then resume) and checks the stats against the returned PES units after the error and after the resume. It read 10 against 9 before the fix.

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Walkthrough

TS export now reports per-stream delivered-unit counts and PCR-based quiet durations. The CLI samples these statistics at the configured log interval. New tests check healthy streams, failed output, and streams that stop receiving media. TS test defaults and documentation now use a 100 ms PCR repetition threshold and describe multiplex-rate padding and PCR timing.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 4ef76

This change adds per-stream liveness statistics to the TS exporter and samples them in the CLI. Earlier correctness concerns have been addressed, and I found no remaining merge-blocking risk. The 100 ms PCR gate is looser than the previous 40 ms, which is a minor, intended tradeoff.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4ef76

The new reporting path is read-only and does not make diagnostics control delivery or access. No introduced security issue was established, but incomplete baseline and production-exposure information limit confidence.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated new mutable state is owned by each exporter instance and describes its elementary-stream PIDs. The traced downstream exposure is export-session diagnostic logging; deployment-wide or tenant-wide exposure is not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • inferred — Media-derived activity influences counters, but the new public interface exposes a read-only diagnostic snapshot. The traced caller reaches structured logging rather than a new authority-bearing operation, and static suffixes prevent raw catalog names from entering this added logging path.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Attaching accounting to returned frames and clearing uncommitted tallies on rewind prevents discarded spans from falsely advancing diagnostic liveness during recovery. This supports trustworthy failure observation without making liveness an enforcement control.
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- Line 1998: Update the exporter’s `self.liveness.pcr` call to use a
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The exporter backfills at most a second of PCRs across a media gap, then
steps its clock forward unflagged. Liveness dropped that step as a corrupt
PCR, so a stopped track's quiet undercounted by the rest of the gap. The
exporter's own PCRs now count every forward step; the importer's filter is
unchanged.

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Reviewed commit: 3f136b1

No new findings in the follow-up. The private written_pcr path (rs/moq-mux/src/container/ts/import.rs:1554-1568) counts long output-clock gaps while preserving the importer's corrupt-PCR filter. The five-second-gap regression covers the reported undercount.

The earlier P2 remains: export.rs:1881-1883 and 1998 update liveness before queued output is returned; an error at 891-895 followed by resume() can discard that queue at 1350 without undoing those updates. Commit accounting at the returned-output boundary and cover error/resume. This is the existing finding, so no duplicate inline comment.

Direction: A focused, low-complexity clock fix that keeps the shared meter and adds no public API or wire change beyond the original additive stats API. The queued-output accounting still needs attention.

Verification: Reviewed the three-file follow-up and related clock, discontinuity, buffering and recovery paths. CI Test logs confirm all three export-liveness tests and the importer wrap/discontinuity tests pass. Check, Platform, Android and Interop report success. No local Rust/Nix toolchain was available; the error/resume path was traced, not executed.

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emit() credited a span's units and PCRs as it queued them, so an error
in poll_next before they were returned, followed by resume() dropping
the queue, left the stats counting output that never went out. Each
queued frame now carries its own tally, applied when it is returned.

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Reviewed commit: 3c80593

No new findings. This addresses the earlier P2: rs/moq-mux/src/container/ts/export.rs:940-953 commits PCR/discontinuity and unit tallies only when returning a frame; 1376-1380 drops unreturned tallies on rewind. Unit-start offsets are assigned to the matching output slice at 1988-1995. The regression at export_test.rs:5478-5535 covers invalid AAC followed by resume and compares stats with returned PES starts.

Direction: Focused correction at the output boundary, with private bookkeeping rather than rollback complexity. No additional public API or wire change; the prior long-PCR-gap fix remains intact.

Verification: Reviewed the two-file delta and related mux, slice, clock, drain and resume paths. No local Rust/Nix toolchain was available, so the regression was inspected, not executed here. At review time Android passed; Check/Test, Platform and Interop were still queued.

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Review: feat(mux): report each TS elementary stream's access units at export

Head: 3c80593f844780dbb3b50fe67a5d669ed2c5ad28
Mergeability: MERGEABLE (mergeStateStatus BLOCKED — Check/Test/Interop/macOS still queued; Android green)
Scope: Export::stats / shared Liveness, CLI sampling, PCR-repetition default 40→100 ms, export_test coverage for discard-on-failure and per-track stall.

Findings

No blocking code defects found. The design matches the quest: count only returned frames (Tally applied in pop), measure quiet on the exporter’s own PCR (written_pcr so a long media gap is not truncated to the backfill), and share the import Stats schema.

  1. Non-blocking — row names collide for like codecs (rs/moq-mux/src/container/ts/export.rs, Kind::suffix)
    Two AAC (or two .avc3) tracks both report track: ".aac". Rows are still keyed by PID, so the meter is correct, but ts::stats::Log lines are ambiguous when more than one like stream stalls. The PR body already points at the owned-String rename quest; fine to land as-is.

  2. Non-blocking — CLI sample is frame-gated (rs/moq-cli/src/subscribe.rs)
    log.sample runs only after a delivered frame. That covers the moq export ts: a continuous timeline whose content restarts permanently stalls video and primary audio since #3375 #3533 shape (one PID dies, others keep flowing). A total export stall (zero frames) will not emit a new sample until something moves again — acceptable for this quest, worth knowing if someone expects a heartbeat on a dead exporter.

  3. Note — test/ts hard PCR gate loosened (pcr-timing.py / compliance.py defaults 40→100 ms)
    Correct per TR 101 290 V1.4.1, and the exporter’s 25 ms grid still clears it. Just be aware the hard pcr-value-interval check will no longer catch a regression that lands between 40 and 100 ms.

Cross-PR

Stacks with #4579 (byte schedule) and lightly with #4584 (both touch import::Liveness / Stats). #4579 rewrites the same emit/push path this PR hangs Tally on — merge one, then rebase the other; do not land both without a conflict pass.

Verdict

MERGE at 3c80593f844780dbb3b50fe67a5d669ed2c5ad28 — additive observability with solid unit tests; wait for required CI to finish before merging.

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Merge summary:

  • Review findings addressed by the author: the PCR jump across a long media gap (3f136b1) and counting only returned output across an error/resume (3c80593). The follow-up automated reviews report no new findings.
  • Merged main in and finished the quest: deleted quest/m2/ts-export-liveness.md and its references in quest/m2/README.md, quest/m2/ts-health-stats.md, and quest/m1/ts-stats-module.md (which now notes Export::stats also needs the rename).
  • Locally: cargo test -p moq-mux --lib ts:: (688 passed) and clippy on moq-mux/moq-cli pass on the merged tree.

Left as non-blocking follow-ups: like-codec rows share a track suffix until the owned-name rename lands, the CLI sample only runs after a delivered frame, and the SCTE-35 flapping noted in the description.

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The T-STD questline (#4640) landed on main, so this branch now targets main.

- Harness files merged against the questline head the branch started from.
- Quests: delay.md and byte-schedule.md are done and deleted here; references
  repointed, and the T-STD README records t0ms's CNN grading.
- #4577's per-stream export stats ported onto the slot schedule: a unit counts
  once the slot carrying its first packet is returned. Export::stats returns
  ts::stats::Export (rows plus the release clock's dropped, drift and
  out_of_tolerance), with From<stats::Export> for ts::Stats for stats::Log;
  ts::export is private again. moq export ts logs the release counters.
- #4652 skips a stalled group once the next group's start falls the budget
  behind, so the export's sources skip at half the delay: with the whole
  delay the group after a skip arrived at its deadline.
- The jitter buffer waits only for audio, video and PES tracks, not sparse
  sections.
- At end of stream a past-due unit ignores its decoder buffer, so an
  oversized last unit cannot hold the stream open.
- Tests: a timeline restarting at zero fails the export (#4725); main's new
  export tests moved to with_delay.

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