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1 change: 0 additions & 1 deletion quest/m1/README.md
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Expand Up @@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ blocks. The quests that gated m0 lines moved under them.
- [A watch and publish release ships assets()](/quest/m1/assets-release.md) - the release that lets the sites host the worklets
- [Dogfood hosted worklets](/quest/m1/dogfood-assets.md) - moq.dev and the moq.pro dashboard host the worklets and call `assets()` after the release
- [More tests under load](/quest/m1/test-flakes-2/README.md) - the second round of load-only failures, one quest per flake, fixed at the cause
- [CI runner stalls](/quest/m1/ci-runner-stalls.md) - the 0.4 to 0.8 s freezes of both interop tracks on CI are attributed from a week of nightlies and fixed or told apart from playback bugs
- [Subscriber max-delay](/quest/m1/subscriber-max-delay.md) - subscriber staleness becomes `max_delay`; publisher retention stays `max_age`
- [Wire compatibility](/quest/m1/wire-compat.md) - a nightly run tests this checkout against the last published release for tokens, session wire, and catalog/container
- [Same-epoch importers](/quest/m1/hop-aligned-import.md) - importers sharing one `--epoch` and fed one stream publish identical groups and timestamps, so failover between a redundant pair survives
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Expand Up @@ -146,6 +146,14 @@ median, and audio/video skew must stay within one 200ms tone step for 90% of
samples. One step is the floor set by the analyser window straddling a step
boundary and the canvas holding a frame up to one frame old.

A freeze of both tracks is not one failure. When the player's sample clock
jumps by 400ms or more and both the presented frame and the received audio sit
still across that jump, or the publisher's own frame clock sits still with
them, the window names a runner stall and leaves it out of the playback rate
and tone. The picture and the tone staying still while the publisher clock
keeps moving still fails as playback: that is the relay or the player, and the
trace's `pub=` column is what separates them.
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document the unreadable publisher-clock fallback.

The contract classifies a joint freeze as a playback-path stall when the publisher reading is unavailable. The current text describes only the moving-clock case, so state that an unreadable publisher clock does not excuse the freeze.

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Review comment at @test/interop/README.md around lines 154 - 155:
Update the playback-stall guidance around the trace’s `pub=` column to state
that a joint freeze is classified as a playback-path stall when the publisher
reading is unreadable; retain the existing explanation for a moving publisher
clock.

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The run ends with negative controls. Each injects a defect in the fixture and
names the assertion that has to catch it, and passes only by failing there:

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88 changes: 66 additions & 22 deletions test/interop/clients/js/media.ts
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Expand Up @@ -46,9 +46,13 @@ import {
} from "./harness";
import {
type CaptureState,
countedElapsed,
FAULTS,
gradedSamples,
jointStalls,
lateJoinStartsLive,
leakedPlayerStarted,
rateElapsed,
SAMPLE_MS,
SAMPLE_RATE,
} from "./src/contract";
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -121,14 +125,29 @@ const percentile = (values: number[], p: number) => {
return sorted[Math.min(sorted.length - 1, Math.floor(sorted.length * p))];
};

/** Collect distinct samples from the player for `ms`, so a window can be measured after the fact. */
async function collect(page: Page, errors: BrowserErrors, ms: number): Promise<PlayerState[]> {
const samples: PlayerState[] = [];
/** A player sample, plus the publisher frame read beside it when the fixture page was sampled. */
type Reading = PlayerState & { publisherFrame?: number };

/**
* Collect distinct samples from the player for `ms`, so a window can be measured after the fact.
*
* `publisher`, when passed, is read on each new player sample. That frame clock is what separates
* a runner stall from playback that froze while the source kept painting.
*/
async function collect(page: Page, errors: BrowserErrors, ms: number, publisher?: Page): Promise<Reading[]> {
const samples: Reading[] = [];
const deadline = Date.now() + ms;
while (Date.now() < deadline) {
throwPageErrors(errors);
const sample = await readPlayerState(page).catch(() => undefined);
if (sample && sample.seq !== samples[samples.length - 1]?.seq) samples.push(sample);
if (sample && sample.seq !== samples[samples.length - 1]?.seq) {
const publisherFrame = publisher
? await readFixtureState(publisher)
.then((state) => state.frameId)
.catch(() => undefined)
: undefined;
samples.push(publisherFrame === undefined ? sample : { ...sample, publisherFrame });
}
await sleep(SAMPLE_MS / 2);
}
throwPageErrors(errors);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -169,13 +188,14 @@ async function waitFrozen(page: Page, errors: BrowserErrors, assertion: string,
// One sample as a line: elapsed time, the frame on the canvas, the tone step heard against the one
// that frame belongs to, how far the tone stood above the noise floor, and whether audio was
// arriving at all, which separates a silent player from a publisher that stopped sending.
function traceLine(sample: PlayerState, start: number): string {
function traceLine(sample: Reading, start: number): string {
const step = sample.frameId === undefined ? "?" : Pattern.expectedStep(sample.frameId);
const margin = sample.toneDb !== undefined && sample.noiseDb !== undefined ? sample.toneDb - sample.noiseDb : 0;
const pub = sample.publisherFrame === undefined ? "" : ` pub=${sample.publisherFrame}`;
return (
` +${((sample.at - start) / 1000).toFixed(2)}s frame=${sample.frameId ?? "-"} ` +
`step=${sample.toneStep ?? "-"}/${step} tone=${margin.toFixed(0)}dB ${sample.toneHz?.toFixed(0) ?? "-"}Hz ` +
`paused=${sample.paused} delay=${sample.delay}ms audio=${sample.audioBytes}B${sample.audioStalled ? " stalled" : ""}`
`paused=${sample.paused} delay=${sample.delay}ms audio=${sample.audioBytes}B${sample.audioStalled ? " stalled" : ""}${pub}`
);
}

Expand All @@ -186,7 +206,7 @@ function traceLine(sample: PlayerState, start: number): string {
* the tone off the graph root that feeds the speakers. A failure prints every reading in the window,
* so the summary can be traced back to the readings behind it.
*/
function assertMedia(samples: PlayerState[], label: string): void {
function assertMedia(samples: Reading[], label: string): void {
try {
measure(samples, label);
} catch (err) {
Expand All @@ -197,7 +217,7 @@ function assertMedia(samples: PlayerState[], label: string): void {
}
}

function measure(samples: PlayerState[], label: string): void {
function measure(samples: Reading[], label: string): void {
check(samples.length >= 10, "sampling", () => `${label}: only ${samples.length} samples in the window`);

const readable = samples.filter((s) => s.frameId !== undefined);
Expand All @@ -207,17 +227,37 @@ function measure(samples: PlayerState[], label: string): void {
() => `${label}: ${readable.length}/${samples.length} presented frames carried a readable fixture pattern`,
);

const stalls = jointStalls(samples);
const runnerMs = stalls
.filter((stall) => stall.kind === "runner")
.reduce((sum, stall) => sum + (stall.to - stall.from), 0);
const pathMs = stalls
.filter((stall) => stall.kind === "path")
.reduce((sum, stall) => sum + (stall.to - stall.from), 0);
// The summary line is what a passing nightly keeps. The trace itself is only printed on failure.
const runnerNote = runnerMs > 0 ? `, runner stall ${(runnerMs / 1000).toFixed(2)}s` : "";
const excused = runnerMs > 0 ? `; runner stall ${(runnerMs / 1000).toFixed(2)}s` : "";

check(
pathMs === 0,
"video progress",
() =>
`${label}: both tracks sat still for ${(pathMs / 1000).toFixed(2)}s while the publisher clock moved${excused}`,
);

const first = readable[0];
const last = readable[readable.length - 1];
const elapsed = (last.at - first.at) / 1000;
// A runner stall is the machine, not the picture. A window that is mostly stalled keeps the raw clock and fails.
const elapsedMs = rateElapsed(last.at - first.at, countedElapsed(first.at, last.at, stalls));
const elapsed = elapsedMs / 1000;
const advance = (last.frameId ?? 0) - (first.frameId ?? 0);
const rate = advance / elapsed;
const want = Pattern.FPS * MIN_RATE;
check(
rate >= want,
"video progress",
() =>
`${label}: presented ${advance} frames in ${elapsed.toFixed(1)}s, ${rate.toFixed(1)}fps against a ${want.toFixed(1)}fps floor`,
`${label}: presented ${advance} frames in ${elapsed.toFixed(1)}s, ${rate.toFixed(1)}fps against a ${want.toFixed(1)}fps floor${excused}`,
);

const back = readable.findIndex((s, i) => i > 0 && (s.frameId ?? 0) < (readable[i - 1].frameId ?? 0));
Expand All @@ -228,14 +268,16 @@ function measure(samples: PlayerState[], label: string): void {
`${label}: presented frame went backwards, ${readable[back - 1]?.frameId} then ${readable[back]?.frameId}`,
);

const toned = samples.filter((s) => s.toneStep !== undefined);
const graded = gradedSamples(samples, stalls);
const toned = graded.filter((s) => s.toneStep !== undefined);
check(
toned.length >= samples.length * AGREEMENT,
toned.length >= graded.length * AGREEMENT,
"audio tone",
() => `${label}: ${toned.length}/${samples.length} samples carried the fixture tone above the noise floor`,
() =>
`${label}: ${toned.length}/${graded.length} samples carried the fixture tone above the noise floor${excused}`,
);

const skews = samples
const skews = graded
.filter((s) => s.frameId !== undefined && s.toneStep !== undefined)
.map((s) => Pattern.stepSkew(s.toneStep as number, Pattern.expectedStep(s.frameId as number)));
check(skews.length > 0, "audio/video sync", () => `${label}: no sample carried both a frame and a tone`);
Expand All @@ -259,7 +301,7 @@ function measure(samples: PlayerState[], label: string): void {
);
console.error(
` ${label}: ${rate.toFixed(1)}fps presented over ${advance} frames, tone ${margin.toFixed(0)}dB above the floor, ` +
`skew median ${median.toFixed(0)}ms p95 ${p95.toFixed(0)}ms (browser output, not a speaker)`,
`skew median ${median.toFixed(0)}ms p95 ${p95.toFixed(0)}ms${runnerNote} (browser output, not a speaker)`,
);
}

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -519,7 +561,7 @@ try {
predicate: (state) => state.audioContext === "running",
});

assertMedia(await collect(player, playerErrors, WINDOW_MS), "cold start");
assertMedia(await collect(player, playerErrors, WINDOW_MS, publisher), "cold start");

// ── pause and resume ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
if (wants("pause")) {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -562,7 +604,7 @@ try {
predicate: (state) => !state.paused && (state.frameId ?? 0) > paused,
});
console.error(` resumed ${(resumed.frameId ?? 0) - paused} frames past the pause`);
assertMedia(await collect(player, playerErrors, WINDOW_MS), "after resume");
assertMedia(await collect(player, playerErrors, WINDOW_MS, publisher), "after resume");
}

// ── unsubscribe and rejoin ───────────────────────────────────────────────
Expand All @@ -583,7 +625,7 @@ try {
description: `the presented frame to move past the ${left} it stopped on`,
predicate: (state) => (state.frameId ?? 0) > left,
});
assertMedia(await collect(player, playerErrors, WINDOW_MS), "after rejoin");
assertMedia(await collect(player, playerErrors, WINDOW_MS, publisher), "after rejoin");
}

// ── detach and reattach ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -624,7 +666,7 @@ try {
description: `the presented frame to move past the ${busy.frameId} showing before the detach`,
predicate: (state) => (state.frameId ?? 0) > (busy.frameId ?? 0),
});
assertMedia(await collect(player, playerErrors, WINDOW_MS), "after reattach");
assertMedia(await collect(player, playerErrors, WINDOW_MS, publisher), "after reattach");
}

// ── publisher stop and same-path republish ───────────────────────────────
Expand All @@ -649,7 +691,7 @@ try {
predicate: (state) => state.frameId !== undefined && state.frameId < (before.frameId ?? 0),
});
console.error(` recovered at frame ${recovered.frameId}, restarted from ${before.frameId}`);
assertMedia(await collect(player, playerErrors, WINDOW_MS), "after republish");
assertMedia(await collect(player, playerErrors, WINDOW_MS, publisher), "after republish");
}

// ── late join ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Expand All @@ -676,8 +718,10 @@ try {
() =>
`joined at frame ${joined.frameId}, timestamp ${joined.videoTimestamp}ms before the current GOP's ${live.timestamp}ms keyframe`,
);
console.error(` joined at frame ${joined.frameId}, timestamp ${joined.videoTimestamp}ms, current GOP began at ${live.timestamp}ms`);
assertMedia(await collect(player, playerErrors, WINDOW_MS), "late join");
console.error(
` joined at frame ${joined.frameId}, timestamp ${joined.videoTimestamp}ms, current GOP began at ${live.timestamp}ms`,
);
assertMedia(await collect(player, playerErrors, WINDOW_MS, publisher), "late join");
}

if (wants("capture-denial")) await captureDenial(`${broadcast}-capture.hang`);
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import { expect, test } from "bun:test";
import * as Moq from "@moq/net";
import { lateJoinStartsLive, leakedPlayerStarted, readLiveGop, type Resources } from "./contract";
import {
countedElapsed,
gradedSamples,
type JointSample,
jointStalls,
lateJoinStartsLive,
leakedPlayerStarted,
type Resources,
rateElapsed,
readLiveGop,
} from "./contract";

const flat = (at: number, frameId: number | undefined, audioBytes: number, publisherFrame?: number): JointSample => ({
at,
frameId,
audioBytes,
publisherFrame,
});

const playing: Resources = { transports: 1, sockets: 0, audioContexts: 1, workers: 0 };

Expand All @@ -19,7 +36,6 @@ test("unchanged counts are not a leak start", () => {
expect(leakedPlayerStarted(playing, playing)).toBe(false);
});


test("late join uses the published GOP when painting is ahead of capture", async () => {
const broadcast = new Moq.Broadcast.Producer();
const track = broadcast.createTrack("video");
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -52,3 +68,75 @@ test("late join uses the published GOP when painting is ahead of capture", async
broadcast.close();
}
});

test("a joint freeze is a runner stall when the publisher clock sits still", () => {
const samples = Array.from({ length: 13 }, (_, i) => flat(i * 50, 10, 1000, 40));
expect(jointStalls(samples)).toEqual([{ kind: "runner", from: 0, to: 600 }]);
});

test("a joint freeze is the path when the publisher clock keeps moving", () => {
const samples = Array.from({ length: 13 }, (_, i) => flat(i * 50, 10, 1000, 40 + i * 2));
expect(jointStalls(samples)).toEqual([{ kind: "path", from: 0, to: 600 }]);
});

test("one frame of publisher motion is the read gap, not a moving clock", () => {
const samples = Array.from({ length: 13 }, (_, i) => flat(i * 50, 10, 1000, i === 0 ? 40 : 41));
expect(jointStalls(samples)).toEqual([{ kind: "runner", from: 0, to: 600 }]);
});

test("a sample-clock hole with both tracks still is a runner stall without a publisher reading", () => {
expect(jointStalls([flat(0, 10, 1000), flat(600, 10, 1000)])).toEqual([{ kind: "runner", from: 0, to: 600 }]);
});

test("a sample-clock hole names the runner even when the publisher frame jumped across it", () => {
expect(jointStalls([flat(0, 10, 1000, 10), flat(700, 10, 1000, 40)])).toEqual([
{ kind: "runner", from: 0, to: 700 },
]);
});

test("an unread publisher clock does not excuse a steady joint freeze", () => {
const samples = Array.from({ length: 13 }, (_, i) => flat(i * 50, 10, 1000));
expect(jointStalls(samples)).toEqual([{ kind: "path", from: 0, to: 600 }]);
});

test("a publisher frame that restarts is the path, not a stopped clock", () => {
const samples = Array.from({ length: 13 }, (_, i) => flat(i * 50, 10, 1000, i === 0 ? 100 : 0));
expect(jointStalls(samples)).toEqual([{ kind: "path", from: 0, to: 600 }]);
});

test("frozen video is not a joint stall while audio is still arriving", () => {
const samples = Array.from({ length: 13 }, (_, i) => flat(i * 50, 0, 1000 + i * 100, 0));
expect(jointStalls(samples)).toEqual([]);
});

test("advancing frames are not a joint stall while audio sits still", () => {
const samples = Array.from({ length: 13 }, (_, i) => flat(i * 50, i, 1000, i));
expect(jointStalls(samples)).toEqual([]);
});

test("a sampling gap during playback is not a joint stall when the frame and the audio both moved", () => {
expect(jointStalls([flat(0, 10, 100, 10), flat(800, 34, 5000, 34)])).toEqual([]);
});

test("a flat stretch under 400ms is not a stall", () => {
expect(jointStalls([flat(0, 1, 1, 1), flat(100, 1, 1, 1)])).toEqual([]);
expect(jointStalls([flat(0, 1, 1, 1), flat(350, 1, 1, 1)])).toEqual([]);
});

test("runner stalls come out of the elapsed time and the tone pool", () => {
const samples = [flat(0, 1, 1, 1), flat(800, 1, 1, 1), flat(850, 2, 200, 20), flat(4000, 90, 9000, 120)];
const stalls = jointStalls(samples);
expect(stalls).toEqual([{ kind: "runner", from: 0, to: 800 }]);
expect(countedElapsed(0, 4000, stalls)).toBe(3200);
expect(rateElapsed(4000, 3200)).toBe(3200);
expect(rateElapsed(4000, 500)).toBe(4000);

const tone = Array.from({ length: 20 }, (_, i) => ({ at: i * 50 }));
const interior = gradedSamples(tone, [{ kind: "runner", from: 100, to: 400 }]);
expect(interior.map((sample) => sample.at)).toEqual([
0, 50, 100, 400, 450, 500, 550, 600, 650, 700, 750, 800, 850, 900, 950,
]);

const eaten = Array.from({ length: 12 }, (_, i) => ({ at: i * 50 }));
expect(gradedSamples(eaten, [{ kind: "runner", from: 0, to: 550 }])).toBe(eaten);
});
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