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Problem

FLV and MKV selected the earliest frame already available, so cross-track arrival order determined their output. Their staleness setting did not hold frames until a release deadline.

Approach

Route both exporters through the shared jitter buffer, preserving ingress timing, discontinuity and skip metadata. Drain scheduled frames before EOF. FLV schedules its authored tag DTS; MKV shares the TS decode-clock algorithm for reordered video while preserving block PTS. Keep the decode clock and reorder calculations private and shared.

Each track is read only until it has a frame due (any frame, without a delay), via the jitter buffer's new private full check. A backlog (a stalled sink, a large retained group) stays in the source and goes out as it falls due, instead of being queued whole before the first release. At zero delay this is the previous one-pending-frame-per-track merge. FLV keeps raw frames and their authored timestamp in the buffer and encodes a tag only when it is released, so late or stale frames are never copied.

Impact

  • Breaking builder rename: FLV/MKV with_max_delay becomes with_delay, which controls release timing and source staleness. The library default remains zero.
  • moq export flv and mkv use --delay (500 ms default), refusing old spellings with migration messages. Other stdout formats retain their existing options.
  • RTMP's existing max-delay settings now also pace FLV release: 500 ms by default in the CLI and 2 s in the library. Late video resumes at its next keyframe; zero releases available frames without deadline drops.
  • A zero delay is also a zero staleness budget: it drops no frame as late, but a stalled group is still skipped once a newer one is ready. The docs now say so.
  • No MoQ wire, catalog, or container-field change. TS decode-clock behavior is unchanged by its private extraction.

Alternatives

A separate queue would duplicate the TS release policy. Scheduling MKV directly by PTS misorders B-frames against audio; the new regression demonstrates that failure and verifies preserved output PTS.

For the backlog, also capping how far ahead of now a track may be read was rejected: a track a source sends ahead of the others (TS video often leads audio by most of a second) would be read late, skewing the arrival times the clock measures its leads and drift from. What a real-time source sends ahead is bounded by the delay plus its track's lead, and a source running off the clock's drift tolerance already fails the export.

Decisions

Settled unattended in /quest-iterate, recommended option taken:

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  • TS export drains every ready frame into its jitter buffer the same way; it can adopt jitter::Buffer::full once the open TS PRs land.

Validation: Nix just check passed. a_backlog_stays_in_the_source_until_due (FLV and MKV, zero and 100 ms delay, mock time) fails with 49 frames buffered when full is disabled, and holds at most one with it. a_retained_group_trims_to_the_delay (FLV and MKV, 100 ms) shows a joiner reading a retained group to its live edge and then holding no more than the delay (49 frames if the clock anchors on the first frame instead). Earlier rounds: just test interop --all passed the language matrix, refusal, browser close and finite-tail cases; fixed-delay regressions fail before the change; a negative control disabling MKV decode ordering fails with the wrong PTS order; CLI help was checked.

The nightly benchmark sweeps 1/4/16 tracks by 1/16/64 queued frames for both containers at zero delay, now timing only the export (publishing the broadcast is setup). Reading only until a frame is due, against reading every ready frame first (this PR's previous head), costs up to about 13% at 16x64. Sample size is 10, so single cases are noisy (mkv/4x1 especially).

Case Read all first µs Bounded µs Change
flv/1x1 11.5 10.6 -7.4%
flv/1x16 16.3 20.2 +23.6%
flv/1x64 31.9 34.4 +7.9%
flv/4x1 35.5 35.6 +0.2%
flv/4x16 56.6 59.5 +5.1%
flv/4x64 125.3 138.4 +10.5%
flv/16x1 143.1 143.5 +0.3%
flv/16x16 257.2 285.7 +11.1%
flv/16x64 643.0 722.3 +12.3%
mkv/1x1 12.6 12.7 +0.7%
mkv/1x16 19.6 19.5 -0.3%
mkv/1x64 39.6 40.5 +2.5%
mkv/4x1 42.1 60.7 +44.2%
mkv/4x16 70.7 76.4 +8.1%
mkv/4x64 163.9 186.6 +13.9%
mkv/16x1 175.3 173.7 -0.9%
mkv/16x16 388.7 427.9 +10.1%
mkv/16x64 1055.8 1196.5 +13.3%

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FLV and MKV exports now use configurable delay-based buffering and emit frames in timestamp order. MKV applies decode timing to reordered video. The CLI and exporter APIs use --delay and with_delay for these formats, while legacy CLI flags report migrations. The shared decode clock now serves TS and MKV export. The pull request also adds an FLV/MKV export benchmark and a nightly benchmark smoke step.

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Measure export separately from fixture setup.

Each iteration times track creation, frame publishing, origin setup, and task cleanup as well as FLV or MKV export. For small frame counts, setup can obscure an exporter regression. Prepare the source outside the measured interval, then time the export and drain operation.

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- Around line 304-305: Fix the `--max-delay` explanation in the paragraph
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if track.finished {
break;
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let frame = match track.source.poll_read(waiter)? {

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P2 Badge Stop draining an unbounded backlog before emitting

When a track already has a large retained group ready, or the sink was backpressured, this loop keeps calling poll_read until Pending or EOF and queues every frame before poll_next can release even one. This changes the previous one-pending-frame behavior into O(backlog bytes) memory usage, and FLV additionally copies each payload while encoding, so a large group can spike or exhaust memory even with with_delay(Duration::ZERO). Bound each fill pass or interleave pushes with releases; the same unbounded loop exists in MKV's fill.

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Fixed in a8d9a99. Both fill loops now read a track only until it has a frame due (any queued frame at zero delay), through a shared jitter::Buffer::full check, so a backlog stays in the source and goes out as it falls due. At zero delay this is the old one-pending-frame-per-track merge. FLV now buffers raw frames with their authored timestamp and encodes a tag only on release, so late or stale frames are never copied.

a_backlog_stays_in_the_source_until_due (FLV and MKV, zero and 100 ms delay, mock time) holds at most one frame after each release; with full disabled it holds 49.

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arriving after its deadline is dropped, and video resumes at its next
keyframe. The output's PCR follows the source's clock within what ISO/IEC
13818-1 allows. `--delay 0` writes frames in arrival order and drops nothing.
keyframe. `--delay 0` writes frames in arrival order and drops nothing.

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P2 Badge Qualify the zero-delay no-drop claim

For the newly added FLV and MKV cases, delay is also passed unchanged to each ExportSource as its staleness budget, and the container consumer treats a zero budget as aggressive group skipping. Consequently, if an older group stalls while a newer group is available, --delay 0 can still omit the older group's frames; only jitter-buffer deadline drops are disabled. Either special-case the source budget or document that narrower condition instead of promising that nothing is dropped.

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Agreed; corrected the docs in a8d9a99 rather than special-casing the budget. The delay is also the staleness budget, so zero drops no frame as late but still skips a stalled group once a newer one is ready. Updated in doc/bin/cli.md, the --delay help, and the FLV/MKV with_delay docs.

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The exports drained every ready frame into the jitter buffer before
releasing any, so a backlog (a stalled sink, a large retained group)
was queued whole, and FLV encoded each copy up front. A track is now
read only until it has a frame due (any frame without a delay), so a
backlog stays in the source and goes out as it falls due. FLV encodes
a tag only when it is released.

Correct the zero-delay claims: a zero delay is also a zero staleness
budget, so stalled groups are still skipped. Fix the --max-delay
sentence in the CLI docs, update the unreleased upgrade notes, and
measure only the export in the benchmark.

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pub fn full(&self, key: &K) -> bool {
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.and_then(|track| track.queue.front())
.is_some_and(|(_, _, deadline, _)| self.delay.is_zero() || *deadline <= Instant::now())

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P2 Badge Bound fills before the first nonzero-delay deadline

When delay > 0 and a source already has a retained group ready, every pushed frame initially has a future deadline, so full remains false throughout the synchronous fill loop; frames held in acquire are not inspected here either. Both FLV and MKV can therefore still drain an entire retained group into memory before returning, delaying other tracks and using O(backlog) memory. Fresh evidence beyond the prior backlog finding is this nonzero-delay path, which the new benchmark misses because it constructs exporters with the zero-delay default. Stop after bounded read-ahead and cover a retained source with a nonzero delay.

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Declining, after a maintainer decision. While the clock is acquired there are no deadlines yet, and reading the retained group to its end is what finds the live edge: the clock anchors on the freshest frame. Stopping early would anchor on an old frame and carry the backlog's age as latency for the whole run. What the acquisition holds meanwhile are refcounted frames the source already holds (FLV now encodes only on release, MKV never copied), and once it ends everything older than the delay is dropped, so the buffer trims back to the delay. A new test, a_retained_group_trims_to_the_delay (FLV and MKV, 100 ms), covers that path at a nonzero delay.

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  • Change: FLV and MKV exports release frames through the shared jitter buffer on a fixed delay. MKV video uses the decode clock shared with TS.
  • Breaking: with_max_delay is renamed with_delay, and moq export flv/mkv take --delay. The old spellings are refused with a migration message. RTMP's max_delay now also paces FLV release.
  • Backpressure:
    • A track is read only until it has a frame due, so a backlog stays in the source.
    • FLV encodes a tag only when it is released.
    • A joiner reads its retained group to the live edge to anchor the clock, then trims to the delay.
  • Docs: a zero delay drops no frame as late but still skips stalled groups, and the docs now say so. The --max-delay sentence is fixed, and the upgrade notes are updated.
  • Review findings:
    • Codex backpressure P2: fixed.
    • Codex zero-delay doc P2: fixed.
    • CodeRabbit: both fixed.
    • Codex P2 asking to bound reads before the first nonzero-delay deadline: declined by maintainer decision, with a test covering that path.
  • Coverage: Codex reviewed d8cf29c. The last push, 7730fdb, adds tests only.
  • Follow-up: TS export gets the same read bound in quest(m1): bound TS export reads like FLV and MKV #5398.

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The merge queue dequeued 7730fdb because moq-cli failed to compile against the newly merged #5349: its new Stdout.passthrough field was missing from this PR's FLV/MKV sink. I merged main into this branch and set passthrough: false on that sink; just check passes. Auto-merge is re-enabled, pinned to 18aff57a8f5e4d1f2ec4e6115fae73446022b2fe.

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The shared jitter-buffer direction is reasonable, and the new passthrough: false integration fix looks correct. One issue from the earlier read-only inspection remains:

[P1] Refill MKV sources when a released frame produces no cluster. In rs/moq-mux/src/container/mkv/export.rs:345–347, zero-delay fill stops after queuing one frame. With default fragmentation, poll_next:287–321 consumes that frame into an open cluster, exhausts jitter, and returns Pending without refilling or reading source EOF. A ready finite AAC source can consequently hang after its header. Interleave bounded fill and release until a chunk, EOF, or genuine source/timer Pending, and add a finite zero-delay regression with default fragmentation. The added MKV tests use per-frame clusters and miss this path.

Verification: static GitHub review of the current-base diff and changes since the earlier read-only inspection; tests were not run. The accepted acquisition-buffering tradeoff is not being raised again.

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