test(audio-quality): measure the browser budgets on the nightly runner by kixelated · Pull Request #5442 · moq-dev/moq

kixelated · 2026-10-13T19:16:47Z

Problem

The nightly Audio quality job has failed every night since #4395 added it. Its browser ceilings were recorded on a workstation (#4426), but the job runs on ubuntu-24.04-arm, so a red job says nothing about regressions.

Approach

Measured from the audio-quality-run artifacts of the seven scheduled Nightly runs on main, 2026-10-07 to 2026-10-13 (37633358782, 37790146216, 37940662573, 38054566400, 38143901976, 38276133321, 38415278161). No nightly was dispatched from a branch.

Rule, per browser row and key: worst of the seven nights x 1.25, plus one runner hiccup, rounded up to two significant figures. The hiccup allowance comes from the single gaps the 2026-10-08 night put on otherwise clean rows, the fixed-250 control among them: 250 underruns/min, 700 gap ms/min, 3.3 skips/min, 280 discarded ms/min, 0.01 stalled, 0.015 silence, and one 20 ms target bucket. budgets.json's note records this method.

Every one of the seven runs passes grade.ts --enforce against the new file.
Leave-one-out check (budget from six nights, grade the seventh): six of seven pass. The exception is 2026-10-08, whose ~2 s stall on opus mild isolated (PROBE RTT spiked to 227 ms on loopback) is bigger than one hiccup. That row's own ceilings include it, so a repeat on that row passes, but the same stall on another row would fail a night.
Replay rows are unchanged; they are deterministic and PRs already enforce them.
Nightly now uploads the run directory on every run (MOQ_TEST_KEEP=1, if: !cancelled()), not just on failure. Once the job is green, a failure-only upload would leave nothing to re-measure from. About 1.3 MB a night, kept 7 days.
Removes quest/m0/audio-quality-budgets.md and its references.

Loosened ceilings (106 loosened, 55 tightened)

Each loosened ceiling is what the runner measures today:

AAC bursty: stalled/silence 0.01 to about 0.5, skips around 30/min, discarded about 4 s/min. The player re-stalls for 19 to 43% of the window every night (suspected defect, below).
AAC wide: stalled 0.12 to 0.17. On the runner it stalls 6 to 12% of the window.
Opus near-zero isolated: target_ms_p95 63 to 1100. On the runner it ranges 100 to 800 ms with ~1 s gaps, while the plain ring on the same profile holds at 60 ms (suspected defect).
Opus mild isolated: includes the 2026-10-08 stall (target 360, 1010 underruns/min).
target_ms_p95 elsewhere: AAC rows sit at exactly 209.2 ms every night, so their ceilings are now 290. Opus rows run 60 to 240 ms, against 63 to 154 before.
fixed-250 controls: counters go from 5/min to the hiccup allowance. opus fixed-250 plain saw one 418 ms gap on 2026-10-08 with no network signal.
Skips and discarded: at least 3.3/min and 280 ms/min everywhere. These come in 1.1/min steps (one event per 55 s window), so a floor of 1 failed on single events.

Underrun ceilings mostly tightened: the current player underruns far less than the workstation-era one.

Not measured: player commits after the 2026-10-13 nightly's head (b581c27), e.g. #5288 and #5367. The next nightly confirms or breaks this.

Impact

Public API: none.
Wire: none.
CI: the nightly Audio quality job uploads audio-quality-run on every run.

Alternatives

2x the worst night with floors (the old rule): AAC bursty stalled would be 0.87, which checks almost nothing.
1.5x the worst night with the old floors: leave-one-out failed six of seven nights. Per-row tails are heavy and seven samples don't capture them.
Excluding the 2026-10-08 night as a disturbed runner: tighter opus mild isolated ceilings, but every night with a similar stall would go red.

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The nightly Audio quality job has failed every night since it landed: its browser ceilings were recorded on a workstation. Re-derive them from the seven scheduled nightly runs of 2026-10-07..13: the worst night times 1.25 plus one runner hiccup, rounded up to two significant figures. Every one of those runs passes under --enforce. Nightly now keeps passing runs too, so the next re-measurement has data. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

kixelated · 2026-10-13T19:16:57Z

Outcome of the quest run. All seven downloaded nightlies pass the new budgets under --enforce. Local just check passes. The PR stays a draft until the maintainer decides the points below.

Open decisions

Headroom rule. Recommended: keep "worst x 1.25 + one hiccup". Alternatives: drop the 2026-10-08 night as a disturbed runner, which tightens opus mild isolated but risks red nights; or 2x worst, which is too loose on the AAC bursty rows.
Keeping every nightly run as an artifact (MOQ_TEST_KEEP=1). Recommended: keep it, because re-measuring needs passing runs. The alternative, failure-only uploads, leaves nothing to measure once the job is green.

Suspected defects (budgeted as measured, not hidden):

AAC bursty, both rings: stalled 19 to 43% of the window, ~17 skip-aheads/min, ~2 s/min discarded, every night.
Opus near-zero, isolated ring only: target_ms_p95 100 to 800 ms with ~1 s underrun episodes, while the plain ring holds at 60 ms.
AAC wide: stalled 6 to 12% of the window.
2026-10-08: single 0.4 to 2 s delivery gaps on four rows, including the fixed-250 control. PROBE RTT reached 227 ms on loopback, so this looks like a runner or process stall, not the player.

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kixelated · 2026-10-13T19:26:00Z

Decisions (maintainer, 2026-10-13, via /quest-merge)

Headroom rule: keep "worst of seven nights x 1.25, plus one runner hiccup".
Artifacts: keep uploading audio-quality-run on every nightly run (MOQ_TEST_KEEP=1), so there is always something to re-measure from.
Loose ceilings: accepted for now. The AAC bursty, AAC wide, and Opus near-zero isolated rows are budgeted as measured; the Watch quest (quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/watch.md) tightens them as playout improves.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

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-	"note": "Measured 2026-09-28 on a shared Linux workstation: two full 60 s runs and one 20 s run, seed 7. Each ceiling is twice the worse run, rounded up to two significant figures, with a floor (5 underruns/min, 20 gap ms/min, 1 skip/min, 100 discarded ms/min, 1% stalled, 1% silence) so one runner hiccup does not fail a clean row; target_ms_p95 is the worst measured plus one 20 ms bucket. The fixed-250 control measured zero on every counter. Every auto row records today's shallow target (#3477: 43 ms for Opus, underrunning thousands of quanta a minute), so its ceilings catch a regression past that floor and nothing better; the jitter target work is expected to tighten them. Not yet measured on the nightly runner, which has no audio device; re-record from its first runs. Updated 2026-09-29: mild and wide now use shared order-preserving Gaussian jitter; bursty and step are new. Those 16 rows were re-recorded for 60 s each, seed 7, on the same shared Linux workstation with concurrent bounded builds. Their ceilings use twice the measurement rounded upward to two significant figures and the same floors above; target_ms_p95 adds one 20 ms bucket. Other rows retain their previous measurements. These remain current-player regression ceilings, not target audio quality; re-record on the nightly runner before tightening them. The replay rows are deterministic, so their ceilings are exactly what they measured on 2026-10-01, through the end of each recording, with no headroom: any regression fails them, and an improvement should be tightened in. Updated 2026-10-04: the replay rows now resolve \"auto\" from the measured arrival estimator instead of the round trip, and were re-measured exactly on the audio-jitter-target line; underruns fell to at most 2 a minute, while a run dry now re-stalls and refills to the target, which shows up as stalled and silent share.",
+	"note": "The browser rows are measured on the nightly runner (ubuntu-24.04-arm, headless Chromium, seed 7, 60 s a row): the audio-quality-run artifacts of the seven scheduled Nightly runs on main from 2026-10-07 to 2026-10-13 (37633358782, 37790146216, 37940662573, 38054566400, 38143901976, 38276133321, 38415278161). Each ceiling is the worst of the seven nights times 1.25, plus one runner hiccup, rounded up to two significant figures. The hiccup is sized from the single gaps the 2026-10-08 night put on otherwise clean rows, the fixed-250 control among them: 250 underruns/min, 700 gap ms/min, 3.3 skips/min, 280 discarded ms/min, 0.01 stalled, 0.015 silence, and one 20 ms bucket of target. Budgeted this way, every one of the seven nights passes when it is held out of the measurement except 2026-10-08, whose two-second stall on the Opus mild isolated row is beyond one hiccup; that row's own ceilings include it. These ceilings record today's player as the runner hears it, not target audio quality: the AAC bursty rows stall for about a third of the window and the Opus near-zero isolated row drops up to a second at a time, and both are budgeted as measured. To re-measure, download the same artifact from the latest scheduled nightlies (`gh run download <id> -n audio-quality-run`), which keep every run, and apply the same rule. The replay rows are deterministic, so their ceilings are exactly what they measured, through the end of each recording, with no headroom: any regression fails them, and an improvement should be tightened in. They were last re-measured on 2026-10-04, when they began resolving \"auto\" from the measured arrival estimator instead of the round trip.",


Re-measure against the player revision under test

These ceilings were derived from runs ending at b581c27, but this commit is based on 76d739d; between those revisions, 3dbda44 (#5288) rewrote Container.Consumer delivery and the js/watch audio decoder's reset handling, which are exactly the paths producing the graded underrun, stall, and skip metrics. Consequently, the seven historical runs do not establish that these budgets pass the player this nightly will actually build, or that they represent its current baseline; as the PR body acknowledges, the next nightly may immediately break. Run a branch dispatch at the current revision and derive or at least validate the ceilings against that artifact before marking the budget work complete.

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Not fixing in this PR. Nightly is never dispatched from a branch in this repo, so the scheduled runs on main are the only runner measurements available, and the PR body already calls out that #5288 and #5367 are unmeasured.

Merging can't make the nightly worse: with the old workstation ceilings, the Audio quality job fails every night regardless of #5288. The first scheduled nightly after merge grades the post-#5288 player against these ceilings. If it breaches, the fix is to re-measure the moved rows from that run's audio-quality-run artifact, which this PR now uploads on every run.

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kixelated · 2026-10-13T19:30:10Z

Merge summary

Browser ceilings in test/audio-quality/budgets.json re-measured from seven scheduled nightlies on the ubuntu-24.04-arm runner: worst x 1.25 plus one runner hiccup. Replay rows unchanged.
Nightly uploads audio-quality-run on every run so the next re-measure has data.
Quest quest/m0/audio-quality-budgets.md completed and removed.
Decisions: see the Decisions comment above (keep the headroom rule, keep every-run uploads, accept loose ceilings until Watch tightens them).
Review: Codex's one finding (re-measure against the post-feat(mux): read gaps and declared ends as items in delivery order #5288 player via a branch dispatch) answered inline; the first scheduled nightly after merge is the check.

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The nightly audio-quality workflow now retains run data and uploads the artifact for non-cancelled runs. The browser budget note and Chromium AAC and Opus limits now reflect seven nightly measurements. Related documentation points to the budget note, and the audio-quality budget-planning quest was removed.

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The README overstates retention for cancelled runs, so maintainers may expect diagnostic artifacts that are not uploaded. Correct the wording; the issue is limited and does not otherwise prevent merging.

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+The nightly `Audio quality` job runs the matrix under `--enforce` and keeps every run directory for a
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…5442/#5444 starts The playout target follows the container's arrival spread, recorded before the ring, so a ring defect explains underruns but not target growth. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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