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fix(mux): restart TS clocks on small proven backward steps - #7799
An unmarked backward step smaller than the TS export delay bypasses detection. At −300 ms and lag 0, audio misses a decode deadline; declared-depth-two video fails with video reorders past its declared depth 2. This extends the merged larger-step fix in moq-dev/moq#7221.
Approach
Restart audio at any PTS regression and video beyond its declared reorder depth, independently of the delay. Leave video with no declared reorder unchanged.
Restart the declared clock at the same depth, so repeated steps within a group cannot fall back to an inferred clock and author DTS after PTS.
Honor marked backward steps in the jitter buffer before the first output, while retaining one clock for forward startup skips. Reuse the existing generation machinery.
A backward restart that lands while a clock is still being acquired (live read-ahead, or a later generation's acquisition) ends that acquisition, so the frames before and after it anchor separate generations. Each acquiring track now records its last restart and decode alongside its bytes in one Held entry.
Extend the paused-clock live and recording fixtures, and the existing export benchmark. Complete the quest and remove its link.
Before claiming, checked all 58 open PRs and their changed files, including the newer PRs. Read moq-dev/moq#7779 and moq-dev/moq#7785; neither branch was imported. Clock-table placement is untouched, and incrementing marker and skip together keeps inferred steps distinct from delivery loss. moq-dev/moq#7780 is a separate import-side change. Earlier worktree ownership is preserved.
Impact
Public API shapes and MoQ/Hang wire: unchanged. No package version changes.
TS output restarts its clock and signals the existing discontinuity at proven smaller backward steps, including with zero configured delay.
Exports sharing the jitter buffer separate marked regressions during initial read-ahead; forward startup skips retain their existing behavior.
Alternatives
Keeping the delay gate misses invalid smaller steps. Guessing a bound for undeclared video can restart healthy reordering and was rejected by the maintainer. A source that misdeclares its depth is indistinguishable from an unmarked step and is recovered by the same settled rule. No new runtime state is needed.
Validation
Iteration (Claude Opus 5.5): merged origin/main (including moq-dev/moq#7221, moq-dev/moq#7779, moq-dev/moq#7729) without conflicts. Three new non-replay jitter tests and a live TS export test that steps back 300 ms during read-ahead (lag 0 and both LAGS, declared and undeclared video) all fail without the acquisition split and pass with it. cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy --locked -p moq-mux --all-targets --all-features -D warnings, and cargo test --locked -p moq-mux --all-features (2,053 passed, 3 ignored) passed on 9e657e8c67; quest check --base origin/main passed.
Before the fixes: reproduced the −300 ms audio deadline failure and declared-depth-two refusal. Also reproduced a queued restart without a PCR boundary, and repeated depth-zero steps producing DTS 10801 after PTS 7200.
quest gate nix develop --command just ci: passed on f12c0150a5, including all 4,504 selected Rust tests, 63 skipped, and all selected lint/tooling checks.
quest gate nix develop --command cargo bench --locked -p moq-mux --bench export -- video-reorder/ts --noplot: all 12 cases passed, sweeping 64/256/1024 frames and 256/16384-byte payloads. Each stepped case asserts exactly one emitted clock boundary. Shared host; no speedup claim.
quest check --base origin/main, formatting, diff checks, and a merge-tree check against the current base passed. Checkout clean.
Review
mechanical fix by quest land watch: merged main at 5fb788e7d001b955d5a9d0c53040cf58db0b9ce4 with the quest merge driver (head c07ca85)
mechanical fix by quest land watch: merged main at df672865be7878701f457463b9c306106f7d99c5 with the quest merge driver (head 7961564)
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A step back smaller than the delay keeps the TS export
fix(mux): restart TS clocks on small proven backward steps
Nov 4, 2026
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Walkthrough
TS export now detects backward timestamp steps without using export delay as the threshold, while preserving declared video reorder depth across restarts. Jitter-buffer acquisition distinguishes forward restarts from decode-time regressions when selecting generations. Tests and benchmarks cover step-back output, clock discontinuities, audio decode timing, and video output.
Merge Risk: Low · up to c07ca
The change is mergeable with a bounded test-coverage follow-up: require audio output so the timestamp-order checks cannot pass when audio is absent.
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P2: Preserve restart boundaries while acquiring a clock (rs/moq-mux/src/jitter.rs:812–820, 977–985). With a normal nonzero-delay live buffer, clock is initially absent and push holds every available frame in the same acquisition without calling jumps; it does the same for a track already being acquired. acquired then queues all of those frames under one generation, ignoring their restart counters. If audio at 80 ms is followed by a marked or newly detected step to 40 ms before the first release, both can be emitted on one PCR period with decreasing decode times. The added test uses replay(), which anchors immediately and misses the live path. Preserve the restart boundary within an acquisition, and cover the regression with a non-replay buffer and a live TS export.
Verification: GitHub-only static inspection of the clock, acquisition, TS path and tests. I did not run tests or live exports.
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Important
A marked backward restart that lands while the initial acquisition is still under way is still merged into one clock: push short-circuits on held before jumps, and acquired queues every acquired frame under one generation. The new test uses replay(), which never takes that path, so the live startup case the PR claims to fix remains uncovered.
Reviewed changes
Read the net diff against main at f12c0150 (8 files).
steps_back now restarts audio on any PTS regression and declared-depth video beyond its depth, independent of the export delay.
DeclaredClock::restart keeps the declared depth across timeline restarts instead of falling back to the inferred clock.
The jitter honors marked backward restarts before the first release; forward startup skips still keep one clock.
Bench and timing tests extended: a zero-delay TS step-back case asserting one discontinuity, per-PCR-period audio monotonicity, and repeated depth-zero steps.
A live buffer still acquiring its clock held every frame of a track in one
acquisition, then queued them all under one generation, ignoring their
restart counters. A marked step back (or one the TS export inferred) during
read-ahead released the regressed frame on the same clock as the frames
before it, so audio decoded backward within one PCR period.
Track each held track's last restart and decode, and end the acquisition when
a frame regresses behind them across a restart, so the frame opens the next
generation through the existing restart path. Forward restarts while acquiring
still keep one clock. Covered with non-replay jitter tests and a live TS export
that steps back during read-ahead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This incremental pass re-checked the acquisition-split fix for a regressing restart during a live clock acquisition, plus its non-replay jitter and live TS export tests.
Split the jitter acquisition when a frame changes restart and regresses below its track's last held decode, so pre-step and post-step frames anchor separate generations.
Replaced the per-track group flag and byte map with one Held entry carrying mid, bytes, restart, and decode.
Added non-replay tests for first acquisition, reacquisition, and forward restart, plus a live TS export that steps back 300 ms during read-ahead at lag 0 and both LAGS, declared and undeclared.
The split cannot double-hold the triggering frame: acquired() updates the track to the held frame's restart/decode, so the subsequent jumps always returns true and the frame opens the next generation. Replay and zero-delay paths are unaffected because their acquisition never persists across pushes. Both prior pullfrog threads are addressed.
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Reviewed head 9e657e8c670354ecdeca28da8e48380da2f08b23 against f12c0150a5ce79cff2cc54f343d81d9c45eb318f and the updated base. The previous acquisition-boundary finding is addressed: a regressing restart ends the current clock acquisition before the new frame enters the next generation. New non-replay initial and later acquisition tests, plus the live TS read-ahead regression, cover the missed paths. No additional actionable issue found in this update.
Verification: GitHub-only static inspection of acquisition, generation handling and the tests. I did not run the tests or a live export. GitHub currently reports a merge conflict against the base.
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Add a non-empty audio check before the audio-order loops.
The audio-order loop passes when audio is empty. The video assertion counts only video units. A stream with no audio units therefore passes both assertions in an_unmarked_step_keeps_the_export_rendering. The same gap exists in an_unmarked_step_while_acquiring_keeps_the_export_rendering at lines 814-823. Add the same check in both tests so they fail when audio is absent.
Suggested fix
let units = leg.units();
let audio: Vec<_> = units.iter().filter(|unit| unit.pid == AUDIO_PID).collect();
+ assert!(!audio.is_empty(), "{case}: no audio units");
for pair in audio.windows(2) {
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Review comment at @rs/moq-mux/src/container/ts/export_timing_test.rs around
lines 776 - 783:
Add a non-empty audio assertion in both
`an_unmarked_step_keeps_the_export_rendering` and
`an_unmarked_step_while_acquiring_keeps_the_export_rendering`, immediately after
collecting units with `AUDIO_PID`. Keep the existing audio-order checks and
ensure each test fails when no audio units are present.
The current assertions do not detect audio omitted at the step. dropped() does not count frames trimmed before their track starts, and the pairwise loop compares only adjacent units that remain. Omitted audio can therefore pass. Record the step instant before live.offset -= 300_000. Then assert a lower bound on the audio units emitted after that instant. Measure the count this fixture produces, and set the bound from that measurement.
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Review comment at @rs/moq-mux/src/container/ts/export_timing_test.rs around
lines 815 - 820:
Add an assertion that detects audio omitted at the step by recording the step
instant before updating live.offset, then counting audio units emitted after
that instant. Measure the count produced by this fixture and use that
measurement to set the assertion’s lower bound; retain the existing pairwise
regression check.
Add a focused test for the held-picture flush at a declared restart.
The step test at rs/moq-mux/src/container/ts/export_timing_test.rs:785-791 only checks video >= 6 * GOP. A declared clock at depth 2 holds at most three pictures, so that bound still passes if the restart flush in Track::queue (rs/moq-mux/src/container/ts/export.rs:443) stops releasing them. DeclaredClock::restart then drops them without a drop count.
Add a unit test beside video_steps in rs/moq-mux/src/container/ts/export.rs. It can reuse that helper's setup. Queue identifiable pictures into a track with a depth-2 declared clock through Track::queue. Then queue a picture whose restart is one higher. Assert that every held picture reaches the jitter buffer.
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Review comment at @rs/moq-mux/src/container/ts/export.rs around lines 5143 -
5146:
Add a focused unit test beside `video_steps` that queues identifiable pictures
through `Track::queue` with a depth-2 declared clock, then queues a picture with
a restart value one higher. Assert that every previously held picture reaches
the jitter buffer, reusing the helper’s setup and avoiding changes to production
behavior.
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Review comments at @rs/moq-mux/src/container/ts/export_timing_test.rs:
- Around line 776-783: Add a non-empty audio assertion in both
`an_unmarked_step_keeps_the_export_rendering` and
`an_unmarked_step_while_acquiring_keeps_the_export_rendering`, immediately after
collecting units with `AUDIO_PID`. Keep the existing audio-order checks and
ensure each test fails when no audio units are present.
- Around line 815-820: Add an assertion that detects audio omitted at the step
by recording the step instant before updating live.offset, then counting audio
units emitted after that instant. Measure the count produced by this fixture and
use that measurement to set the assertion’s lower bound; retain the existing
pairwise regression check.
Review comments at @rs/moq-mux/src/container/ts/export.rs:
- Around line 5143-5146: Add a focused unit test beside `video_steps` that
queues identifiable pictures through `Track::queue` with a depth-2 declared
clock, then queues a picture with a restart value one higher. Assert that every
previously held picture reaches the jitter buffer, reusing the helper’s setup
and avoiding changes to production behavior.
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Problem
An unmarked backward step smaller than the TS export delay bypasses detection. At −300 ms and lag 0, audio misses a decode deadline; declared-depth-two video fails with
video reorders past its declared depth 2. This extends the merged larger-step fix in moq-dev/moq#7221.Approach
Heldentry.Before claiming, checked all 58 open PRs and their changed files, including the newer PRs. Read moq-dev/moq#7779 and moq-dev/moq#7785; neither branch was imported. Clock-table placement is untouched, and incrementing marker and skip together keeps inferred steps distinct from delivery loss. moq-dev/moq#7780 is a separate import-side change. Earlier worktree ownership is preserved.
Impact
Alternatives
Keeping the delay gate misses invalid smaller steps. Guessing a bound for undeclared video can restart healthy reordering and was rejected by the maintainer. A source that misdeclares its depth is indistinguishable from an unmarked step and is recovered by the same settled rule. No new runtime state is needed.
Validation
Iteration (Claude Opus 5.5): merged
origin/main(including moq-dev/moq#7221, moq-dev/moq#7779, moq-dev/moq#7729) without conflicts. Three new non-replay jitter tests and a live TS export test that steps back 300 ms during read-ahead (lag 0 and bothLAGS, declared and undeclared video) all fail without the acquisition split and pass with it.cargo fmt --check,cargo clippy --locked -p moq-mux --all-targets --all-features -D warnings, andcargo test --locked -p moq-mux --all-features(2,053 passed, 3 ignored) passed on 9e657e8c67;quest check --base origin/mainpassed.Before the fixes: reproduced the −300 ms audio deadline failure and declared-depth-two refusal. Also reproduced a queued restart without a PCR boundary, and repeated depth-zero steps producing DTS 10801 after PTS 7200.
quest gate nix develop --command just ci: passed on f12c0150a5, including all 4,504 selected Rust tests, 63 skipped, and all selected lint/tooling checks.quest gate nix develop --command cargo bench --locked -p moq-mux --bench export -- video-reorder/ts --noplot: all 12 cases passed, sweeping 64/256/1024 frames and 256/16384-byte payloads. Each stepped case asserts exactly one emitted clock boundary. Shared host; no speedup claim.quest check --base origin/main, formatting, diff checks, and a merge-tree check against the current base passed. Checkout clean.Review
mechanical fix by quest land watch:
merged main at 5fb788e7d001b955d5a9d0c53040cf58db0b9ce4 with the quest merge driver(head c07ca85)mechanical fix by quest land watch:
merged main at df672865be7878701f457463b9c306106f7d99c5 with the quest merge driver(head 7961564)Codex, GPT-6.1 Sol (
gpt-6.1-sol), medium effort, round 1 (new session) reviewed 9e657e8c67: no findings.Posted review threads on f12c0150a5:
Engineoverview sentence (pullfrog): fixed in the same commit.Follow-ups
None. No maintainer decisions remain. Recommend
/quest-mergeafter review.(Written by GPT-6.1 Sol)
(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)