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Completes quest/m1/av-clock.md, reworked to the 2026-11-05 design: the shared clock stays on local time, anchored at the earliest arrival as on main, and each track keeps its own timeline on it. A slow or discontinuous track no longer resets or holds the others.

Summary

• Per-track handles. sync.track({ target, startup }) replaces the internal register / received / wait / presentable. Each handle holds its playout target, startup span, its own arrival anchor, and an epoch for its parked frames.
• Per-track timelines (the 2026-10-07 audit case). A video discontinuity or declared end followed by a later group ends only video's timeline (track.reset()): its parked frames drop and audio's are untouched. Audio no longer breaks its timeline at a declared end: since moq-dev/moq#7716, a later audio group restarts the codec on the same forward-only timeline, which the merge keeps. A republish (Sync.reset()) still resets the whole clock.
• #4170 gaps.
  • A track that stops receiving (video disabled or offline, audio retired) releases its part of the arrival reference. If it held it, the earliest remaining track's anchor takes over, or the next frame re-anchors.
  • Captions register their rendition's catalog delay as a playout target while enabled.
  • The MSF catalog refuses a negative delay on decode, and toHang rejects one instead of reading it as absent. Rust's moq-msf already refuses it, since Duration cannot be negative.
• Sync.now() no longer throws before media time zero's turn. Milli refuses negatives, so now() threw a RangeError for the first delay ms of any stream whose timestamps start near zero, for example in the caption tick. It now reads zero there.
• CodeRabbit round on 25e60a5 (fixed in 103d06b):
  • A survivor keeps its own skip floor when the reference moves back to it (Part.floor).
  • Video releases its clock hold when its last rendition fails. A pending replacement keeps the hold so its parked frames stay.
  • Captions hold their target only when they have an overlay container to render into.
  • MSF encode refuses anything decode would reject (CatalogSchema.parse).
  • doc/lib/js/watch.md states the clock's conditions: the buffered startup anchor, auto delay following the deepest target, and the release conditions. The startup comment in sync.ts no longer overclaims.
  • quest/m2/audio-bufferbloat-av.md reports video's lag behind audio instead of gating on it, following the 2026-11-05 decision. That decision is newer than the quest's 2026-10-20 plan, which asked for per-frame sync.
  • Declined, with replies on the threads: releasing a track at a clean EOF (it would move the other tracks' playheads), and pinning a survivor at startup's playhead on handoff (that would put the survivor on the departed track's timeline).
• Docs and quests. doc/lib/js/watch.md and doc/concept/audio-jitter.md describe the per-track release. The Watch quest records that steady-state lip sync comes from its stretch converging the ring on Sync.now(); links to the finished quest are gone.

Decisions

• ✅ Design change (maintainer, 2026-11-05): "I kind of don't want one slow track to impact everything. We want lip sync in the steady state but desync during the congestion state." The shared reference stays on the wall clock (earliest arrival). The audio playhead does not drive Sync.reference, and an audio-ring stall never holds video. Dropped: the worklet's playhead report (State.time / playing), AudioBuffer.playhead and its getOutputTimestamp() mapping, the stall hold, driving and handback, the audio decoder's #ended signal, the one-audio-track rule, and the tests for them. Steady-state lip sync is the Watch quest's stretch converging the ring on the clock; nothing here blocks it, since the ring still reads Sync's delay and now().
• ✅ Captions hold delay only, not jitter (maintainer confirmed). A caption rendition's jitter is its cue flush interval, often seconds, and holding it would delay audio and video by that much.

Choices made without asking

• No SyncInput break. The quest predicted one, but the per-track input pair it meant to fold was already removed when register became internal. SyncInput stays delay + buffer.
• track() takes no kind. With no audio-only behaviour left, the handles are identical, so the "audio" | "video" | "text" argument had no consumer.

Public API and wire

• @moq/watch: no break. Sync's public surface (in, out, now, reset, close) keeps its shape. The removed methods and the new handles are @internal. index.ts now names Delay, Sync, SyncInput, and SyncOutput explicitly, the same set export * exported before. now() clamps at zero instead of throwing.
• @moq/msf: decode rejects a negative track delay (malformed input that was silently dropped), and encode now throws on any catalog decode would reject.
• Wire: none.

Validation

• Head a95ed5d (merge of origin/main 1c140ac plus the CodeRabbit fixes): quest gate nix develop --command just check origin/main passed every step except biome, which flagged one formatting issue in js/msf/src/catalog.test.ts. a95ed5d formats it, and bun biome check --error-on-warnings . now passes. The new video-failure assertion fails without the fix.

• Merge of origin/main (c76f9eb) at 25e60a5: just check-changed, just test-changed over the PR's changed files, and just biome, all under quest gate: pass.

• quest gate nix develop --command just check origin/main on head 06831c8: passes (biome, JS type-check, build, and API report, JS tests, markdown, gh, quest, shell).

• bun test in js/watch: all pass. New or kept tests: per-track timelines, release of the earliest track, the skip floor and startup anchors across a handoff, the whole-clock reset, and the zero clamp in sync.test.ts; fix(watch,publish): keep audio across declared ends; repair browser media tests #7716's PCM-and-clock-kept-across-a-declared-end test in audio/decoder.test.ts (this PR's audio-timeline-restart test was dropped in the merge with it); captions' catalog delay in text/renderer.test.ts; negative MSF delay in js/msf and js/watch/src/msf.test.ts.

• Not run: a real-browser lip-sync check (just dev).

Review

Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort, through quest review --base origin/main. Round 4 on head a95ed5d reported no findings.

• Round 3 on the merge head 25e60a5 and round 2 on 06831c8 reported no findings.
• Round 1 (8b8e4ff), both fixed in 06831c8:
  • Reconcile the skip floor when the reference passes to another track: fixed. Clock.end() clears the departed track's floor and sets one only when the handoff moves the playhead forward.
  • Keep buffered startup's adjustment in the per-track anchors: fixed. Startup shifts every anchor by the amount it moves the reference.
• Design checkpoint at round 4: it reported no findings, so there was nothing to fix and the approach stands.

Earlier rounds and the automated findings (Pullfrog, the maintainer-run OpenAI review) were against the audio-driven clock, which this rework removed, so they are moot. CodeRabbit's ten threads on 25e60a5 are answered above and resolved.

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Walkthrough

Watch synchronization now uses a shared Clock and per-track Track handles. Tracks report arrivals, wait for frames, and reset or close their timelines. Audio, video, captions, and related tests use the track-based API. Negative catalog delays are rejected during validation, and encode validates catalogs before serialization. Documentation and quest references describe the clock behavior and remove the prior A/V clock proposal.

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Republishing an audio override can drop a video frame that is waiting for presentation. Resolve or explicitly accept that playback interruption before merging.

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1. [P2] Allow signed offsets for delayed worklet reports — js/watch/src/audio/buffer.ts:358–362. getOutputTimestamp() is sampled when the main thread receives the report; if delivery is delayed, contextTime can exceed the report's older data.time. Milli.fromSecond rejects the resulting negative value, throwing instead of updating the playhead. Keep the offset arithmetic signed and test delayed delivery.
2. [P2] Prevent failed audio from reclaiming the clock — js/watch/src/audio/decoder.ts:414–420. A fatal decode/read exception retires the attempt without setting #ended, while the worklet remains alive. Its next report can regain clock ownership because this predicate ignores the latched failure. After buffered PCM drains, the stalled audio clock can hold video indefinitely even though the source will not retry. Gate ownership on an active, nonfailed attempt, or keep retirement terminal until a new attempt starts.

Using the audible audio playhead as the shared clock is a reasonable direction; the earlier offline-review fixes are present. Verification: GitHub-only static review, with no browser playback or tests run. Hosted checks were still running when inspected.

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Important

Two behavior bugs in the new clock plumbing: a late worklet report can throw a RangeError, and handing the clock back from audio lets the next video arrival advance the playhead by the output latency.

Reviewed changes

• Per-track handles. Sync.track(kind, props) replaces the internal register/received/wait/presentable; Track keeps each timeline's epoch and arrival anchor, and only AudioTrack can report a playhead. Sync's public surface and the API report are unchanged.
• Audio-driven clock. The render worklet reports the context time of its next sample and whether consumption is released; AudioBuffer maps it through getOutputTimestamp() and Clock re-syncs reference on every report, holding through re-stalls and releasing to the wall on mute/end/drain.
• Per-track discontinuities and fallbacks. Track.reset() ends only that track's timeline, arrival ownership passes between tracks, and Sync.reset() remains the whole-clock reset for a republish.
• Captions and MSF. The text renderer registers its catalog delay as a playout target; @moq/msf rejects a negative delay and toHang no longer reads one as absent.
• now() clamping. Sync.now() reads zero instead of throwing before media time zero's turn.

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Design change: the shared clock stays on local time, and the audio playhead no longer drives Sync.

The maintainer decided on 2026-11-05: "I kind of don't want one slow track to impact everything. We want lip sync in the steady state but desync during the congestion state."

• Sync.reference stays anchored at the earliest arrival, as on main. An audio-ring stall never holds video.
• Removed: the worklet's playhead report (State.time / playing), AudioBuffer.playhead with its getOutputTimestamp() mapping, the stall hold (paused), driving and handback, the audio decoder's #ended signal, the one-audio-track rule, and their tests. sync.track() loses its kind argument, since every handle now behaves the same.
• Kept: per-track timelines (a video discontinuity resets only video's track, an audio break only audio's, a republish the whole clock), a departing track releasing its part of the reference, captions honoring their catalog delay, the MSF negative-delay rejection, and now() reading zero before media time zero instead of throwing.
• Steady-state lip sync belongs to Watch, whose stretch converges the ring on Sync.now(); its Plan now records this decision.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

• Dropped the audio-driven clock. Sync.reference stays on local time anchored at the earliest arrival; AudioTrack, TrackKind, Playhead, the worklet's time/playing report, and AudioBuffer's getOutputTimestamp() mapping are gone, and track(props) no longer takes a kind. buffer.ts, render.ts, and render-worklet.ts are back to main's behaviour.
• Skip floor across a reference handoff. Clock.end() now clears the departed track's floor, sets one to the new playhead when the reference moves forward to the survivor's anchor, and only clears it when the handoff rewinds, with new tests for both directions and for a parked frame after the handoff.
• Startup anchors follow the reference. Buffered startup shifts every anchored part by anchored - reference, so a later owner handoff keeps the playhead where startup put it instead of installing an arrival anchor from before the shift.
• Audio timeline breaks are per-track. The audio decoder drops #ended and resets only its own handle and ring on a frame after a declared end; a fresh encoder below the replaced timeline no longer calls Sync.reset(), and the test asserts a parked video frame stays pending.
• Docs and quests. doc/lib/js/watch.md and doc/concept/audio-jitter.md describe the per-track release, quest/m1/av-clock.md is deleted along with every link and ## Required entry that named it, and the Watch quest records the 2026-11-05 design decision.

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Reviewed changes

Reviewed the origin/main merge (c76f9eb, #7716) and the delta it leaves in this branch.

• Adopted #7716's declared-end handling for audio. audio/decoder.ts drops the PR's #onRead wrapper, so a gap or a later group after a declared end restarts the codec on the same forward-only timeline instead of ending the per-track clock handle. Audio's only Track.end() is now #retire() (mute, disabled, absent rendition, failure), and a new broadcast instance still calls sync.reset() like video's republish path.
• Swapped the declared-end test. The PR's "fresh encoder below the replaced timeline" case is gone, replaced by #7716's test that asserts the ring and Sync survive a declared end (prime called once, resets() zero, ring contents extended). The remaining audio test changes are the register → track renames from the per-track handles.
• No other net change. sync.ts, js/msf, the video decoder, the text renderer, docs, and quests are identical to the previously reviewed state; no av-clock references remain.

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Minor · Keep the companion video timeline when an audio override is republished. · decoder.ts:237-238

js/watch/src/audio/decoder.ts:237-238
Minor · Functional Correctness · Poor tradeoff

Keep the companion video timeline when an audio override is republished.

A republished broadcast override reaches the global this.sync.reset() at js/watch/src/audio/decoder.ts:522. The reset bumps the shared epoch. A video frame parked in Clock.wait then returns false and is dropped. With a nonzero buffer, the reset also sets playing to false, so arrivals stop advancing the shared reference until startup sets it again.

Do not use the global reset on this path. Scope the republish to the audio track. Track.reset() keeps the clock-level epoch, so the companion video frames keep their wait. It does not re-anchor restarted audio timestamps, because the shared reference stays on the surviving track's anchor. Timestamp alignment for the new audio timeline needs a separate change.

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Review comment at @js/watch/src/audio/decoder.ts around lines 237 - 238:
On the broadcast override republish path, replace the global this.sync.reset()
with a reset scoped to the audio track created by this.sync.track. Use the
track-level reset so the shared clock epoch and companion video waits remain
intact; leave timestamp alignment for restarted audio out of this change.

Nitpick comments: 2

quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/watch.md: 1

153-161: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add an output-timed A/V offset item to the Watch quest Verification list.

The Plan at lines 153-161 states that steady-state lip sync comes from the stretch converging on Sync.now(). The Verification list at lines 132-137 has no check of the audio-to-video offset after convergence. The Goal gates player_underruns_per_min on relay-mic-rtt40 and live Chrome and Safari rows. Verification covers the underrun budget, the drift listening check, and live re-runs.

Add a Verification item that measures the offset at the output through AudioContext.getOutputTimestamp() after convergence. State the bound that the item enforces. The Plan recommends this measurement but does not define a bound, so the bound needs an explicit owner decision. This PR does not implement the stretch, so the item applies when the stretch lands.

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Review comment at @quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/watch.md around lines 153 - 161:
Add an output-timed A/V offset check to the Watch quest Verification list for
when the stretch lands: after convergence, measure the offset using
AudioContext.getOutputTimestamp() and enforce a bound established by an explicit
owner decision, rather than inventing a threshold.

js/watch/src/text/renderer.test.ts: 1

313-316: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Assert the caption delay after re-enabling captions.

The test re-enables captions and clears the config in the same step. It never checks that the 300 ms delay returns while the config is still set. A renderer that does not restore the target on re-enable still reaches zero after the config is cleared, so the final assertion passes.

Suggested fix

 			enabled.set(true);
+			await yieldNow();
+			expect(sync.out.delay.peek()).toBe(Milli(300));
 			config.set(undefined);
 			await yieldNow();
 			expect(sync.out.delay.peek()).toBe(Milli.zero);

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Review comment at @js/watch/src/text/renderer.test.ts around lines 313 - 316:
Update the caption-delay test around enabled.set and config.set to assert the
restored 300 ms delay after re-enabling captions while the config is still set;
then clear the config and retain the existing assertion that the delay becomes
zero.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @doc/lib/js/watch.md:
- Line 55: Update the clock-hold description in the `watch` documentation to
state that a track releases its hold when its subscription ends or is disabled,
and that a silent track still subscribed keeps its hold.
- Around line 52-53: Update the clock paragraph to state that when `buffer` is
enabled, startup anchors the clock at the retained opening once every enabled
track has buffered the delay; link to the buffered playback section. Preserve
the existing earliest-arrival description for playback without buffering.
- Around line 53-54: The shared-clock description overstates the
independent-track behavior for auto delay. Update the documentation near the
shared-clock explanation to distinguish fixed delay from auto delay: describe
how the deepest track sets the auto playout target and that a rising target
pauses audio only until queued audio covers it. Preserve the existing
discontinuity and stopped-track behavior.

Review comments at @js/msf/src/catalog.ts:
- Line 60: Update encode to reject any track with a defined negative delay
before producing catalog bytes, matching decode’s validation so invalid catalogs
fail during encoding.

Review comments at @js/watch/src/audio/decoder.ts:
- Around line 847-848: Update both audio read loops so that when nextMedia
returns undefined, they reset this.#track before breaking; preserve the existing
flush and other exit behavior.

Review comments at @js/watch/src/sync.ts:
- Around line 192-196: Update Clock’s skip-floor handling so each track retains
its own floor instead of losing it when ownership changes. In Clock.end(),
restore the surviving track’s recorded floor rather than unconditionally
clearing the shared floor, while preserving the existing timing and delay
behavior.
- Around line 416-420: Update #runStartup’s anchor adjustment so a survivor’s
startup opening remains represented in its anchor without moving the playhead
when ownership hands off. Check the adjustment against owner selection and
end()’s reference and floor updates; preserve the survivor’s anchor during pause
and ensure parked video frames are not discarded because the handoff raises the
floor past them.

Review comments at @js/watch/src/text/renderer.ts:
- Around line 246-251: Update the computed caption target so it holds the
catalog delay only when both `this.in.enabled` and `this.in.container` are
present; otherwise return undefined. Preserve the delay conversion for active
renderers, and ensure any hold test exercises the behavior with a container.

Review comments at @js/watch/src/video/decoder.ts:
- Around line 193-194: Update the video rendition’s EOF and latched
decode-failure handling to reset its `this.#clock` track so video no longer
drives `Sync.now()` after termination. Preserve replacement renditions’ parked
frames during source switches; verify the reset applies only to the ending or
failed rendition and does not clear the replacement’s state.

Review comments at @quest/m2/audio-bufferbloat-av.md:
- Line 58: Align the bufferbloat Goal and Plan sync-probe bullet with the
adopted congestion behavior: state that video may lag audio during congestion
and that steady-state lip sync is tracked in the Watch quest; have the probe
grade steady-state frames against the existing sync bound, report freezes and
skips without gating them, and exclude congestion-era desync from the gate while
preserving the 90%-aligned-samples and median-bound criteria.

---

Minor comments:
Review comments at @js/watch/src/audio/decoder.ts:
- Around line 237-238: On the broadcast override republish path, replace the
global this.sync.reset() with a reset scoped to the audio track created by
this.sync.track. Use the track-level reset so the shared clock epoch and
companion video waits remain intact; leave timestamp alignment for restarted
audio out of this change.

---

Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @js/watch/src/text/renderer.test.ts:
- Around line 313-316: Update the caption-delay test around enabled.set and
config.set to assert the restored 300 ms delay after re-enabling captions while
the config is still set; then clear the config and retain the existing assertion
that the delay becomes zero.

Review comments at @quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/watch.md:
- Around line 153-161: Add an output-timed A/V offset check to the Watch quest
Verification list for when the stretch lands: after convergence, measure the
offset using AudioContext.getOutputTimestamp() and enforce a bound established
by an explicit owner decision, rather than inventing a threshold.

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[P2] Retain a forward handoff's floor on the surviving track: js/watch/src/sync.ts:199–202. This branch updates only Clock.floor, leaving earliest.floor unchanged. If another track later takes ownership and leaves, the backward handoff restores that stale per-track floor, so delayed decoder output that the survivor's earlier handoff skipped becomes presentable again. For example, with delay 100, buffer 1000 and no startup spans: at wall 5000, A receives PTS 0, B receives 2000, then A receives 2500. At wall 6000, A resets: B takes reference 3000 and the shared floor becomes 2900, but B's floor remains 900. A then receives PTS 5000 at 6000 and resets again: B's restored floor is 900, so a delayed B frame at 2100 passes wait() despite the earlier skip. Preserve the new floor monotonically in the survivor as well, and cover repeated handoffs. This requires no backward input timestamps.

The per-track, wall-clock direction matches the updated design. Both findings from my 5b70532 review are moot because the audio-driven clock paths were removed.

Verification: GitHub-only static review of the current base diff and changes since my last review; no tests or browser playback run. Hosted Check was still in progress.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed the delta since the prior pullfrog review at 25e60a5: the CodeRabbit follow-up 103d06b24, the origin/main merge 8171ffab6 (no js/ conflict resolution; only Rust, docs, and quests came from main), and the biome format fix a95ed5d0f.

• Kept a survivor's own skip floor across a handoff. Each Part now records the furthest playhead its own skips jumped to, cleared by end()/reset(), and Clock.end() restores it as the shared floor when the reference moves back or stays put; a forward handoff still installs a fresh floor at the new playhead. The new sync.test.ts case traces the skip, the audio burst, and the rewind correctly.
• Released video's clock hold when its last rendition fails. A rendition error resets video's timeline only when no pending replacement exists, and a failed pending resets it when no active rendition remains, so a failed video track stops holding the reference without dropping a replacement's parked frames.
• Gated captions' playout target on an overlay. The text renderer holds the catalog delay only while enabled and given a container, matching the fact that #run cannot render without one; the test covers the container appearing and disappearing.
• Validated MSF catalogs on encode. encode now parses with CatalogSchema, so a track decode would reject (such as a negative delay) throws at publish time instead of reaching subscribers.
• Documented the clock's conditions. doc/lib/js/watch.md now states the buffered startup anchor, auto delay following the deepest target, and the disable/deselect/failure release; the bufferbloat quest reports video lag instead of gating on it.

Verified on a95ed5d0f: bun test in js/watch (502 pass; the two @moq/libav failures are this sandbox lacking Nix to build it), js/msf catalog tests (22 pass), and biome check --error-on-warnings clean on the eight touched files.

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