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Imports moq-dev/moq#8031 as two quests:

• quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/buffered-converge.md (m1, requires the epic's Watch stretch): a buffered <moq-watch> time-stretches its audio back onto the shared clock after a stall or drift, never skipping. This closes the issue.
• quest/m2/watch-lookahead.md (m2, breaking): rename buffer to lookahead so it isn't mistaken for a jitter buffer.

Summary

buffer is the TTS lookahead from moq-dev/moq#3396. In buffered mode the audio ring plays through everything it holds and has no catch-up, so any lag from a stall, an auto delay rise, or clock drift is permanent. Audio then drifts behind video, and past delay + buffer the container consumer drops audio groups ("skipping slow groups"). A simulation on main with the real Sync, Consumer, and ring reproduced the drift: +300 ms after 400 ms stalls with buffer=500ms, against 0 in live mode. The reporter's claim that delays above 500 ms break lip sync did not reproduce.

Decisions

• Direction: ✅ converge buffered audio by time-stretching / won't fix, reply and close / docs and warning only
• Rename buffer: keep / ✅ rename in m2
• Convergence milestone: ✅ m1, in the audio jitter target epic / m3
• New name: ✅ lookahead / ahead / burst

Public API: none for this PR. The planned rename breaks <moq-watch>'s buffer. Wire: none.

Review

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Reviewed head: 46f01e21fa42c1c2d74ed53cce15bc2539b73ed6.

No actionable findings in the four-file planning change. The m1 convergence quest is consistent with the current buffered ring disabling live skip-ahead, the consumer's bounded backlog, and the existing Watch stretch quest's shared-clock direction. Separating the breaking buffer → lookahead rename into m2 also matches the milestone rules and includes migration/docs work.

Direction: keep the behavior fix dependent on the shared stretch implementation and validate it with the planned buffered stall/drift and no-dropped-frame TTS cases before treating #8031 as fixed.

Limits: GitHub-only static review of the patch and relevant source/quest documentation. No runtime implementation changes are present here. I did not rerun the reported simulations, execute repository checks, or verify browser listening/lip-sync behavior.

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Walkthrough

The PR adds two quest plans and their required-item entries. One plan describes buffered-audio time-stretching toward the shared clock after stalls or drift. The other describes a JavaScript-only rename of the Watch buffer property and attribute to lookahead, with no deprecated alias.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 46f01

The documentation is mergeable with bounded follow-up: clarify how buffered playback will preserve speech already subject to consumer drops before implementing the convergence plan.

Pre-merge checks: 5

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Review comments at @quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/buffered-converge.md:
- Around line 46-50: Update the buffered-mode plan around Watch’s stretch to
address skipped groups closed and cleared by Consumer.#checkMaxDelay(): specify
how to prevent those drops or replay the skipped groups, since ring time-stretch
cannot recover discarded speech. Preserve the existing buffered-mode behavior of
not stretching ahead of the shared clock.

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Script executed:

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nl -ba js/watch/src/sync.ts | sed -n '430,450p'
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Extend the fix beyond ring catch-up.

When buffered lag exceeds delay + buffer, Consumer.#checkMaxDelay() closes and clears each skipped group. The decoder then continues with later frames after emitting a gap. Ring time-stretch cannot restore discarded speech. Update the plan to prevent consumer drops or replay skipped groups.

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[style] ~47-~47: ‘lag behind’ might be wordy. Consider a shorter alternative.
Context: ...: buffered mode measures the playhead's lag behind the shared clock and accelerates unti...

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Review comment at @quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/buffered-converge.md around
lines 46 - 50:
Update the buffered-mode plan around Watch’s stretch to address skipped groups
closed and cleared by Consumer.#checkMaxDelay(): specify how to prevent those
drops or replay the skipped groups, since ring time-stretch cannot recover
discarded speech. Preserve the existing buffered-mode behavior of not stretching
ahead of the shared clock.

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