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Every publisher-facing knob that spaces a track's join points is now a time called join, after the catalog's media.join it feeds, in JS, Rust, FFI and its bindings, and C. A zero join is refused everywhere. Finishes quest/m1/api-audit/join.md and removes it from the epic's Required.

Changes

• @moq/publish: Video.Config.keyframeInterval becomes join, Audio.Encoder's groupDuration (prop and signal, so el.audio.groupDuration too) becomes join, and Rendition.joinInterval becomes Rendition.join. Rendition.join is documented as the effective value: unchanged for video, which keys on timestamps, and the whole-frame spacing for audio.
• moq-video: encode::Config::gop: Gop becomes join: Duration (default 2 s), and the Gop enum is gone. A new Config::effective_join() returns join rounded to whole frames, never below one. The catalog reservations in moq-video, moq-ffi, moq-c and moq-boy read it, as they read Gop::duration before. Backends take the frame count from a crate-private keyframe_interval(). Error::InvalidGop(String) becomes Error::ZeroJoin.
• moq-audio: encode::Options::group_duration becomes join.
• moq-ffi: MoqVideoGop is deleted, and MoqVideoEncoderOutput::gop becomes join: Option<Duration>. The Python, Go, Kotlin, Swift and Dart wrappers drop their Gop aliases (Go also drops Keyframe()), and the Dart bindings are regenerated.
• moq-c: moq_video_encoder_output.gop (u32 frames) becomes join_us (u64 µs, 0 keeps the default). The video and audio hints' group_duration_us / has_group_duration become join_us / has_join.
• Zero refused: JS video refuses a join that is not positive in its knob validation, so the encoder settles with no config. A live change to zero also stops an encoder that is already running from keyframing every frame. JS audio now refuses <= 0 (it allowed 0). moq_audio::encode::Producer::new refuses zero before it creates a track. Rust video and FFI refuse it at Encoder::new, as before.
• Docs: doc/lib/js/publish.md, doc/lib/c/index.md, doc/lib/rs/moq-audio.md, doc/lib/rs/moq-video.md, doc/lib/kt/index.md, doc/concept/hang.md, doc/bin/hls.md, rs/moq-video/README.md, and its design note.

Impact

Breaking API, no wire change. Migration per package:

• @moq/publish: config: { keyframeInterval: Milli(n) } becomes config: { join: Milli(n) }. new Audio.Encoder(name, { groupDuration }) and encoder.groupDuration become join. rendition.joinInterval becomes rendition.join. A join (formerly keyframeInterval or groupDuration) of 0 used to keyframe every video frame or put every audio frame in its own group. It now refuses the rendition. Pass a positive value shorter than a frame (for example Milli(1)) for one group per frame.
• moq-video: config.gop = Gop::keyframe_every(d, fps) becomes config.join = d. Gop::Keyframe { interval: n } becomes config.join = <n frames as a Duration>. config.gop.duration(config.framerate) becomes config.effective_join(). Match Error::ZeroJoin instead of Error::InvalidGop(_).
• moq-audio: Options { group_duration, .. } becomes Options { join, .. }. Duration::ZERO is now refused with Error::Unsupported. Use a duration shorter than one packet for per-packet groups.
• moq-ffi and bindings: gop: Some(MoqVideoGop::Keyframe { interval: n }) becomes join: Some(<duration>). Python's moq.video.Gop.KEYFRAME(interval=n), Swift's Video.Gop.keyframe(interval:), Kotlin's Gop, Go's video.Keyframe(n) and Dart's Keyframe(n) all become a duration on EncoderOutput.join. A zero join is refused.
• moq-c (ABI): moq_video_encoder_output.gop = n becomes .join_us = <µs>. The field is now u64, so recompile. Positional initializers keep the same slot. hint.group_duration_us / has_group_duration become hint.join_us / has_join.

release keeps the old names. moq-dev/moq#8118 is release-only and unaffected.

Choices made without asking

• Config::effective_join() is public. moq-ffi, moq-c and moq-boy declare the catalog interval from the rounded value, as the Plan requires, and they live outside moq-video. A public field join next to a method effective_join reads plainly. The frame count stays crate-private.
• Error::InvalidGop(String) became the unit variant Error::ZeroJoin. Zero is the only invalid join left.
• JS video's Rendition.join is the requested join. The JS encoder places keyframes by timestamp, not by frame count, so nothing rounds. Only Rust video and JS audio round to whole frames.
• moq-audio refuses zero with Error::Unsupported, its existing "unsupported audio configuration" variant, rather than a new variant.
• Tests for a sub-frame join: the old zero cases in the JS and Rust audio tests became 1 ms, which covers the "positive join shorter than a frame rounds up to one" rule.

Validation

• just check origin/main (before the merge from main, which was conflict-free): pass, with 1748 Rust tests and the JS, C, C++, Python, Go, Kotlin, Swift and Dart checks
• bun test src in js/publish: 354 pass
• cargo clippy --all-targets for moq-video (with openh264,v4l2,vaapi), moq-audio, moq-ffi, moq-c, moq-cli, moq-transcode, moq-boy: clean. MediaCodec, Media Foundation and VideoToolbox are reviewed by eye only. Nightly's feature matrix and macOS/Windows jobs build them.
• New tests: a_zero_join_is_refused and the_effective_join_is_whole_frames (30000/1001 fps gives 60 frames = 2002 ms; 1 ms at 30 fps gives 1 frame) in moq-video, a_zero_join_is_refused in moq-audio, a zero join in the FFI producer test, and JS tests for a zero, negative or NaN join, both at construction and live.
• After the review round on 26f6ae5: just check origin/main passes on 0c740bc. The new JS test a refused join withdraws its group spacing fails with the fix removed (declares 40 ms instead of 20 ms).

Review

Codex gpt-6.1-sol at medium effort, via quest review --base origin/main, reviewed head 0c740bc8ccd14abd508c00e5d020ae302878a511 in round 2: no findings. Round 1 on 26f6ae5 had no findings.

Online review threads on 26f6ae5:

• pullfrog, rs/moq-video/README.md:118: fixed (rewrapped).
• CodeRabbit, js/publish/src/audio/encoder.ts:547: fixed. A refused audio join now clears the rendition's spacing, since longestGroup reads every registered rendition. New test added.
• CodeRabbit, rs/moq-video/src/encode/encoder.rs:231: fixed. effective_join() rounds nanoseconds up.
• CodeRabbit, rs/moq-video/src/encode/producer.rs:416: declined. Main has the same behavior, and the interval is declared once by design, with overruns tolerated (rs/moq-mux/src/catalog/interval.rs:9-12).
• CodeRabbit, swift/Sources/Moq/Video.swift:21: fixed (doc says "join interval").

Follow-ups

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Reviewed commit: 26f6ae5
Base: da99078

Findings: No actionable correctness defects found in the join migration.

Direction and coverage:

• The duration-based public setting and private frame-count conversion give the encoder backends and catalog reservations a consistent effective spacing. The existing nearest-frame conversion and at-least-one-frame behavior are retained, including fractional frame rates.
• Rust video rejects zero before opening a backend; audio rejects it before advertising a track. FFI forwards an optional duration, while the C encoder preserves its documented zero-means-default convention. Explicit C hints retain their range validation.
• JS audio clears its resolved config on invalid join values; JS video also guards the running frame path, preventing a live zero from becoming an all-keyframe stream. Tests cover invalid settings, recovery, catalog spacing, and sub-frame joins.
• The API/ABI break is explicit, and migrated bindings, producer reservations, backend settings, examples, and documentation use the new names. No wire-format changes were identified.

Verification: GitHub-only static inspection of the diff and relevant configuration, frame-rate conversion, and live encoding paths. I did not run builds, tests, binding generation, or hardware/browser encoding. Author-reported validation was not independently reproduced. This is a COMMENT, not an approval or merge-readiness certification.

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ℹ️ No functional issues found — one documentation formatting nit inline.

Reviewed changes

• join rename across the stack — video's keyframeInterval/Gop, audio's groupDuration, Rendition.joinInterval, the FFI MoqVideoGop, and the C gop/group_duration_us become one join time in every language.
• Zero refused everywhere — moq-video rejects it in Encoder::new (and so Sink::open/probe), moq-audio in Reserved::new before a track exists, JS video in its knob validation plus a live-encode guard, JS audio now also refusing <= 0.
• Effective vs requested join — public Config::effective_join() (whole frames via FrameRate::frames, .max(1)) now feeds every catalog reservation in moq-video, moq-ffi, moq-c, and moq-boy, preserving the old Gop::duration arithmetic (30 000/1001 at 2 s still declares 2002 ms).
• Backends — all take the frame count from the crate-private keyframe_interval(); MediaCodec converts the same rounded duration to seconds.
• Bindings and docs — Dart regenerated, Py/Go/Kotlin/Swift aliases dropped, docs and the quest file updated.

Verification notes: every with_interval(...) site uses effective_join(), no stale old-name references remain outside release-only MIGRATE.md history, and the frame-count → duration conversions in the backend tests preserve their old frame counts.

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Walkthrough

The pull request standardizes encoder timing settings around join across JavaScript, Rust, C, FFI, and language bindings. Video configuration now uses duration-based joins, with frame-aligned keyframe intervals and effective joins used for catalog reservations. Audio grouping uses join values and rejects zero in the changed encoder paths. Public GOP aliases and related configuration fields are removed or renamed. Tests, examples, and documentation are updated.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 26f6a

The change is mergeable with bounded follow-up: refusing an audio join can leave an old spacing value that affects a subsequent broadcast’s segment grid. Clearing that spacing would remove this edge case.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 74.55% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Title check		The title "refactor!: encoders take a join" matches the main change. The PR renames publisher-facing keyframe and audio group-spacing settings to a shared join time across JS, Rust, FFI, bindings, a…
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The title "refactor!: encoders take a join" matches the main change. The PR renames publisher-facing keyframe and audio group-spacing settings to a shared join time across JS, Rust, FFI, bindings, and C, and refuses zero joins. The title is short, names the change, and uses the conventional refactor! marker for a breaking change. It does not list every detail, which is expected.

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The description is specific and directly related to the changeset. It states that publisher-facing keyframe and audio group-spacing settings become a shared join setting across JavaScript, Rust, FFI, bindings, and C. It lists the affected packages (@moq/publish, moq-video, moq-audio, moq-ffi, moq-c), the zero-join refusal, the documentation updates, migration steps per package, and the validation performed. The raw summary matches these changes, including the renamed fields, the removed Gop types, and the join_us/has_join hint fields.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @js/publish/src/audio/encoder.ts:
- Around line 544-547: In the join validation path using effect.get(this.join),
clear the registered rendition’s existing spacing before throwing when the join
is non-finite or not greater than zero. Ensure a refused join cannot leave stale
spacing available to fix the broadcast’s segment grid; preserve the valid path
that assigns this.#join from the new value.

Review comments at @rs/moq-video/src/encode/encoder.rs:
- Around line 227-231: Update effective_join to round the fractional nanosecond
calculation up instead of truncating, so the returned duration never understates
the GOP interval; update the rounding test to verify this behavior before
millisecond serialization.

Review comments at @rs/moq-video/src/encode/producer.rs:
- Around line 415-416: Update the producer flow that returns
probe_config.effective_join() so the declared interval is derived from the
framerate used after the camera is reopened and matches the encoder’s emitted
join. Do not retain the probe interval when the reopened camera reports a
different rate.

Review comments at @swift/Sources/Moq/Video.swift:
- Around line 20-21: Update the `EncoderOutput` documentation to describe `join`
as a join interval, replacing the outdated group mode wording while preserving
the rest of the description.

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• bench/browser/page/media.ts
• dart/moq/lib/video.dart
• dart/moq_ffi/lib/src/moq.dart
• demo/web/src/publish.ts
• doc/bin/hls.md
• doc/concept/hang.md
• doc/lib/c/index.md
• doc/lib/js/publish.md
• doc/lib/kt/index.md
• doc/lib/rs/moq-audio.md
• doc/lib/rs/moq-video.md
• go/wrapper/video/video.go
• js/publish/api/index.api.md
• js/publish/src/audio/capture.test.ts
• js/publish/src/audio/encoder.test.ts
• js/publish/src/audio/encoder.ts
• js/publish/src/broadcast.test.ts
• js/publish/src/broadcast.ts
• js/publish/src/preview.ts
• js/publish/src/rendition-internal.ts
• js/publish/src/video/capture.test.ts
• js/publish/src/video/encoder-stall.test.ts
• js/publish/src/video/encoder.test.ts
• js/publish/src/video/encoder.ts
• kt/moq/src/jvmAndAndroidMain/kotlin/dev/moq/video/Video.kt
• py/moq-rs/moq/types.py
• py/moq-rs/moq/video.py
• quest/m1/api-audit/README.md
• quest/m1/api-audit/join.md
• rs/moq-audio/src/encode/producer.rs
• rs/moq-boy/src/video.rs
• rs/moq-c/src/api.rs
• rs/moq-c/src/test.rs
• rs/moq-c/src/video.rs
• rs/moq-cli/src/play/media.rs
• rs/moq-ffi/src/test.rs
• rs/moq-ffi/src/video.rs
• rs/moq-transcode/src/rung.rs
• rs/moq-video/DESIGN-native-codecs.md
• rs/moq-video/README.md
• rs/moq-video/src/capture/wgc.rs
• rs/moq-video/src/decode/consumer.rs
• rs/moq-video/src/encode/backend/mediacodec.rs
• rs/moq-video/src/encode/backend/mediafoundation.rs
• rs/moq-video/src/encode/backend/mod.rs
• rs/moq-video/src/encode/backend/nvenc.rs
• rs/moq-video/src/encode/backend/openh264.rs
• rs/moq-video/src/encode/backend/v4l2.rs
• rs/moq-video/src/encode/backend/vaapi.rs
• rs/moq-video/src/encode/backend/videotoolbox.rs
• rs/moq-video/src/encode/encoded.rs
• rs/moq-video/src/encode/encoder.rs
• rs/moq-video/src/encode/mod.rs
• rs/moq-video/src/encode/producer.rs
• rs/moq-video/src/error.rs
• rs/moq-video/src/frame/cuda_test.rs
• rs/moq-video/src/lib.rs
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Reviewed commit: 0c740bc
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No new actionable findings since 26f6ae5.

Direction: clearing audio spacing before refusing an invalid join prevents a still-registered rendition from advertising its obsolete group spacing on a renamed broadcast. The new regression exercises that registration path. Rounding effective_join upward at nanosecond precision preserves the catalog's upper-bound meaning without changing whole-frame encoder cadence; the 30-fps one-frame expectation is correct. Remaining changes are documentation formatting and terminology.

Verification: GitHub-only static review of the five-file delta, spacing registration and broadcast aggregation, Rust cadence/catalog conversion, and regressions. I did not run quest context, tests, builds, binding generation, or browser/hardware encoding. This is a follow-up COMMENT, not approval or a repeat full review of the migration.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

• Fixed moq-video's Config::effective_join() to round the frame count's nanoseconds up with div_ceil, so the catalog's declared interval never undercuts the stream; the 30 000/1001 and 1 ms-at-30 fps expectations now assert 33 333 334 ns.
• Withdrew a refused audio rendition's group spacing before throwing, so a renamed broadcast no longer inherits the stale interval while the video's shorter join wins; added a regression test covering that registration path.
• Rewrapped the rs/moq-video/README.md join paragraph and corrected the Swift EncoderOutput doc to say "join interval".

The new audio test passes locally (53/53 in src/audio/encoder.test.ts), and the prior Pullfrog thread on the README wrap is resolved by this commit.

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Heads-up from moq-dev/moq#8088, the API audit's final pass: it keeps quest/m1/api-audit/README.md, with this PR's join.md as the epic's only child, and records that the epic's own work is done. If #8088 lands first, this PR finishes the epic's last child, so it should delete quest/m1/api-audit/README.md (and its links in quest/m1/README.md and quest/m2/README.md) rather than only dropping its Required section. quest rm quest/m1/api-audit/README.md removes the file and every link to it.

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