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Problem

A pending codec support check or probe flush prevents a video encoder effect from rerunning after camera off/on. The probe also keeps its codec open. A stuck final black-frame flush similarly blocks resume and final shutdown.

Approach

Cancel superseded probes and close their codecs unconditionally. Let re-enabling or per-track effect closure cancel the final black-frame flush while retaining the normal black-frame output. Release the ordering seat before the compatibility frame, and ignore teardown output in the delay estimator. Capture recovery uses the existing enabled toggle.

Impact

• No new public API. Camera and microphone capture can be retried by toggling enabled off and on.
• No wire change.

Alternatives

Kept the existing bounded device-recovery policy and the compatibility black frame. No timeout or new automatic retry loop is used to release a stuck effect.

Follow-ups

A release backport is recommended for the cancellation fix, preserving the released API. The broader capture-phase redesign remains separate in moq-dev/moq#8145.

Iteration

Claude round 1 findings addressed: ordering membership ends before the cosmetic flush and teardown output cannot rejoin; unused capture retry methods removed in favor of the enabled toggle. Responses are in the checkout's .tmp/responses-claude-r2.md.

Validation

• This iteration: just ci passed locally. The five stalled-flush seat-release cases fail against the original encoder and pass with the fix. Focused encoder and capture tests pass.

• Track-closed and track-replaced stalled black-frame flush regressions fail before the lifecycle fix and pass after it. All 53 encoder tests pass; codec closure and ordering-slot release are asserted.

• just ci passed locally on 1e8dd81489668b86de6dc4e29ec0716df7ab7e9e.

• Deferred support and probe-flush regressions fail before the fix and pass after it; the abandoned browser promise remains pending.

• Final-frame flush regressions cover resume, final close, and broadcast detach, including a failing-before detach reproduction.

• Camera/microphone enabled-toggle recovery is covered.

• just ci passed locally, including the iteration changes; all 94 focused capture and encoder tests pass.

• Hang's browser regression fails on the original encoder with a held native codec support promise and passes on this head, recovering remote video before releasing the old promise. Held probe-flush and final-frame-flush cases pass too. Native encoding and decoding remain real.

• Hang's actual camera/microphone controls recover through separate relay-connected Chromium pages: advancing decoded video, advancing decoded audio with nonzero PCM, repeated toggles, cancelled pending requests, permission denial and Retry, device selection, track loss, and teardown while capture remains pending. Fake devices and synthetic track-ended events cover lifecycle behavior; physical hardware/browser permission dialogs are not measured.

Review

Claude Opus 5.5 (medium) via quest review --harness claude, session a5bea0b3-db51-42b4-859b-62fa7a51c221:

• Round 1 on 1e8dd81489: a medium ordering-seat teardown finding and a low unused retry API finding, both fixed.
• Round 2 on 1ceb7ac762 (base 6f66d5593a), with the fix responses: no findings.

Decision

Maintainer (2026-11-07): ✅ Keep waiting for the compatibility black frame while muted; track closure or replacement cancels the wait and releases the codec and ordering slot.

Models

Size: M
Implementer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort

(Written by GPT-6.1 Sol with medium)

[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed head 18dbfe0.

No actionable findings. Cancelling superseded codec checks and probes is the right direction for effects that wait for spawned work before rerunning. Probe cleanup now releases the codec even with a pending browser promise, and the final black-frame flush can unwind on re-enable or per-track closure, including broadcast detach. The explicit capture retry methods reuse the existing retry budget rather than introducing an automatic loop.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static review of the changes and surrounding encoder, capture, retry and signal lifecycle code. I inspected the pending-promise and detach regressions but did not run tests or browser/hardware capture checks; the reported runtime results remain author-provided.

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

Camera and microphone sources now expose retry(), which clears the output error and refunds the retry budget. Video encoder codec probes and disable-frame flushing now race pending operations against cancellation. Tests cover source retry after permission errors and encoder cancellation during probes and stalled flushes.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 18dbf

The cancellation changes are mergeable with bounded follow-up: explicit retry can briefly interrupt a recovered capture, and an uncommon repeated disabled notification can leave older viewers displaying the previous frame.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title describes the cancellation of superseded capture codec work, a main change in the PR.
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description check		The description is specific to the changeset. It explains the problem with pending codec support checks and probe flushes blocking the video encoder effect after camera off/on, and a stuck final black…

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The description is specific to the changeset. It explains the problem with pending codec support checks and probe flushes blocking the video encoder effect after camera off/on, and a stuck final black-frame flush blocking resume and shutdown. It describes the approach: cancelling superseded probes, closing their codecs, cancelling the final black-frame flush on re-enable or track closure, and using the existing enabled toggle for capture recovery. It also lists validation, follow-ups, and review history. These details match the raw summary's encoder, camera, microphone, and retry test changes.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @js/publish/src/source/camera.ts:
- Around line 176-179: Update Camera.retry() and Microphone.retry() to preserve
an active capture when there is no failed capture to retry; only refund the
retry mechanism when a failed capture is pending. Keep clearing the error state
as appropriate, and avoid stopping or reopening a live track.

Review comments at @js/publish/src/video/encoder.ts:
- Line 605: Update the black-frame flush wait near encoder.flush() so a
notification that video remains disabled does not end the wait; continue waiting
for the flush unless video is re-enabled or effect.closed resolves. Preserve the
existing behavior for flush errors.

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• js/publish/api/index.api.md
• js/publish/src/source/camera.ts
• js/publish/src/source/microphone.ts
• js/publish/src/source/retry.test.ts
• js/publish/src/video/encoder.test.ts
• js/publish/src/video/encoder.ts

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[pullfrog]

ℹ️ Minor suggestions only.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed both commits at 18dbfe0 — the raw diff, the surrounding encoder/signals lifecycle code, and the new tests — and ran bun test for js/publish (362 pass), tsc --noEmit, and biome check on the five changed TS files, all clean.

• Superseded probe cancellation: #bestCodec now races isConfigSupported through effect.race and returns undefined on teardown, and probeEncoder registers effect.cleanup(close) plus races flush(), so a probe releases its codec even when the browser never settles either promise.
• Final black-frame flush: the disable teardown races the cosmetic flush against in.enabled and the track effect's closed, so resume, encoder close, and broadcast detach all release a stalled flush.
• Explicit capture retry: Source.Camera.retry() and Source.Microphone.retry() clear out.error and refund the existing retry budget rather than adding an automatic loop; the API report matches.
• Regressions: held support-check/probe-flush cases, a stalled final flush across resume/close/detach, and explicit retry for both sources.

ℹ️ User-facing docs still say a refused capture only retries on a settings change

Adding retry() gives applications a way to retry a terminal capture failure without toggling enabled or changing settings, but both user-facing statements that describe the recovery path still list only automatic triggers, so a developer reading them would conclude no explicit retry exists.

Technical details

# Stale capture-retry documentation

## Affected sites
- `js/publish/README.md:88` — "A refused capture is not retried until permission, device selection, constraints, or the source's enabled state changes." Calling `retry()` now retries it, so this is false as written.
- `doc/lib/js/publish.md:52-53` — "A refused capture waits for a permission, device, or settings change instead of prompting again." Omits the explicit retry, and `retry()` does re-attempt (and may re-prompt if permission was changed externally).

## Required outcome
- Both sentences mention the explicit `retry()` as a recovery path alongside the automatic triggers, without duplicating the method's TSDoc.

## Suggested approach (optional)
- README: append "or the app calls `retry()`" to the trigger list, e.g. "...until permission, device selection, constraints, the source's enabled state, or an explicit `retry()` changes it."
- `doc/`: add a short clause such as "or until the app calls its `retry()`".

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[kixelated]

Addressed pullfrog’s documentation finding: both the publish README and user guide now include the app’s explicit retry() as a recovery path after refused capture.

(Written by GPT-6.1 Sol with medium)

[kixelated]

Maintainer decision (2026-11-07, /quest-complete): ✅ Keep the compatibility black frame: wait for its flush while muted, and make track closure or replacement cancel that wait so the codec and ordering slot are released. The alternative of releasing teardown immediately and dropping the black frame on a stall was not selected.

(Written by GPT-6.1 Sol with medium)

[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed 1ceb7ac, including the updates since 18dbfe0 on the unchanged base.

No new actionable findings. The final-frame wait now ignores repeated disabled notifications and releases on track closure/replacement as well as resume or effect closure. Releasing the ordering seat before the cosmetic flush, with teardown output excluded from the estimator, prevents a stalled codec from holding sibling delay. Removing the retry methods also eliminates the previously reported healthy-capture interruption path; recovery uses the existing enabled toggle.

Direction is sound: preserve the compatibility frame while muted without making its completion a prerequisite for replacement or shutdown. The extended stalled-flush tests cover those lifecycle cases and seat release.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static review of the full/incremental changes, encoder/capture tests, signals lifecycle and ordering code. No tests or browser/hardware checks run; author-reported runtime results were not independently reproduced.

[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed the full net diff at 1ceb7ac, including the four commits since the previous Pullfrog review at 18dbfe0, and traced the signals lifecycle behind each new wait.

• Probe cancellation — #bestCodec now races VideoEncoder.isConfigSupported() through effect.race and hands the effect to probeEncoder, which races flush() and registers effect.cleanup(close), so a superseded probe releases its codec even when the browser never settles either promise. This matches the audio probe's existing effect.race(encoder.flush()) pattern.
• Final black-frame flush — the disable teardown releases order.leave before encoding the cosmetic frame, skips the delay estimator for teardown output, and waits on race([flush, enabled, tracks, track.closed, effect.closed]) instead of an unconditional flush(). Re-enabling, track close, track replacement, broadcast detach, and encoder close all release the wait, and a repeated enabled: false notification re-arms it rather than ending it.
• Recovery path — the intermediate Camera.retry()/Microphone.retry() API was removed, so the net diff adds no public surface. Toggling enabled already refunds the retry budget and clears out.error, and doc/lib/js/publish.md now documents that path; js/publish/README.md remains accurate as written.
• Regressions — held support-check and probe-flush promises no longer block the next capture, and the stalled final flush is covered across resume, close, detach, track close, and track replacement, asserting the codec is closed while the flush is still pending.

The previous round's docs finding is resolved by removing retry() and describing the enabled toggle. Re-ran bun test src/video/encoder.test.ts src/source/retry.test.ts (96 pass, 0 fail) and bunx tsc --noEmit (clean) at this head. Real browser/hardware behavior remains author-reported.

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