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fix(watch): video's declared-end freeze is not a stall - #8240

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Summary

Video's playback state from #8209 gains an ended phase: once the publisher declares the media ends, the held last picture runs no buffering timer, so it counts no stall, adds no stalled time, and the echo stalls/stalled feedback stays put, as audio already does for a declared silence. out.stalled likewise stays false there, matching audio's stalled && !silent, including a declared end before the first picture, which ends startup buffering. Entering the phase clears a stall already raised and stops its stalled time. A later group starting a new timeline clears it.

Closes the quest quest/m1/explicit-state/video-declared-end.md.

Choices made without asking

  • ended turns on when the end marker is read, which can be just before the final group's last pictures present. A freeze in that short window is not counted; the frames are already local, so only a decode hiccup could cause one.
  • out.stalled also follows the phase, not only the counts, so audio and video agree on the buffering indicator too.
  • A declared end turns off buffering even while an earlier rendition's poster shows (CodeRabbit asked to keep it): nothing more is coming, so the spinner would wait forever.

Testing

  • New test: a declared end held 3 s past the last picture counts no stall and leaves stalled false. It fails without the fix.
  • New test: a declared end before the first picture clears stalled. It fails without the fix.
  • New test: a declared end after a stall began clears stalled and stops the stalled time.
  • quest gate nix develop --command just ci passed.
  • bun test src/video/decoder.test.ts, tsc, biome, quest check.

Public API: none. Wire: none.

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  • Session: 01a1b9ca-20b1-7021-893d-710634acf825, round 1
  • Head: 8564076 (2160638 adds only a conflict-free merge of main)
  • Base: origin/main at a32d5db
  • Score: 9/10, The change is focused and consistent with existing behavior, with manual-clock regression coverage.
  • Findings: none

kixelated and others added 2 commits November 7, 2026 17:20
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@kixelated kixelated changed the title Video's declared-end freeze is not a stall fix(watch): video's declared-end freeze is not a stall Nov 8, 2026
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  • js/watch/src/video/decoder.test.ts
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The decoder now tracks accepted media end markers and exposes the end state through the active rendition. Playback tracking enters an ended state when the rendition has declared an end, and buffering detection skips stall detection in that state. A new test checks that legacy and CMAF playback keep the last picture displayed without increasing stall metrics or feedback. The related quest requirement and planning document were removed.

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 06c28

Declared ends stop final-picture stall counting, but an empty replacement stream can leave an old picture visible without a buffering indicator. Merge risk is bounded to this display-state edge case.

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Title check Passed The title names the main change: video's declared-end freeze is no longer counted as a stall. The raw summary shows the decoder.ts change adds an ended state that skips the buffering timer for declare…
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Description check Passed The description is specific and tied to the changeset. It states that video playback gains an ended phase after a publisher declares the media end. It says the held last picture runs no buffering ti…
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The title names the main change: video's declared-end freeze is no longer counted as a stall. The raw summary shows the decoder.ts change adds an ended state that skips the buffering timer for declared ends, and the test covers that behavior, so the title matches the changeset.

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The description is specific and tied to the changeset. It states that video playback gains an ended phase after a publisher declares the media end. It says the held last picture runs no buffering timer, adds no stall count or stalled time, and leaves echo stalls/stalled feedback unchanged, matching audio's declared-silence behavior. It also names three new tests, lists the checks run, and says the PR has no public API or wire changes. These claims match the raw summary, which describes the ended state in decoder.ts, the new stall test in decoder.test.ts, and deletion of the quest document.

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Reviewed 06c283a.

No actionable findings. The declared end now has one source of truth on the clock-driving decoder, shared by buffering, stall accounting and timeline restart. Entering ended cancels the stall timer; a later group clears it and restarts the timeline, while gaps preserve the declared end. Both legacy and CMAF reads use that same path. The new regression uses Manual time and checks the held picture, buffering indicator, stall count and echo count beyond the timeout.

Direction: deriving the playback phase from the existing end-group state is preferable to a second independent ended flag. The documented choice to stop counting when the marker is read, before remaining local pictures finish presenting, is retained.

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ℹ️ Minor suggestions only.

Reviewed changes

  • Declared-end phase for video playback — Playback gains "ended", set from the rendition's declared end, so the 500 ms buffering timer never arms and a held last picture counts no stall or stalled time.
  • One declared-end signal — DecoderTrack's private #endGroup becomes Signal<bigint | undefined>, exposed as Rendition.ended; timeline restart, buffering, and stall checks all derive from it.
  • Quest completion — removes quest/m1/explicit-state/video-declared-end.md and its README.md entry.
  • Regression test — a declared end held 3 s past the last picture asserts out.stalled false, zero stalls, and zero echo feedback.

I checked that the new test fails without the fix by reverting the #runStalls and #runBuffering halves separately, so both are guarded. The reorder suggested inline still passes it.

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Comment thread js/watch/src/video/decoder.ts Resolved

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Actionable comments posted: 2

Nitpick comments: 2

js/watch/src/video/decoder.test.ts: 2

1230-1230: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

Cover CMAF in the declared-end stall test.

cold() selects legacy playback, so this test does not check the CMAF decoder loop’s stall behavior. Run the same held-picture and stall assertions with CMAF playback. The fixture uses synthetic reads, so this will not test CMAF parsing.

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Review comment at @js/watch/src/video/decoder.test.ts at line 1230:
Extend the declared-end stall test to run its held-picture and stall assertions
with CMAF playback as well as the existing legacy path. Update the test setup
around cold() to select CMAF playback for the additional case, keeping the
synthetic reads and existing assertions unchanged.

1239-1244: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

Test buffering after a declared-end restart.

Start a later group and hold its first decoded picture for more than 500 ms. Assert that out.stalled becomes true. The current test ends before the restart, so it cannot detect an ended signal that remains set during that wait.

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Review comment at @js/watch/src/video/decoder.test.ts around lines 1239 - 1244:
Extend the test around the later-group marker and restart to hold its first
decoded picture for more than 500 ms, then assert that
playback.decoder.out.stalled becomes true during the wait. Ensure the test
exercises buffering after the declared-end restart rather than ending before the
restart.

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Review comments at @js/watch/src/video/decoder.ts:
- Around line 467-469: Update the accepted-end handling in the no-frame path
near the active picture’s ended check so a video-only source ending before any
picture arrives clears out.stalled and the buffering indicator. Preserve
buffering when a picture is still being decoded, and do not alter the behavior
for an end that has not been accepted.
- Around line 468-469: Update the buffering timer guard around
`effect.get(this.#active)` and `active.ended` so an end marker suppresses
buffering only when the displayed picture belongs to the active rendition’s
current timeline; keep buffering active when the visible picture is from a
previous rendition.

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Review comments at @js/watch/src/video/decoder.test.ts:
- Line 1230: Extend the declared-end stall test to run its held-picture and
stall assertions with CMAF playback as well as the existing legacy path. Update
the test setup around cold() to select CMAF playback for the additional case,
keeping the synthetic reads and existing assertions unchanged.
- Around line 1239-1244: Extend the test around the later-group marker and
restart to hold its first decoded picture for more than 500 ms, then assert that
playback.decoder.out.stalled becomes true during the wait. Ensure the test
exercises buffering after the declared-end restart rather than ending before the
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Comment thread js/watch/src/video/decoder.ts Resolved
Comment thread js/watch/src/video/decoder.ts Outdated
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const active = effect.get(this.#active);
if (active && effect.get(active.ended) !== undefined) return;

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Keep buffering active for a poster from the previous rendition.

If a republished rendition ends before producing a picture, the previous rendition's picture remains visible. The new end marker then suppresses buffering indefinitely. Suppress the timer only when the displayed picture belongs to the active rendition's current timeline.

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Update the buffering timer guard around `effect.get(this.#active)` and
`active.ended` so an end marker suppresses buffering only when the displayed
picture belongs to the active rendition’s current timeline; keep buffering
active when the visible picture is from a previous rendition.

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Declining. A republished rendition that declares its end before producing a picture will never produce one, so keeping the spinner up would wait forever on nothing. The held poster is the last thing that will show until a later group starts a new timeline, which clears ended and re-arms buffering (DecoderTrack read handling). This matches audio, whose declared silence clears its stalled state regardless of what was played before.

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Reviewed 2160638 against the prior reviewed head 06c283a and current base.

No new actionable findings. The accepted-end check now precedes the missing-picture branch in js/watch/src/video/decoder.ts, so an end before the first picture clears startup buffering. The added Manual-clock tests cover that case and an end arriving after a stall has begun, including closing its elapsed time without adding another count. Both source and test blobs are unchanged by the subsequent main merges.

Direction: keep the single declared-end signal shared by buffering and stall accounting. The documented choice to stop buffering even when an older rendition's poster remains visible is consistent with the accepted end.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

  • Declared end before the first picture ends buffering — #runBuffering now checks the active rendition's declared end above the !frame early return and clears out.stalled there, so a video-only source that ends before any picture stops the spinner instead of waiting forever.
  • Regression test for a raised stall closed by a declared end — asserts out.stalled clears on the marker, the accumulated stats.stalled stops growing, and the stall count and echo feedback stay at 1.
  • Regression test for a declared end during startup — asserts an initial stalled true becomes false once the marker arrives with no frame, and no stall is counted.

I re-ran bun test src/video/decoder.test.ts (99 pass) and swapped in the previous head's decoder.ts to confirm the startup test is the one that fails without the reorder; the other two guard the earlier stall-accounting halves. The prior inline concern about the !frame early return is addressed and its thread is resolved.

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