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fix(audio): native playback stretches where audio arrives, and reports A/V lag - #8361
moq play --metrics now reports native A/V lag. Native playback now decides its time stretch where audio arrives, as the browser's ring does, instead of on the depth at each callback, which expanded into the gaps between arrivals and settled audio behind the presentation clock.
Finishes quest quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/native-av-lag.md (deleted). Its Nightly calibration wait already lives in Native stretch, which now records the decisions below as its av_lag_ms budget rule.
Changes
moq_mux::sync::Consumer::position(at): the media time the presentation clock presents at an instant, Rust's counterpart to js/watchSync.now(). moq play --metrics writes it as each sample's clock, so analyze.ts grades native av_lag_ms unchanged.
rs/moq-audio ring: the writer publishes written after each push. The reader decides on the depth when it last saw an arrival, less what the stretch removed since (Arrivals, boxed beside the stretcher). Any excess accelerates (lag ≤ excess), and 20 ms of excess fast-accelerates, as the browser does. It expands only when every arrival over the last 1 to 2 s rendered fell short, admitting a lag ≤ shortfall. That still follows a publisher clock slower than the device's.
Stretch::process(frames, excess, enabled) takes a signed excess. The shared corpus vectors carry excess in place of buffered/target with unchanged PCM (hold-in-band is now hold-on-target). The JS corpus test reads it directly.
doc/concept/audio-jitter.md: one shared Decision section, plus native's expand rule.
New test bursts_settle_on_the_target_where_they_arrive: 100 ms bursts against a 120 ms target. main's decision settles 190 ms deep; this one settles 120 to 150 ms. The drift test (both clock directions, target changes) passes unchanged.
Measurements
The 12 native rows run locally (just test audio-quality --runtimes native, seed 7, 60 s, loaded developer host), once on main's decision and once on this branch:
row
lag p50 before
lag p50 after
lag p95 after
underruns/min before → after
accelerated ms/min before → after
aac bursty
88.2
5.3
17.3
0 → 0
2031.9 → 335.4
aac fixed-250
67.3
-15.9
-6.9
0 → 0
2013.1 → 93.7
aac mild
84.4
2.4
13
0 → 0
2061.7 → 138.1
aac near-zero
87.6
1.3
7.3
0 → 0
2031.8 → 54.3
aac step
86.5
6.6
24.1
0 → 613.6
2007.4 → 1622.7
aac wide
69.9
2.9
13.6
0 → 17.3
2115.9 → 338.8
opus bursty
59.7
4.2
11.5
0 → 0
2007.4 → 201.3
opus fixed-250
11.3
-13.1
-6.7
0 → 0
1163.7 → 9.9
opus mild
21.8
1.4
8.2
0 → 0
996.3 → 182.5
opus near-zero
20.5
2.1
4.9
0 → 0
764.4 → 49.3
opus step
21.2
3.6
39.6
9.8 → 25
744.7 → 78.9
opus wide
38.9
2.7
10.4
0 → 0
1898.9 → 251.5
AAC under main's decision accelerated about 2 s a minute even at fixed-250, while expanding back into the gaps between PES bursts. No row voided, and no trims or player skips happened either way.
Why AAC step underruns: they start at 47 s, when the estimator relaxes its target from 223 to 186 ms. moq play sets the sink's target per frame to due(end) - now on the shared clock. The clock's reference is the earliest arrival ever and never moves later, while the estimator measures against the fastest frame of the last 2 s. After the 5 → 60 ms delay step, the clock-aligned depth stays about 55 ms short of the estimator's target, which is below AAC's ~160 ms PES burst spacing. main's decision hid this by settling a burst behind.
Decisions
Settled by the maintainer on 2026-11-09 (/quest-complete):
AAC step underruns after a persistent delay increase: ✅ accept them in this PR, and plan a follow-up so the shared clock's reference follows such an increase (rejected: floor the native sink target at the estimator's target; keep main's decision).
The adaptive rows' p50 of 1.3 to 6.6 ms against the Goal's "at or below zero": ✅ accept a p50 within one pitch period as aligned, and budget it as measured (rejected: let an ordinary accelerate overshoot by up to one period in both players).
The third wait, native av_lag_ms ceilings from seven Nightlies on a main that includes this PR, can only clear after it lands, so it stays in Native stretch's ## Waiting rather than holding this PR a draft.
Choices made without asking
Decide on the depth when the callback first sees an arrival, not when it is pushed, so the callback stays lock-free. That depth counts up to one device period already played, which is documented.
The drift window is the last 1 to 2 s rendered, as two halves counted in rendered frames.
Re-key the shared corpus to excess rather than map NetEq's buffered/target per language.
moq-audio: no public change; the stretcher and ring are crate-private.
Wire: none.
Caused by
moq-dev/moq#7856 - native time stretch decided on the depth at each callback, which expands into the gaps between arrivals.
Follow-ups
Plan (recommended): the shared clock's reference (moq_mux::sync and js/watchSync) follows a delay increase that every arrival in the estimator's window shows, which clears the AAC step underruns and re-aligns video, late by the step too (decision 1).
Models
Size: M
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, medium effort
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, medium effort (iterate, M)
Score: 9/10, The arrival-based correction and metrics changes appear consistent with their callers and shared vectors, with no actionable defects found; builds and tests were not run, as instructed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Native audio never settles behind its presentation clock
fix(audio): native playback stretches where audio arrives, and reports A/V lag
Nov 9, 2026
[P2] Observe arrivals before draining the staged window — rs/moq-audio/src/ring.rs:689–693. The written load is reached only after native.stretch.available() becomes zero; callbacks served entirely by staged output continue at lines 644–652 without observing arrivals. With 10 ms callbacks and 20 ms still staged, a burst that leaves the queue 10 ms above its target is first recorded two callbacks later as 10 ms below it. newest = written - rendered then preserves that drained depth, losing the actual excess until another arrival. This can suppress necessary acceleration and, once the deepest-history window expires, allow expansion caused by sampling delay rather than publisher drift. The error is a stretch-window delay, not the documented one-device-period approximation.
Direction: record newly published arrivals at callback entry, before rendering staged PCM, while keeping stretch decisions at window boundaries. Add a regression that pushes between partial reads of a staged window and verifies the recorded excess survives those ordinary reads.
The presentation-clock metric and shared corpus changes appear consistent with their consumers. The accepted AAC delay-step tradeoff is not raised again. Verification: static GitHub review only; no builds, tests, or audio measurements run. The head's Check run reports failure with no jobs exposed by GitHub, so CI was not verified.
Audio stretch decisions now use signed excess relative to the target. Native playback derives that excess from arrival history and rendered frames, while browser cases hold when native would expand. Playback samples now include an optional presentation-clock value from sync::Consumer::position. The documentation, shared corpus, tests, and metric descriptions reflect these changes.
Merge Risk: Low · up to b93e1
Playback can retain some excess latency, and reported A/V lag can include sampling and stretch-projection error. These bounded issues permit merging with owner awareness and follow-up; documentation, typed-unit compliance, and focused tests also need attention.
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rs/moq-audio/src/stretch.rs: 1
78-80: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Add native tests for pitch periods that exceed the excess.
With a 240-frame pitch and an excess of 1 or -1, removing the admission guard would still pass the PCM vectors and finite-input test. Assert unchanged PCM and length for both signs. Also test equality at the pitch boundary.
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Review comment at @rs/moq-audio/src/stretch.rs around lines 78 - 80:
Add native tests for the Accelerate and Expand paths around the pitch admission
guard: use a 240-frame pitch period with excess values of 1 and -1, and assert
that PCM and output length remain unchanged. Also cover the equality boundary
where the pitch period equals the absolute excess.
rs/moq-mux/src/sync.rs: 1
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Test the anchored clock position.
Add a test that anchors the clock and asserts the expected Consumer::position value. If this method returns None, native metrics omit clock and A/V lag becomes null. The analyzer test supplies synthetic clock values, so it cannot detect that regression.
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Add a test for Consumer::position that anchors the clock using the existing
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Review comments at @quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/native-stretch.md:
- Around line 44-45: Update the native expansion description around the
publisher/device clock comparison to state that expansion can occur when recent
arrival depths remain below the target, even when the clocks match; do not limit
the condition to publisher clock drift.
Review comments at @rs/moq-audio/src/ring.rs:
- Around line 644-646: Reorder arrival observation in the `self.stretch` drain
path so newly arrived audio is recorded before staged output is read and can be
played. Preserve the existing `native.stretch.read` and `native.arrivals.render`
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ms callback drains the staged output.
Review comments at @rs/moq-cli/src/play/metrics.rs:
- Line 253: Update the playhead reporting path around `clock.map(ms)` to account
for media progress actually rendered through the audio stretcher, rather than
projecting at wall-clock rate; preserve the existing clock mapping while
ensuring accelerated audio does not appear behind the presentation clock.
- Line 247: Update the metrics sampling path around
`self.presentation.position(now)` to capture the sample time and
presentation-clock state as one consistent snapshot. Compute the clock position
from that snapshot so a schedule change after time capture cannot affect the
sample.
- Line 43: Update the clock field in Sample from a bare floating-point value to
Option<Duration>, and convert the duration to floating-point milliseconds at
serialization so the existing metrics schema remains unchanged.
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Review comments at @rs/moq-audio/src/stretch.rs:
- Around line 78-80: Add native tests for the Accelerate and Expand paths around
the pitch admission guard: use a 240-frame pitch period with excess values of 1
and -1, and assert that PCM and output length remain unchanged. Also cover the
equality boundary where the pitch period equals the absolute excess.
Review comments at @rs/moq-mux/src/sync.rs:
- Around line 714-715: Add a test for Consumer::position that anchors the clock
using the existing clock setup, then asserts the expected position at a chosen
Instant. Ensure the test catches an unexpected None result without relying on
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rs/moq-audio/src/ring.rs
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Describe the arrival-depth condition for expansion.
A sustained increase in network delay can leave recent arrivals below the target even when the publisher and device clocks match. Native playback can then expand. Describe the arrival-depth condition instead of limiting expansion to clock drift.
Suggested edit
--- "a/quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/native-stretch.md"+++ "b/quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/native-stretch.md"@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@
(decided 2026-11-08).
[moq-dev/moq#8361](https://github.com/moq-dev/moq/pull/8361) measured native
settling behind its clock the same way (A/V lag p50 up to 88 ms) and moves it
-onto that decision, with an expand only for a publisher clock slower than the-device's.+onto that decision, with native expansion when recent arrival depths remain+below the target.
Analysis samples NetEq's 48 kHz FIR on a virtual clock for other
device rates and uses floating-point peak refinement and fades. Those
arithmetic adaptations are documented, not claimed bit-identical to int16
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onto that decision, with an expand only for a publisher clock slower than the
device's.
onto that decision, with native expansion when recent arrival depths remain
below the target.
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Review comment at @quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/native-stretch.md around lines
44 - 45:
Update the native expansion description around the publisher/device clock
comparison to state that expansion can occur when recent arrival depths remain
below the target, even when the clocks match; do not limit the condition to
publisher clock drift.
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Observe arrivals before draining staged output.
When audio arrives with 20 ms staged, two 10 ms callbacks can play before Arrivals::excess sees it. A 140 ms arrival peak against a 120 ms target can therefore appear on target, preventing acceleration and retaining extra latency. Record arrivals before draining staged output.
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Review comment at @rs/moq-audio/src/ring.rs around lines 644 - 646:
Reorder arrival observation in the `self.stretch` drain path so newly arrived
audio is recorded before staged output is read and can be played. Preserve the
existing `native.stretch.read` and `native.arrivals.render` behavior while
ensuring arrival tracking accounts for arrivals before either 10 ms callback
drains the staged output.
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clock stores bare milliseconds, so Sample cannot enforce its unit. Store it as Option<Duration> and serialize it as floating-point milliseconds to preserve the metrics schema.
As per coding guidelines, “Typed units only (Duration, moq_net::Timestamp), never f64 seconds or bare millis.”
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Update the clock field in Sample from a bare floating-point value to
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If an arrival moves the schedule after now is captured, position(now) uses the new schedule for the old instant. This can create a spurious A/V-lag sample and affect reported percentiles. Capture the time and presentation-clock state together.
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Update the metrics sampling path around `self.presentation.position(now)` to
capture the sample time and presentation-clock state as one consistent snapshot.
Compute the clock position from that snapshot so a schedule change after time
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Account for stretch in the reported playhead.
When audio is accelerated between writes, Playhead still projects at wall rate. A metrics sample can therefore report several milliseconds of A/V lag even when the rendered audio matches the presentation clock. Track rendered media progress through the stretcher when reporting the playhead.
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Update the playhead reporting path around `clock.map(ms)` to account for media
progress actually rendered through the audio stretcher, rather than projecting
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ℹ️ No behavioral issues found — one minor stale-reference cleanup.
Reviewed changes
Arrival-based native decision (rs/moq-audio/src/ring.rs): Shared::written is published after each push, and Arrivals records the queue depth at each arrival (using written - rendered as the anchor), returning the newest arrival's excess above the target or, when neither of the last two rendered one-second halves reached it, the deepest shortfall.
Signed-excess stretch (rs/moq-audio/src/stretch.rs): process now takes excess: isize; accelerate and expand admit a pitch period only when it fits the excess, while fast still bypasses at NetEq's 20 ms granularity.
Native A/V lag (rs/moq-mux/src/sync.rs, rs/moq-cli/src/play/metrics.rs): additive sync::Consumer::position(Instant) plus a clock sample field, so analyze.ts grades av_lag_ms on native rows unchanged.
Shared spec, corpus, and browser test (doc/concept/audio-jitter.md, doc/concept/audio-jitter/stretch/corpus.json, js/watch/src/audio/stretch.test.ts): one shared ### Decision section, the corpus re-keyed from buffered/target to signed excess with unchanged PCM, and the browser test holding wherever native expands.
Quest bookkeeping (quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/{README,native-av-lag,native-stretch}.md): the finished quest is deleted, its README bullet removed, and its Nightly calibration rule folded into Native stretch's waiting item.
Harness docs (test/audio-quality/README.md, test/audio-quality/clients/js/src/schema.ts): av_lag_ms and clock are no longer documented as unset natively.
ℹ️ The moved fast threshold strands four "four times the target" references
The stretch now fast-accelerates at 20 ms of excess rather than at four times the target, but four comments and docs still use "the fast threshold" as a synonym for the old 4× distance. Each one now describes a rule the code no longer applies, and two of them (the CLI trim notes) read as if 20 ms of excess were not stretched.
Technical details
# The fast threshold moved to 20 ms, but four places still name 4× the target## Affected sites-`doc/concept/audio-jitter.md:753` — "The CLI's incoming-media trim is reserved for a distance at the fast threshold, not ordinary 20 ms drift": the fast threshold *is* 20 ms of excess now, so the contrast with 20 ms drift is gone. The CLI `fit` (`rs/moq-cli/src/play/timeline.rs:155`) still trims at `4 * (target + slack)`.
-`rs/moq-cli/src/play/media.rs:846` — "NetEq's fast threshold (four times target + granularity)": the parenthetical names a threshold `Stretch::decide` no longer uses (`rate * 20 / 1000`).
-`quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/native-stretch.md:35` — lists "4x fast threshold" among what the port retains; this PR replaces that rule (and the shared spec already dropped the claim).
-`quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/native-stretch.md:55` — "an incoming excess at the fast threshold trim[s]": the trim is still at 4×, but 20 ms of excess now fast-accelerates instead.
## Required outcome- Each site either spells the CLI/write-path distance as four times the target plus the 20 ms granularity, or says the stretch fast-accelerates at 20 ms of excess, whichever it actually describes.
## Suggested approach (optional)-`doc/concept/audio-jitter.md:753` and `native-stretch.md:55` describe the CLI `fit` trim, so name `4 * (target + 20 ms)` explicitly.
-`media.rs:846` and `native-stretch.md:35` describe the stretch, so drop the "4x"/"four times" wording.
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moq play --metricsnow reports native A/V lag. Native playback now decides its time stretch where audio arrives, as the browser's ring does, instead of on the depth at each callback, which expanded into the gaps between arrivals and settled audio behind the presentation clock.Finishes quest
quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/native-av-lag.md(deleted). Its Nightly calibration wait already lives in Native stretch, which now records the decisions below as itsav_lag_msbudget rule.Changes
moq_mux::sync::Consumer::position(at): the media time the presentation clock presents at an instant, Rust's counterpart tojs/watchSync.now().moq play --metricswrites it as each sample'sclock, soanalyze.tsgrades nativeav_lag_msunchanged.rs/moq-audioring: the writer publisheswrittenafter each push. The reader decides on the depth when it last saw an arrival, less what the stretch removed since (Arrivals, boxed beside the stretcher). Any excess accelerates (lag ≤ excess), and 20 ms of excess fast-accelerates, as the browser does. It expands only when every arrival over the last 1 to 2 s rendered fell short, admitting a lag ≤ shortfall. That still follows a publisher clock slower than the device's.Stretch::process(frames, excess, enabled)takes a signed excess. The shared corpus vectors carryexcessin place ofbuffered/targetwith unchanged PCM (hold-in-bandis nowhold-on-target). The JS corpus test reads it directly.doc/concept/audio-jitter.md: one shared Decision section, plus native's expand rule.bursts_settle_on_the_target_where_they_arrive: 100 ms bursts against a 120 ms target.main's decision settles 190 ms deep; this one settles 120 to 150 ms. The drift test (both clock directions, target changes) passes unchanged.Measurements
The 12 native rows run locally (
just test audio-quality --runtimes native, seed 7, 60 s, loaded developer host), once onmain's decision and once on this branch:AAC under
main's decision accelerated about 2 s a minute even atfixed-250, while expanding back into the gaps between PES bursts. No row voided, and no trims or player skips happened either way.Why AAC
stepunderruns: they start at 47 s, when the estimator relaxes its target from 223 to 186 ms.moq playsets the sink's target per frame todue(end) - nowon the shared clock. The clock's reference is the earliest arrival ever and never moves later, while the estimator measures against the fastest frame of the last 2 s. After the 5 → 60 ms delay step, the clock-aligned depth stays about 55 ms short of the estimator's target, which is below AAC's ~160 ms PES burst spacing.main's decision hid this by settling a burst behind.Decisions
Settled by the maintainer on 2026-11-09 (/quest-complete):
stepunderruns after a persistent delay increase: ✅ accept them in this PR, and plan a follow-up so the shared clock's reference follows such an increase (rejected: floor the native sink target at the estimator's target; keepmain's decision).The third wait, native
av_lag_msceilings from seven Nightlies on amainthat includes this PR, can only clear after it lands, so it stays in Native stretch's## Waitingrather than holding this PR a draft.Choices made without asking
excessrather than map NetEq'sbuffered/targetper language.Public API and wire
moq_mux::sync::Consumer::position(Instant) -> Option<Duration>.moq-audio: no public change; the stretcher and ring are crate-private.Caused by
Follow-ups
moq_mux::syncandjs/watchSync) follows a delay increase that every arrival in the estimator's window shows, which clears the AACstepunderruns and re-aligns video, late by the step too (decision 1).Models
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quest reviewafter each round.01a1c18a-05b0-7a51-b194-bd90564a7e25, round 1The arrival-based correction and metrics changes appear consistent with their callers and shared vectors, with no actionable defects found; builds and tests were not run, as instructed.