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Summary

moq play --delay auto now plays at max over subscribed renditions of (catalog delay + target), as the browser does (doc/concept/audio-jitter.md):

• Video holds its rendition's catalog delay as its moq_mux::sync target (it has no jitter estimator), so a slow video encoder holds audio back to stay in sync. Its encoded retention and both subscriptions' min/max budgets (the max-delay decoder's with its warmup on top) grow by the same delay via Consumer::set_delay, so media the later schedule waits for is not evicted.
• Audio holds its jitter target plus its own catalog delay; the sink still sizes for jitter alone and follows the shared clock.
• Both apply the delay at start and as soon as it changes, selecting on it beside their reads and waits rather than waiting for the next frame.
• Each subscribed rendition's delay is carried on a watch channel in its Demand, raised by later catalog snapshots and never lowered. A dropped rendition releases its target with its track.
• A fixed --delay ignores catalog delays and stays fixed.
• A shared delay past audio's own 2 s budget (a slow video encoder) still plays in sync: audio holds decoded PCM until it is due rather than writing it to the speaker early, so the sink never needs more than its budget. When it releases a held frame, it writes the rest of the lead as silence ahead of it, since the ring keeps only its opening silence and never pads while stretching. Every audio wait (hold, resume, sequential) recomputes its deadline when the shared or catalog delay changes. While waiting for packets, audio also retargets the speaker as soon as the shared delay changes, rather than on its next write.
• Catalog delays are capped at the sink's Input::LATENCY_MAX (10 s), so a hostile catalog cannot make playback retain media without bound.
• The refresh (max-delay) decoder also applies a delay rise while it is paused between frames.

Tests: play::media::tests::audio_holds_a_shared_delay_past_its_budget (audio opened at the production 50 ms lead with a 200 ms budget plays within 1 ms of due under a 1 s video delay; without the change it plays at least 150 ms early). play::video::tests::a_video_encoder_delay_delays_audio_to_match: audio at a 50 ms target is due 200 ms late once video with a 200 ms catalog delay arrives, follows a rise to 300 ms, and returns to 50 ms when video ends. It fails without the change.

Finishes quest/m1/audio-jitter-target/native-rendition-delay.md.

Decisions

• Maintainer, 2026-11-09: ✅ keep audio in sync past its 2 s limit in this PR (rejected: cap the shared delay at audio's 2 s limit; land with the bug and fix it in a follow-up).
• Maintainer, 2026-11-09, accepted: ✅ hold decoded PCM upstream in moq-cli (rejected: set_delay + growable moq-audio ring). Native decode backpressure like JS is planned separately.
• Mechanism, chosen while implementing: ✅ audio holds decoded PCM until it is due, so the sink and decoder budgets stay as they are (rejected: set_delay on moq_audio::decode::Consumer plus a speaker ring that grows). The decision named the latter, but the decoder is already read promptly, so its budget never limits a held delay. Growing the lock-free ring live would also mean moving the queued audio to the mixer thread or dropping it. Holding the PCM upstream gets the same sync with no moq-audio change.

Choices made without asking

• Video sets no target when its rendition states no delay, keeping today's behavior. A video-only broadcast with a small stated delay (below the 100 ms auto default) now plays at that delay, matching the browser's delay + spread with no spread.
• Audio's resume lead (opening cushion of a replacement sink) is left at the jitter target; the shared clock's due already includes the encoder delay.

Impact

Public API: adds moq_mux::sync::Track::delay_changed (poll_delay_changed), which waits for the shared playout delay to change. Wire: none.

Independent of moq-dev/moq#8349, moq-dev/moq#8276, moq-dev/moq#8220 beyond touching the same files; no metrics or stretch policy changes (owned by native-av-lag).

Checks

just check passes. cargo test -p moq-cli --features play play:: passes except play::media::tests::a_wide_delay_observes_the_whole_tune_in_burst fails with --features play because this host build has no software H264 encoder (NoEncoder("nothing compiled in for H264 at Software")), an environment gap unrelated to this change.

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• Base: origin/main at 67eef5f
• Score: 10/10, The incremental change fixes the double-counted gap silence, with no new issues found by source review; execution checks were intentionally excluded.
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• The last round's findings, at 41e4663:
  • Fixed: medium, rs/moq-cli/src/play/media.rs:963: Exclude existing gap silence from the additional padding; rs/moq-cli/src/play/media.rs:964 now uses timing.silence.max(short), so the measured lead and timestamp gap are no longer added together.

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Two remaining issues: the shared target can exceed what audio is allowed to buffer, and the refresh decoder misses delay updates while pacing a frame. Suggested fixes and concrete cases are inline.

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[P2] Let audio buffer the full shared delay

A video catalog delay can now raise the shared clock beyond the unchanged 2 s auto budget, but play_audio still clamps held to max_delay before sink.set_latency (media.rs:895–901). For example, with a 3 s video encoder delay and promptly arriving audio, video is scheduled 3 s behind the reference while the speaker can target at most 2 s, so audio remains at least 1 s early. Carry the shared presentation requirement through audio buffering/capacity instead of using the jitter ceiling as its limit. Add a playback test with a video delay above 2 s that checks actual audio timing, not only presentation.due.

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Real, but not fixed here: letting audio hold more than its 2 s budget means growing its decoder budget, sink ring capacity and hole-fill cap with the shared delay (moq-audio's decode consumer has no set_delay today), versus capping the shared target at audio's budget so a >2 s video encoder delay plays video late instead of breaking sync. Left to the maintainer under ## Waiting in the PR body. The related gap that audio's sink only retargets on its next PCM write belongs to the same rework.

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Fixed in 97da08f, per the maintainer's decision to keep audio in sync in this PR. Audio holds decoded PCM until it is due, so its sink never needs more than its budget. While waiting for packets, it also retargets the speaker as soon as the shared delay changes. Catalog delays cap at Input::LATENCY_MAX. The test is audio_holds_a_shared_delay_past_its_budget. I held the PCM upstream instead of growing the ring; the PR body's Decisions section explains why.

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[P2] Observe delay changes while the refresh decoder is paced

This select observes encoder.changed() only while refresh.read() is pending. After reading a frame, the refresh task can remain in the inner pacing/segment wait at lines 619–668. If the catalog delay rises there, the min lane updates the shared clock and its subscription, but this subscription keeps the old max budget until the paced frame is decoded and another read begins. For a video-only stream, a rise from 200 ms to 600 ms can therefore leave refresh retention at 100 ms + 200 ms + warmup while playback now waits 600 ms, evicting frames the clean decoder still needs. Handle the watch update in that inner wait too, and cover a rise while the refresh lane is already parked.

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Fixed in 9d7ba6b: the refresh lane's pacing wait now also selects on the delay watch and grows its subscription budget while parked. No dedicated test for the parked rise; it mirrors the read-side arm.

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Playback now tracks catalog rendition delays through watch channels. Audio adds the held delay to its jitter target and retargets when the delay changes. Video updates subscription budgets, presentation timing, and frame retention as the held delay changes. Tests cover delay-related audio and video behavior. The README requirement and planning document about rendition-delay handling were removed.

Merge Risk: Low · up to aebf8

Playback timing can drift slightly in narrow cases when a delay rises while audio is queued or held. The impact is small and self-limited, so the change is mergeable with owner awareness.

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• Fixed on inspection: the refresh decoder now handles catalog-delay changes during both timed and untimed inner waits (video.rs:661–677), addressing the previous retention finding.
• Still open: audio cannot hold the full shared delay. The audio path is unchanged and still clamps the sink target to the 2 s auto budget (media.rs:895–901). The author's acknowledgment and pending maintainer decision do not yet change that behavior; the shared target and audio holding capacity still need a consistent policy.

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Major · The audio sink target is capped below the shared delay · media.rs:884-887

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The audio sink target is capped below the shared delay

In auto mode, a catalog delay can make audio due more than two seconds after arrival. The sink target remains capped at the decoder’s jitter-only maximum, so audio can play ahead of video. Raising the cap alone can also exceed the sink’s fixed ring capacity.

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The audio sink sizing in the `role.set_target` path accounts only for jitter
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Buffered audio keeps the old target after a delay rise

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Review comment at @rs/moq-cli/src/play/media.rs around lines 648 - 655:
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rs/moq-cli/src/play/video.rs: 1

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Test delay rises while the refresh reader is parked.

The delay-rise test runs without a refresh decoder, and the refresh tests do not raise the delay. Add a test that raises the watched delay while refresh is parked. Check that its subscription budget grows before the reader resumes and that it retains the needed frames.

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Incremental review since 9d7ba6b; base remains ed954fd.

The refresh-wait fix remains intact. Upstream PCM pacing addresses the previous capacity mismatch in principle, but the audio-sync finding is not fully resolved: the new wait assumes the sink already holds its maximum budget, while production starts with only 50 ms of padding. Details and a focused regression direction are inline.

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[P2] Base the upstream wait on the sink's actual startup lead

cap is the maximum permitted target, not audio already queued ahead of the frame. Production --delay auto opens this sink with 50 ms (media.rs:441,619–620), so a 3 s video delay releases the first PCM at 1 s here, and it can sound after that 50 ms cushion rather than at 3 s. set_latency changes the ring target without adding padding; before the first push the real ring returns NotReady and preserves its original prime (ring.rs:130,325–341,521–529). The new test masks this by setting latency: budget at line 1153. Pace against the lead actually held, or explicitly establish the assumed cushion before releasing PCM. Exercise the regression with latency: AUDIO_BUFFER_MIN (and a real-ring check), rather than preloading the full budget.

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Fixed in aebf851. You're right: with stretch on, the ring doesn't pad, and before the first push it keeps only its 50 ms opening silence. When a held frame is released, audio now writes the rest of the lead as silence ahead of it: the frame's due time minus what the sink already holds, which also covers any hole before it. The test opens at AUDIO_BUFFER_MIN and asserts that the first audible sample lands within 1 ms of the due time; without the cushion it lands at 851 ms instead of 1 s. There's no separate real-ring test, because the cushion goes through ordinary Sink::write calls.

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Reviewed changes — This run re-reviewed the two commits since the prior pullfrog review at 9c0118e (9d7ba6b, 97da08f), which cover the audio hold past the sink's budget and the refresh decoder's parked delay rise. CI for this head was still in progress and no play build artifacts exist in this environment, so the new test was reviewed statically rather than executed.

• Capped catalog delays — Demand::hold now clamps each rendition's delay to moq_audio::playback::Input::LATENCY_MAX, so a hostile catalog cannot make playback retain media past 10 s.
• Audio holds past its sink budget — play_audio keeps decoded frames in the writer until due(start) - cap, retargets the sink from the last written end while waiting for packets, and grows the receive queue's age allowance to max_delay + schedule.delay(). The hold is bounded by shared_delay - cap because role.received pins the reference at the earliest arrival, so the enlarged allowance always covers it.
• Refresh decoder follows parked rises — video.rs now selects on encoder.changed() in the max-delay decoder's park loop, applying the grown budget and the new sleep deadline without dropping frames the later schedule still waits for.
• New sync API — moq_mux::sync::Track::poll_delay_changed/delay_changed(seen) waits for the shared delay to differ from a captured value; its predicate is evaluated on the first poll, so a change between the read and the wait is not missed.
• Coverage — play::media::tests::audio_holds_a_shared_delay_past_its_budget exercises the new hold on a paused clock and fails without it.

The prior residual that a delay rise only reached the sink on the next write is now addressed by the role.delay_changed arm in the packet wait plus the writer-side hold.

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rs/moq-cli/src/play/media.rs: 1

1169-1172: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Check the full held audio burst.

The test can pass if later audio is dropped or mistimed. Check that the 0.25 samples total 5 * PACKET_DURATION and play continuously at the expected times.

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Update the test’s `recorder.played()` assertions to inspect the full held audio
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- Around line 929-932: Update the playback wait around kio::clock::sleep_until
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The remaining startup-padding finding is addressed on source inspection: held PCM now receives the missing lead ahead of it, measured against sink.buffered(), without adding the timestamp-gap silence twice (media.rs:940–981). The regression now uses the production 50 ms opening lead and checks the first audible sample within 1 ms of its due time. The common deadline helper also updates the hold, resume and sequential sleeps on delay changes. The earlier refresh-wait fix remains intact.

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Minor · The receive back-pressure loop does not wake when the shared delay changes. · media.rs:685-695

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

The receive back-pressure loop does not wake when the shared delay changes.

The loop limit is max_delay + schedule.delay(). The loop waits only on popped and on this rendition's stated channel.

Video or another track can raise the shared schedule delay while the loop is blocked. The loop then keeps its stale limit until the play task pops the next frame. The play task can be inside wait for much of that time, up to roughly the new delay minus cap. During that time receive stops reading, and the subscription can evict media that the raised delay should keep. This is a narrow case, because it needs a queue already older than the budget.

Wake on the schedule change as well. Read seen before each limit check so a change between the check and the wait is not missed.

♻️ Proposed fix

-			while received
-				.lock()
-				.unwrap()
-				.front()
-				.is_some_and(|(.., queued): &(_, _, _, Instant)| queued.elapsed() > max_delay + schedule.delay())
-			{
-				tokio::select! {
-					() = popped.notified() => {}
-					Ok(()) = stated.changed() => retarget(*stated.borrow_and_update()),
-				}
-			}
+			loop {
+				let seen = schedule.delay();
+				let full = received
+					.lock()
+					.unwrap()
+					.front()
+					.is_some_and(|(.., queued): &(_, _, _, Instant)| queued.elapsed() > max_delay + seen);
+				if !full {
+					break;
+				}
+				tokio::select! {
+					() = popped.notified() => {}
+					_ = role.delay_changed(seen) => {}
+					Ok(()) = stated.changed() => retarget(*stated.borrow_and_update()),
+				}
+			}

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Review comment at @rs/moq-cli/src/play/media.rs around lines 685 - 695:
Update the receive back-pressure loop to observe shared schedule-delay changes
as well as queue pops and rendition updates. Read the current delay before
checking the queue limit, then wait for a change relative to that observed delay
so updates between the check and wait are not missed; preserve the existing
queue and retarget behavior.

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- Around line 685-695: Update the receive back-pressure loop to observe shared
schedule-delay changes as well as queue pops and rendition updates. Read the
current delay before checking the queue limit, then wait for a change relative
to that observed delay so updates between the check and wait are not missed;
preserve the existing queue and retarget behavior.

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[pullfrog]

Important

The new lead-silence padding stacks on the sink's own resume cushion when a frame starts an utterance, so a press after a declared mute can play up to the sink budget (2 s) late once the shared delay exceeds it.

Reviewed changes — This run re-reviewed the two commits since the prior pullfrog review at 97da08f (41e4663, aebf851), which add the writer-side lead padding and make every audio wait follow delay changes.

• Waits recompute — a wait closure now loops on the shared delay, the catalog delay, and the deadline, and is used by the resume, sequential, and held-media waits, so a change while asleep never leaves audio on a stale deadline.
• Held-media lead silence — after waiting until due(start) - cap, play_audio writes the remaining lead as silence ahead of the frame, and fit uses timing.silence.max(short) so the existing hole silence is no longer added twice.
• Tightened regression — audio_holds_a_shared_delay_past_its_budget now opens the sink at the production 50 ms lead and asserts the media sounds within 1 ms of due.

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short is measured against sink.buffered(), but a frame that starts an utterance is placed by the sink one target latency out, and buffered() does not include that pending cushion. With a shared delay past audio's budget, the held frame then gets the sink's cushion and this padding, so a press after a declared mute sounds up to cap late (2 s at the default budget).

Technical details

# Held audio's lead silence stacks on the sink's resume cushion

## Affected sites
- `rs/moq-cli/src/play/media.rs:944-951` — `short = due - now - sink.buffered()` excludes a pending `sink.next()` cushion.
- `rs/moq-cli/src/play/media.rs:958-964` — `held`/`set_latency(held)` run after `short`, and `fit(..., timing.silence.max(short), ...)` writes the padding before the frame.
- `rs/moq-cli/src/play/media.rs:824-828` — the declared-mute loss branch calls `sink.next()` and sets `utterance = true`; `:850-855` does the same on resume.
- `rs/moq-audio/src/ring.rs:260-267` — `Producer::push` calls `resume()` when `next` is set.
- `rs/moq-audio/src/ring.rs:219-254` — `resume()` pads/publishes `target - queued` of comfort noise ahead of the new utterance.
- `rs/moq-audio/src/ring.rs:349-353` — `buffered()` is `written - consumed`, which excludes that cushion until the push.
- `rs/moq-cli/src/play/fake.rs:185-193` — the fake's `next` branch places the first write at `now + latency`.

## Why it is reachable
- The Loss-after-declared-silence branch clears `sequential` and calls `role.gap()` (not `reset`), so the hold wait at `:940-943` sleeps whenever the shared delay exceeds `cap`. The press is then due `D` after arrival, `now ≈ due - cap`, `held = cap`, `short ≈ cap`, and the sink adds its own `cap` cushion first, so the frame sounds at `due + cap`.
- `Crossing::Resume` is guarded: its wait at `:837-840` (and the sequential wait at `:916-921`) only returns once `due - lead <= now`, and `lead <= cap` (`:640`, `:644`, `:441`), so `held_back` is false. A concurrent catalog rise landing in the no-await window between `:921` and `:935` can still make the later wait sleep and hit the same path.

## Required outcome
- A frame that starts an utterance must not add `short` on top of the cushion the sink will add itself; compute the shortfall against the depth the sink will actually hold (e.g. `due - now - max(buffered, held)`) or skip it when `utterance` is set.

## Coverage
- `a_mute_keeps_the_sink_and_the_next_press_plays_one_delay_out` / `a_press_after_a_lost_group_still_plays_one_delay_out` (`media.rs:1204-1303`) use `delay == cap`, so `held_back` is false. The new hold test has no crossing, so `next` is never pending.