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feat(video)!: codecs split submission from receive - #8372
moq-video's encoders and decoders return a Vec of outputs from every encode, decode, flush and finish. That allocates on every frame just to hand back what is usually one output. It also disagrees with moq-audio, which moved to a send/receive split in moq-dev/moq#8270.
Decisions
Output shape: ✅ the FFmpeg/MediaCodec send/receive split. encode/decode only submit and return Result<()>. receive pops one ready output and returns Ok(None) when nothing is ready. flush marks the end of input so receive drains what the codec held. Rejected alternatives: a caller-owned &mut Vec buffer, and keeping Vec returns. The maintainer decided this on 2026-11-08 in feat(moq-audio)!: codecs return zero or more outputs and flush #8270.
Approach
Both backend traits (rs/moq-video/src/{encode,decode}/backend/mod.rs) take the split. Every backend (OpenH264, libvpx, VA-API, NVENC/NVDEC, V4L2, VideoToolbox, Media Foundation, MediaCodec, and the probe test backends) queues ready output in a reused VecDeque, so a caller may submit any number before receiving and no call allocates to hand back output.
encode::Encoder and decode::Decoder front ends:
Encoder::receive applies the join tracking to each access unit as it comes out.
Decoder::receive applies colour switches, output conversion and labelling to each frame. A leftover colour switch is applied once a flushed decoder runs dry.
The threaded encode::Sink and decode::Sink drain the codec on their worker thread into a shared, reused queue before replying. Their receive is a synchronous pop, so it can never poison the codec thread.
The Apple inline sinks call the codec's receive directly.
encode::Producer::publish takes one &Encoded. The capture loop receives and publishes after each frame.
decode::Consumer receives after each decode and flush.
Callers:
moq-transcode: the feed, the rung loop, and the fetch pipeline.
moq-cli: the player's internal Decoder trait now submits and receives too.
moq-boy, the CARLA bridge, and the examples.
moq-ffi, moq-c and every wrapper mirror the split (see Impact).
New openh264 bench, cargo bench -p moq-video --features openh264 --bench openh264, added to Nightly's rust-extra leg:
It encodes and decodes a 30-frame clip through the inline front ends and the threaded Sinks, at 64x64 (where the API shows) and 640x360 (where the codec dominates).
It prints allocations per frame from an untimed pass, then Criterion times each case.
Impact
Breakingmoq_video::encode::Encoder::encode and encode::Sink::encode return Result<()>. receive is new, flush returns Result<()>, and finish is removed.
Migrate: encoder.encode(&frame)?; while let Some(encoded) = encoder.receive()? { .. }.
At end of stream: encoder.flush()?, then receive until None, then drop the encoder. Use .await on Sink::encode/flush; Sink::receive is synchronous.
Breakingmoq_video::decode::Decoder::decode and decode::Sink::decode return Result<()>. receive is new and flush returns Result<()>.
Migrate: decoder.decode(&payload, ts, keyframe)?; while let Some(frame) = decoder.receive()? { .. }, then after the last access unit flush() and receive until None.
Breakingmoq_video::encode::Producer::publish takes one &Encoded instead of a slice. Migrate: call it once per received access unit.
Breaking moq-ffi MoqVideoEncoder:
encode and flush return nothing, receive (an optional MoqVideoPacket) is new, and finish is removed. Releasing the object closes the encoder.
Wrappers follow:
Python moq.video.Encoder has encode/receive/flush, and finish is gone.
Swift Video.Encoder has encode/receive/flush, and finish is gone.
Go video.Encoder has Encode/Receive/Flush, and Finish is replaced by Close, which releases it.
Dart and Kotlin alias the FFI object. The checked-in Dart bindings are regenerated.
Migrate: call receive until it returns none after each encode. At the end, flush and receive the rest before releasing the encoder.
Breaking moq-c:
moq_video_encoder_encode and moq_video_encoder_flush return zero instead of a packet count.
The new moq_video_encoder_receive(encoder, dst) returns 1 with an access unit or 0 with none, like moq_audio_encoder_receive.
moq_video_encoder_finish and moq_video_encoder_packet are removed.
Migrate: after each encode, call moq_video_encoder_receive until it returns 0. At the end, moq_video_encoder_flush, receive until 0, then moq_video_encoder_free.
moq_publish_video/moq_encode_video, MoqVideoProducer, and every producer-side wrapper are unchanged.
OBS has no moq-backed video encoder, so nothing changes there.
JS encodes through WebCodecs and has no counterpart.
No wire change.
Bench
cargo bench -p moq-video --features openh264 --bench openh264, base (bad28cefd5, with the same bench adapted to the Vec API) and branch run back to back on this Linux host. Allocations are per frame and include opening a fresh codec per clip. Time is per 30-frame clip.
case
allocs/frame base → branch
time base → branch
encode/inline/64x64
2.20 → 1.23
1.256 → 1.252 ms
encode/sink/64x64
3.63 → 2.73
2.46 → 2.53 ms
decode/inline/64x64
3.10 → 2.13
402 → 404 µs
decode/sink/64x64
3.50 → 2.60
1.15 → 1.11 ms
encode/inline/640x360
2.20 → 1.23
25.98 → 26.09 ms
encode/sink/640x360
3.63 → 2.73
39.7 → 34.1 ms
decode/inline/640x360
3.10 → 2.13
5.73 → 5.84 ms
decode/sink/640x360
3.50 → 2.60
8.33 → 9.20 ms
Every path drops about one allocation per frame: the Vec each call returned. The inline times are within noise. The threaded Sink cases are dominated by the thread handoff and vary run to run on a busy host. The last row's branch interval was 8.64 to 10.2 ms.
Alternatives
A caller-owned &mut Vec buffer, or keeping Vec returns: rejected by the maintainer (see Decisions).
Keeping finish and returning the tail as a list, as moq-audio's encoder does. Audio needs finish for its padding semantics. Video's finish was only a terminal flush, so it is now flush, receive, then drop, matching the decode side, which never had finish.
Choices made without asking
finish is removed everywhere: Rust, FFI, C, and wrappers. The FFI encoder no longer reports Closed, since it can no longer be finished while still referenced.
Media Foundation and MediaCodec now restart, or flush the codec, once more at end of stream. That costs one drain per stream.
The threaded Sinks drain on the worker thread into a shared queue (crate::worker::Queue), so receive needs no round trip and cancelling it cannot poison the codec.
moq-transcode's rung encoder handles a colour-space switch by keeping the retired encoder until its flushed tail is received, so that tail still comes out ahead of the new encoder's frames.
write now meters each frame as it lands rather than per batch, which keeps the "frames written before a failure are billed" guarantee.
A lost or abandoned group discards the flushed tail, as before.
moq-cli's player Decoder trait (internal, with test fakes) takes the same split rather than collecting into a Vec at the boundary.
Go gains Encoder.Close in place of Finish, so a Go caller can still release a hardware session deterministically.
moq-vaapi's own Vec-returning decoder API is untouched. It is a separate published crate whose DPB bumping builds its list internally. The VA-API backend extends its queue from that list.
The bench is named openh264, because codec already names benches in moq-json and moq-net, and Nightly runs them in one invocation.
Overlap
moq-dev/moq#8367 edits rs/moq-ffi/src/video.rs too, adding a test-only condvar to VideoProducer. Its regions differ from this PR's: the codec-only encoder and the producer's drain helpers. There is no dependency either way. moq-dev/moq#8251 shares no files.
Follow-ups
moq-vaapi's decoder returns Vec. Recommendation: leave it. It allocates only where its DPB bumps pictures, and changing it is a breaking release of a separate crate for no measured win.
doc/lib/layers.md says C has no codec-only Encoder, but moq_audio_encoder_* and moq_video_encoder_* exist. The line was stale before this PR.
Checks
just check passed: Rust, Python, C, C++, OBS compile, Kotlin, Go, Dart, and the GitHub workflow tests.
just test interop --all passed.
cargo test -p moq-video --features openh264,vpx,v4l2,capture,render passed, and so did cargo test -p moq-transcode -p moq-cli --features moq-transcode/openh264 (it covers the colour-switch tests).
Score: 8/10, The new head only merges base changes, with no actionable regression identified in the affected integration points; builds and tests were not run, as instructed.
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ℹ️ Minor suggestion only: one stale comment left behind by the rename.
Reviewed changes
Submit/receive split in moq-video — encode::Encoder/decode::Decoder and their threaded Sinks now submit (Result<()>) and pop via receive, with flush as end of input and finish removed; every backend queues output in a reused VecDeque.
Threaded sinks — the codec thread moves each call's output into a shared worker::Queue before replying, so receive is a synchronous pop that cannot poison the codec.
Decode colour switches — a new flushed flag defers the leftover switch to the first receive that returns None, preserving the old flush behaviour while the switch is per-frame.
moq-transcode — the rung Encoder keeps a tail queue so an encoder closed by a colour-space switch is flushed, drained and dropped before its replacement opens, keeping output in timestamp order; metering moved to per frame.
Bindings and callers — moq-ffi/moq-c take the new shape (moq_video_encoder_receive, no finish/packet), Python/Swift/Go/Dart wrappers follow (Dart regenerated), and the cli, moq-boy, carla demo, examples and tests drive receive to exhaustion.
Bench — new openh264 bench (inline vs threaded, two sizes, allocation table) wired into Nightly rust-extra.
No behavioral regressions found. The implementation matches the settled decision from #8270, every former finish() site now flushes and drains (verified by reading each caller), and all receive() call sites in non-test code are loops or the one-pop FFI/C surface. Hardware backends (VideoToolbox, Media Foundation, MediaCodec, VA-API, NVENC, V4L2) are not compiled on this host, so they rely on the author's platform run.
No actionable findings. Inspected the submit/receive API, backend queues and drain behavior, threaded sinks, decoder colour transitions, transcode tail ordering and session replacement, and binding/caller migrations. The reusable queues address the per-call output-vector allocation without changing the wire format. No corrective change recommended from this review.
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Video encoders and decoders now separate input submission from output retrieval. Their backends queue ready packets or pictures for incremental receive calls, and flush makes delayed output available without returning a batch. Rust callers, C, Dart, Go, Python, and Swift bindings use the revised interfaces. The changes also update playback, publishing, and transcoding paths, add encoder tests, and add an OpenH264 benchmark.
Merge Risk: Low · previous review 25458
The change has bounded remaining risks: retrying after an Apple CPU-frame conversion failure at stream end can lose remaining pictures, and benchmark headings omit their Rust-only scope. These warrant follow-up but do not indicate a broad playback failure.
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Actionable comments posted: 5
Nitpick comments: 2
rs/moq-video/src/render/renderer.rs: 1
1346-1352: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Check reuse against the pictures drawn.
If both decoders return 29 matching pictures in 29 distinct buffers, the test can pass without exercising reuse. Compare the buffer count with drawn.
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- (buffers.len() as u64) < PICTURES,+ (buffers.len() as u64) < drawn,
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Review comment at @rs/moq-video/src/render/renderer.rs around lines 1346 - 1352:
Update the buffer-reuse check in the picture-drawing test to compare the number
of buffers against drawn, so reuse is verified for the pictures actually drawn
rather than a fixed PICTURES count.
rs/moq-video/src/render/export/dx12.rs: 1
370-371: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Low value
Add coverage for lost hardware output.
Both export tests can pass if they lose output after the first keyframe. Add route-specific coverage that compares collected output with independently observed completed units, including a buffered tail when present. Allow input frames to be dropped.
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371:
Update both export tests around encoder.flush_all to verify each route’s
collected output against an independent count of completed encoded units,
including any buffered tail. Allow for input frames to be dropped; assert output
completeness against completed units rather than submitted frames.
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py/moq-rs/tests/test_local.py: 1
1564-1587: Minor · Potential issue · Low value
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The new test uses a 64x48 software H.264 encoder without setting a bitrate. The default works out to about 644830*0.07 ≈ 6.4 kbps. The test asserts exactly [True, False, True] keyframes. openh264 rate control may skip a frame at that budget, which yields an empty bitstream that the backend drops. The result would be fewer than 3 packets.
The test fails or is flaky, with a keyframe list like [True, True].
This can occur when: Running the test with openh264 frame skipping enabled, on the default rate control.
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Review comments at @rs/moq-video/benches/openh264.rs:
- Around line 45-58: Update the benchmark table headings and accompanying
documentation to identify the reported counts as Rust allocations only. Keep the
existing measurements unchanged and do not imply that they include OpenH264
native allocations; use the table and documentation symbols visible in the
benchmark to make this distinction clear.
Review comments at @rs/moq-video/src/decode/backend/mod.rs:
- Around line 165-170: The test-only Backend::flush_all helper may be unused in
builds without decoder features; add a targeted dead_code allowance to
flush_all, matching the existing encoder helper’s approach and rationale.
Review comments at @rs/moq-video/src/decode/backend/nvdec.rs:
- Around line 187-195: Update the frame-mapping flow around
`displayed.iter().try_for_each` to roll back only frames appended to
`self.ready` during the current parse when mapping fails. Preserve frames
already queued before this parse and keep the existing cleanup and error
propagation behavior.
Review comments at @rs/moq-video/src/decode/consumer.rs:
- Around line 422-423: Update the EOF flush flow around `tail?` and
`self.receive()` to transfer any valid pictures already held by the threaded
sink into `pending` even when the flush returns an error. Preserve error
propagation, but do not let the early return from `tail?` make queued pictures
inaccessible to callers.
Review comments at @rs/moq-video/src/encode/producer.rs:
- Around line 1021-1023: Update the encoder shutdown path around the
`encoder.receive()` loop to flush the encoder on normal camera-stream end, then
publish all remaining outputs before dropping the encoder or publishing the
discontinuity. Use the encoder’s established flush mechanism and preserve the
existing receive-and-publish behavior.
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Review comments at @rs/moq-video/src/render/export/dx12.rs:
- Around line 370-371: Update both export tests around encoder.flush_all to
verify each route’s collected output against an independent count of completed
encoded units, including any buffered tail. Allow for input frames to be
dropped; assert output completeness against completed units rather than
submitted frames.
Review comments at @rs/moq-video/src/render/renderer.rs:
- Around line 1346-1352: Update the buffer-reuse check in the picture-drawing
test to compare the number of buffers against drawn, so reuse is verified for
the pictures actually drawn rather than a fixed PICTURES count.
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No new actionable findings. The NVDEC mapping rollback removes only frames appended by the failed parse, preserving previously queued output. The EOF consumer path now transfers already-collected pictures into its pending queue before propagating a flush error. The remaining changes clarify comments, allocation-measurement scope, and a test-only allowance. No further corrective change recommended for this increment.
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rs/moq-video/src/decode/consumer.rs: 1
422-426: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Add a failed-flush regression test.
When a flush fails with a picture ready, assert that the read returns the error and the next read returns the picture. Use an inline-sink fixture on Apple or a test sink that exposes the picture after the error. The threaded sink does not collect backend output after a failed flush.
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The flush path in `Consumer` must preserve pictures produced before a flush
error. Add a regression test using an inline sink on Apple or a test sink that
exposes output after failure; assert the first read returns the flush error and
the next read returns the picture. Do not use the threaded sink, which does not
collect backend output after a failed flush.
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Review comments at @rs/moq-video/src/decode/consumer.rs:
- Around line 422-426: In the threaded sink’s flush path, collect ready pictures
before returning the flush error so a failed parser replacement does not leave
queued tail pictures unavailable to a retry. Update the ordering around
`self.receive()` and `tail?`, preserving propagation of both the flush and
collection errors.
- Around line 422-426: Update the flush and receive handling around
`self.receive()` so a conversion error does not discard a consumed Gap or End
boundary. Retain the boundary across the error and deliver it only after all
pictures received before that boundary have been handed to the caller.
- Around line 421-426: Track flush completion separately from whether receiving
all ready frames has completed in the consumer flow around `self.drained` and
`self.receive()`. When a receive error leaves frames queued, let a later read
resume receiving those frames without flushing again, while preserving the
existing flush-completion state.
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Review comments at @rs/moq-video/src/decode/consumer.rs:
- Around line 422-426: The flush path in `Consumer` must preserve pictures
produced before a flush error. Add a regression test using an inline sink on
Apple or a test sink that exposes output after failure; assert the first read
returns the flush error and the next read returns the picture. Do not use the
threaded sink, which does not collect backend output after a failed flush.
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✅ No new issues found.
Reviewed changes
This run re-reviewed the commits since the prior pullfrog review at 168ba35: the fix(video) commit 25458c2 plus the origin/main merge.
Stale pipeline comments corrected — rs/moq-ffi/src/video.rs and rs/moq-c/src/video.rs now say publish drains what a pipelining backend readied, matching the split API.
Bench scope clarified — rs/moq-video/benches/openh264.rs documents that the allocation table counts Rust allocations of the wrapper and output frames, not OpenH264's native ones.
Test-only helper allowance — decode::backend::Backend::flush_all gained a targeted dead_code allowance for builds without decoder features.
NVDEC parse rollback — a mapping failure now truncates ready back to its pre-parse length, dropping only the failed parse's pictures while preserving output queued earlier.
Flush-error ordering in the decode consumer — Reader::read now moves flush-ready pictures into pending before propagating the flush error, so a later read still delivers them (the inline/Apple sink path; the threaded sink still skips collection on a failed flush, unchanged by this delta).
The NVDEC rollback preserves prior queue contents and only discards pictures from the parse that reported the error. The consumer reorder keeps error precedence (tail? before received?) while retaining already-received frames, and partial receive errors still leave queued frames available.
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Closes quest/m2/video-codec-receive.md.
Problem
moq-video's encoders and decoders return a
Vecof outputs from everyencode,decode,flushandfinish. That allocates on every frame just to hand back what is usually one output. It also disagrees with moq-audio, which moved to a send/receive split in moq-dev/moq#8270.Decisions
encode/decodeonly submit and returnResult<()>.receivepops one ready output and returnsOk(None)when nothing is ready.flushmarks the end of input soreceivedrains what the codec held. Rejected alternatives: a caller-owned&mut Vecbuffer, and keepingVecreturns. The maintainer decided this on 2026-11-08 in feat(moq-audio)!: codecs return zero or more outputs and flush #8270.Approach
rs/moq-video/src/{encode,decode}/backend/mod.rs) take the split. Every backend (OpenH264, libvpx, VA-API, NVENC/NVDEC, V4L2, VideoToolbox, Media Foundation, MediaCodec, and the probe test backends) queues ready output in a reusedVecDeque, so a caller may submit any number before receiving and no call allocates to hand back output.encode::Encoderanddecode::Decoderfront ends:Encoder::receiveapplies the join tracking to each access unit as it comes out.Decoder::receiveapplies colour switches, output conversion and labelling to each frame. A leftover colour switch is applied once a flushed decoder runs dry.encode::Sinkanddecode::Sinkdrain the codec on their worker thread into a shared, reused queue before replying. Theirreceiveis a synchronous pop, so it can never poison the codec thread.receivedirectly.encode::Producer::publishtakes one&Encoded. The capture loop receives and publishes after each frame.decode::Consumerreceives after eachdecodeandflush.Decodertrait now submits and receives too.openh264bench,cargo bench -p moq-video --features openh264 --bench openh264, added to Nightly'srust-extraleg:Sinks, at 64x64 (where the API shows) and 640x360 (where the codec dominates).Impact
moq_video::encode::Encoder::encodeandencode::Sink::encodereturnResult<()>.receiveis new,flushreturnsResult<()>, andfinishis removed.encoder.encode(&frame)?; while let Some(encoded) = encoder.receive()? { .. }.encoder.flush()?, then receive untilNone, then drop the encoder. Use.awaitonSink::encode/flush;Sink::receiveis synchronous.moq_video::decode::Decoder::decodeanddecode::Sink::decodereturnResult<()>.receiveis new andflushreturnsResult<()>.decoder.decode(&payload, ts, keyframe)?; while let Some(frame) = decoder.receive()? { .. }, then after the last access unitflush()and receive untilNone.moq_video::encode::Producer::publishtakes one&Encodedinstead of a slice. Migrate: call it once per received access unit.MoqVideoEncoder:encodeandflushreturn nothing,receive(an optionalMoqVideoPacket) is new, andfinishis removed. Releasing the object closes the encoder.moq.video.Encoderhasencode/receive/flush, andfinishis gone.Video.Encoderhasencode/receive/flush, andfinishis gone.video.EncoderhasEncode/Receive/Flush, andFinishis replaced byClose, which releases it.receiveuntil it returns none after eachencode. At the end,flushand receive the rest before releasing the encoder.moq_video_encoder_encodeandmoq_video_encoder_flushreturn zero instead of a packet count.moq_video_encoder_receive(encoder, dst)returns 1 with an access unit or 0 with none, likemoq_audio_encoder_receive.moq_video_encoder_finishandmoq_video_encoder_packetare removed.moq_video_encoder_receiveuntil it returns 0. At the end,moq_video_encoder_flush, receive until 0, thenmoq_video_encoder_free.moq_publish_video/moq_encode_video,MoqVideoProducer, and every producer-side wrapper are unchanged.Bench
cargo bench -p moq-video --features openh264 --bench openh264, base (bad28cefd5, with the same bench adapted to theVecAPI) and branch run back to back on this Linux host. Allocations are per frame and include opening a fresh codec per clip. Time is per 30-frame clip.Every path drops about one allocation per frame: the
Veceach call returned. The inline times are within noise. The threadedSinkcases are dominated by the thread handoff and vary run to run on a busy host. The last row's branch interval was 8.64 to 10.2 ms.Alternatives
&mut Vecbuffer, or keepingVecreturns: rejected by the maintainer (see Decisions).finishand returning the tail as a list, as moq-audio's encoder does. Audio needsfinishfor its padding semantics. Video'sfinishwas only a terminal flush, so it is nowflush, receive, then drop, matching the decode side, which never hadfinish.Choices made without asking
finishis removed everywhere: Rust, FFI, C, and wrappers. The FFI encoder no longer reportsClosed, since it can no longer be finished while still referenced.Sinks drain on the worker thread into a shared queue (crate::worker::Queue), soreceiveneeds no round trip and cancelling it cannot poison the codec.writenow meters each frame as it lands rather than per batch, which keeps the "frames written before a failure are billed" guarantee.Decodertrait (internal, with test fakes) takes the same split rather than collecting into aVecat the boundary.Encoder.Closein place ofFinish, so a Go caller can still release a hardware session deterministically.Vec-returning decoder API is untouched. It is a separate published crate whose DPB bumping builds its list internally. The VA-API backend extends its queue from that list.openh264, becausecodecalready names benches in moq-json and moq-net, and Nightly runs them in one invocation.Overlap
moq-dev/moq#8367 edits
rs/moq-ffi/src/video.rstoo, adding a test-only condvar toVideoProducer. Its regions differ from this PR's: the codec-only encoder and the producer's drain helpers. There is no dependency either way. moq-dev/moq#8251 shares no files.Follow-ups
Vec. Recommendation: leave it. It allocates only where its DPB bumps pictures, and changing it is a breaking release of a separate crate for no measured win.doc/lib/layers.mdsays C has no codec-onlyEncoder, butmoq_audio_encoder_*andmoq_video_encoder_*exist. The line was stale before this PR.Checks
just checkpassed: Rust, Python, C, C++, OBS compile, Kotlin, Go, Dart, and the GitHub workflow tests.just test interop --allpassed.cargo test -p moq-video --features openh264,vpx,v4l2,capture,renderpassed, and so didcargo test -p moq-transcode -p moq-cli --features moq-transcode/openh264(it covers the colour-switch tests).cargo check --workspace --all-targets --all-featurespassed.d3d11-resize-probeexample, and the Swift wrapper (no toolchain).Models
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