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Problem

Playout times a source's sound by copying moq-audio's private bus details: a 50 ms BUS_LATENCY and the live ring's pad rule. moq-dev/moq#8273 added Bus::positioned so a timed consumer can write at an exact bus position instead.

Approach

Plan two m0 quests:

• pin-bus-positioned [XS]: advance the moq pin with just upgrade-moq to pick up Bus::positioned (and the Bus::live rename).
• playout-positioned [M]: rs/moq-scene's playout writes broadcast, media, and replay audio through Bus::positioned, and deletes BUS_LATENCY and the pad rule. Requires the pin quest.

Decisions recorded in the quest:

• ✅ Studio maps an instant to a bus position as (sounds - start) * rate, using the program clock's start (rejected: an upstream bus clock in moq-audio).
• ✅ A write that arrives partly late trims the part that already passed (rejected: drop the whole frame).

Impact

• None; quest files only.

Alternatives

• Expose a clock on moq-audio's bus. Rejected: the program clock already advances the bus sample-exactly in Program::run_audio, so studio can do the mapping itself.

Follow-ups

• None.

Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, low effort
• Session: 01a1bc6c-c616-7e01-aa53-67f7d611fa6a, round 3
• Head: c3e0d08
• Base: origin/main at 0cc4c65
• Score: 10/10, The branch’s documentation-only migration plan is unchanged from the prior review, and the intervening base changes introduce no findings within this branch’s scope.
• Findings: none

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Walkthrough

The changes add quest documentation for pinning the moq-audio positioned bus API and planning positioned-bus playout. The documents describe timing inputs, handling of late frames, unchanged live inputs and jitter targeting, and planned migration steps.

Merge Risk: Low · up to e4e53

This documentation-only change has no immediate playback impact. Clarify overlap trimming and preservation of real gaps before implementing the plan; merging carries bounded follow-up risk.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: planning playout's move to positioned bus channels. The changeset adds two m0 quest documents (pin-bus-positioned and playout-positioned) and a README index update tha…
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 states the PR plans two m0 quests for moving playout to positioned bus channels. It names the moq pin upgrade, the playout write changes, the removal of BUS_LATENCY, and the decisions …

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Explanation

The title names the main change: planning playout's move to positioned bus channels. The changeset adds two m0 quest documents (pin-bus-positioned and playout-positioned) and a README index update that describe this migration to Bus::positioned. The title is specific and matches the primary change, which is documentation-only.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description states the PR plans two m0 quests for moving playout to positioned bus channels. It names the moq pin upgrade, the playout write changes, the removal of BUS_LATENCY, and the decisions on timestamp mapping and late-frame trimming. This matches the changeset's quest files and the raw summary, so the description is clearly related to the changes.

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Reviewed head: 270a92c

One scope clarification before implementation:

• quest/m0/playout-positioned.md:10-11: should room guests follow the positioned broadcast migration rather than remain on Bus::live? A joined camera or screen is created as Source::Broadcast by rs/moq-studio/src/guests.rs:508-510, and its audio takes the same play_audio / Writer path as every other broadcast (rs/moq-scene/src/source.rs:1116,1220-1221). Migrating that shared writer therefore migrates guest audio too. Keeping guests on the old live channel would instead require a separate timing path, retaining the private latency/pad coupling that this quest aims to remove. If the exception means raw capture inputs, remove guests from that list and explicitly include them with broadcasts. If excluding room guests is deliberate, please clarify that scope and its separate timing path. This is a question about the recorded non-goal, not a request to reopen the clock-mapping or late-trimming decisions.

Direction: the separate pin PR followed by a consumer migration is sound. I read all three changed files, the current writer and its timing test, the broadcast/media/replay callers, the program's sample-position mapping, and recent playout history. The plan addresses the repeated bus-timing coupling at the API boundary rather than adding another copy of the ring rules. The upstream positioned implementation and tests support the stated whole-write rejection, forward-only positions, bus-rate input, and bounded reach; #8272's migration remains correctly conditional. No other actionable findings.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static review. I could not run quest context, builds, tests, or timing reproductions. No PR-triggered workflow runs were returned for this head, so I have not established a CI result.

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Actionable comments posted: 2

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @quest/m0/playout-positioned.md:
- Around line 42-45: Update the contiguous-write positioning rule around
CONTIGUOUS so it snaps a frame to the previous end only when the gap is
identified as timestamp rounding. Preserve genuine positive gaps, including a
0.9 ms gap at 48 kHz; establish how rounding can be distinguished before
applying the snap.
- Around line 34-38: Update the late-frame trimming plan for Positioned::write
to account for both the already-mixed position and the previous write’s end.
Trim the overlapping portion and write the remaining playable tail, rather than
rejecting the entire frame.

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