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Accept unchanged audio rate and channel options on encode routes, and apply -b:a to the default AAC encoder in MP4 and M4A.
Background
Audio encoding already preserves the source rate and channel count, but the compatibility parser refuses explicitly repeating those values. It also requires an explicit audio encoder for MP4 bitrate options even though that container already defaults to AAC.
What changes
Covered: selected audio is validated after mapping and ordered codec overrides. Identity -ar and -ac are accepted for supported audio encodes; MP4 and M4A default AAC accepts bitrate options only when selected audio is actually encoded as AAC.
Not covered: rate conversion, channel mixing, new encoders or new stream-selection rules. PCM output and multiple-input copy retain their separate checks. Existing explicit-encoder commands remain admitted even when their audio encoder option is overridden or unmatched; matching FFmpeg's maximum-bitrate metadata for copied audio is a known follow-up, not part of this change.
After merging: None.
How it works
sequenceDiagram
actor U as User
participant C as coreav ffmpeg
participant E as Existing encoder
U->>C: -i source.mp4 -ar 48000 -ac 1 -b:a 96k output.mp4
C->>C: Select streams and resolve codecs
rect rgb(254, 243, 199)
Note over C: Changed: admit only unchanged selected audio properties
C->>C: Match requested rate and channels to encoded audio
end
C->>E: Existing encode with the selected bitrate
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Decisions
Use effective codec selection rather than the presence of a codec token. Overridden and unmatched codec options cannot authorize identity options on copied audio.
Admit only identity operations. Opus explicitly repeating a rate requires a 48 kHz source because the existing encoder input is always 48 kHz; no new conversion is introduced.
Narrow only the new default bitrate allowance. A blanket refusal for copied or absent audio would remove existing native commands, so the earlier explicit-encoder admission is preserved.
Evidence
Verification run: The generated-media CLI target covers 52 encode variants and 68 identity-option refusal controls, plus four legacy bitrate commands and six new default-bitrate refusal controls with destination preservation. All 31 baseline-native controls remain native with byte-identical complete output. The FFmpeg module and PCM-in-MP4 targets pass. Existing AAC and libopus command tests, targeted Clippy, fmt, workflow, oracle-selection, frozen-source, pr-text and pr-shape checks pass. The new CLI target runs explicitly in Linux CI with native H.264 decoding. Similarity at 04206f4d03ca88fa3254639c348b5233ba98a766 passes with 108 spans, 0 not allowlisted, 0 problems and 0 stale entries. Full CI passes at this head, including the complete strict-safe AAC refusal control in both Linux source builds.
The CLI accepts additional audio options for supported outputs and validates them against selected encoded audio. Tests cover accepted identity options, default AAC bitrate handling, and refusal cases. CI runs the tests with required FFmpeg features, and documentation describes the updated rules.
Changes: FFmpeg audio option handling
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Summary
Parse and validate audio options crates/coreav-cli/src/ffmpeg/args.rs, crates/coreav-cli/src/ffmpeg/mod.rs, docs/design/transcode.md, docs/agents/ffmpeg-cli.md, docs/agents/docs.md
The parser admits audio options for supported outputs. Planning validates bitrate, sample rate, and channel count against selected audio streams and effective codecs. The documentation describes the admission rules, including the Opus 48 kHz constraint.
Integration tests cover identity options, default AAC bitrate handling, and refusal cases. They check output properties, destination preservation, and temporary-file cleanup. CI runs the tests with required FFmpeg features. The strict-safe test checks the platform memory-limit refusal.
No actionable merge-blocking risk was established for the expanded audio options.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 04206
The newly accepted audio options reuse existing encoding paths and retain strict-safe authorization and staged file writes. No introduced security issue was established in those paths. Platform-specific execution and abrupt-interruption behavior were not tested in this review.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — Caller-controlled options and media properties can now admit additional commands into existing native encoding routes. The inspected expansion reaches existing file-output and encoder operations, without establishing a new execution authority or bypassing resolved-encoder authorization.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Parser acceptance does not authorize encoder execution. AAC and MP3 remain prohibited in strict-safe mode, while Opus requires sandbox authorization. Both resolved video-transcode audio and audio-only encoding invoke these checks. Native refusals continue through the existing strict-safe/fallback dispatch rather than a new execution path.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The native writers retain input-alias, destination-type, and overwrite checks before staged output. The shared writer exclusively creates a temporary file, flushes and closes it before publication, and attempts removal after ordinary errors. Publication retains its documented concurrency limitations, including the forced-overwrite check/rename race; these implementations predate this PR. Abrupt-termination cleanup was not verified.
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Match each refusal case to the gate message it actually produces.
The expected text comes from -ar or -ac membership alone. For -vn -map 0:a:0 -c copy -b:a 96k, neither option is present, so the expected text is '-ac'. The copy-only refusal, encoder options while every selected stream is copied, names no option, so the expectation does not describe the gate that refuses this case.
The error.contains("encoder options") alternative hides this mismatch. Any refusal that contains that phrase passes, including refusals from other gates. In strict mode, any refusal that contains strict-safe also passes. A case routed to the wrong gate would not fail.
Give each case the exact refusal text it should produce. For copy cases, expect encoder options while every selected stream is copied. For cases whose gate names an option, expect that option name. Confirm the strict-mode text for each case, and use it where strict mode changes the message. Remove the generic alternatives so that each case checks its own gate.
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Review comment at @crates/coreav-cli/tests/ffmpeg_audio_options.rs around lines
345 - 349:
Update the refusal assertions around the `option` selection so each test case
checks the exact message from the gate it reaches: use the option name for
option-specific gates and `encoder options while every selected stream is
copied` for copy-only cases. Determine and assert each case’s exact strict-mode
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Review comments at @crates/coreav-cli/src/ffmpeg/args.rs:
- Around line 1217-1223: Update the audio-option validation around
`audio_encoders` and `command.codecs` to refuse `-b:a` when no audio encoder is
selected, including when audio is copied or absent; preserve the existing muxer
and encoder checks for requests that do encode audio.
Review comments at @docs/design/transcode.md:
- Around line 1133-1143: Update the table entries for `-c:a aac` and `-b:a` to
match the documented behavior: remove `-ar` and `-ac` from the refused-options
list and note that identity values matching the selected source audio are
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Review comments at @crates/coreav-cli/tests/ffmpeg_audio_options.rs:
- Around line 345-349: Update the refusal assertions around the `option`
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Assert that the bitrate option changes the audio bitrate.
For each default-AAC case, compare the measured audio bitrate with a matching run without -b:a. Use a fixture where the requested bitrate produces a different measured value. The current explicit control also requests 96k, so both runs can pass if their shared encode path ignores it.
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Update the default-AAC cases in the audio-options test loop to compare the
measured audio bitrate from audio_properties for a run with -b:a against a
matching run with that option removed. Use a fixture where the requested bitrate
yields a different measured value, so the assertion verifies the bitrate option
changes the output rather than merely comparing two encodes that share the same
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crates/coreav-cli/src/ffmpeg/mod.rs
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docs/agents/ffmpeg-cli.md
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Review: no blocking issue at 6b99abe6e21308f6c3ba117563f236bcfe20b43e
Commands that were native before still run natively. I built coreav (native-h264,aac, release, macOS arm64) at this head and at the merge base 79e6c8bc3. I ran both builds with whole-command fallback disabled and COREAV_FFMPEG set to the pinned macOS FFmpeg 9.0.2 oracle (archive and binary SHA-256 match scripts/oracle-ffmpeg-macos.env). The sweep covered 4,608 commands: 2 generated sources (FLAC mono 48 kHz + FLAC stereo 44.1 kHz + H.264, and an AAC copy of it) × mp4/m4a/mp3/mkv/wav/flac × 4 selection shapes × 12 codec-option shapes (including ordered and unmatched overrides) × 8 -ar/-ac/-b:a sets. The results:
0 commands that were native at the base are now refused.
0 byte changes among commands that are native at both commits.
352 commands are newly native, and all 352 are byte-identical to the base build's output for the same command after removing the identity -ar/-ac. Where -b:a relied on the default encoder, I added an explicit -c:a aac.
This matches the code. Every non-PCM muxer that reaches non_pcm_audio_options with a rate or channel option was refused by the parser before this change. PCM/WAV/FLAC/raw outputs return through pcm::plan/raw_audio::plan earlier, and raw_audio::legacy only falls through for s16le. The new -b:a refusal fires only when no Audio/AviAudio codec option exists, which is exactly the set the old parser refused.
FFmpeg 9.x parity of the new options. On the oracle alone, adding identity -ar/-ac produces byte-identical files for default-AAC MP4/M4A, MP4 with video, and libmp3lame MP3. MP4 libopus also matches. For MKV with video + libopus, the packets are identical, but the whole files differ from run to run even without the option (random Matroska UIDs). Default-AAC -b:a equals explicit -c:a aac -b:a in both CoreAV and FFmpeg. So the new admissions add no divergence from FFmpeg that the existing explicit-encoder commands do not already have. MP3 outputs match FFmpeg at the packet and stream level. The PR states the copied-audio max-bitrate gap honestly: ff -c:a aac -c:a copy with and without -b:a 96k differ, while CoreAV's outputs are equal.
Non-blocking
Pre-existing and outside this diff: on the AAC encode route, the last audio sample's duration differs from the oracle's (1024 vs 736 ticks). Payload MD5s, sample counts and duration_ts match, and only the derived bit_rate differs as a result. This also happens on the existing -vn -map 0:a:0 -c:a aac out.mp4, so the PR doesn't introduce it, and the new admissions inherit it. It may deserve a follow-up next to the design note's "exact end-to-end checks" sentence.
The PR is now dirty against main, so it needs a base merge before the mergeable gate holds. A merge that only resolves conflicts doesn't need a code re-review.
"Full CI and independent review are pending." in Evidence is stale. You can drop it in your next body edit.
CodeRabbit
args.rs 1217–1223, refuse -b:a when audio isn't encoded: confirmed at 5e795d3. There, -c:v libx264 -c:a copy -b:a 96k out.mp4 was newly admitted and silently dropped the bitrate. Fixed at this head: that command now exits 4 with the '-b:a' without an explicit audio encoder refusal (reproduced locally). The legacy explicit-encoder cases keep their earlier admission, and the PR documents that as a follow-up.
docs/design/transcode.md 1133–1147, stale table rows: valid but minor. Both rows are fixed at this head.
CI is green at this head (50 passed, 0 failed, 0 pending). Commits are signed off and have no Co-Authored-By. The title is 49 characters. Nothing in the diff reads FFmpeg source.
Review: no blocking issue at e48fb69516d7e852ab00f1940a7110b38ae9c1dc (rebase of the reviewed 6b99abe6e21308f6c3ba117563f236bcfe20b43e onto main 4c2ea6acb)
I reviewed only the rebase delta:
git range-diff: commit 2 is identical (=). Commit 1 differs only in ci.yml context: main replaced the preceding mp3_worker step with aac_worker. The new identity-audio step is unchanged and sits after it, and both stages are kept.
Outside ci.yml, the PR's own diff is byte-identical to the reviewed head's.
Main moved 79e6c8bc3..4c2ea6acb without touching crates/coreav-cli/src (the commits are H.264 encoder work and fix(transcode): keep AAC probes encoder-only #479's AAC probe change in transcode). So the old-vs-new admission sweep and the FFmpeg comparisons from my earlier review still apply to this head.
Both commits are still signed off.
My earlier verdict and CodeRabbit judgments stand (CodeRabbit: 1 confirmed and fixed, 1 minor, 0 false positive). CI restarted on this head, so its green status still needs confirming.
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Review: no blocking issue at 35981684767e205a04619fc79d38918c739d74c4 (rebase of the reviewed e48fb69516d7e852ab00f1940a7110b38ae9c1dc onto main f87bb5274)
I reviewed only the rebase delta:
git range-diff: the PR's own diff under crates/, test-support/ and .github/ is byte-identical to the reviewed head's. The only change is in docs/design/transcode.md, which now carries both the actual-AAC -b:a wording and fix(ffmpeg): admit ignored H264 video quality #483's ignored -q:v sentence and table row. They read consistently.
fix(ffmpeg): admit ignored H264 video quality #483 on main adds -q:v parsing and an Encoding.video_quality flag in args.rs/encode.rs. That code doesn't touch audio_encoders, the -ar/-ac parser branch or non_pcm_audio_options, so it doesn't interact with this PR's admission logic. My earlier sweep (no previously native command refused, 352 new admissions byte-identical to pre-PR native baselines) still applies.
Both commits are still signed off.
My verdict and CodeRabbit judgments are unchanged (CodeRabbit: 1 confirmed and fixed, 1 minor, 0 false positive). CI restarted on this head, so its green status still needs confirming.
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I reviewed only the rebase delta:
git range-diff: the PR's own diff under crates/, test-support/ and .github/ is byte-identical to the reviewed head's. The only changes are the conflict resolutions in docs/design/transcode.md and adjacent rows in docs/agents/ffmpeg-cli.md, which now carry fix(ffmpeg): apply default video encoder options #477's default-video rules beside this PR's identity-audio and actual-AAC -b:a text and enforcement rows. Nothing is lost or contradictory.
fix(ffmpeg): apply default video encoder options #477 on main relaxes the video encoder-option gate in args.rs (MP4 without -b:v or a non-crop filter), drops -s on the default MP4 encoder in encode.rs, and adds the matching-dimensions -s refusal in transcode_job. None of this touches audio_encoders, the -ar/-ac parser branch or non_pcm_audio_options.
On main, -b:a without an audio codec option on MP4/M4A, and -ar/-ac on non-PCM MP4/M4A/MP3/Matroska, were refused by parser gates fix(ffmpeg): apply default video encoder options #477 left unchanged. So this PR still moves no native command to fallback, including fix(ffmpeg): apply default video encoder options #477's new default-video admissions. In combined commands such as -crf 23 -b:a 96k out.mp4, the audio checks still run in plan before transcode_job.
Both commits are still signed off.
My verdict and CodeRabbit judgments are unchanged (CodeRabbit: 1 confirmed and fixed, 1 minor, 0 false positive). CI restarted on this head, so its green status still needs confirming.
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Review comments at @crates/coreav-cli/tests/transcode.rs:
- Around line 4229-4240: Update the strict-safe AAC refusal assertion in this
test to require the complete AAC diagnostic, rather than accepting a shared
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Review: no blocking issue at 04206f4d03ca88fa3254639c348b5233ba98a766 (one test and docs commit on top of the reviewed b5cf85fe55fe0f9f79c46f228a3651a773de22b3)
I reviewed only the delta, 04206f4d0 test(ffmpeg): require the full AAC refusal, which is signed off and changes no production code:
In ffmpeg_libopus_lines_encode_the_audio, the implicit-AAC strict-safe case now requires the whole stderr with assert_eq, so an earlier x264 refusal that shares the strict-safe mode never runs the ffmpeg program prefix can no longer pass. The expected text matches what check_aac builds through StrictSafe::aac, encode.rs:94 → strict_safe.rs:184 plus OFF, with the CLI's coreav ffmpeg: prefix and a newline. The other two cases don't start with coreav ffmpeg: and keep contains. Exit status 4, the exact memory-limit refusal on hosts without enforcement, and nothing_left are unchanged. The test only got stricter.
The docs/agents/ffmpeg-cli.md enforcement row now describes the stricter assertion accurately.
CodeRabbit's new finding 4501099429 is valid but minor. The weaker contains would have accepted the x264 strict-safe refusal from the preflight, but this is a test-strength issue with no product effect. It's fixed here and the thread is resolved. Running total: CodeRabbit: 1 confirmed, 2 minor, 0 false positive.
My verdict stands. The stricter branch runs only on hosts that enforce memory limits (Linux CI), so its pass still needs confirming in this head's CI.
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TL;DR
-b:ato the default AAC encoder in MP4 and M4A.Background
Audio encoding already preserves the source rate and channel count, but the compatibility parser refuses explicitly repeating those values. It also requires an explicit audio encoder for MP4 bitrate options even though that container already defaults to AAC.
What changes
-arand-acare accepted for supported audio encodes; MP4 and M4A default AAC accepts bitrate options only when selected audio is actually encoded as AAC.How it works
sequenceDiagram actor U as User participant C as coreav ffmpeg participant E as Existing encoder U->>C: -i source.mp4 -ar 48000 -ac 1 -b:a 96k output.mp4 C->>C: Select streams and resolve codecs rect rgb(254, 243, 199) Note over C: Changed: admit only unchanged selected audio properties C->>C: Match requested rate and channels to encoded audio end C->>E: Existing encode with the selected bitrateDecisions
Evidence
Verification run: The generated-media CLI target covers 52 encode variants and 68 identity-option refusal controls, plus four legacy bitrate commands and six new default-bitrate refusal controls with destination preservation. All 31 baseline-native controls remain native with byte-identical complete output. The FFmpeg module and PCM-in-MP4 targets pass. Existing AAC and libopus command tests, targeted Clippy, fmt, workflow, oracle-selection, frozen-source, pr-text and pr-shape checks pass. The new CLI target runs explicitly in Linux CI with native H.264 decoding. Similarity at
04206f4d03ca88fa3254639c348b5233ba98a766passes with 108 spans, 0 not allowlisted, 0 problems and 0 stale entries. Full CI passes at this head, including the complete strict-safe AAC refusal control in both Linux source builds.Links: Refs #47. Audio options, stream handling.
git commit -s, DCO).