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TL;DR

• Lock complete AAC and Opus presentation when copying Matroska audio into MP4 beside encoded video, without changing production behavior.
• Document why FFmpeg 9.0.2's differing sample clocks are not the presentation target for these controls.

Background

A generated AAC copy has 13,312 media ticks in CoreAV and 13,000 in FFmpeg. Comparing only those totals misses a difference in priming and terminal presentation: CoreAV preserves the input PCM, while the oracle's copy shifts the samples. Refs #25.

What changes

• Covered: four generated two-track inputs, eight mono/stereo complete F32 comparisons, independent pre-conversion MP4 anchors, terminal-trim controls and the pinned oracle's sample-displacement counterexamples. Twenty-four bitrate-option outputs retain complete-file equality.
• Not covered: production code, command admission, decoder equivalence, measurement registries, rosters, judging rules or baselines. MP4-sourced copies, native transcode/remux and Matroska output remain unchanged.
• After merging: None.

Decisions

• Preserve the source's presented samples, following RFC 9559 sections 5.1.4.1.25 and 11.2. AAC's CodecDelay corresponds to 1,024 samples, not the oracle copy's 1,008; Opus declares 312, not 336.
• Extend the existing oracle-dependent regression rather than add or rename a test. The oracle counterexamples expose the difference without making its stream-copy output the expected CoreAV result or adding a registered exception.
• Anchor each MP4-origin intermediate to the original input before replacing the fixture file. Its elst.segment_duration and movie timescale declare 12,000 presented samples. AAC's entire original decode must match; the pinned decoder emits 12,168 Opus samples, so the intermediate must retain exactly the first declared 12,000 and discard the 168-sample tail. Both source-construction paths exercise the oracle counterexamples; a future pin fix updates the divergence record rather than CoreAV behavior.

Evidence

Before/after: production behavior is unchanged. In generated 48 kHz mono controls, both the input and CoreAV's copied MP4 decode to the same 12,000 F32 samples, byte for byte. The AAC oracle copy also has 12,000 samples but is displaced by 16; its 11,984-sample overlap is exact. The Opus oracle copy has 12,144 samples and loses the first 24; its 11,976-sample overlap is exact. The regression repeats these counterexamples for mono and stereo. Directly encoded Matroska AAC also preserves its untrimmed 12,288-sample presentation.

A manual AAC metadata mutation keeps 12,000 samples and a byte-identical CoreAV round trip while changing the presentation. The original-input anchor rejects it, demonstrating why a count and round-trip check alone are insufficient.

Verification run: all eight audio-option CLI tests passed; the final affected test passed again after adding the displacement counterexamples. Test-target Clippy with -D warnings and workspace formatting checks passed. Local macOS results are exploratory. At public head 373c53b2db4d89696dfbadd52a1b0e29360e6286, CI finished with 37 successful checks, 16 skipped and no failures or pending checks. Independent delta review found no blocking issue, and CodeRabbit approved with no open inline threads. Similarity checked this exact public commit against main allowlist revision 60b740336d7d12b37773eed9e75625a645410f1d: 108 spans, 0 not allowlisted, 0 problems and 0 stale entries.

Links: presentation and oracle divergence, regression, #497.

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Walkthrough

The audio test helper now selects a stream by index. The copy-bitrate regression covers AAC and Opus from MKV and MP4 sources, checks decoded presentation for both streams, and verifies native-file identity across bitrate options. Documentation records presentation requirements and FFmpeg oracle results.

Changes: Matroska audio copy regression

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Audio stream selection crates/coreav-cli/tests/ffmpeg_audio_options.rs	decoded_audio accepts an audio-stream index. Existing timing comparisons pass stream index 0.
Copy-bitrate regression coverage crates/coreav-cli/tests/ffmpeg_audio_options.rs, docs/design/copied-matroska-audio-clocks.md, docs/agents/containers.md	The test covers AAC and Opus with MKV- and MP4-origin sources. It checks decoded presentation for both streams and verifies native-file identity across bitrate options. The design document records sample-count expectations and oracle results. The Containers guidance describes the independent-input and trim checks.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 373c5

The expanded audio-copy checks introduce no established production risk. The change is mergeable after normal checks.

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Consider a table-driven structure for the expected values.

The test hard-codes the expected sample counts and oracle displacement values in nested if branches:

• 12_288 and 12_000 for the sample counts.
• 16 samples for AAC displacement.
• 24 samples for Opus displacement, and 144 extra samples for Opus length.

A case table would make each expectation visible next to its (encoder, container) pair. The table would also make new cases easier to add. This is a recommended cleanup, not a defect.

Example shape:

struct Case { encoder: &'static str, container: &'static str, samples: usize }

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Review: blocking

Reviewed head 2ff5b17e6ce9bbf5ec2558cf490ca6de0d3175d9. The spec reading is right and production code is untouched, but half of the eight PCM comparisons are checked against CoreAV's own intermediate file rather than the generated input.

Blocking

1. The MP4-origin arm compares CoreAV's output with CoreAV's own Matroska, not with the input (crates/coreav-cli/tests/ffmpeg_audio_options.rs:804-816). When container == "mp4", the oracle-encoded MP4 is overwritten by coreav ffmpeg ... source.mkv before anything decodes it. source is therefore CoreAV-written Matroska, and actual == source proves only that MP4 → Matroska → MP4 inside CoreAV is self-consistent. Suppose CoreAV's Matroska writer converted an MP4 edit list into the wrong CodecDelay or DiscardPadding, and its MP4 writer carried that value straight back. All four MP4-arm assertions would still pass, and the 12,000-sample length check would not catch a start offset. The four oracle counterexamples are also asserted only on this CoreAV-written Matroska. I ran a scratch probe locally on macOS with the pinned FFmpeg 9.0.2 and checked the original MP4 against the intermediate:

   • AAC: the original MP4 decodes to the same 12,000 samples as CoreAV's Matroska, byte for byte.
   • Opus: the original MP4 decodes to 12,168 samples through the oracle. CoreAV's Matroska keeps the first 12,000 of them byte for byte (offset 0) and drops the last 168, consistent with the MP4 edit-list trim. That is the expected result, but nothing in the test checks it.

   Fix: decode both streams of the oracle-encoded MP4 before the rename, then assert that CoreAV's Matroska decode is byte-identical to the input's decode (AAC), or to the input's first 12,000 samples (Opus, after the edit-list terminal trim), with a one-line reason for the trim. Then the chain is anchored to the generated input, and "Four generated two-track inputs ... complete input/output F32 byte identity" in the design note becomes true as written. If the Opus prefix relation is kept, say in the note which edit-list field sets the 12,000.

Non-blocking

• The oracle divergence does not depend on CoreAV's Matroska writer. On the FFmpeg-written Matroska arm, the same probe shows the oracle copy displaced by +16 samples for AAC (12,000 samples from a 12,288-sample source) and losing the first 24 samples for Opus (12,144 samples). That supports the RFC 9559 attribution. Asserting the counterexample on that arm too, or instead, would show it is FFmpeg's demux/mux and not an artifact of CoreAV-written input. Cheap, optional.
• Spec reading checked. RFC 9559 §5.1.4.1.25 defines CodecDelay in Matroska Ticks, that is nanoseconds (§11.1.1 lists it explicitly), and §11.2 subtracts it from each Block timestamp. Nothing allows rounding it to the TimestampScale tick first, so 21,333,333 ns at 48 kHz is 1,024 samples, not 1,008, and 6,500,000 ns is 312, not 336. Following the spec rather than the oracle matches the decision rule.
• Oracle tripwire. "AAC oracle displacement disappeared" (line 840) and the Opus length equality will fail on a pin bump that fixes FFmpeg's rounding. That is reasonable as a tripwire, but the design note should say that this failure means "update the divergence record", not "CoreAV regressed".
• Naming. Both arms rename Matroska bytes to source.mp4 because native() and oracle() hard-code that path. It works because both tools probe by content, but a short comment or a source-path parameter would save the next reader a double take.
• Scope. The diff touches only the test file and a new design note. There is no production code and no KD registry, roster, judging.json, baseline or tolerance change.
• PR text. The title outcome is 38 characters, the template sections are present, there are no hard-wrapped lines, both commits are signed off with no Co-Authored-By or Generated-with lines, and Refs #25 is present. The private-terms pr_text_check.py passes on the title, the body and the diff. Evidence still says exact-head similarity is pending, so add the guard result before merge.
• Verification. Locally, matroska_copy_bitrate_keeps_complete_native_files passes at this head (macOS arm64, pinned FFmpeg 9.0.2; exploratory).

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Replying to #500 (comment)

Fixed in 373c53b2db4d89696dfbadd52a1b0e29360e6286. Both original MP4 streams are decoded before the fixture is overwritten. The original elst.segment_duration and mvhd timescale declare 12,000 presented samples: the intermediate must match AAC's entire decode or exactly the first 12,000 of the pinned decoder's 12,168 Opus samples. Original lengths are checked before selecting that prefix, then the final MP4 is compared with the anchored intermediate.

The directly encoded Matroska arm now also checks the oracle displacements. The note explains the fixture filename and that a future oracle fix updates the divergence tripwires, not CoreAV behavior. A separate manual metadata mutation preserves 12,000 samples and a self-consistent CoreAV round trip, but is rejected by the original-input anchor.

The affected regression, Clippy and formatting pass locally. The qualified issue reference is in the same push; CI and final-head similarity are rerunning. Production and registered measurement material remain unchanged.

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Delta review of 2ff5b17e6ce9..373c53b2db4d89696dfbadd52a1b0e29360e6286, head 373c53b2db4d89696dfbadd52a1b0e29360e6286. The earlier blocking finding is resolved: the MP4-origin arm is now anchored to the generated input.

• Anchor. Both original MP4 audio tracks are decoded before source.mp4 is replaced, and the CoreAV-written Matroska intermediate must match them before the final output is compared. A start offset that survives a round trip through two CoreAV writers now fails.
• Edit bound. The elst and mvhd offsets are correct for version 0. These fields are checked: mvhd version and timescale at 20..24, the hdlr handler type at 16..20, elst version/flags plus entry_count = 1, segment_duration at 16..20 and media_rate = 1.0 at 24..28. The 12,000-sample bound comes from the declared edit, and the Opus 12,168 → 12,000 prefix matches what I measured on the previous head.
• Negative controls. The oracle counterexamples now run on both arms. The FFmpeg-written Matroska AAC case expects 12,000 oracle samples against 12,288 source samples, still displaced by 16 samples. That matches my earlier probe, so the divergence does not depend on CoreAV-written input. The tripwire message and the design note now say a pin that fixes the oracle should update the divergence record.
• Docs. The new docs/agents/containers.md row and the design-note text match the test. Refs coreav-dev/coreav#25 is qualified.
• Run. matroska_copy_bitrate_keeps_complete_native_files passes at this head locally (macOS arm64, pinned FFmpeg 9.0.2, exploratory). Both new commits are signed off with no extra trailers. The delta still touches no production code and no registered measurement material.

Non-blocking: the Opus tail of 168 samples is hard-coded instead of derived from pre-skip and frame count. That is fine for a fixed generated fixture.

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