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  • coreav ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -c copy out.mkv (also .webm and .mka) now keeps every Opus sample the source edit list presents. Before this change, an edit that started before dOps PreSkip lost up to PreSkip samples at its start.
  • The copied Opus trim is the edit's media time, rounded to the nearest 48 kHz sample as decode-audio rounds it. PreSkip trims only a track that has no edit list.
  • No command that runs natively on main is refused or falls back. Output bytes change only for Opus edits that start before PreSkip or between two 48 kHz samples.

Background

An Opus MP4 whose single edit starts at media time 0, with PreSkip 312 and an edit of 7,992 samples, was copied to Matroska with 7,680 samples. The Matroska writer trimmed by the larger of the edit's media time and PreSkip, so PreSkip was applied on top of the edit. Opus in ISOBMFF 0.6.8, section 4.3.2, makes PreSkip informative and assigns whole-playback trimming to the edit list, and section 4.4 sets the edit's media time to the number of priming samples to trim. The MP4 decoder already follows the edit (Opus MP4 presentation), so decode-audio and the Matroska copy disagreed for the same file.

Refs #25

What changes

What changes for users of the library or CLI? For the source above, the copied Matroska file now decodes to the edit's 7,992 samples (CodecDelay 0, OpusHead pre-skip 0) instead of 7,680 (CodecDelay 6.5 ms). An edit starting at media time 100 now writes CodecDelay for 100 samples instead of 312. Edits at or after PreSkip, and tracks without an edit list, give the same bytes as before.

  • Covered: Opus copied from ISO base media into Matroska, WebM and audio-only Matroska by coreav ffmpeg and by the library's Matroska output adapter. The native H.264 Matroska entrypoint already followed the edit. Its regression, which pinned the ordinary writer's PreSkip trim, now requires both paths to give the same bytes, and the design note says so. The native H.264 CLI gate compared the ordinary Matroska output for the edited Opus source with the base revision's bytes. It now requires the Matroska copy from the feature-enabled build, which CoreAV writes, to decode to the source edit's declared presentation. The default build hands that command to the FFmpeg fallback, so its Matroska bytes, like MP4 and every other case, must stay identical to the base revision's.
  • Not covered: Matroska and WebM Opus sources, Opus replacements (encodes), other codecs, the MP4 writers, and the decoders.

What must a person do after merging? None.

How it works

Scenario 1: Copy an Opus MP4 whose edit starts before PreSkip into Matroska
sequenceDiagram
  actor U as User
  participant C as coreav ffmpeg
  participant A as mkv_output::source::isobmff
  participant W as Matroska writer
  U->>C: -i in.mp4 -c copy out.mkv
  C->>A: selected ISO tracks
  rect rgb(254, 243, 199)
    Note over A: Changed: previously trim = max(edit media time, PreSkip)
    A->>A: trim = edit media time, nearest 48 kHz sample
  end
  A->>W: CodecDelay and OpusHead pre-skip = trim, DiscardPadding at the edit end
  W-->>U: out.mkv presents the edit's samples
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Decisions

  • The trim follows the edit, not PreSkip, for every edit-bearing Opus track: Opus in ISOBMFF 4.3.2 and 4.4 decide this, and the MP4 decoder already does it. Keeping max() would keep matching FFmpeg's Matroska copy in the cases below, but that output drops samples the source presents.
  • The native H.264 Matroska entrypoint's preserve_opus_edit option is kept. It now differs from the ordinary path only for a track without an edit list, where it trims nothing. Removing it would change that entrypoint's output, which is out of this PR's scope.
  • Without an edit list, PreSkip still trims, unchanged. ISO/IEC 14496-12 presents media time directly in that case, but the Opus mapping requires an edit (4.4), and CoreAV's MP4 decoder already uses PreSkip there. Changing both together belongs to a separate decision.
  • An edit start between two 48 kHz samples (an Opus media clock that is not a multiple of 48 kHz) is rounded to the nearest sample, halves up, the rule decode-audio uses, and the copied packets move with it. Refusing would turn a command that runs natively on main into a fallback. A side effect: such starts at or after PreSkip, which main refused, now run natively.
  • Known divergence: for 11 generated shapes whose edit starts at media time 0, FFmpeg 9.0.2's Matroska copy applies PreSkip again and presents 312 fewer leading samples. This is recorded in docs/known-divergences-audio-output.md with 4.3.2 as the reason, and the new oracle test binds it exactly.
  • Known oracle limit: in 6 shapes with a 240-sample edit at media time 100, FFmpeg's decoder ignores DiscardPadding on the single block that also carries CodecDelay, and it does so for FFmpeg's own copy too. CoreAV's decode of the same output presents exactly the 240-sample edit.

Evidence

Verification run:

  • opus_copy_presents_the_source_edit_rather_than_preskip (coreav-isobmff-write) has nine cases: the reported shape, no edit, starts inside PreSkip, edits shorter than PreSkip, starts at and after PreSkip, and on- and off-grid starts on a 32 kHz media clock. It fails on main.

  • iso_opus_edit_starting_before_preskip_keeps_its_leading_samples (coreav-cli, pinned oracle) checks a libopus MP4 whose edit is moved to media time 0 against the complete decode, keeps the media-time-312 control, and binds the oracle divergence. It fails on main.

  • Same-input comparison with the pinned FFmpeg 9.0.2 (development run, Docker linux/amd64): 87 shapes, from 3 generated sources × up to 11 edit variants × -c copy .mkv, -c copy .webm and -map 0:a -c:a copy .mka.

    Compared against now match still match still differ newly differ
    The edit's presentation, FFmpeg-decoded 33 24 6 0
    FFmpeg's own Matroska copy 6 0 46 11

    These counts cover the 63 shapes that both builds run natively. Main refused 8 more shapes, which now run natively and match the edit. No shape moved from native to refused.

  • Main against this branch on every fixture from scripts/gen-fixtures.sh and scripts/gen-fixtures-mkv.sh (205 inputs × 6 Matroska, WebM and MP4 copy or replacement commands, 1,230 commands, 414 native): 0 exit-status changes and 0 output-byte changes.

  • cargo fmt --all --check and cargo clippy -p coreav-isobmff-write -p coreav-cli --all-targets -- -D warnings pass. cargo test -p coreav-isobmff-write and cargo test -p coreav-cli --test ffmpeg_matroska --test ffmpeg_mkv_aac_copy pass on Linux, including native_video_cadence_and_ordinary_copy_preserve_iso_opus_edit_presentation. python3 -I -m unittest discover -s scripts/tests -p 'test_native_h264_cli.py' passes (37 tests).

  • Similarity guard on f00f89e2bddddf41c674f7497c3ecdf77a45fde6 with the allowlist on the ops repository's main: 112 spans of 50+ tokens, 0 not allowlisted, 0 problems, 0 stale entries.

Links: Opus in ISOBMFF 0.6.8, docs/design/opus-mp4-presentation.md, docs/design/mkv-write.md.

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The ISO source adapter trimmed a copied Opus track by the larger of the
edit's media time and dOps PreSkip, so an edit starting before PreSkip
had its start trimmed twice. Opus in ISOBMFF section 4.3.2 makes PreSkip
informative and leaves the trim to the edit list. PreSkip now trims only
a track without an edit list, as the MP4 decoder already does. An edit
start between two 48 kHz samples is rounded to the nearest sample, as
decode-audio rounds it, instead of being refused.

Signed-off-by: Gunwoo Kim <gunwooterry@gmail.com>
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Copied Opus tracks in Matroska now use ISO edit-list media time for leading trim when an edit list exists. The writer converts the trim to 48 kHz samples and uses dOps PreSkip only when no edit list exists. Tests and CLI checks cover trim conversion, presented samples, and decoded output.

Changes: Copied Opus Edit-List Trimming

Layer / File(s) Summary
Select and apply copied Opus trim
crates/coreav-isobmff-write/src/mkv_output/source.rs, docs/agents/containers.md, docs/design/mkv-write.md, docs/design/cli-native-h264-matroska.md
Copied Opus tracks use edit-list trim when an edit list exists. The writer converts that trim to 48 kHz samples and uses dOps PreSkip only when no edit list exists.
Validate trim conversion and output duration
crates/coreav-isobmff-write/tests/mkv_output.rs, crates/coreav-isobmff-write/src/mkv_output/tests.rs
Parameterized tests cover edit lists, packet counts, media timescales, codec delay, pre-skip, and presented samples.
Verify copied Opus output in CLI modes
scripts/native_h264_cli.py, scripts/tests/test_native_h264_cli.py
CLI verification compares Matroska output with reference PCM. Tests check encoder calls, source facts, and sample-count mismatch handling.
Check leading samples against FFmpeg
crates/coreav-cli/tests/ffmpeg_matroska.rs, docs/known-divergences-audio-output.md, test-support/oracle-dependent.json
The regression checks the zero-media-time edit against decoded source samples and FFmpeg output. The documentation and oracle test list include this case.

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

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to f00f8

The change is mergeable after normal checks; no concrete unresolved risk was established.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to f00f8

The change is narrowly scoped to audio presentation timing. Inspected validation and output-planning controls remain in place, and the identified public-entrypoint changes are tests rather than newly exposed production interfaces. Incomplete security coverage leaves some residual uncertainty.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — In the inspected path, media-controlled edit metadata influences the selected invocation's output headers, timestamps and presented audio. This change does not itself introduce tenant identity, credential authority or a cross-service operation.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The changed computation remains behind simple-edit and internal-sample-description validation. Negative media times are rejected; multiplication and addition are checked; zero timescales and trim values exceeding the Opus pre-skip field are rejected. Header mutation operates on a locally owned track header.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Metadata and packet budgets remain applied during planning, and payload copying uses a fixed-size buffer. The changed trim logic does not add shared reservations or durable transition state requiring cancellation, retry or recovery cleanup.
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The title "fix(mkv): trim copied Opus by its edit, not PreSkip" matches the main change. The diff makes copied Opus tracks with an edit list trim by the edit's media time instead of the larger of that time and dOps PreSkip. The title follows Conventional Commits, names the affected container (mkv), and stays under 72 characters. It omits the 48 kHz rounding and the no-edit-list PreSkip fallback, which is acceptable because the title need not cover every detail.

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The description follows the repository template closely. It has a TL;DR with three bullets covering the change, who it affects, and how. Background gives the symptom (a 7,992-sample edit copied as 7,680 samples), the cause (max of edit media time and PreSkip), and cites the Opus in ISOBMFF sections. What changes covers user-visible output and explicitly lists covered and not-covered areas, with a post-merge step of None. A Mermaid sequence diagram shows the changed trim step. Decisions records the rejected max() alternative, the retained preserve_opus_edit option, the no-edit-list PreSkip rule, rounding, and known divergences. Evidence lists the verification commands and results, and the template's two checklist items are ticked. Minor gaps: the Needs the maintainer section is omitted, which the template allows, and the title line in the template comment is not repeated in the description, which is also not required. Background is a little long, but it stays within the template's scope.

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Reviewed head 31aa9f0b4a332d5372faa38953e90e95c0951513 against e41a3836a1cdf13bc1a7a3ffba406b30d6ec448e.

The edit owns whole-playback trimming under Opus in ISOBMFF 4.3.2; 4.4 requires the edit and describes its priming offset. The documented 312-sample disagreement with the oracle is justified. The new arithmetic rounds nonnegative edit starts half-up like the decoder, checks overflow, and retains the existing u16 delay limit. Existing accepted exact-grid starts retain equivalent timing arithmetic; non-Opus, replacement, and no-edit paths are unchanged. The remaining flag still preserves the native-video entrypoint's zero-trim behavior when there is no edit list.

Locally, all 14 mkv_output integration tests and the native/ordinary Opus presentation unit test passed. I independently recomputed the supplied raw comparison rows: 63 shapes native in both builds, 8 newly native, 0 lost; 11 newly different from the oracle copy; the separate 1,230-command matrix has 414 native commands and no exit or byte changes. These are development evidence, not a new measured coverage claim. Current-head Linux CI, including actual execution of the new oracle test, is still pending; this review is not a merge-readiness verdict.

Non-blocking wording correction: docs/design/mkv-write.md and the PR body describe an off-grid start as requiring a media clock that is not a multiple of 48 kHz. A 96 kHz clock with media time 1 is also off-grid (half a sample). Say simply “an edit start that does not map to an integer 48 kHz sample.” The same qualifier also means the Background user-behavior statement about edits at/after PreSkip needs the existing off-grid exception.

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The native H.264 CLI gate compared the ordinary Matroska output for an
Opus source whose edit starts before PreSkip with the base revision's
bytes. That output now follows the edit, so the gate checks that the
default and unselected Matroska copies decode to the source edit's
declared presentation, and keeps whole-byte identity for MP4.

Signed-off-by: Gunwoo Kim <gunwooterry@gmail.com>
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Delta-reviewed 31aa9f0b4a332d5372faa38953e90e95c0951513..a7cf4e6d56f105dd5c97994e953c3f6d6ad01910; the earlier production-code review carries forward.

The comparison exception is confined to the two edited-Opus Matroska outputs (default and feature-enabled unselected). Those outputs intentionally change under this fix, so the replacement requires exact original-edit sample count and complete PCM bytes, using the existing independently parsed source-edit reference rather than the old writer's output. The unit regression rejects a shortened default-mode output. MP4 checks for that same command remain whole-byte actual-base comparisons; all other default/unselected/external commands retain the original MP4 and Matroska byte checks because the new container argument defaults to both formats.

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The default build refuses the external H.264 encode beside a copied edited Opus track and hands the command to the FFmpeg fallback, so its Matroska output is not written by CoreAV. Compare those bytes with the base build again and check the source edit presentation only for the feature-enabled build that writes the file natively.

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Delta-reviewed a7cf4e6d56f105dd5c97994e953c3f6d6ad01910..f00f89e2bddddf41c674f7497c3ecdf77a45fde6.

This corrects the prior comparison's build-mode assumption: the default build delegates this encode to FFmpeg, so its Matroska output must retain actual-base whole-byte identity, not satisfy CoreAV's corrected presentation rule. That default-mode byte comparison is restored. Only the feature-enabled, unselected CoreAV-written edited-Opus Matroska output is excluded from byte identity and checked against the source edit's exact PCM instead. Both MP4 comparisons and every other unchanged-command comparison remain in place; the skip is supplied only for this named command and (mkv, unselected) pair.

The oracle binary selection, fallback environment, source-reference construction, and PCM comparison are unchanged. The delta touches only comparison routing, its tests, and the corresponding design text. All 37 Python tests passed locally at the reviewed head; git diff --check passed. Full current-head CI remains a separate merge gate.

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