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Summary

The replay harness (js/watch/src/audio/replay.ts) filled every decoded frame with a constant 0.5, so the stretch's pitch search always found its shortest period (2.5 ms) and a replay's catch-up after a stall measured that, not the player. It now plays Speech: a seeded, deterministic speech-like signal computed from media time. Syllables of 120 to 300 ms glide a 90 to 220 Hz fundamental (with two harmonics) under a raised-cosine level, and a quarter of them are pauses of 100 to 400 ms. The pause floor stays above the -60 dBFS silence classifier, and no sample is exactly zero, since the tap reads trailing zeros as missing audio.

Speech exposed a player bug that the constant hid. The recorded AAC timestamps land up to 2.5 samples either side of each 1024-sample boundary (steps of 1023, 1024 and 1026 samples, with no drift). The browser ring zero-filled every hole, so each 2-sample hole played 2 zeros. On speech the stretch rests in phase with those holes, so on bursty-aac 119.1 quanta a minute ended short (2.7 ms/min missing). The earlier guess blamed the accelerate's seams; the reproduction showed no stretch at those quanta, only a 1-sample hole at the quantum's end. Native has the same bug: AudioTimeline::push (rs/moq-cli/src/play/timeline.rs) wrote silence for any positive hole. Both now treat a frame stamped within a millisecond and two samples of where the last one ended (the tolerance native already gave a rewind) as contiguous. AudioRingBuffer.write places it at the write index, and AudioTimeline::push writes no silence ahead of it. A real hole is still filled. Each player has a unit test, and doc/concept/audio-jitter.md says so.

Every replay row of test/audio-quality/budgets.json was re-measured (just test audio-quality --replays --enforce passes) against main's constant-tone ceilings (after #8532's stretch setting), with a note appended. A run with only the ring fix reverted shows the fix moves bursty-aac's tap underruns (119.1 to 0) and nothing else. Every other change below comes from the speech input.

row	A/V lag p50	A/V lag p95	tap underruns/min	tap missing ms/min	player underruns/min
bursty-aac	10.4 → 11	156.3 → 104.8	3.3 → 0	0.1 → 0	4.4
local-aac	1.8 → 1.7	39.2 → 15.1	2 → 0	0.1 → 0	4
relay-bbb	-1.2 → -4.2	2.2 → 1.4	0	0	0
relay-mic	1.6 → 1.1	1.6 → 3.4	0	0	0
relay-mic-rtt40	0.7 → 0.9	2.4 → 3.5	0.7	1.1 → 0.3	2.7 → 3.1
relay-mic-stall	25.3 → 1.1	501.8 → 484.9	0	0	4

replay.test.ts's tolerance PERIOD became the speech's longest pitch period (11.1 ms). A seam moves by one period, so a lag shorter than that may rest. The README's replay paragraph is updated.

Decisions

• Speech replay's tap underruns on bursty-aac: ✅ fix the seams instead of budgeting them (rejected: (a) budget as measured; (b) hold this PR for a separate ring fix). The maintainer settled this on 2026-11-12. The root cause turned out to be zero-filled timestamp jitter rather than the seams. It is fixed in both players in this PR, and no ceiling is raised for it.

Choices made without asking

• Budget numbers that moved (all in budgets.json, listed for review since the maintainer wants no raises): the A/V lag p50 rose on bursty-aac (10.4 → 11 ms) and relay-mic-rtt40 (0.7 → 0.9), fell on relay-mic (1.6 → 1.1) and relay-mic-stall (25.3 → 1.1), and moved to -4.2 on relay-bbb (from -1.2). The p95 rose on relay-mic (1.6 → 3.4) and relay-mic-rtt40 (2.4 → 3.5), and relay-mic-rtt40's player underruns rose from 2.7 to 3.1 a minute. Reason: the input changed, not the player (identical with the ring fix reverted). The earlier relay-mic 3.9 ms p50 is gone: on main with feat(watch,play): a stretch setting bounds how far audio trails before it skips #8532 it rests at 1.1 ms. Expand and accelerate only move audio by one whole pitch period, so audio rests anywhere within one period of the clock. That was 2.5 ms on the constant and is 4.5 to 11.1 ms on speech. relay-mic's 3.9 ms is within that band. Tightening the rest band would need a sub-period correction in the stretch, which NetEq does not have; this PR does not attempt one.
• Tolerance of a millisecond and two samples, taken from native's existing rewind tolerance so both players agree. It covers millisecond-stamped input (FLV), and the shortest codec frame (2.5 ms) can't fit inside it, so no real hole is lost. The bounded jitter (no drift on any trace) means snapping never accumulates.
• A small overlap is snapped forward too, so the frame plays whole instead of overwriting the last sample of the frame before. Native already appended overlapping frames whole.
• Synthesized in the harness (no clip, no license), seeded with a fixed Mulberry32 seed. Pause floor 0.03 amplitude: at 0.004 the pauses' quanta near a zero crossing fell under the silence classifier and raised every row's silence share by about 4%.

Impact

Behavior change in both players: a hole of up to a millisecond and two samples between frames plays as contiguous rather than as silence. No public API or wire change. Speech is exported from the @internal replay module only.

Caused by

No single PR: the zero-fill is as old as the ring (ffb443457b), and native's silence fill as old as AudioTimeline.

Follow-ups

None.

Models

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Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, medium effort (iterate, M)

Review

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• Base: origin/main at 2e0418f
• Score: 10/10, The incremental changes correctly adapt replay to the merged stretch settings, and code review found no new issues; builds and tests were not run as instructed.
• Findings: none

Then eecbdcd applied CodeRabbit's suggested Math.min patch unchanged; its determinism-test nitpick was declined on the PR.

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Walkthrough

Both players now treat timestamp differences within 1 ms plus two samples as continuous audio. Replay generates seeded speech-like samples instead of constant-valued PCM. Tests and documentation describe the continuity and replay behavior. Audio-quality budget notes and scenario measurements are updated.

Merge Risk: Low · up to eecbd

Both players now treat sub-millisecond timestamp jitter as contiguous audio, and replay now uses seeded speech-like audio. The replay harness keeps all generated samples in memory, which is fine for the current 35-180 s scenarios but would grow for very long recordings. This only affects the test harness and is worth tracking, but it should not block the merge.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the two main changes: replays now play speech-like signals instead of a constant tone, and a jittered frame timestamp is no longer treated as a hole. Both parts appear in the changeset…
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 is specific and on-topic. It explains that the replay harness now plays a seeded, deterministic speech-like signal (Speech) instead of a constant 0.5 value, and that the player now t…

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The title names the two main changes: replays now play speech-like signals instead of a constant tone, and a jittered frame timestamp is no longer treated as a hole. Both parts appear in the changeset: replay.ts adds Speech, and the ring-buffer and timeline code treat small gaps as contiguous. The title is a single line, though it is long and joins two changes with a comma.

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The description is specific and on-topic. It explains that the replay harness now plays a seeded, deterministic speech-like signal (Speech) instead of a constant 0.5 value, and that the player now treats frames stamped within 1 ms and 2 samples of the previous frame's end as contiguous in both the browser ring buffer and the native AudioTimeline. It also lists the touched files, the budget remeasurements in budgets.json, the tests added, and the documentation updates. Every part of this matches the changeset summaries.

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js/watch/src/audio/replay.ts: 1

135-139: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add a same-seed determinism test for Speech.

No test in js/watch/src/audio/replay.test.ts checks that Speech produces the same output across instances. Add a test that does the following:

• Creates two fresh Speech instances with the same rate and origin, then asserts that their samples match for the same timestamp and count.
• Compares one contiguous read with several adjacent read calls over the same range. The output must match.

These checks protect the deterministic audio used to calibrate the replay budgets.

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Review comment at @js/watch/src/audio/replay.ts around lines 135 - 139:
In replay.test.ts, add a same-seed determinism test for Speech: create fresh instances with identical rate and origin, and assert matching samples for the same timestamp and count. Also assert that reading the range in one contiguous call matches reading it through several adjacent calls covering the same range.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @js/watch/src/audio/replay.ts:
- Line 206: Update replay() to compute the minimum arrival timestamp without
spreading all trace entries into Math.min, which can exceed the runtime’s
argument limit. Preserve the current empty-trace result of Infinity and pass the
computed origin to Speech.

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Review comments at @js/watch/src/audio/replay.ts:
- Around line 135-139: In replay.test.ts, add a same-seed determinism test for
Speech: create fresh instances with identical rate and origin, and assert
matching samples for the same timestamp and count. Also assert that reading the
range in one contiguous call matches reading it through several adjacent calls
covering the same range.

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On the nitpick to add a same-seed determinism test for Speech: declined. Every replay row in test/audio-quality/budgets.json is graded with no headroom (just test audio-quality --replays --enforce, run by just ci on a diff touching the player). Any nondeterminism in Speech, across instances or across read boundaries (the replay reads it frame by frame), would move those rows and fail the check. A separate unit test would only repeat that guarantee.

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Major · Bound the speech sample cache. · replay.ts:150

js/watch/src/audio/replay.ts:150
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Bound the speech sample cache.

Speech retains all samples from the earliest timestamp, including samples in media gaps. At 48 kHz, one hour requires at least 691 MB of sample storage; buffer growth also temporarily retains the old array. Long recordings or large timestamp gaps can exhaust memory and stop replay. Generate samples without retaining the entire media span.

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Bound the sample storage managed by Speech so memory use does not grow with recording duration or timestamp gaps. Update the buffer growth and sample-generation flow around the grown Float32Array allocation to avoid retaining or allocating samples for the entire media span, while preserving sample timing and replay output; establish how samples can be safely discarded or generated incrementally before changing the cache behavior.

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- Line 150: Bound the sample storage managed by Speech so memory use does not
grow with recording duration or timestamp gaps. Update the buffer growth and
sample-generation flow around the grown Float32Array allocation to avoid
retaining or allocating samples for the entire media span, while preserving
sample timing and replay output; establish how samples can be safely discarded
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On CodeRabbit's outside-diff finding to bound the Speech sample cache (js/watch/src/audio/replay.ts:150): declined.

• Bounded: Speech is @internal test support. It is only fed checked-in traces of about 35 to 60 s, which is about 11 MB at 48 kHz. Those traces are trusted fixtures, not network input, and none of them is an hour long or has a gap of that size.
• Retained on purpose: the signal is a pure function of media time. Its oscillator phase accumulates from the origin, so samples must be generated in order. Replay reads can also revisit earlier timestamps when groups arrive out of order. Discarding the prefix would mean regenerating it, which costs more than it saves at these sizes.

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