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Problem

When a press starts while the previous one is still playing, each one plays about one playout delay later than the last. Resume::poll_ready (rs/moq-mux/src/sync.rs) waited until the old tail had fully drained, then started the new segment one delay from then. Even with no gap between presses, every resume re-buffered a full delay, and the native audio ring added the same again, because it places an utterance one latency after its first write. Measured natively before this fix, back-to-back press lags ran −426, −167, 64, 306, 560, 812, 1043 ms.

Approach

• Continue the schedule when nothing separates the segments. If the replacement's first media arrived before the old tail ends, it starts at max(arrived + delay, tail end). It never plays earlier than one delay after it arrived, and never over the tail. After a real gap (arrival after the tail ended), it re-buffers one delay from now, as before. No fixed "plus one frame" tolerance is needed: a short gap re-buffers only the part the sink would underrun anyway.
• Wake one delay before the tail ends. The resume used to return only once the tail had drained. Then a sink write could not go in before the tail ended, and the audio ring (which plays an utterance one latency after its first write, behind what is queued) re-buffered anyway. It now returns one delay before the tail ends, so the first write plays as the tail ends. Video applies the same mapping, so A/V stays together (the paired moq-cli tests caught that half).
• The just test push-to-talk gate. ptt-analyze.ts records each press's native head lag. The run fails when the back-to-back presses (2-8) end a full native playout delay later than they started. One re-buffer is bounded by one delay; compounding re-buffers exceed it. Checking each step separately missed the regression, because each step (~240 ms) fell just under the 250 ms delay.
• js/watch needs no mirror: its sync has no segment transitions or tail wait.

Validation

• cargo test -p moq-mux --lib sync: 62 passed. The new back_to_back_segments_keep_their_delay fails without the fix ("press 1 drifted").
• ptt-analyze.test.ts: 15 passed, including a new case where compounding re-buffers fail the run.
• just check: passes.
• just test push-to-talk, native head lag per press (ms):
  • Main's sync.rs with the new analyzer (A/B): −712, −426, −167, 64, 306, 560, 812, 1043, then −712 … → fails the new check.
  • This branch: −608 on every press 1-19; −624/−625 flat in a second run. Replaying the analyzer over the first fixed run passes the native check, and over the A/B run fails it.
• Every run on this host also failed the browser check "a separated utterance never reached the output", main's sync.rs included. Load average was 14-34 and the browser had 41-189 underruns. This PR does not touch the browser path.
• The two final runs (load ~30, 112 and 242 PulseAudio output restarts) each lost one head on a press after a 60 s mute (press 21, and press 22 at +80 ms). Separated presses take the unchanged gap path, and the run of the first commit at lower load resumed every head. Still, this needs confirming on an idle host; see Waiting.

Caused by

• moq-dev/moq#8272: Resume waited for the whole tail and then re-buffered one delay, even with no gap.

Impact

• No public API or wire change. Behaviour: moq_mux::sync::Resume now returns up to one delay before the old tail ends. A replacement that arrived before the tail ended continues at the tail end instead of one delay after it.
• A continuing segment starts one timestamp tick (1 µs) past the tail end, so a tail whose last frame has no duration never shares a timestamp with the replacement's first frame (Codex review finding; a_quick_resume_flushes_and_plays_every_old_picture_first covers it durationless).
• Touches only sync.rs, not the playout-ceiling constants the parallel delay-ceiling quest replaces (js/watch/src/sync.ts, moq-audio sink, moq_mux::container).

Choices made without asking

• Used max(arrived + delay, tail end) instead of the quest's "plus one frame" tolerance: it has no constant, and handles partial gaps.
• The new gate compares the whole back-to-back run against one native playout delay instead of checking each step. Each step falls just under the delay, so per-step checks miss the regression.

Decisions

• Merge without an idle-host just test push-to-talk run; Nightly's Audio quality job is the confirmation. ✅ merge now (rejected: wait for an idle-host run). If Nightly later shows heads missing only on separated presses, that gets investigated rather than reverted. (Maintainer, 2026-11-12)

Follow-ups

None.

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Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, unknown effort

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Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Head: 8451d59

• Base: origin/main at ffa9cf7

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort

• Session: 01a1d1a4-7812-7db1-955e-71cdbd705a61, round 2

• Score: 10/10, Source review confirms the one-microsecond continuation offset fixes the dropped-picture regression, with no new findings in the incremental changes; builds and tests were not run.

• Findings: none

• The last round's findings, at a762c46:

  • Fixed: medium, rs/moq-mux/src/sync.rs:638: Preserve distinct presentation times across durationless video resumes; The continuation branch in rs/moq-mux/src/sync.rs now starts at least one microsecond beyond the tail, and the restored durationless quick-resume test checks all six pictures and strictly increasing timestamps across the transition.

[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed the whole diff: the Resume::poll_ready scheduling change, its test updates, and the new push-to-talk analyzer gate. I traced it through the audio (play/media.rs) and video (play/video.rs) callers.

• Early wake in Resume::poll_ready: the resume now wakes one lead (self.delay or the clock's delay) before the old tail ends, not when it ends. The audio caller still waits for due(start) - first before writing, so its first write plays as the tail ends.
• Continuation without a gap: a replacement whose first media arrived <= tail end now starts at max(arrived + delay, tail end + 1µs), so back-to-back segments add no hold. After a real gap, or with no plan, it still re-buffers to now + delay. Both real callers call plan before resume, so they take the continuation branch. The paired origin's arrived and delay feed the same max, so a peer with a shorter delay can't start over the tail.
• 1µs tick past a durationless tail: this keeps the first new picture's timestamp distinct from the old tail's last one. a_quick_resume_flushes_and_plays_every_old_picture_first now asserts in microseconds to cover it.
• held stays small on continuation: apply computes held as the scheduled time minus plan.arrived. On the continuation path that is about zero, or the part of the tail still playing, so arrivals after a back-to-back resume no longer anchor the clock late.
• ptt-analyze.ts gate: it records each press's native lag and fails when presses 2 to 8 drift by at least the median native playout delay, the regression that per-step checks missed. A new test case covers it.

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Walkthrough

Resume scheduling now prepares replacement media one delay before the previous tail ends and uses transition-plan arrival data to determine the replacement start. The tests cover consecutive segments, re-buffering after a gap, playback picture spacing, and growth in native lag across back-to-back push-to-talk presses. The related quest document was removed.

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 8451d

The change keeps push-to-talk playout delay from accumulating across back-to-back presses. When paired roles use different delays, a role with a shorter delay can prepare the shared mapping later than the longer-delay role needs, so that role's audio sink may start late or underrun. This case should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the fix and its scope: back-to-back push-to-talk presses keep their latency, in moq-mux. The changeset makes Resume::poll_ready in sync.rs continue the playout schedule across back…
Description check		The description explains the problem, the approach in Resume::poll_ready, the new ptt-analyze gate, validation runs, and the decision to merge. It matches the changeset, so the check passes.
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.

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The title names the fix and its scope: back-to-back push-to-talk presses keep their latency, in moq-mux. The changeset makes Resume::poll_ready in sync.rs continue the playout schedule across back-to-back segments and wake one delay before the tail ends. The title describes the main change without file lists or vague terms.

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- Line 585: Update the lead selection in poll_ready to use the paired origin’s
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Wake the paired resume from the selected origin delay.

poll_ready sleeps until tail - lead, and lead is this resume's own delay. Lines 626–627 can select a different delay from the paired origin. When the origin's delay is longer, this role wakes later than the origin needs.

For example, the tail ends at 1000 ms. This role uses an 80 ms delay, and the origin uses 200 ms. This role wakes at 920 ms. The shared mapping starts at the tail end, but the origin's caller computes its lead from 200 ms. That caller then receives the mapping with only 80 ms of lead, so its sink can start late or underrun.

Use the paired origin's delay for the wake deadline. Select it with the same origin logic as lines 600–617, before lead is computed. Keep the cached-mapping check and the non-paired fallback unchanged. The timer deadline is fixed when it is created, so recheck the origin if a member can change it during the sleep.

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Update the lead selection in poll_ready to use the paired origin’s delay when an origin is selected, using the existing origin-selection logic before computing the wake deadline. Preserve the cached-mapping check and the current delay fallback when no origin is paired; if a paired member can change during the sleep, ensure the timer deadline is refreshed or the origin is rechecked.

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