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Quest: quest/m0/test-flakes-2/interop-python-cpp-audio-gap.md

Summary

Fixes the cpp subscriber's intermittent audio gap in the interop matrix. On a CPU-starved subscriber, moq-mux's missing-group skip (rs/moq-mux/src/container/consumer.rs) gave up on a group that every other subscriber decoded. It fired two ways:

1. aged, a library bug: media buffered past the hole spanned the reader's wait, which is tens of ms for moq-audio. After a stall, a burst of later groups aged out a group arriving in the same burst. #8531 had moved this proof from the max delay to the wait; it is back at the max delay, in Rust and JS (js/hang/src/container/consumer.ts), so only wall time skips a hole before that.
2. elapsed, test configuration: a reader starved longer than its playout wait skips a group that is only late. That is right for a real-time player but wrong for a delivery check. The moq-audio interop readers (cpp, go, python, rust, c) now hold a playout delay equal to their existing 5 s max delay, so they wait on a hole as long as on a late group, as js-native's container reader already does.

Also:

• The skip logs skipping missing groups at debug with which condition fired. Before, it was silent.
• The interop subscribers report where a gap sits and how long it is (salvaged from the previous session's uncommitted work).
• test/audio-quality/budgets.json: four replay values move with fix 1. bursty-aac silence share 0.009 -> 0.007, A/V lag p95 104.8 -> 102.7; relay-bbb A/V lag p50 -4.2 -> -2, p95 1.4 -> 3.6.
• Deletes the finished quest and sizes its epic [S], since the epic's README is now its remaining work.

Validation

• cargo test -p moq-mux -p moq-audio: all pass, including the new a_burst_past_the_wait_does_not_age_out_a_hole and the updated a_hole_is_waited_for_the_wait_while_an_arrived_group_plays_up_to_the_max_delay: a burst past the wait no longer skips, and a max-delay span still does at once.
• bun test src/container in js/hang: 187 pass, including the same cases in consumer.holes.test.ts.
• just test audio-quality --replays --enforce: passes with the updated budgets.
• Reproduction: RUST_LOG=warn,moq_mux=debug,moq_audio=debug bash test/interop/interop.sh --publishers js,python --subscribers cpp in systemd-run --user --scope -p CPUQuota=50%.
  • Before any fix: skipping missing groups old=25 new=26 ... aged=true, then audio gap after 11208 samples, at 1219266us for 40000us.
  • After fix 1: the 2nd run failed, now old=14 new=15 ... elapsed=true aged=false, then audio gap after 4488 samples.
  • After fix 2: 6 of 6 runs passed every cell, js -> cpp and python -> cpp included.
• Unloaded, interop.sh --publishers rust,python,go,cpp,js --subscribers rust,python,go,cpp,c: every media cell passes, so no publisher's max age refuses the 5 s playout delay.
• The python publisher did not fail with Unauthorized failures seen earlier came from the loop's bare RUST_LOG=moq_mux=debug. It replaces the clients' default level, so moq-net's outside our grant line never printed. With warn, prepended, all 6 loaded runs passed that check. The follow-up quest for it was removed.
• just check: all pass except js/net's copy fill: a yielded group the fill's drop names ends, which fails 2 of 180 under --rerun-each 20 on code this PR doesn't touch. Open moq-dev/moq#8610 edits that test file.
• The just test interop wrapper's nextest prelude times out inside a CPU quota (mbx's capacity wait counts toward the 60 s slow-timeout), so the loop called interop.sh directly.

Public API / wire impact: none. Behavior: a moq-mux or @moq/hang container consumer no longer skips a missing group because media buffered past it spans the wait. It waits the wait in wall time, or skips once the buffered span reaches the max delay.

Caused by

• moq-dev/moq#8531 - moved the missing-group media-time proof (aged) from the max delay to the playout wait, along with the wall-clock wait, so a burst of buffered media aged out a group still in flight.

Decisions

• 2026-11-13, Maintainer: keep the quest and loop the full --all matrix with RUST_LOG=moq_mux=debug on the cpp subscriber until it reproduces, then fix the root cause. Rejected: adding skip logging and parking the quest; closing it as not reproducible.
• 2026-11-13, maintainer via peer session: starve only the test in a CPU-quota cgroup, never the whole host with stress-ng.
• 2026-11-13, coordinator while the maintainer was away (/quest-afk), open to change in review: ✅ a missing group is skipped only once the wait has passed in wall time since a later group arrived, so buffered audio from a burst can't age it out, pinned by a mocked-time test (rejected: a non-zero minimum delay on the interop subscribers; keeping aged plus a real-time floor, which adds a constant).
• 2026-11-13, coordinator while the maintainer was away (/quest-afk), open to change in review: ✅ keep aged at the max delay rather than drop it, since the_warmup_does_not_widen_the_skip needs a hole proven stale at the max delay, and in JS #checkMaxDelay would otherwise drop the head group instead.
• 2026-11-13, coordinator while the maintainer was away (/quest-afk), revising the rejection above on new evidence: ✅ the gap-checking interop subscribers hold a playout delay above a host stall, derived from their existing max delay, because they check delivery between implementations, not real-time playback, and a skip after a stall longer than the wait is correct player behavior (rejected: counting only runnable time in moq-mux's wait, which has no reliable signal and would hide real stalls from players; dropping the gap-free assertion under starvation, which weakens the check).
• 2026-11-13, implementer, against the coordinator's "keep the follow-up as is": removed interop-denied-publisher-under-load.md, since its failure came from the loop's RUST_LOG, not load (see Validation). Restore it from 33fd2ec if wanted.

Follow-ups

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Review

Skipped on head c20c3bf: since the last quest review, only comments and test-failure reporting changed, answering Pullfrog's and CodeRabbit's findings; Pullfrog re-reviews this head.

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ℹ️ No critical issues. One comment nit inline.

Reviewed changes

This review covers all 9 commits: the moq-mux/@moq/hang change to the missing-group skip, the interop reader config, and the budget and quest bookkeeping.

• Missing-group aged proof back at the max delay: Rust Consumer and JS Consumer now skip a hole on buffered media only once it spans the max delay. Wall time since a later group arrived (elapsed, the wait) is still the short gate, so a burst from a starved reader can no longer age out a group arriving in the same burst. Tests for this are pinned with mocked time on both sides.
• Skip diagnostics: moq-mux logs skipping missing groups at debug, with the condition that fired.
• Interop moq-audio readers hold min = max = 5 s: c, cpp, go, python and rust now wait on a hole as long as they wait on a late group. This fits within the Rust publisher's --max-age 5s because moq-audio only refuses min > max_age. moq-audio's admit gate applies only with Backpressure, so a larger playout delay adds no pacing to these readers.
• Gap errors carry position and length: every subscriber's audio gap failure now reports where the gap is and how long it lasts.
• Replay budgets: four test/audio-quality/budgets.json values moved with the fix.
• Quest bookkeeping: the finished quest is deleted and the epic is sized [S].

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Walkthrough

JavaScript and Rust consumers now measure buffered media age against the maximum delay, while the separate elapsed-time check continues to use the configured wait. Tests cover wait expiration, maximum-delay expiration, and late delivery of a missing group. Interop audio decoders set both delay bounds and provide more detail in gap errors. Replay audio-quality budgets and test-flakes notes also change.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 23f0c

The behavior change looks sound and is covered by tests. The public documentation for the wait option still describes the old expiry rule and should be updated, which is a small follow-up.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "quest: python -> cpp audio gap, repro attempt" names the subject of the PR, the Python-to-C++ audio gap. The changeset, however, is mainly a fix to the missing-group skip logic in moq-mux a…
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 states the PR fixes an intermittent audio gap in the interop cpp subscriber by changing the missing-group skip logic in moq-mux and @moq/hang, and by setting playout delays in the inte…

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The title "quest: python -> cpp audio gap, repro attempt" names the subject of the PR, the Python-to-C++ audio gap. The changeset, however, is mainly a fix to the missing-group skip logic in moq-mux and @moq/hang, plus interop reader delay changes. The title describes the investigation framing, not the main behavioral change, so it is only partially related. It also uses a 'quest:' prefix and 'repro attempt' wording that a teammate scanning history may not understand.

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The description states the PR fixes an intermittent audio gap in the interop cpp subscriber by changing the missing-group skip logic in moq-mux and @moq/hang, and by setting playout delays in the interop audio readers. It also lists validation runs and the budgets.json changes. These match the changeset, so the description is related and specific.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

Nitpick comments: 1

rs/moq-mux/src/container/consumer.rs: 1

1974-1974: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Use #[kio::test] for the new timing regression test.

This test uses in-memory tracks and needs a frozen clock, not a real Tokio runtime. Use #[kio::test] so the missing-group deadline runs under the repository's default simulated clock.

As per coding guidelines, “Time-dependent async tests default to #[kio::test]'s simulated clock.”

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Review comment at @rs/moq-mux/src/container/consumer.rs at line 1974:
Replace the Tokio test attribute on the timing regression test with `#[kio::test]` so it runs with the repository’s simulated clock; keep the test body and its frozen-clock behavior otherwise unchanged.

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Review comments at @js/hang/src/container/consumer.ts:
- Line 883: Update the documentation for ConsumerProps.wait to describe the new
threshold: buffered media remains pending until its age reaches delay.max, while
wait measures elapsed wall time. Clarify that wait alone does not expire a
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• js/hang/src/container/consumer.holes.test.ts
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• quest/m0/test-flakes-2/README.md
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• rs/moq-mux/src/container/consumer.rs
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Reviewed changes

Since the last Pullfrog review there is one docs-only commit and a merge from main that touches none of this PR's files.

• Rewrote the missing-group wait docs: the Rust Consumer type doc, set_wait and JS ConsumerProps.wait now describe the wait as monotonic time after the first group past the hole arrived, with content age skipping the hole only once it reaches the max delay. This matches elapsed and aged in consumer.rs.
• Fixed the JS aged comment: it says "Mirrors Rust's aged" again and is rewrapped. This resolves the earlier nit.

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