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Summary

Finishes quest/m2/audio-playout/target-fall.md: after a one-off outage, the playout target (and video's delay with it) no longer holds a second behind live for 10 to 25 s.

The rule (doc/concept/audio-jitter.md, "One observation per stall"): a frame later than one resample interval (500 ms) is stalled. An interval whose stalled frames were due before the open stall's latest stalled frame arrived joins that stall instead of folding, for at most WINDOW (2 s) of due time. Empty intervals fold only once the interval after them closes: before it if it is not stalled, inside its stall if it is. When the stall ends it folds once, with its largest delay, then folds idle once for each other interval it spanned. That keeps the 20 s time constant, and stops the stall's one observation from reclaiming the prior's regained weight. Frames under 500 ms late never stall, so every other row folds exactly as before.

Implemented in the reference (doc/concept/audio-jitter/reference.ts), js/hang Jitter, and rs/moq-audio jitter.rs, all held by two new corpus cases. outage has a one-off trickle outage and a one-off blackout that recovers with the live edge first, and both leave the target alone. It then has three outages 3 s apart, which still raise the target. batches has back-to-back 1 s flushes delivered newest first, which still raise the target. idle and silence now relax one interval later, because a gap's idle folds land when the interval after it closes.

How it was picked

I replayed the browser arrival captures from the 11-11, 11-12 and 11-13 Nightlies (66 rows), plus the six checked-in traces, through estimator variants. For each, I scored late 500 ms intervals per minute and mean target on every row, and how long and how high the congestion rows' target stays raised.

variant	congestion: raised after outage start / peak	wide late/min, mean target	bursty late/min, mean target
today	24 to 33 s / 1000 to 2000 ms	2.2, 238 ms	0.7, 210 ms
10 s half-life	17 to 23 s	2.6, 220	0.9, 180
5 s half-life	10 to 17 s	3.9, 213	1.3, 161
tail above recent peaks decays at a 5 s half-life (10 s memory)	7 to 11 s	5.5, 209	2.2, 160
one observation per stall (picked)	5.7 to 13.7 s / 180 to 380 ms	2.2, 238 (identical)	0.7, 210 (identical)

The picked rule leaves every non-congestion row's target series bit-identical, because no frame there is more than 500 ms late. The Opus congestion rows still stay raised about 13 s, at 340 to 360 ms rather than 1020. That remainder is not the outage: the join's backlog residue (4.5% at 320 ms) sits right under the 5% line, filed as the follow-up below.

Decisions taken (for review)

• Picked one observation per stall over a shorter half-life or a faster-decaying tail. Both alternatives cost wide and bursty underruns for less of the fall.
• The stall boundary is due-time overlap, not adjacency. A publisher flushing a second or more at once still counts each flush: the next flush's first frame was due only after the previous one arrived.
• The threshold is RESAMPLE itself, so no new constant. A lateness under one interval is already one observation per interval.
• A stall covers at most WINDOW of due time, the span the delay is measured over. Back-to-back newest-first flushes look locally like consecutive outages, so without that bound they chained forever and froze the estimate (Codex review finding). With it they fold once per window: batches reaches its 1100 ms target at 4 s, where today's estimator reaches it at 2 s.
• The Rust ceiling unit test now reaches the ceiling with 3 s flushes.
• A fork settles the outgoing track's open stall (Pullfrog thread, taken by the agent under /quest-afk, for the maintainer's review): Jitter.fork() closes the predecessor's interval in progress and settles any open stall into the fork's own copy of the histogram, leaving the predecessor untouched. ✅ fold at the switch (rejected: carry the open stall over so the successor's first interval may still join it, since the successor measures against its own fastest, so its first intervals cannot show the outage continuing, and the stall would only fold later for nothing; rejected: this.#settle() on the predecessor as suggested, since it mutates a consumer that may still observe and would skip the interval in progress, which holds the backlog when the switch lands right as the outage ends). doc/concept/audio-jitter.md's replacement paragraph says so. Rust has no counterpart: moq-audio builds one estimator per consumer and never continues another's.
• relay-mic-stall re-measured with moq-dev/moq#8675's snap (taken by the agent under /quest-afk, for the maintainer's review). Both PRs re-measured this replay row for their own change alone and conflicted in budgets.json. Against main with the snap, the stall rule moves only this row: target p95 1540 → 80 ms, A/V lag p95 118.6 → 19.7 ms, skips 6.1 → 2/min, trimmed 4678.2 → 5122.3 ms/min, stalled share 0.067 → 0.092, silence 0.085 → 0.092. The outage's trail now skips onto the clock at once instead of through the target's falls, and with 80 ms of buffer rather than 1540, more of the outage plays as silence. ✅ budget it, as the note already treats a trim onto the clock as the rule (rejected: hold the target up through a stall to keep the stalled share, which is the 20 s hold this quest removes).

Validation

• Fork: forks an outage still open as its one observation in jitter.test.ts forks right after a 3 s outage flushed in two halves. Without the fix the fork reads 100 ms, the prior estimate; with it 2000 ms, exactly what a twin reads when a declared end settles the same stall through observe, and the predecessor still reads 100 ms.
• Corpus: the reference, js/hang (bun test src/container/jitter.test.ts) and moq-audio (cargo test -p moq-audio --lib jitter) pass all 14 cases. corpus.test.ts confirms the checked-in files match the reference. Of the existing cases, only idle and silence moved, by one interval. just check passes.
• Differential: the shipped js/hang Jitter matches the reference on all 66 Nightly captures, 190,667 frames, 0 mismatches.
• Replays: just test audio-quality --replays --enforce passes on the merge with main (a792dcc), two runs with identical tables. Only relay-mic-stall moved.
• Local review: quest review --harness codex (gpt-6.1-sol high). Round 1 found the two issues above. Round 2 settled both as fixed and found nothing else.
• Live, same loaded x86 host, main vs this branch at 3135ec1 (before the two review fixes). On every capture the review fixes reproduce the same congestion numbers offline. 60 s rows:

row	target p95	A/V lag p95	recover	converge	player underruns/min
chromium opus congestion	940 → 60	1269 → 213	21.3 → 7.0 s	57.1 → 3.5 s	5.5 → 12
chromium aac congestion	303 → 223	859 → 633	15.3 → 12.5 s	48.8 → 30.3 s	3.3 → 4.4
native opus congestion	1000 → 260	973 → 947	20.0 → 11.7 s	47.5 → 38.0 s	n/a
native aac congestion	2023 → 303	1227 → 1175	15.0 → 19.5 s	42.0 → 38.0 s	n/a

With the target no longer absorbing the stall, Chromium Opus underruns and trimmed audio rise (0 → 248 ms/min) through the outage, and its catch-up is the stretch's. The lag rule replaces that catch-up with a snap. Bursty rows varied run to run on this host for both builds, and the browser bursty captures give bit-identical targets under both rules. One live wide/step run was killed before writing its table, and I did not rerun it. The offline replay shows those rows' targets are bit-identical.

Public API and wire

No API or wire change. Behavior change: the audio playout target in @moq/hang and moq-audio.

Caused by

No single PR: the per-interval fold is as old as the estimator (#4162), which followed NetEq.

Follow-ups

• quest/m2/audio-playout/join-hold.md (M): the opening backlog, delivered newest first, folds 250 to 330 ms at the cold start's 10% weight and holds the target about 20 s after every join. Recommended fix: measure a backlog frame against the whole window's fastest frame when that frame is far ahead of its own reference. No open decisions. Kept by the maintainer on 2026-11-13.

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• Head: 0742244

• Base: origin/main at 97a7267

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

• Session: 01a1d854-bfbf-7f51-900a-b5ad41bfbbcf, round 3

• Score: 8/10, The documentation-only update matches the estimator’s stall handling and introduces no actionable regressions, while runtime behavior remains unvalidated because tests were not run.

• Rounds: 3; findings 0: fixed 0, refuted 0, open 0

• Findings: none

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Walkthrough

The JavaScript and Rust jitter estimators now track stalled frames across intervals and fold each settled stall once, with bounded idle folds for intervals it spans. New batches and outage corpus cases and tests cover these rules and estimator forking. The changes also update scenario targets, audio-quality budgets, and audio-playout planning documents.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 07422

The change makes one audio outage count as one jitter observation, which shortens the playout target's hold after an outage. The three implementations and their shared test corpus agree, and only the relay-mic-stall budget changes. No actionable merge risk remains.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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Title check		The title "feat(audio): count one outage as one jitter observation" matches the main change. The raw summary and objectives show the estimator now folds one stall as a single histogram observation in …
Description check		The description states the purpose (one observation per stall after a one-off outage), explains the stall rule, lists the implementation files (reference.ts, js/hang Jitter, rs/moq-audio jitter.rs), d…
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The title "feat(audio): count one outage as one jitter observation" matches the main change. The raw summary and objectives show the estimator now folds one stall as a single histogram observation in the reference, js/hang Jitter, and moq-audio jitter.rs. The title is specific, concise, and clear.

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The description states the purpose (one observation per stall after a one-off outage), explains the stall rule, lists the implementation files (reference.ts, js/hang Jitter, rs/moq-audio jitter.rs), describes new corpus cases, and covers validation and follow-ups. It is closely related to the changeset.

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ℹ️ No critical issues. One minor edge inline.

Reviewed changes

I reviewed the whole PR at bad084f: the new stall rule in the doc, the reference, js/hang and moq-audio, the two new corpus cases, and the re-measured replay budget.

• One observation per stall: in all three implementations, close() replaces the per-interval fold. An interval with a frame later than RESAMPLE joins the open stall while its due time falls before the stall's last arrival and within WINDOW of its first due time. settle() folds the stall once, then folds idle once for each other interval it spanned. I checked the reference, Jitter and Estimator side by side and the logic matches.
• Deferred idle folds: empty intervals wait in pending until the next interval closes. Because of that, idle/silence move by one interval and the two unit tests gain a second observation.
• Corpus: the new outage case covers a trickle outage, a blackout that recovers live edge first, and recurring outages. The new batches case covers back-to-back newest-first flushes, which the WINDOW bound keeps from chaining.
• Budgets: relay-mic-stall was re-measured (target p95 1540 → 80 ms, A/V lag p95 484.9 → 882 ms). The note says why the lag rise is re-measured in rather than fixed.
• Quests: target-fall.md is retired and join-hold.md is filed as the follow-up.

Tests I ran locally:

• bun test doc/concept/audio-jitter/corpus.test.ts js/hang/src/container/jitter.test.ts: 92 pass.
• cargo test -p moq-audio --lib jitter: 7 pass, including conforms_to_the_corpus.

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ℹ️ Ready apart from one small open item: the earlier fork() thread still applies to the head commit, so I can't approve yet.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed the full diff: the "one observation per stall" rule in the jitter reference, its two shipped ports, the two new corpus cases, and the re-measured replay budget.

• Stall rule in three estimators — reference.ts, js/hang Jitter, and moq-audio Estimator gain the same note / close / settle split. A frame later than RESAMPLE is stalled, an interval joins the open stall when it was due before the stall's latest arrival and within WINDOW of its first due time, and the stall folds once with its peak plus idle folds for its span. The three ports match line for line.
• Deferred idle folds — empty intervals are now held in pending and fold when the next interval closes: before its own fold if it isn't stalled, inside its stall if it is. A declared silence settles any open stall before restarting the origin. The idle and silence cases and the two "gap relaxes" unit tests move by one interval to match.
• Corpus — outage covers a one-off trickle outage, a blackout that delivers the live edge first, and three recurring outages. batches covers newest-first back-to-back flushes, which the WINDOW bound keeps folding. Both are listed in the JS and Rust name checks.
• Rust ceiling test — it now reaches the histogram ceiling with 3 s flushes, since one late frame per second now chains into one stall.
• Docs, quests and budgets — the concept doc's pseudocode and prose describe the rule. target-fall.md is retired, join-hold.md is filed as the follow-up, and the relay-mic-stall replay ceilings are re-measured, with a note explaining why.

I ran both suites locally on the head commit. bun test src/container/jitter.test.ts passed 22/22, and cargo test -p moq-audio --lib jitter passed 7/7, including conforms_to_the_corpus. I found nothing new in the diff.

ℹ️ The earlier fork() thread is still open and still applies

Jitter.fork() (js/hang/src/container/jitter.ts:203) still copies only #histogram and #prior. A rendition switch that goes through predecessor in container/consumer.ts:269 therefore drops an open stall's one observation, plus its #pending idle folds. Before this PR, a fork lost at most one interval's peak. Now it can lose a whole outage's evidence, and a switch soon after an outage is the likeliest case. The effect is small, since a one-off stall barely moves the target, but the fix is one line. Either fix it, or reply on that thread explaining why it isn't needed and resolve it. Then this PR is ready to approve.

Technical details

# fork() drops an open stall's observation

## Affected sites
- js/hang/src/container/jitter.ts:203 `fork()` — copies the histogram and prior, but not `#stall`/`#span`/`#pending`, and never settles them.

## Required outcome
- Evidence the predecessor already gathered for an open stall ends up in the forked histogram. The successor still measures its own arrivals afresh.

## Suggested approach
- Call `this.#settle()` at the top of `fork()` before copying `#histogram`. The predecessor is being retired, so changing its state is harmless. Rust's `Estimator` has no fork, so there is nothing to mirror.

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✅ No new issues found. The fork() change handles the earlier thread.

Reviewed changes

Since 97654e7, one commit makes a fork fold the outgoing track's open stall.

• Jitter.fork() folds unfolded evidence: the fork gets copies of the predecessor's open stall, #pending, and in-progress #due/#late. It then runs #close(bucket(this.#peak)) and #settle() on its own histogram. The predecessor is left unchanged, and the fork's #origin stays unset, so the successor still measures its own arrivals afresh. This also folds the interval in progress, which the earlier this.#settle() suggestion would have missed.
• bucket() helper: the delay-to-bucket expression is now a shared function.
• Test and doc: forks an outage still open as its one observation checks that the fork reads 2000 ms, the same as a twin that settles the stall through end(), while the predecessor still reads 100 ms. audio-jitter.md's replacement paragraph describes the rule.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

I reviewed the full diff: the stall rule in the reference, js/hang and moq-audio, the fork change, the two new corpus cases, and the re-measured replay budget.

• One observation per stall: #note/#close/#settle in reference.ts, jitter.ts and jitter.rs match line for line. A frame more than RESAMPLE late opens or joins a stall. Joining requires both due-time overlap (due < stallLate) and due - stallDue < WINDOW. Empty intervals wait as pending until the next interval closes. Folding stays capped at IDLE_MAX, so a publisher that chains stalls on purpose costs O(1) per frame and affects only its own estimate.
• Fork settles the outgoing interval: Jitter.fork() copies the open stall and the interval in progress into the fork, then closes and settles them there. The predecessor is left unchanged. This also means a fork with no stall now folds the predecessor's partial interval where it used to drop it. The doc's replacement paragraph describes that. Rust has no counterpart because moq-audio builds one Target per consumer, and I confirmed nothing in rs/ continues a predecessor's estimator.
• Corpus: outage and batches were added and idle/silence move by one interval. Both tests that read the gap gained a second observation so the gap folds.
• Ceiling test: Rust now reaches the last bucket with 3 s flushes, since one arrival a second would now chain.
• Budgets: only relay-mic-stall was re-measured (target p95 1540 → 80 ms, A/V lag p95 484.9 → 882 ms). The note explains why.

I ran these locally on the head commit, and all passed: bun test src/container/jitter.test.ts (23), bun test corpus.test.ts (70, checked-in JSON matches the reference) and cargo test -p moq-audio --lib jitter (7).

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✅ No new issues found. The merge with main resolves both conflicts cleanly.

Reviewed changes

Since 9bfd4a8, the only new commit merges main, which brings in #8675's 200 ms snap. It also resolves the two files both sides had changed.

• Re-measured relay-mic-stall budget: the row now holds what the snap and the stall rule measure together. Target p95 is 80 ms, A/V lag p95 is 19.7 ms, skips are 2/min, trimmed audio is 5122.3 ms/min, and stalled and silence shares are both 0.092. The appended note sentence starts from main's values (118.6, 6.1, 4678.2, 0.067, 0.085), and av_lag_ms_p50 stays at main's 2.2. This matches the PR description.
• Resolved quest/m2/audio-playout/README.md Order line: it now says the snap is on main, since main retired congestion-catch-up.md. No links to the retired quest or to target-fall.md remain.

The merge leaves the estimator code alone. bun test src/container/jitter.test.ts (23) and corpus.test.ts (70) pass on the head commit. I did not run the replay --enforce, because it needs a browser.

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Review comments at @doc/concept/audio-jitter.md:
- Around line 496-497: Qualify the one-observation-per-stall claim in the text
around the one-observation-per-stall anchor: it applies only while the backlog’s
stalled-frame due times remain within WINDOW of the first stall due time. State
that reaching WINDOW opens another stall and can produce another observation.
- Around line 283-284: Update the sentence about one fold per window in the
jitter documentation to qualify that the bound holds only while due times
advance, and state that frames repeating an earlier due time can keep the stall
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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Since the prior review, the only change is a docs commit in doc/concept/audio-jitter.md.

• Clarified the stall bound: the open stall costs nothing to chain, and one fold per WINDOW of due time bounds the estimate's gap while due times advance. Only a publisher repeating an old timestamp holds a stall open, and that freezes only its own broadcast's estimate.
• Clarified the one-off claim: an outage is one observation while its stalled frames fall within WINDOW of due time, and a longer one is one observation per window.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

I reviewed the stall rule across the reference, js/hang Jitter, and rs/moq-audio Estimator, plus the new corpus cases, the fork change, the re-measured relay-mic-stall budget, and the follow-up doc commit. The three estimators match line for line. bun test doc/concept/audio-jitter/corpus.test.ts js/hang/src/container/jitter.test.ts (93 pass) and cargo test -p moq-audio --lib jitter (7 pass) both pass locally. The last commit changes only doc/concept/audio-jitter.md.

• One observation per stall — a frame more than RESAMPLE late opens a stall, and later intervals whose stalled frames were due before the stall's latest arrival join it, for at most WINDOW of due time. #settle then folds the largest bucket once and one idle fold for each other interval the stall spanned. Each step is O(1) and capped by IDLE_MAX. A publisher that repeats old timestamps can hold a stall open, but that only freezes its own estimate, as the new doc paragraph now states. This is within the AGENTS.md rule.
• Deferred idle folds — empty intervals are held in pending until the next interval closes. They fold before it if it is not stalled, and inside its stall if it is. That explains the one-interval shift in idle and silence and the extra observe in both relaxes toward the prior unit tests.
• Declared end — the resumed branch settles any open stall before the origin resets, so a declared silence still folds nothing of its own.
• Jitter.fork() — the fork copies the in-progress interval and any open stall, closes and settles them on its own copy, then resets due/late for its first observation. The predecessor is left untouched. The new test pins this against a twin settled through end(). Rust has no fork, so no counterpart is needed.
• Corpus and budgets — outage and batches are added to both conformance lists, the Rust ceiling test now uses 3 s flushes, and only relay-mic-stall's replay ceilings moved.

ℹ️ The live congestion ceilings were not re-measured with the snap and the stall rule together

The live table in the description was measured at 3135ec1, before #8675's snap merged in. With 80 ms of buffer instead of a second, the outage plays more silence: the replay row's stalled_share rose from 0.067 to 0.092. The provisional congestion ceilings, for example Chromium Opus stalled_share 0.078, may be tight for the merged behavior. They are not gated on PRs, so this only needs a look if Nightly flags those rows.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

I reviewed the stall rule in all three estimators, the fork() settlement, the new corpus cases, and the relay-mic-stall re-measure. I also checked that the reference, js/hang Jitter, and rs/moq-audio Estimator agree line for line.

• One observation per stall: a frame later than RESAMPLE counts as stalled. An interval whose stalled frames were due before the open stall's latest arrival joins that stall. The stall folds once, at its largest bucket, then folds one idle per other interval it spanned. WINDOW of due time bounds it, and IDLE_MAX caps the idle folds, so a publisher that chains stalls costs four numbers and bounded work.
• Deferred idle folds: empty intervals now fold when the interval after them closes. If that interval is stalled, its stall takes them. The resumed path still folds nothing for a declared silence, and it settles any open stall first.
• Jitter.fork(): the fork closes the predecessor's interval in progress and settles any open stall into its own histogram, and it leaves the predecessor unchanged. The new test confirms the fork matches a twin settled by a declared end.
• Corpus: outage and batches are new. idle and silence now relax one interval later, as the doc states. The Rust ceiling test now reaches the ceiling with 3 s flushes.
• Docs and budgets: the pseudo-code in doc/concept/audio-jitter.md matches the implementations. The relay-mic-stall ceilings and the budgets note record the re-measure on top of the snap.

Verified locally: bun test doc/concept/audio-jitter/corpus.test.ts js/hang/src/container/jitter.test.ts (93 pass) and cargo test -p moq-audio --lib jitter (7 pass). CI checks are green.

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