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Finishes quest/m2/warmup-one-decoder.md.

Problem

A video rendition with a catalog warmup (intra refresh) ran two decoders in @moq/watch, moq_video::decode::Consumer, and moq play: a min-delay decoder that showed stripes, and a max-delay decoder that started one group earlier, plus a selector between them. No producer sets a video warmup today. Once one does, the max-delay decoder never stops, so the viewer decodes twice for the whole session. The JS and Rust selectors also used different policies, and the docs described a feature that is only verified in Chromium. The maintainer picked one decoder on moq-dev/moq#8764.

Approach

Each player decodes through one decoder, as audio does:

• Joining. The container consumer gets the catalog warmup (Playout::new(delay, warmup) in Rust, ConsumerProps.warmup in JS). Its start reaches the min delay plus the warmup back, and the subscription's max delay is widened by the warmup.
• Rust Start::Latest. The same subscriber is widened with update() to start at the group before the live edge (Anchor::Time(edge - 1)). There is still only one subscription.
• Presenting. After a join or a gap, the decoder decodes from the recovery point but drops every picture stamped before that point plus warmup. This is the hang draft's MUST NOT. A fresh encoder after a declared end does not warm up.
• Deleted.
  • moq_video::decode::{Lane, Next, Selector} (select.rs) and the second Reader in decode::Consumer. A read in flight stays in one Option<Step>, so read() is still cancel-safe.
  • moq play's Refresh, its second decode task, and the bookkeeping only it used. Its Buffer now sets the warmup floor.
  • @moq/watch's Rendition selector, the max-delay DecoderTrack, and the per-timestamp group map that was there only for the selector. DecoderTrack is now Rendition.
• Kept. insertRecoveryPoint: Chromium still refuses to open a codec on a non-IDR H.264 recovery point, now on every join of the one decoder.
• Quests and docs.
  • The m4 dual decoder quest is rescoped to measuring whether a second decoder pays for itself.
  • The intra-refresh epic, consumer-warmup, and recovery-boundary quests are reworded to match.
  • doc/lib/js/watch.md now describes what ships.

Impact

• moq-video: removes decode::{Lane, Next, Selector}. They were added after the last release, so no published API breaks and there is no migration note.
• Behavior, every player:
  • A warmup video rendition hides the pictures in the first warmup after each join or gap, freezing on a skip instead of showing stripes.
  • It opens one subscription and one codec instead of two.
  • Renditions without warmup are unchanged.
• @moq/watch: the video DecoderConfig gains warmup, as audio's has, so a changed warmup rebuilds the pipeline. Internal type.
• Wire: none. The hang draft is unchanged. One decoder satisfies its MUST NOT. The MAY clause for a parallel decoder stays for the m4 quest to use or drop.

Decisions

Taken on my recommendation while the maintainer was away; each can be undone in review:

• Trim after every gap, not only the join. The draft says to trim after any non-continuous join, and audio does the same. A skip therefore freezes for one sweep, where the old pair showed stripes. The m4 quest measures that freeze.
• Track start.
  • Rust does not trim the track's first group (is_skipped(0..group)), as moq_audio::decode::Consumer does. An export from the start keeps its first sweep.
  • JS has no such check (js/net exposes no isSkipped) and trims there too, as @moq/watch audio does. This is the same Rust/JS difference audio already has, not a new one.
• Warming frames still call clock.received in JS, as audio's do. In unbuffered mode the fold already skips the clock forward to the live frames, since its cap equals the delay. In buffered mode, startup anchors on the first picture shown. I tried excluding them, and no test, real or mocked, could tell the difference, so the code stays simpler.
• Removed test-only scaffolding that only the dual path used:
  • probe-single in moq-video's probe backend
  • Picture.codec in the JS tests
• A fresh encoder never warms up, even when the viewer joined on its end marker or a gap came just before it: its first picture references nothing earlier (review round 1).
• The hidden span is one interval. A gap that arrives before the codec has output past the previous warmup reaches the new warmup back over the old one. The alternative is a list of spans per gap. The cost is that a few pre-gap pictures still inside the codec may also be hidden, right before a one-sweep freeze anyway (review round 1).
• moq play ages out warming frames at the max delay plus the warmup, the same tolerance the container consumer gives a warming reader, rather than never. Retention stays bounded when decoding stalls (review round 1).
• Merge order. moq-dev/moq#8799 passes the clock "from the lane driving the clock only" in decoder.ts, so the two PRs conflict there. Whichever lands second merges main. With one decoder, its clock goes to the one decoder.

Validation

• Mocked JS tests (js/watch/src/video/decoder.test.ts, "Decoder with a warmup rendition"):
  • One codec and one subscription whose delay.max is the warmup (capped at DELAY_MAX).
  • Pictures inside the warmup are hidden after a join and after a gap. Groups that continue the codec show from their first picture.
  • A fresh encoder after a declared end shows from its first picture.
  • A rendition without warmup shows everything.
• JS through real container consumers: with groups 4 and 5 served newest first, the decoder starts at 1200 ms (one group earlier). The poster is 1500 ms, and 1530 ms is due 10 ms later, so the clock holds the live edge at the 100 ms delay rather than 400 ms. Making warming() always false fails the trim test and this one.
• Rust moq-video:
  • A mid-track join subscribes once with max equal to max plus warmup, at Time(8 s - 1), and shows 8, 9, 10 but never the warmup pictures 4 to 7.
  • A gap warms up again but the track start does not.
  • An absent or zero warmup changes nothing.
• Rust moq-cli: Buffer unit tests, plus a playback test showing that a mid-track warmup join plays the live group on exactly the schedule a track-start join does. Removing the trim or the track-start exemption fails these.
• Real browser: just test media --media-engines chromium passed every case: lifecycle, the controls, and the native publishers. This covers the rewritten video decoder on ordinary renditions in Chromium. No producer sets a video warmup, so no real browser or moq play run covers a warmup rendition end to end. The H.264 import quest is where one appears.
• Review round 1 tests:
  • JS holds a warming picture in the codec across a later gap and shows it is output but never shown.
  • JS joins on an end marker, then takes a gap followed by an end; both fresh encoders show from their first picture.
  • moq-cli Buffer ages a warmup out at the age plus the warmup, and warms up again when an eviction empties a fresh encoder's segment.
  • Reverting either JS fix fails its test.
• Branch check: just check passes, including clippy, docs, and the JS build. After round 1: just rs test -p moq-video -p moq-cli (385 passed), just rs play (274 passed), just rs check for both crates with play and openh264, bun test src/video (139 passed), and just biome all pass.

Follow-ups

• quest/m4/intra-refresh/dual-decoder.md, rescoped: decide with measurements whether a second decoder pays for itself, starting with one that runs only for the sweep after a join or skip. No open decisions.

Models

Size: M
Implementer: Claude, claude-opus-5-5, unknown effort (arm B)

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Head: f07b849

• Base: origin/main at 0e6e469

• Risk: medium, the base has no RISK.md to name what is always high or customer-facing, so every change is medium

• Classified: medium by default

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

• Session: 01a1dff8-18c1-7cc0-b4d1-391c284d1871, round 2

• Score: 10/10, All five findings are fixed, and the scoped static review found no additional defects; builds and tests were not run as instructed.

• Rounds: 2; first round 5 (medium 4, low 1); findings 5 (medium 4, low 1): fixed 5, refuted 0, open 0

• Findings: none

• The last round's findings, at 9c1ffc2:

  • Fixed: medium, js/watch/src/video/recovery.ts:32: Keep buffered warmup pictures ineligible after a later gap; js/watch/src/video/recovery.ts:42 preserves the previous warmup's start until codec output passes its end, keeping held warming pictures hidden across a later gap.
  • Fixed: medium, js/watch/src/video/recovery.ts:25: Clear pending recovery when a fresh encoder starts; Recovery.restart() clears pending recovery, the floor, and warmup state, while the native Encoded::End handler clears recover and present before the fresh encoder starts.
  • Fixed: medium, rs/moq-cli/src/play/buffer.rs:113: Re-arm warmup when eviction empties a fresh segment; rs/moq-cli/src/play/buffer.rs:122 sets joined to true after eviction, so recovery applies at the next keyframe even when eviction empties a fresh segment.
  • Fixed: medium, rs/moq-cli/src/play/buffer.rs:100: Preserve an encoded retention bound during warmup; The eviction predicate now ages warming frames out at max_delay plus warmup, replacing their unlimited exemption with a bounded retention window.
  • Fixed: low, rs/moq-video/src/decode/consumer.rs:124: Represent idle and in-flight reads with one enum; Consumer now holds a single Slot enum with Idle(Box<Reader>) and Busy(Step) variants, encoding exclusive reader ownership.

[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed the whole PR. Every player now plays a warmup (intra-refresh) video rendition through one decoder instead of a min-delay and max-delay pair with a selector.

• @moq/watch single decoder: DecoderTrack becomes Rendition, and the old selector Rendition is deleted. The container consumer gets the capped catalog warmup, and the subscription max is widened by the same amount. DecoderConfig gains warmup, so a changed value rebuilds the pipeline.
• JS warmup hiding (recovery.ts): Recovery opens a hidden span at each keyframe after a join or gap. The span reaches back over an earlier span the codec has not output past. warming() runs before first, so buffered startup anchors on the first picture shown. restart() clears the span for a fresh encoder after a declared end.
• moq_video::decode::Consumer: There is one Slot and one Reader, using Playout::new(options.delay, warmup). Start::Latest widens the same subscription to Anchor::Time(edge - 1) with update(). Reader.present drops pictures before the recovery point plus warmup, except at the track's first group (is_skipped(0..group)). It is cleared on End.
• moq play: Refresh and the second decode task are removed. Buffer tracks present and joined, ages warming frames out at max delay plus warmup, and arms warmup again after an eviction or gap. A fresh encoder segment is exempt. The decode loop filters codec output below floor or present.
• Cleanup: Deletes decode/select.rs, probe-single, and the dual-decoder tests. Updates the docs and the intra-refresh quests to describe one decoder.

Checked along the way:

• is_skipped reflects skips the publisher declared, not the subscription window, so a mid-track Start::Latest join still warms up.
• The container's set_delay already adds the warmup to the subscription max, so dropping it from budget() is correct.
• #runLegacy and #runCmaf read this.#recovery after await #accept. This is safe because an Effect rerun waits for the previous run's spawned tasks to settle.

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Walkthrough

Browser and Rust video playback replace paired decoder paths with one decoder and warmup-aware subscriptions. The implementations filter decoded pictures during warmup and update recovery handling. The Rust CLI also changes buffer retention and presentation behavior for warmup joins. Tests and documentation are updated, and the Rust decoder selector APIs are removed.

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to f07b8

Rust and browser playback now use a single decoder that hides warmup pictures after a join or skip. In the browser, a timeline restart that lands while a frame is waiting can leave video frozen until the new stream catches up to an old timestamp. Fix that before merging. A small rounding issue in the Rust CLI can show the last part of a warmup slightly early. It only matters once a producer publishes warmup, which none does yet.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the primary change: a warmup rendition now plays through one decoder. The changeset removes the two-decoder selector and adds a single-decoder warmup path in watch, moq-video, and moq-…
Description check		The description explains the problem, the single-decoder approach, deleted selector code, documentation and quest updates, validation, and follow-ups. These all match the changeset, so the description…
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 primary change: a warmup rendition now plays through one decoder. The changeset removes the two-decoder selector and adds a single-decoder warmup path in watch, moq-video, and moq-cli, so the title is specific and matches the main change.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description explains the problem, the single-decoder approach, deleted selector code, documentation and quest updates, validation, and follow-ups. These all match the changeset, so the description is clearly related.

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Actionable comments posted: 2

Nitpick comments: 1

doc/lib/js/watch.md: 1

70-73: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Link to the recovery-point reference instead of repeating the recipe.

Keep the changed presentation behavior here. Put the recovery-point construction details beside insertRecoveryPoint, and link to that reference. This keeps one authoritative description of the rewrite.

As per coding guidelines, “rustdoc, TSDoc, --help, and drafts/ are” the reference, so “link to them instead of repeating method lists, wire encodings, or error codes.”

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Review comment at @doc/lib/js/watch.md around lines 70 - 73:
Update the H.264 recovery-point documentation to describe only the changed presentation behavior, and link to the reference beside insertRecoveryPoint for construction details. Remove duplicated recovery-point recipe details while preserving the notes about browser behavior and test coverage.

Source: Coding guidelines

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Prompt to fix all issues

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
Review comments at @js/watch/src/video/decoder.ts:
- Line 760: Track a timeline-break generation around the this.clock.wait() call
and return if it changes before execution continues. Increment the generation in
#onBreak(), and check it immediately after the await, before the #late() check
or timestamp write.

Review comments at @rs/moq-cli/src/play/buffer.rs:
- Around line 155-159: Update the warmup calculation before `floor.checked_add`
to convert the requested duration through nanoseconds and round the tick count
up to the floor’s scale, so the threshold includes the full warmup duration.
Keep conversions and addition checked, returning `None` on overflow; do not rely
on truncating `Timestamp::convert`.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @doc/lib/js/watch.md:
- Around line 70-73: Update the H.264 recovery-point documentation to describe
only the changed presentation behavior, and link to the reference beside
insertRecoveryPoint for construction details. Remove duplicated recovery-point
recipe details while preserving the notes about browser behavior and test
coverage.

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• doc/lib/js/watch.md
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• js/watch/src/video/decoder.test.ts
• js/watch/src/video/decoder.ts
• js/watch/src/video/recovery.ts
• quest/m2/warmup-one-decoder.md
• quest/m4/intra-refresh/README.md
• quest/m4/intra-refresh/consumer-warmup.md
• quest/m4/intra-refresh/dual-decoder.md
• quest/m4/intra-refresh/recovery-boundary.md
• rs/moq-cli/benches/play_buffer.rs
• rs/moq-cli/src/play/buffer.rs
• rs/moq-cli/src/play/fake.rs
• rs/moq-cli/src/play/media.rs
• rs/moq-cli/src/play/video.rs
• rs/moq-ffi/src/video.rs
• rs/moq-mux/src/container/consumer.rs
• rs/moq-video/src/decode/backend/mod.rs
• rs/moq-video/src/decode/backend/probe.rs
• rs/moq-video/src/decode/consumer.rs
• rs/moq-video/src/decode/mod.rs
• rs/moq-video/src/decode/select.rs

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Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Guard the post-await timestamp write against a timeline break.

#onBreak() clears this.timestamp and resets the clock. The output callback can resume after clock.wait() resolves true, but before the break is observed. The post-await #late() check at line 762 then reads the cleared state and passes. Line 768 then writes the old picture's timestamp. Later pictures on the new timeline below that timestamp are rejected at lines 745 and 762. Video stays frozen until the new timeline reaches the stale value.

Record a break counter before the wait and compare it after the wait. Return when it changed.

Suggested fix

+					const generation = this.#generation;
 					if (!(await this.clock.wait(timestamp, signal)) || signal.aborted) return;
+					// A timeline break after the wait resolved clears the state read below.
+					if (generation !== this.#generation) return;

 	#onBreak(): void {
+		this.#generation += 1;
 		this.first.set(undefined);

Add #generation = 0; as a field on the same class as #resetPending.

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Review comment at @js/watch/src/video/decoder.ts at line 760:
Track a timeline-break generation around the this.clock.wait() call and return if it changes before execution continues. Increment the generation in #onBreak(), and check it immediately after the await, before the #late() check or timestamp write.

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Round the warmup up when converting it to the floor's scale.

Timestamp::convert truncates the result. A warmup of 150 ms at a 10 Hz floor scale becomes one tick, so the presentation threshold lands 100 ms after the floor. Pictures in the remaining 50 ms of the requested warmup then pass the gate. The warmup contract requires the full duration.

Compute the warmup in nanoseconds and round the converted tick count up before adding it to floor. Keep the conversion checked so overflow still returns None. The inspected code does not include a rounding-up helper, so this comment does not supply a code patch.

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Review comment at @rs/moq-cli/src/play/buffer.rs around lines 155 - 159:
Update the warmup calculation before `floor.checked_add` to convert the requested duration through nanoseconds and round the tick count up to the floor’s scale, so the threshold includes the full warmup duration. Keep conversions and addition checked, returning `None` on overflow; do not rely on truncating `Timestamp::convert`.

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