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Backports the subscription-start behavior from #3158 to main.

  • Treats absent Group Start as publisher-selected with an implicit floor of group 0.
  • Selects the oldest retained group within Subscriber Max Latency; zero selects the latest group naturally.
  • Applies the behavior to every moq-lite version while keeping exact FETCH independent.
  • Sends the Sync latency ceiling from both JS audio and video subscriptions, including reactive updates.
  • Preserves latency-based starts through spliced/origin tracks and SUBSCRIBE_UPDATE without moving below an announced SUBSCRIBE_START.
  • Uses millisecond-precision insertion ages and records the draft-06 semantic change.

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  • bun test --reporter=dot js/net/src js/watch/src (602 passed)
  • cargo test -p moq-net --lib (839 passed)
  • cargo clippy --locked -p moq-net --all-targets -- -D warnings
  • cargo test -p moq-native --test broadcast broadcast_moq_lite_05_fetch_during_subscribe_webtransport

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Subscription start behavior now uses Subscriber Max Latency to select cached or live groups. Group Start acts as an absolute delivery floor. JavaScript and Rust tracks record group queue times and compute initial subscriber cursors from latency and group bounds. Fetch operations set exact group bounds. Media decoders pass explicit priorities and synchronization buffer limits to a shared subscription helper. Tests and protocol documentation were updated for these semantics.

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The PR changes subscription latency and start-position behavior, but current code may still deliver groups older than requested, discard cached data before updates take effect, or override an explicit start position. These bounded correctness risks should be resolved or explicitly accepted before merging.

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- Around line 847-856: Update the in-progress moq-lite-06 changelog in Appendix
A with one concise bullet documenting that an absent Group Start means an
absolute floor of group 0, while Subscriber Max Latency determines the first
delivered group.

In `@js/net/src/track.test.ts`:
- Around line 188-192: Make the latency-selection tests deterministic by
replacing the 1 ms budgets in the subscribe calls around replay and floored
subscriptions in js/net/src/track.test.ts lines 188-192 with a sufficiently
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In `@js/net/src/track.ts`:
- Line 673: Update the initial positioning flow around `#position` and
`#subscriptionStart` so positioning occurs after sink.info resolves, allowing the
publisher latency cap from Producer.accept({ latencyMax: 0 }) to override the
subscriber budget before cached delivery. Ensure sinks created before accept are
repositioned before initial delivery, and add a regression test covering cached
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&& (*sequence == latest_sequence
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P2 Badge Measure insertion gaps regardless of arrival order

When a higher sequence is queued first and a lower sequence arrives after the latency budget, latest_inserted.saturating_duration_since(*inserted) saturates to zero, so the older group is always considered fresh. For example, if group 3 is inserted and group 2 arrives seconds later, a new subscriber with a 1 ms budget incorrectly starts at group 2. The JS mirror has the same issue at js/net/src/track.ts:701, where the subtraction becomes negative, so use an order-independent elapsed duration in both implementations. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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broadcast: this.broadcast,
track: this.track,
priority: Catalog.PRIORITY.video,
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P2 Badge Keep unpaced video subscriptions at the live edge

When callers disable paced while sync.out.maxBuffer remains nonzero, this requests retained history even though the same decoder deliberately sets its container latency to zero at line 301. The publisher therefore downloads older video groups that the zero-latency consumer will skip, and they can transiently surface during instant startup. Use the pace-aware #latency getter for the network subscription so unpaced mode requests zero and reacts correctly when pacing changes. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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701-701: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Measure latency from the current time.

latest.time - candidate.time measures the gap from the newest queued group. It does not measure the candidate age when the subscriber is positioned. If the track pauses after the latest group is queued, a subscriber can receive data older than latencyMax.

Compare one current timestamp with candidate.time.

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+		const now = Date.now();
 		for (const candidate of candidates) {
 			if (candidate.group.sequence < floor) continue;
 			if (candidate.group.sequence === latest.group.sequence) return candidate.group.sequence;
-			if (budget > 0 && latest.time - candidate.time <= budget) return candidate.group.sequence;
+			if (budget > 0 && now - candidate.time <= budget) return candidate.group.sequence;
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In `@js/net/src/track.ts` at line 701, Update the candidate selection condition
around candidate.group.sequence to measure age from a single current timestamp
captured for the operation, comparing that timestamp with candidate.time instead
of using latest.time. Preserve the existing budget check and sequence return
behavior.

793-793: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Apply the pre-start retention rule to every group reader.

recvGroup() now preserves groups below an automatic start while #startPinned is false. nextGroup() at Line 855 and readFrameSequence() at Line 889 still close those groups unconditionally.

If a subscriber reads before a SUBSCRIBE_UPDATE widens its latency budget, those cached groups are lost and the later reposition cannot deliver them. Select the first eligible group without removing earlier groups until the start is pinned. Add regression tests for nextGroup() and readFrame().

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In `@js/net/src/track.ts` at line 793, Update nextGroup() and readFrameSequence()
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matching recvGroup() behavior; only discard earlier groups once the start is
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- Around line 385-388: Update `#position`() to honor the `#startPinned` floor
established by startAt(), ensuring automatic sink repositioning never moves a
cursor below the explicitly requested start value. Preserve existing
publisher-selected positioning when no start is pinned, and keep the sink.info
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- Line 701: Update the candidate selection condition around
candidate.group.sequence to measure age from a single current timestamp captured
for the operation, comparing that timestamp with candidate.time instead of using
latest.time. Preserve the existing budget check and sequence return behavior.
- Line 793: Update nextGroup() and readFrameSequence() to preserve groups below
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for (const sink of this.#sinks) {
sink.info.set(resolved);
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve an explicit startAt() floor during automatic repositioning.

startAt() sets #startPinned, but #position() ignores that flag. If the caller invokes startAt(10) before Producer.accept(), sink.position?.() can lower the cursor to the publisher-selected start. recvGroup() can then deliver sequence 0.

Keep the cursor start at least at its pinned value when #position() runs.

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 	`#position`(announcedStart = 0): void {
-		this.#cursor.update((cursor) => ({ ...cursor, start: Math.max(this.#subscriptionStart(), announcedStart) }));
+		const automaticStart = Math.max(this.#subscriptionStart(), announcedStart);
+		this.#cursor.update((cursor) => ({
+			...cursor,
+			start: this.#startPinned ? Math.max(cursor.start, automaticStart) : automaticStart,
+		}));
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`#startPinned` floor established by startAt(), ensuring automatic sink
repositioning never moves a cursor below the explicitly requested start value.
Preserve existing publisher-selected positioning when no start is pinned, and
keep the sink.info update and optional sink.position() flow intact.

A fresh subscriber now resolves its start from max latency, so subscribing
to an already-populated track yields the live edge instead of group 0.
These layout assertions subscribed after finish() and saw only the last
group. Subscribe up front, like the live-consumer tests in the same files.

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startGroup: msg.startGroup,
endGroup: msg.endGroup,
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P1 Badge Preserve legacy start semantics before lite-06

When a lite-03 through lite-05 peer sends a nonzero maxLatency and omits startGroup, passing those options directly into the new model makes the publisher select cached history. Those negotiated drafts defined an absent Group Start as the latest group, while the new age-resolved meaning is recorded only for moq-lite-06, so existing clients can unexpectedly restart behind live and replay media. Gate initial and update-time repositioning on lite-06 in both publishers, retaining the previous latest-group behavior for older versions. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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P2 Badge Honor timestamp age when selecting cached history

When a relay receives a burst of cached groups together, their insertion instants can be nearly identical even if their first-frame timestamps are seconds apart. This predicate therefore admits presentation-stale groups outside latency_max, although the normative expiration rule says a group is stale when either timestamp age or wall-clock age exceeds the budget; the JS mirror has the same queue-time-only check in track.ts. Include first-frame timestamp age in the new start resolver so burst buffering cannot defeat the requested latency ceiling. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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P2 Badge Resolve bounded zero-latency joins across all segments

Fresh evidence after the earlier logical-live-edge fix is this new group_end.is_some() branch: with existing segments containing groups 0-1 and 2-3, a zero-latency subscription capped at group 3 returns None here, so each segment resolves independently and group 1 is delivered before the logical live edge at group 3. Compute one logical latest sequence at or below the cap and add a bounded multi-segment regression test. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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The decode consumers applied `latency_max` only to the container, which
governs playback expiry. The subscription itself went out as
`Subscription::default()`, so the budget never reached the wire.

That was invisible while a subscriber always started at group 0. Now the
subscription's max latency picks the join point, so a consumer with a
configured budget still started at the live edge and dropped everything
already published. This mirrors the latency ceiling js/watch sends.

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P1 Badge Apply positive latency budgets across logical segments

When a spliced track retains a predecessor whose last group was queued seconds before the current segment, any positive latency budget takes this branch and lets each segment resolve independently. The predecessor therefore treats its own final group as the always-admitted latest group, and poll_recv_group returns it before the true logical live edge even when its age greatly exceeds the subscriber's budget. Resolve the join against a shared timeline across all segments so failover history is filtered by the logical latest group. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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Closing: the approach here conflicts with the design dev already settled on.

This PR resolves a subscription's start by scanning the track cache and ranking groups by wall-clock arrival (Slot.inserted, latest_inserted.saturating_duration_since(inserted) <= budget). dev deliberately went the other way:

  • floor_of() is the named floor and nothing else (subscription.start.map(|s| s.group).unwrap_or(0)); delivery staleness does the rest, with no cache-scan resolution.
  • Staleness is media-time via reach, not wall clock. dev carries tests named max_age_does_not_drive_wall_eviction and origin_cache_duration_does_not_wall_evict, under the split "LRU cache = wall clock; expiration = timestamp + max age".
  • fix(net): shed a stale backlog on the ordered cursor, not just a blocking read #3251 continues that line, shedding a stale backlog on the ordered cursor by the same reach rule.

So the description above ("backports the subscription-start behavior from #3158") describes the pre-rework version of #3158; the rework deleted exactly this cache-scan resolution.

Backporting the dev shape to main is not a small change either: main has no reach and no media-time staleness, and its latency_max drives wall-clock LRU eviction (evict_expired, "expire groups whose last access is older than max_age"). "Floor + delivery staleness" has nothing on main to do the second half. Simplest path is to let this reach main when dev merges.

Incidental findings (already handled on dev, no action needed)

Found while triaging CI here. On main, moq-audio/moq-video decode::Consumer and moq-mux's container::source apply a configured latency budget to the container consumer only and subscribe with a bare Subscription::default(), so it never reaches the subscription.

dev already closes all three (.with_max_age(config.max_age) on both decode consumers, Subscription::default().with_max_age(self.max_age) in container::source, covered by latency_is_sent_with_the_initial_subscription). Recording it only so the main-side gap is not mistaken for something still open: it is latent there, since nothing on main reads the subscription budget for a join point, and it resolves when dev merges.

(written by Claude Opus 5)

@kixelated kixelated closed this Aug 31, 2026
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