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Two defects behind "exports frozen at ~80%", neither of them the audio cost that #371 addressed.

The bar could not reach 100% — and 80% is not a coincidence

The native side reports a raw running count of composed frames and never a total, so the percentage is computed in the renderer. Both callers computed it as sum(sourceEndSec - sourceStartSec) * fps, which ignores speed regions entirely.

walk_composited_timeline emits sum(segment.frame_count), and a segment at speed s covering d seconds emits d / s * fps frames. So a clip under a 1.25× region emits exactly 1 / 1.25 = 80% of what that formula predicts. The bar climbed to 80%, stopped, and the export finished there. Even with instant audio it would never have reached 100%. A 0.5× region does the reverse and pins it at 100% for the second half of the export.

src/lib/exporter/outputFrameCount.ts mirrors speed_segments_for_window + push_speed_segment. The two sides share one fixture table, asserted by outputFrameCount.test.ts and by the new speed_segments_match_the_exporter_frame_totals in regions.rs, so a change on either side goes red instead of drifting — a silent divergence here is a progress bar that lies, and it has shipped once already.

What it cannot mirror: the walk clamps each clip's end to the source's real duration, which only a decoder knows. A source shorter than its declared window still reads slightly high, exactly as before.

The bar stopped moving

on_clip_end decoded and stretched the clip's audio on the render thread, and nothing calls progress() during that, so the bar parked at whatever percentage the clip's last frame reported — for minutes, back when WSOLA was O(grain × radius) per rendered sample.

A clip's audio depends on nothing but that clip, so there is no reason it should occupy the thread composing the next clip's frames. It now goes to ClipAudioJobs (crates/compositor/src/audio_jobs.rs) — at most four in flight, results indexed by clip, a panicking job leaving its clip silent rather than taking the export down — and the walk carries straight on. What is left to join at the end is at most the last clip.

I chose this over adding an audio progress contribution, which is what the issue suggested. Reporting during that phase would have meant changing the native → JS protocol (it carries an absolute frame count and nothing else) and splitting a total that the two sides compute separately, to display a wait rather than remove it. Moving the work deletes the wait and makes export-pipeline.md's original claim — that the stretch overlaps the encode — true for the first time.

All three pipelines, not Windows alone: pipeline_windows.rs, pipeline_macos.rs and pipeline_linux.rs had the same block nearly character for character. GIF has no audio path and is untouched.

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  • cargo test -p openscreen-compositor --lib --tests — 162 pass, including the four new audio_jobs tests (indexing by clip rather than completion order, the empty slot for a clip with no audio, the concurrency cap under 32 jobs, and a panicking job).
  • vitest run — 2225 pass, including the ten new outputFrameCount cases.
  • tsc --noEmit and biome check clean.
  • Only the Windows compositor backend compiles on my machine; the macOS and Linux pipeline edits are covered by CI's Rust test jobs.

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  • Performance

    • Export audio processing now runs in the background, allowing video composition and audio preparation to overlap.
    • Export pipelines limit concurrent audio work for predictable resource usage.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Export progress now accurately reflects speed-adjusted clips, including fast motion and slow motion.
    • Progress reporting remains reliable for overlapping, partial, or invalid speed regions.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for speed-adjusted frame totals, audio job ordering, concurrency limits, empty clips, and worker failures.
  • Documentation

    • Updated export pipeline documentation to describe background audio processing and accurate progress calculation.

… phase

Two separate defects behind "exports frozen at ~80%", neither of them the
audio cost that #371 addressed.

**The bar could not reach 100%.** The native side reports a raw running count
of composed frames and never a total, so the percentage is computed in the
renderer — and both callers computed it as `sum(sourceEndSec - sourceStartSec)
* fps`, which ignores speed regions. A clip under a 1.25x region emits
`duration * fps / 1.25` frames, so the bar climbed to exactly 80% and the
export finished there. That is the number in the title, arithmetically. A 0.5x
region does the reverse and pins it at 100% for the second half.

`outputFrameCount` mirrors `speed_segments_for_window` + `push_speed_segment`,
which is what `walk_composited_timeline` actually iterates. The two sides share
one fixture table, asserted by `outputFrameCount.test.ts` and by the new
`speed_segments_match_the_exporter_frame_totals`, so a change to either goes
red instead of drifting. What it cannot mirror is the walk's clamp of each clip
to the source's real duration — only a decoder knows that — so a truncated
source still reads slightly high, as it did before.

**The bar stopped moving.** `on_clip_end` decoded and stretched the clip's
audio on the render thread, and nothing calls `progress()` during that, so the
bar parked at whatever percentage the clip's last frame reported. A clip's
audio depends on nothing but that clip, so it now goes to `ClipAudioJobs` (at
most four in flight, results indexed by clip) and the walk carries on to the
next clip. The time leaves the export wall rather than being better displayed,
and what is left to join at the end is at most the last clip.

All three pipelines, not Windows alone — they had the same block character for
character. GIF has no audio path and is untouched.
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The compositor now processes clip audio in bounded background jobs. Export progress now uses speed-adjusted frame counts shared between TypeScript and Rust. Tests and architecture documentation cover audio scheduling and frame-count parity.

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Export pipeline updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bounded clip audio jobs
crates/compositor/src/audio_jobs.rs, crates/compositor/src/lib.rs
Adds indexed audio jobs with a four-worker limit. Results preserve clip positions. Missing audio, decode failures, and worker panics produce silent results with warnings.
Compositor pipeline integration
crates/compositor/src/pipeline_*.rs
Linux, macOS, and Windows pipelines dispatch audio decoding and stretching during timeline traversal, then collect PCM results before concatenation and encoding.
Speed-aware frame-count contract
src/lib/exporter/outputFrameCount.ts, src/lib/exporter/outputFrameCount.test.ts, crates/compositor/src/regions.rs
Adds frame-count functions that mirror Rust speed-segment behavior. Tests cover speed regions, overlaps, clipping, clip scoping, invalid speeds, and zero totals.
Progress reporting integration
src/cli/CliExportRunner.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/ExportDialog.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/ExportDialog.showInFolder.test.tsx, technical-documentation/architecture/export-pipeline.md
CLI and dialog progress totals use outputFrameCount. The scene-description mock includes speedRegions. Documentation describes the shared contract and asynchronous audio flow.

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Exports now report speed-adjusted progress and keep advancing while clip audio is processed in bounded background jobs. The change is mergeable with owner awareness that the new public API should remain intentionally scoped and that stalled audio decoding could still delay cancellation or shutdown.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant TimelineWalker
  participant ClipAudioJobs
  participant decode_and_stretch_clip_audio
  participant ExportProgress
  participant outputFrameCount
  TimelineWalker->>ClipAudioJobs: spawn per-clip audio work
  ClipAudioJobs->>decode_and_stretch_clip_audio: decode and stretch
  decode_and_stretch_clip_audio-->>ClipAudioJobs: indexed PCM result
  TimelineWalker->>ClipAudioJobs: collect results after traversal
  ExportProgress->>outputFrameCount: count speed-adjusted output frames
  outputFrameCount-->>ExportProgress: progress denominator
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In `@crates/compositor/src/audio_jobs.rs`:
- Line 93: Update ClipAudioJobs and its walk_composited_timeline error paths so
every started audio job is cooperatively cancelled and its JoinHandle is joined
before the job collection is dropped, including failures before into_results().
Preserve normal result collection while ensuring early returns cannot detach
in-flight threads.

In `@technical-documentation/architecture/export-pipeline.md`:
- Around line 88-89: Update the export-pipeline documentation statement about
pending work after the walk: because ClipAudioJobs::spawn permits four jobs
before collection and into_results waits for all remaining inflight jobs, state
that up to four jobs can remain rather than only the last clip.
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Both from CodeRabbit, and both right.

Dropping a `JoinHandle` detaches its thread. Between the first `spawn` and
`into_results` there are `?` operators — the walk itself, the encoder flush —
and on any of them the collection went out of scope leaving up to four audio
decodes running in a native addon the host may unload. `Drop` now joins them,
so nothing outlives the scope, error path included.

This is a join, not a cancellation: `decode_clip_audio` is one long opaque
call, and interrupting it would mean handing it an `AVIOInterruptCB` — a
different change in a different file. The wait is bounded by the slowest of the
four, which is seconds now that the stretch goes through atempo, and it is only
paid by an export that has already failed.

The other one is a claim I got wrong in three comments and the architecture
doc: "at most the last clip" left to wait for after the walk. `spawn` admits
four before it collects one, so up to four can remain — bounded by the slowest
of them rather than by their sum, which is the part worth saying.
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