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Stacked on #139 so its production-tested lifecycle changes remain separate. Merge #139 first, then retarget this PR to main.

Changes

  • Stop trusting the SPS/PPS-inclusive transport keyframe flag as proof of a recoverable picture. Native and web call decoders resolve IDR parameter references with a bounded shared helper.
  • Preserve valid parameter-only updates without resetting an active reference chain, and retain declarations that later delta pictures may use. Complete in-band units and ordinary deltas can borrow input rather than rewrite it.
  • Add bounded recovery attempt, queue-admission, IDR-admission and first-output diagnostics. Remove parameter-payload logging.
  • Read unrotated browser pictures directly as BGRA after a cached color probe verifies support. Detect silently ignored formats and retry RGBA on real-frame refusal. Preserve rotated output, JS buffer ownership, generation checks and active/pending bounds.
  • Reuse the JS-owned playout buffer and move audio warning/error formatting out of the realtime callback into cancellable aggregate reporting. Keep initial priming, sample values, latency policy and native audio behavior unchanged.
  • Consume merged fix(mlow): move per-frame success logs to trace whatsapp-rust#1466 at 2b9a8d799ec2da008cc47fbd1c61d8995d652238. Successful MLow frames use trace; warnings and failure diagnostics remain intact. All upstream dependencies stay on main.
  • Run the new standalone codec and audio regression targets in CI with narrow documented machete exceptions for imported production modules.

Evidence

The preview recording still contained 11 remote decoder failures and substantial copyTo time. Those observations motivated the work but do not establish which encoded unit caused a failure.

Tests reproduced parameter-only recovery failure and caught two implementation regressions before publication. Repeated SPS/PPS must not stop valid IDR-to-delta decoding, and rewriting an IDR must not discard a PPS used by a later delta. Native and browser tests compare direct and prepared decoding from generated media.

Four interleaved synthetic Chrome runs measured 6.4-10.5% lower mean callback-to-publication time for unrotated BGRA. copyTo itself did not consistently improve; avoiding the Rust swizzle provides the measured benefit. This is not a measured live-call FPS gain.

Across 1,000 synthetic audio blocks, sample-buffer backing allocations fall from 1,000 to one at setup. An alternating starvation test falls from 500 warning decisions to three interval reports and one final total, with all counters retained. Copies and temporary binding views remain.

Verification

  • Native workspace tests, all targets/features and locked dependencies: 1,365 passed, 13 ignored.
  • Workspace doctests: one passed, ten ignored.
  • Workspace Clippy with warnings denied, formatting and cargo machete passed.
  • Nightly wasm GUI/session check passed with the atomics warning.
  • Chrome readback: 13 passed. Real-codec recovery: four passed.
  • Audio statistics: seven passed. Browser audio: six passed in ordinary wasm and six with shared memory.
  • Chrome daemon/session suites: nine and 17 passed.
  • Independent final review found no remaining blockers.

Scope

No live post-fix WhatsApp call or native daemon CPU profile was recorded. This helper checks bounded admission headers and parameter references, not full H.264 syntax or complete WhatsApp receive-policy parity. No codec negotiation, frame rate, resolution or encoded quality setting changed.

Upstream loss metadata after receive-queue overflow and whole-access-unit loss handling remain separate work. AudioWorklet, GPU-native video presentation and directional local-camera stop also remain outstanding. See docs/media-recovery.md for the measured scope and remaining limitations. No private logs, traces or captured media were committed.


Summary by cubic

Fixes video recovery so transport keyframe flags no longer count as proof that a frame is decodable, and trims browser-side media overhead and call-setup leaks.

Video recovery:

  • SPS/PPS-only access units no longer reset an active reference chain; native and web decoders inspect the bitstream through a bounded shared helper.
  • Preserves valid parameter-only updates and declarations that later delta pictures use; complete in-band units and ordinary deltas borrow input instead of rewriting it.
  • Adds bounded recovery attempt, queue-admission, IDR-admission, and first-output diagnostics, and removes parameter-payload logging.
  • Treats the peer frame's rotation bits (0,1,2,3 → clockwise corrections 0,270,180,90) as describing the received frame; RTP frame metadata takes precedence and composes with call rotation, and received orientation is logged when the applied turn moves.

Browser media:

  • Reads unrotated browser pictures directly as BGRA after a cached color probe verifies support, falling back to RGBA when the browser silently ignores the format; synthetic Chrome runs measured 6.4-10.5% lower mean callback-to-publication time, not a live-call FPS gain.
  • Gates the synthetic readback benchmarks behind a benchmarks feature so normal browser test runs skip them, and restores the copyTo override if a benchmark bails.
  • Reuses the JS-owned playout buffer and moves audio warning/error reporting out of the realtime callback into cancellable aggregate reports; priming, sample values, latency policy, and native audio behavior are unchanged.
  • Stops the camera tracks the preview actually uses instead of cloned duplicates, and releases every microphone track and context a call setup opened; new browser lifecycle tests cover both.
  • Runs the new standalone codec, audio regression, and node-based cleanup/transform checks in CI; the quieted MLow logs, frame-info parser fix, and memory-budget corrections now come from whatsapp-rust main.

Written for commit 05b8e10. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • New Features

    • Improved H.264 video recovery across browser and native call playback, including parameter-set changes, decoder resets, and unreliable keyframe indicators.
    • Added automatic BGRA video readback with RGBA fallback when required.
    • Added call audio playout diagnostics for starvation, timing delays, missing samples, and output errors.
    • Improved video rendering for orientation, horizontal flips, and transformed frames.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved camera and microphone stream ownership and cleanup.
    • Corrected received-video rotation handling across camera switches.
  • Documentation

    • Added media recovery, readback, diagnostics, benchmark, and limitation documentation.

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The change adds shared H.264 admission and recovery handling, BGRA WebCodecs readback with RGBA fallback, reusable web audio output buffers, callback diagnostics, capture lifecycle tests, and CI integration.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Audio playout output and diagnostics
crates/audio/src/web/call_device/*, crates/audio/src/web/call_device/tests/*
The call device reuses audio buffers, tracks callback statistics, retains write errors, and reports interval and teardown diagnostics. Browser and statistics tests cover buffer reuse, zero filling, timing, cancellation, and aggregation.
H.264 admission and recovery integration
crates/gui/src/video/h264.rs, crates/gui/src/video/recovery.rs, crates/gui/src/video/call_native.rs, crates/gui/src/video/call_web.rs
Native and web decoders prepare access units through shared H.264 validation. The helper tracks parameter sets, reconstructs recovery pictures, enforces bounds, and updates recovery lifecycle diagnostics.
WebCodecs readback and recovery tests
crates/gui/src/video/webcodecs.rs, crates/gui/tests/webcodecs/*
WebCodecs probes BGRA support and retries rejected copies with RGBA. Tests cover formats, rotations, allocation rejection, reset handling, benchmarks, parameter-set recovery, and decoder resets.
Capture lifecycle and orientation validation
crates/session/src/video/camera_lifecycle_tests.rs, crates/video/src/web/camera.rs, crates/gui/src/video/geometry.rs, crates/core/src/video.rs
Capture tests verify track ownership and cleanup. Camera attachment borrows the guarded stream. Orientation documentation and rotation tests use received-frame metadata semantics.
CI wiring and media documentation
.github/workflows/ci.yml, Cargo.toml, docs/media-recovery.md, docs/gotchas.md
CI runs the added audio and WebCodecs tests with dedicated targets and browser capabilities. Documentation records the H.264, readback, audio diagnostic, capture, orientation, and remaining-work changes.

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The media implementation is mergeable, but the browser transform test may obscure unsupported metadata with a misleading failure.

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Audio diagnostics

sequenceDiagram
  participant CallDevice
  participant Output
  participant Diagnostics
  participant PlatformTimer
  CallDevice->>Output: fill and write audio block
  CallDevice->>Diagnostics: record callback statistics
  PlatformTimer->>Diagnostics: report interval statistics
  CallDevice->>Diagnostics: report final statistics
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H.264 and WebCodecs recovery

sequenceDiagram
  participant Decoder
  participant AccessUnits
  participant Recovery
  participant Readback
  Decoder->>AccessUnits: prepare encoded access unit
  AccessUnits-->>Decoder: prepared picture or recovery result
  Decoder->>Recovery: request recovery when required
  Decoder->>Readback: publish decoded frame
  Readback->>Readback: retry BGRA copy as RGBA when rejected
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New commits since the last review, all on this branch:

  • aa8131f — the web camera preview cloned the acquired MediaStream, so teardown stopped the original tracks while the preview clone kept capturing. The preview and ended handlers now use the guarded tracks. The browser harness counts clones and requires zero surviving tracks, timers and callbacks. Reproduced before the fix with one live cloned track plus a recursive-closure error on its ended dispatch.
  • 0bdcd49 — the microphone graph had the same clone defect, plus two adjacent leaks: a permission grant landing after cancel/timeout, and an audio context left running when setup was dropped mid-prompt. A playout-node creation failure now also detaches the armed capture handler. crates/audio/tests/call_audio_lifecycle.rs drives granted, failing and cancelled setups in a real browser; permission and node modes failed before, all eight modes pass after.
  • b522abe — documents the received-rotation convention without GUI compensation. The upside-down rear-camera picture comes from the library stamping signaling orientation over RTP frame metadata; the fix is proposed in fix(voip): prefer RTP frame rotation over stale device orientation whatsapp-rust#1469 with an executed 256-case WASM oracle, not yet merged, so this branch keeps the locked revision.

Verification: audio/session/video/core native suites pass, session browser suite passes 18 tests, audio lifecycle browser test passes, GUI video suites pass, workspace Clippy denies warnings, formatting and machete pass, nightly wasm GUI check passes. No physical-camera LED verification is claimed.

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