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Problem

The studio epic covered the OBS-parity basics but not what makes a MoQ-native studio different (per-track delivery, viewer composition, relay failover, replay from held groups), nor the polish creators expect from OBS (undo, transitions, effects, snapping, guided setup, per-app audio).

Approach

Plans the backlog as quests, with each decision and its reason recorded in the quest's Plan (decided with the maintainer on 2026-10-26).

New under the studio epic (quest/m3/studio/):

• Viewer-side composition (epic compose/): each source publishes as its own track plus a layout track (hang JSON on the media clock); moq-scene composes it in the browser (@moq/watch), headless on a server (moq compose), and in the studio, with one parity rule across the three hosts. Children: source tracks, layout track, browser composition, server composition, viewer controls.
• [L] Undo and the scene model: persistent undo history, linked vs cloned sources, copy and paste, a downstream keyer, per-item filters.
• [L] Live encode control: simulcast rungs that follow the bandwidth grant, live bitrate and resolution changes, keyframes on request.
• [M] Stream health: per-track delivery, viewer reports, latency, with causes named.
• [M] Relay failover: the same epoch on two relays, so a relay failure does not drop the stream.
• [M] Instant replay and DVR: replays and clips from held groups; viewer scrubbing through the archive.
• [L] HTML/CSS overlays: script-free HTML and CSS through Blitz natively and the DOM in the browser.
• [M] Animation and transitions, [M] Video effects, [S] Snapping and guides, [M] Guided setup.

Extended:

• Audio filters gain ducking and out-of-process VST3/CLAP hosting; mixes gain clap/flash sync measurement and per-guest mix-minus.
• Per-app audio: a new [S] macOS quest (ScreenCaptureKit), folded into the Linux (PipeWire nodes) and Windows (WASAPI process loopback) capture parity quests.

Merged main after moq-dev/moq#6839 landed, so the links to its autosave and scene-editing quests resolve. In the studio's Required, viewer composition stays first (its recorded decision) and the scene model second (its Plan lands it right after composition, before features build on the model); moq-dev/moq#6839's autosave, scene editing, broadcast sync, and Wayland sources follow, then the rest of this backlog. Reorder if you rank them differently.

Impact

Quest files only; no API or wire change.

Alternatives

Keeping the studio a composited-program-only publisher like OBS. Declined: per-track delivery is MoQ's advantage, so the program becomes the fallback for protocols and players that cannot compose.

Follow-ups

None.

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Reviewed commit: c8bcc62

[P2] Reconcile replay availability with on-demand encoding — quest/m3/studio/replay.md:12-15 assumes recent groups are already on hand for the goal of replaying any source or the program. But compose/sources.md:7-12 and compose/README.md:39-41 deliberately stop encoding unsubscribed tracks, including the unused fallback program. For example, when all viewers compose sources themselves, the program has no encoded history to replay; a source toggled off by every viewer has the same gap. Retention or a later time-range subscription cannot recover frames never encoded. Either scope replay to available retained coverage and expose gaps, or explicitly arm a local replay subscriber with a retention window and account for its ongoing encode cost. Include the no-external-subscriber case in the replay acceptance criteria.

Overall direction: reusing one scene model/compositor and existing subscription machinery is a sensible way to avoid host-specific implementations. Keeping replay as a normal local consumer would preserve that direction rather than introducing a separate recording pipeline.

Verification limits: static review of the quest diff, protocol documentation and encoder demand behavior only. No builds, tests, hardware probes or compositor-parity checks were run; this PR changes plans, not runtime implementation.

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Fixed the replay finding in the latest commit: replay is armed per source or program as a local subscriber with a retention window, so an armed track keeps encoding with no external subscriber and its cost shows like any subscriber's. An unarmed track replays only what was encoded and shows the gaps. Acceptance now covers the case where nothing outside the studio subscribes to the program.

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Reviewed commit: 685ae7e

The previous replay-coverage P2 is fixed in the plan (quest/m3/studio/replay.md:17-25): arming replay creates a local subscriber with retention and visible encode cost; unarmed tracks expose missing coverage; acceptance explicitly includes an unsubscribed fallback program. This keeps the simpler existing pull-model design rather than adding a separate recorder. No new actionable bugs found in the delta from c8bcc62; the base is unchanged.

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• quest/m3/studio/compose/controls.md
• quest/m3/studio/compose/layout.md
• quest/m3/studio/effects.md
• quest/m3/studio/failover.md
• quest/m3/studio/guided-setup.md
• quest/m3/studio/mixes.md
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• quest/m3/studio/snapping.md

Walkthrough

The pull request adds plans for per-app audio capture on Linux, Windows, and macOS. It also adds studio documentation for scene editing, viewer-side and server-side composition, audio processing, and stream operations. These documents describe proposed approaches and requirements; they do not implement the documented capture or studio features.

Priority: Pending latest changes

Merge Risk: Low · up to c8bcc

This PR only adds planning documents, so nothing ships that can break at runtime. A few plans leave design gaps that should be tightened before implementation starts, such as shared-track subscription handling, plugin hang handling, and overlay asset enforcement.

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Description check		The description clearly explains the studio backlog, composition epic, audio work, and quest-only scope. It directly matches the changeset.
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Actionable comments posted: 13

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quest/m3/studio/health.md: 1

13-16: Trivial · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Define the provenance of each health metric.

The stats contract joins publisher and viewer snapshots by catalog rendition ID. State that join in the Plan. Also map bandwidth granted to a defined field and aggregation rule, or remove it. The contract exposes target bitrate and transport rate gauges, not a field named “bandwidth granted.”

Narrow end-to-end latency to viewer-reported stages or mark it unavailable. The latency ledger states that no clock currently spans the publisher-to-viewer path, so end-to-end latency remains null.

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Review comment at @quest/m3/studio/health.md around lines 13 - 16:
Update the health metric Plan to state that publisher and viewer snapshots are
joined by catalog rendition ID; map “bandwidth granted” to a defined field and
aggregation rule, or remove it; and limit end-to-end latency to viewer-reported
stages or mark it unavailable as null, consistent with the `stats` and `echo`
entries and `hang::{stats,echo}::Snapshot` contract.

quest/m3/studio/compose/browser.md: 1

15-17: Trivial · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Specify the layout-track handoff in the browser plan.

The goal names the layout track, but the plan specifies only VideoFrame delivery. Define how the browser decodes Hang JSON snapshots, resolves source and contribution references, and applies updates on the shared media clock. Include these inputs in the parity fixture.

Suggested fix

 Frames reach it as WebCodecs `VideoFrame`s through the same browser import
 path the [web studio](/quest/m3/studio/web/video-web.md) adds.
 
-Prove parity with a fixture: the same broadcast composited here and by the
-studio, compared within a stated tolerance.
+Decode the layout track as Hang JSON snapshots, resolve its source and
+contribution references, and apply updates on the shared media clock.
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+Prove parity with a fixture containing layout snapshots, source tracks, and
+contribution references: composite the same broadcast here and by the studio,
+then compare the pictures within a stated tolerance.

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Review comment at @quest/m3/studio/compose/browser.md around lines 15 - 17:
Update the browser plan near the WebCodecs `VideoFrame` delivery description to
specify decoding layout-track Hang JSON snapshots, resolving source and
contribution references, and applying updates on the shared media clock. Expand
the parity fixture to include layout snapshots, source tracks, and contribution
references while retaining the same-broadcast comparison and stated tolerance.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @quest/m2/capture-app-audio-macos.md:
- Around line 11-15: Preserve the existing `Source::System` behavior and
display-filter path; do not use an application filter for it. Define a separate
application-scoped source or selector for capturing audio from a chosen running
app, using app selection without changing system-wide capture.

Review comments at @quest/m2/capture-linux.md:
- Around line 35-39: Update the “Per-app audio” plan to define how PipeWire
stream nodes for the same application are grouped and selected, and whether
capture rebinds as matching nodes appear or disappear. Keep the specified
behavior consistent with the Windows process-tree and macOS application-level
capture plans.

Review comments at @quest/m2/capture-windows.md:
- Around line 20-23: Update the per-app audio description to specify that WASAPI
process loopback is available on Windows 10 build 20348 or newer. State the
behavior on supported older builds, such as returning Unsupported or using a
defined fallback, before claiming capture parity with Linux and macOS.

Review comments at @quest/m3/studio/audio-filters.md:
- Around line 15-16: Update the audio-filter hosting guidance to define
deadline-bounded or non-blocking IPC, a watchdog for hung plugins, and
filter-bypass behavior before claiming that a plugin failure only drops the
filter; retain the out-of-process isolation guidance.

Review comments at @quest/m3/studio/compose/controls.md:
- Around line 13-16: Update the subscription guidance to aggregate enabled scene
items by source track: keep a track subscribed while any enabled item uses it,
and unsubscribe only when none do. Define how the priorities of those items
combine into the single subscription priority for that track, using moq-lite’s
existing subscription priorities.

Review comments at @quest/m3/studio/compose/layout.md:
- Around line 13-17: Update the layout plan’s unknown-version refusal behavior
to state whether the viewer continues with the program while reporting the
unsupported layout or treats composition failure as terminal. Keep this behavior
distinct from the existing fallback for broadcasts without a layout track.

Review comments at @quest/m3/studio/effects.md:
- Around line 18-19: Clarify in the effects documentation that ML effects are
source-scoped before describing how they are baked into source tracks, so baking
cannot imply item-specific processing of a shared source. If ML effects must
support scene-item scope, define derived tracks or variants for those items
instead.

Review comments at @quest/m3/studio/failover.md:
- Around line 11-14: Update the studio failover plan to require both explicitly
configured relays to support publisher epochs and use the same protocol and
draft. Specify fallback behavior when either requirement is unmet, preserving
the existing single-epoch, encode-once publishing flow when both relays qualify.

Review comments at @quest/m3/studio/guided-setup.md:
- Around line 13-16: Clarify the guided setup flow by defining how it creates
and uses a session for uplink estimation and probing; `bandwidth::Allocator`
alone does not provide that measurement. Specify the session’s relationship to
the existing `moq_video::render::export` encoder choice and bandwidth grant, or
define a separate uplink probe, without making viewer demand a prerequisite.

Review comments at @quest/m3/studio/mixes.md:
- Around line 9-10: Update the calibration guidance in the per-source
sync-offset description to require a cue with both an audible and visual event,
such as a clap or synchronized flash-and-tone. Do not imply that a flash alone
can measure the microphone-to-camera offset.

Review comments at @quest/m3/studio/overlays.md:
- Around line 30-35: Update the overlay plan to define how browser DOM rendering
enforces the no-network rule for layout-track content: specify a restrictive
CSP, sandbox, or allowlisted bundled-asset scheme before content is inserted.
Keep this separate from Blitz CSS-rendering support and preserve browser sources
as the route for arbitrary web content.

Review comments at @quest/m3/studio/scene-model.md:
- Around line 19-20: Update the scene-model plan to resolve the persistence
mismatch: define how undo/redo history is serialized into and restored from the
scene file alongside the scene collection, or narrow the Goal to session-only
history. Keep the command-based edit flow and autosave contract consistent with
the chosen behavior.

Review comments at @quest/m3/studio/snapping.md:
- Around line 12-14: Update the snapping plan to state that resize commits use
the same scene-model command type as moves, preserving the existing undo and
autosave behavior.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @quest/m3/studio/compose/browser.md:
- Around line 15-17: Update the browser plan near the WebCodecs `VideoFrame`
delivery description to specify decoding layout-track Hang JSON snapshots,
resolving source and contribution references, and applying updates on the shared
media clock. Expand the parity fixture to include layout snapshots, source
tracks, and contribution references while retaining the same-broadcast
comparison and stated tolerance.

Review comments at @quest/m3/studio/health.md:
- Around line 13-16: Update the health metric Plan to state that publisher and
viewer snapshots are joined by catalog rendition ID; map “bandwidth granted” to
a defined field and aggregation rule, or remove it; and limit end-to-end latency
to viewer-reported stages or mark it unavailable as null, consistent with the
`stats` and `echo` entries and `hang::{stats,echo}::Snapshot` contract.

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• quest/m3/studio/effects.md
• quest/m3/studio/encode-control.md
• quest/m3/studio/failover.md
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• quest/m3/studio/health.md
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Reviewed commit: d6a9e56

Reviewed the substantive plan updates since 685ae7e; base unchanged. The earlier replay-coverage finding remains fixed. Shared-track demand aggregation, source-scoped ML effects, nonblocking plugin failure handling, and browser-enforced overlay isolation make the direction clearer without adding parallel mechanisms.

Existing P2 still partly open, not a new finding: CodeRabbit's failover prerequisite comment. quest/m3/studio/failover.md:15-17 now requires epoch support, but not matching protocol/draft across links. Two relays can both support epochs yet negotiate different moq-transport drafts; doc/concept/moq-lite.md (Multiple CDNs) explicitly says differing copied track info is refused and ends the track. Require compatible protocol/draft negotiation at setup as well, or explicitly narrow the seamless-failover guarantee. Referencing the existing thread instead of duplicating an inline comment.

No additional new actionable findings in this delta. Verification limits: static review of the revised plans, existing review threads and repository contracts only; no builds, tests, platform probes or failover experiments run.

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Reviewed commit: ef0f5f5

The remaining failover prerequisite finding is now fixed in quest/m3/studio/failover.md:15-18: both links must negotiate the same protocol/draft with publisher epochs, and mismatches are refused at setup. This matches the documented track-info constraint while preserving the simple encode-once design. No new actionable findings in the one-file delta from d6a9e56; base unchanged.

Verification limits: static plan/contract review only. No builds, tests or live failover checks were run.

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Landing summary: merged main after moq-dev/moq#6839 so its autosave and scene-editing links resolve, and ranked its four studio quests right after viewer composition and the scene model. Review rounds fixed replay coverage (replay is armed as a local subscriber), shared-track subscriptions, source-scoped ML effects, plugin-host deadlines, browser overlay sandboxing, persisted undo history, uplink probing, per-app audio selection on all three platforms, and same-draft failover links. Codex had no findings on d6a9e56; the final one-file change was reviewed clean.

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