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fix(mux)!: stream MKV blocks and discard ignored elements in one pass - #7234
The MKV importer buffered whole SimpleBlocks, BlockGroups, ignored binary elements, and metadata masters until each completed (MUX-3 from the 2026-10-27 audit). A header declaring a huge size pinned importer memory for as long as its bytes trickled in. The reproduction (ignored_payload_does_not_accumulate_under_a_large_metadata_master, a 1 GiB EBML header holding a nearly 1 GiB Void fed in 1 KiB chunks) failed on the unchanged importer: ignored bytes retained: 1030 after the first chunk.
Approach
Incremental EBML framing (mkv/ebml.rs): a small reader walks the element tree as bytes arrive. It retains only a split element header (at most 12 bytes) and the body of a field the importer reads. The importer chooses per element (by parent and ID) to descend, read, stream, or skip. Ignored elements are discarded as they arrive. Unknown-size Segment and Cluster close where an element they cannot contain starts, at their sized parent's end, or at EOF. A child cannot overrun its parent, and input that ends inside any other element is refused as Truncated.
Metadata stays incremental: each TrackEntry publishes when it ends, not when Tracks does. Collected masters (EBML, TrackEntry, Video, Audio, Colour, MasteringMetadata, Projection) keep one value per field they read, so a repeated field replaces the earlier one instead of accumulating. A number declaring more than 8 bytes is refused before its bytes are held. The existing config builders are unchanged.
Blocks stream into their frames: block headers and Xiph/EBML/fixed lace sizes are parsed a byte at a time, keeping at most the 256 lace sizes. Every frame's size and timestamp is validated before the first frame is published. Each frame then streams through a new container::Producer::open/commit pair, so grouping, timestamp checks, HLS records, estimates, and send counts are shared with write (refactored into prepare + written). Legacy and LOC frame prefixes depend only on the timestamp. Skipped and unknown tracks are discarded.
Output memory and backpressure: moq-net's frame storage is the bound. It takes bytes as they are written, allocating nothing past the segment being written whatever size was declared, and refuses a declared size past MAX_CACHE_BYTES up front (FrameTooLarge). Unread output is evicted by the track cache rather than blocking the importer. Readers see a frame's bytes before its block completes. A frame cut short by an abort, a drop, a refused block, or a truncated finish() fails its group instead of hanging.
A refused chunk fails the import: the rest of that chunk was never read, so later input is refused with the same error, and finish() still ends the tracks with what was accepted. A seek while a block streams waits for it to end, keeping its laced frames in one group.
Decisions
✅ Refuse non-seekable cases whose output depends on fields after a payload (maintainer, 2026-10-29). There is no staging store and no new seekable-input API.
✅ Parse metadata children incrementally, with no blanket tag-size cap (maintainer, 2026-10-28).
Choices made under the authorized recommended-code-choices brief, listed for review:
A video BlockGroup streams only when a ReferenceBlock precedes its Block or the Block ends the group. Anything else is refused with TrailingReference before the Block publishes. Audio BlockGroups stream whatever follows.
A subtitle track fails the import with SubtitleTrack(codec) before any rendition is advertised, matching the earlier precedent that an unsupported subtitle codec fails the import. The alternative was to skip the track with a warning, which keeps A/V working for MKVs that carry subtitles.
CMAF output from MKV import is refused with StreamedCmaf. encode_at builds the whole mdat in memory, and a caller-supplied CMAF init cannot describe tracks the importer discovers. Legacy and LOC are unchanged.
Decode errors are terminal, as described above.
Impact
Breaking (moq-mux, input behavior): MKV import refuses subtitle tracks (previously SRT/WebVTT became WebVTT text renditions), CMAF output, and video BlockGroups with fields after their Block. Migration: remux video as SimpleBlocks, extract subtitles separately, and select Legacy or LOC. Truncation now reports mkv::Error::Truncated instead of MatroskaParse.
Public API: mkv::Error drops InvalidSubtitle and adds SubtitleTrack, TrailingReference, StreamedCmaf, and Truncated (the enum is #[non_exhaustive]). New crate-private items: container::Producer::{open, commit} and Streamed. Wire: none.
doc/lib/rs/moq-mux.md documents the narrowed MKV support. MIGRATE.md sections are written at release cut, per doc/setup/upgrade.md.
This finishes quest/m1/security-audit/mkv-stream-blocks.md, so the quest and its links are deleted. The fMP4 quest's prose now records the shared metadata decision. The fMP4 sibling moq-dev/moq#7232 also splits Producer::write into prepare, so whichever lands second resolves that overlap. Its Legacy-only start_sample could reuse open/commit.
Alternatives
A blanket element-size cap refuses ordinary large masters, and the transport frame cap already bounds output. Removing masters from ebml-iterable's capture list still buffers binary leaves, and 0.7.1 has no skip or stream hook. Buffering refused layouts in another layer would not fix memory ownership.
Validation
Reproduction: failed before the change (ignored bytes retained: 1030) and passes after, now asserting Truncated at EOF.
New tests:
Reader: every split, unknown-size closing (including inside a sized Segment), overrun and straddle refusal (a straddling header at every split, including exactly at the parent's end), truncation, and no retained skipped bytes.
Importer: a 1 MiB block readable before completion, with ≤12 bytes retained; a 1 TiB declared block refused before its payload; a TrackEntry publishing inside a 1 GiB Tracks; skipped and unknown 1 MiB payloads discarded; 1 MiB Name/Language/LanguageIETF and unsupported-size ProjectionPrivate bodies discarded without being held; 64 MiB of unread output not stalling the importer; abort, drop, and truncation failing the open frame.
Behavior: allowed and refused video BlockGroup layouts at chunk sizes 1, 5, and whole (nothing from the refused block publishes); audio BlockGroups with trailing fields; multibyte track numbers split at every chunk size 1–9; subtitle refusal per codec and track order; CMAF refusal; seek mid-block.
just rs test -p moq-mux: 1903 passed after merging main. Clippy -D warnings is clean.
quest gate just ci origin/main on head 884aca2: passed (rs, rs_shapes, js, markdown, gh, drill, quest, shell, toml, nix, justfile).
mkv-payloads is a new benchmark that sweeps 1 KiB, 64 KiB, and 1 MiB payloads across 1500 B, 64 KiB, and whole-file chunks. Before → after median, on a host with load average ~26 (noisy):
case
before
after
payload 1 MiB, chunk 1500
945 µs
566 µs
payload 1 MiB, chunk 64 KiB
771 µs
357 µs
payload 1 MiB, whole
656 µs
282 µs
payload 64 KiB, chunk 64 KiB
499 µs
337 µs
payload 64 KiB, whole
629 µs
332 µs
payload 64 KiB, chunk 1500
569 µs
565 µs
payload 1 KiB (all chunks)
8.6–9.2 ms
9.9–10.3 ms (within load noise)
mkv-chunks/1 (byte at a time)
81 µs
155 µs
mkv-chunks/7, /64, whole
81, 55, 68 µs
65, 57, 65 µs
Large payloads are roughly 2× faster because each payload is copied once instead of twice. Byte-at-a-time input is about 1.9× slower because every byte becomes a readable write. Interop/gateway suites run in CI on ready PRs.
Review
Round 1, Codex gpt-6-astra medium (quest review --deep), head 87dbac6. 2 findings, both fixed in 86b5c6d:
Unknown-size Clusters were refused inside a sized Segment. They now end at the nearest sized ancestor.
A truncated finish() left the open frame pending. It now aborts the frame with the error's reason.
Round 3, same session, head 7b3a743: 0 findings. This head merges main, whose MKV VR import (moq-dev/moq#7308) needed the reader to route StereoMode and Projection; the import_test.rs conflict was resolved by keeping both sides.
Online review on 7b3a743 (Codex, as kixelated), 3 findings, all fixed in 884aca2, which also merges main conflict-free:
Unused Name, Language, and LanguageIETF were read whole. They are now skipped.
A partial child header ending exactly at a sized parent's end escaped it on the next chunk. A held header prefix that reaches the bound is now refused.
ProjectionPrivate of any size was read whole. Only the 20-byte equi body is read; any other size is skipped and recorded as unsupported, so type 1 still refuses it and type 0 still ignores it.
Round 4, Codex gpt-6-astra medium (quest review --deep, new session), head 884aca2: 0 findings.
Codex's earlier checkpoint commit (the reproduction test and quest text) was reviewed by Claude Opus 5.5 in this session. The test is kept, with its assertion adapted to the new reader, and the quest text is superseded by its deletion.
Follow-ups
Consider field-specific bounds for consumed metadata still read whole (CodecID, DocType, CodecPrivate); the no-blanket-cap decision leaves them unbounded.
Land moq-dev/moq#7232 onto Producer::open/commit rather than its Legacy-only sample writer.
Consider streamed subtitle support if it is needed: a cue format whose length is known up front, or a two-pass seekable path.
Consider a release backport now that a real security fix exists.
Design change: the implementation brief authorizes the draft's recommended explicit refusal of non-seekable input whose correct output depends on trailing BlockGroup fields. Metadata children will still be handled incrementally without a blanket element-size cap.
The existing importer only accepts pushed byte chunks. Its seek(sequence) changes output group numbering; it cannot seek the input. There is no existing input-seeking facility to reuse, so this PR will not add a public seekable-input API or staging store.
The implementation must decide support before publishing the affected payload, including video keyframe grouping, lacing, subtitle conversion, and the selected output container. The exact accepted/refused cases and validation will be recorded in the final description or an accurate unfinished checkpoint.
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docs(quest): record MKV block streaming constraints
test(mux): checkpoint MKV streaming refusals and reproduction
Oct 29, 2026
The MKV importer buffered whole SimpleBlocks, BlockGroups, ignored binary
elements, and metadata masters until each completed, so a declared size
pinned importer memory. A small incremental EBML reader now walks the
element tree as bytes arrive: blocks stream into their frames through a
new streamed-frame path on the container producer, ignored elements are
discarded as they arrive, and metadata masters keep one value per field
they read.
Input whose output depends on bytes after a payload is refused before
that payload publishes: video BlockGroups with fields after their Block,
subtitle tracks, and CMAF output.
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test(mux): checkpoint MKV streaming refusals and reproduction
fix(mux)!: stream MKV blocks and discard ignored elements in one pass
Oct 31, 2026
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Direction: streaming payloads through the existing producer and explicitly refusing layouts requiring lookahead is a sound simplification. Two issues remain: unused track metadata still takes unbounded input storage, and a split child header can escape its sized parent. The former is a remaining gap in the buffering fix, not a newly introduced class of vulnerability. No prior published review findings to reconcile.
Verification: static inspection of the changed parser, importer, producer/prefix integration and relevant tests. I did not run Rust tests, builds, benchmarks or interop; the PR's reported results were not independently reproduced.
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Review comments at @rs/moq-mux/src/container/mkv/ebml.rs:
- Around line 319-323: Update Reader::finish to inspect the last open element
before removing it: return Error::Truncated without changing the stack for a
sized master, and pop only an unknown-size master when returning its End event.
This preserves the sized master as open so Import::finish cannot incorrectly
complete successfully.
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Walkthrough
The MKV importer now parses EBML incrementally and streams block payloads into frames instead of buffering complete elements. It adds checks for subtitle tracks, CMAF output, lacing, truncation, and video BlockGroup ordering. Legacy and LOC containers gain timestamp-prefix support for streamed frames. The change also adds importer tests and benchmarks, and updates documentation and security-audit plans.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 884ac
If an MKV import ends in the middle of a sized element and finish() is called twice, the second call can report success, so subscribers may see a truncated recording as complete. The first call does report the truncation. This is a narrow edge case with a small fix and should be addressed, but it is not a broad merge blocker.
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Compared with 86b5c6d, accounting for the main merge: the substantive integration change routes StereoMode/Projection through the streaming reader. Preserving main's spatial metadata support is the right direction, but the newly routed ProjectionPrivate needs bounded handling before its body is collected (inline).
Both findings in the previous review—unused Name/language retention and a split header escaping its sized parent—remain unchanged and open; they are not new findings here.
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Skip Name, Language, and LanguageIETF instead of reading them whole, read
ProjectionPrivate only at the equi body's 20 bytes (recording any other size
as unsupported without holding it), and refuse a partial child header that
reaches its sized parent's end regardless of how the input is split.
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Compared with 7b3a743, accounting for the main merge. All three findings from the earlier reviews are addressed: unused Name/language bodies are skipped; ProjectionPrivate retains only the supported 20-byte form while preserving rectangular handling; incomplete child headers are rejected upon reaching their parent's bound. The new large-field and every-split regression tests target the reported cases.
No new actionable bugs found in this update. Direction: these focused fixes keep the one-pass design without imposing blanket master-size caps or adding unnecessary buffering.
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Fixed the three online findings on 7b3a743: unused Name/Language/LanguageIETF are skipped instead of read whole; a split child header that reaches its sized parent's end is refused at every split; ProjectionPrivate is read only at the 20-byte equi size, and any other size is skipped and recorded as unsupported. Each has a regression test, and each test fails without its fix.
Merged main conflict-free.
quest gate just ci origin/main passed. Local quest review --deep (Codex gpt-6-astra) reported 0 findings on 884aca2. quest check passed against origin/main.
No new decisions. Suggested follow-up: field-specific bounds for CodecID, DocType, and CodecPrivate, which are consumed and still read whole.
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✅ No new issues found.
Reviewed changes
Reviewed the single commit landing since the prior Pullfrog review (7b3a743d82 → 884aca2706), which fixes the three findings raised against the streaming reader/importer.
Bounded unused TrackEntry fields — Name, Language, and LanguageIETF no longer have ebml::id constants or Action::Read arms, so they fall to Action::Skip and are discarded as they arrive. add_track's wildcard arm already dropped all three, so output is unchanged.
Bounded ProjectionPrivate — the (Some(PROJECTION), PROJECTION_PRIVATE) arm reads only when header.size == Some(EQUI_PRIVATE_LEN) (20); any other size is skipped and recorded as an empty ProjectionPrivate, which matroska_projection still refuses for an equirectangular projection and ignores for a rectangular one.
Refused a split header at its parent's end — Reader::header now rejects a held header prefix when it reaches the bound (>=, was >), so a child header can no longer escape a sized parent depending on the transport chunk boundary.
Updated a_header_cannot_straddle_its_parents_end exercises every split including exactly at the parent's end; two new importer tests stream 1 MiB bodies and assert ≤ 12 bytes retained.
I verified each fix against the source and independently ran the affected tests: cargo test -p moq-mux --lib container::mkv → 101 passed, including a_header_cannot_straddle_its_parents_end, unused_track_fields_are_discarded_as_they_arrive, and unsupported_projection_private_data_is_not_held. The >= change has no false positive since a complete header returns Some from parse (only an incomplete prefix reaches the bound). No new issues found in the delta; the remaining whole-read fields (CodecID, DocType, CodecPrivate) are the documented out-of-scope follow-up.
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Review comments at @rs/moq-mux/src/container/mkv/ebml.rs:
- Around line 319-323: Update Reader::finish to inspect the last open element
before removing it: return Error::Truncated without changing the stack for a
sized master, and pop only an unknown-size master when returning its End event.
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set -eu
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printf'%s\n''--- Import state and drain_eof ---'
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grep -n -A25 -B8 -F 'input_after_a_failed_finish_is_refused'"$file"printf'%s\n''--- Reader finish ---'
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grep -n -F -e 'struct Track' -e 'track.finish()' -e 'fn finish'"$file"printf'%s\n''--- surrounding track declarations ---'
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Keep the truncated sized master open.
Reader::finish removes a sized master before returning Error::Truncated. A later Import::finish can then close the remaining unknown-size masters, call track.finish() for each track, and return Ok(()) unless an independent track-finalization error occurs. Import::finish does not set self.failed; it only aborts the current block.
Suggested fix
--- "a/rs/moq-mux/src/container/mkv/ebml.rs"+++ "b/rs/moq-mux/src/container/mkv/ebml.rs"@@ -316,11 +316,15 @@
if !self.header.is_empty() || !matches!(self.body, Body::Between) {
return Err(Error::Truncated);
}
- match self.open.pop() {- Some(Open { id, end: None }) => Ok(Some(Event::End(id))),- Some(Open { end: Some(_), .. }) => Err(Error::Truncated),- None => Ok(None),- }+ match self.open.last() {+ Some(Open { end: Some(_), .. }) => Err(Error::Truncated),+ Some(Open { id, end: None }) => {+ let id = *id;+ self.open.pop();+ Ok(Some(Event::End(id)))+ }+ None => Ok(None),+ }
}
/// Parse the next element header, joining one split across chunks.
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Review comment at @rs/moq-mux/src/container/mkv/ebml.rs around lines 319 - 323:
Update Reader::finish to inspect the last open element before removing it:
return Error::Truncated without changing the stack for a sized master, and pop
only an unknown-size master when returning its End event. This preserves the
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codex / Codex land fixer: Requeued unchanged: healthy; flaky test "the native picture decodes as the frame ffmpeg numbered it" (test/interop/clients/js/src/native.test.ts) timed out at 5000ms; unchanged from base and rerun passed
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Main's #7358 and #7234 added tokio::time::timeout calls under the
per-module expect this branch removes; the root clippy.toml now bans
them, so the land gate's clippy-wrapped test build failed.
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#7234 landed Producer::open/commit, so the importer streams its
unwrapped samples through it and the Legacy-only start_sample/finish_sample
pair is gone. mkv-stream-blocks.md was finished on main.
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#6908 replaced the clone-and-replay drain with an incremental
decoder, and #7234 streams blocks through its own EBML reader.
A deterministic sweep (block size x chunk size, instructions and
allocation) shows the O(B^2/c) slope at the audit commit and none since.
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Resolve the modify/delete conflict on
quest/m1/security-audit/fmp4-stream-mdat.md by taking main's deletion
(#7232 finished it; this branch only dropped its media-fuzz link).
Align quests with main:
- fuzz-findings/README.md: drop Related links to the security-audit MKV and
fMP4 streaming quests, both finished on main.
- mkv-block-header.md: #7234 replaced webm-iterable's block
parsing with moq-mux's own header reader, so the 4-byte mkv reproducer now
fails with InvalidSimpleBlock. Commit it under fuzz/regressions/mkv/ and
delete the quest.
- mkv-truncated-finish.md, import-metadata-policy.md, sps-fuzz-h264-reader.md:
stop linking media-fuzz.md, which this PR finishes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The maintainer deferred the release MKV buffering patch to the next
main → release cut (2026-11-03) instead of a separate backport. The fix
already lives on main as #7234, so the backport quest has no work left:
delete it and record the decision in the cut quest that ships it.
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Problem
The MKV importer buffered whole
SimpleBlocks,BlockGroups, ignored binary elements, and metadata masters until each completed (MUX-3 from the 2026-10-27 audit). A header declaring a huge size pinned importer memory for as long as its bytes trickled in. The reproduction (ignored_payload_does_not_accumulate_under_a_large_metadata_master, a 1 GiB EBML header holding a nearly 1 GiB Void fed in 1 KiB chunks) failed on the unchanged importer:ignored bytes retained: 1030after the first chunk.Approach
mkv/ebml.rs): a small reader walks the element tree as bytes arrive. It retains only a split element header (at most 12 bytes) and the body of a field the importer reads. The importer chooses per element (by parent and ID) to descend, read, stream, or skip. Ignored elements are discarded as they arrive. Unknown-size Segment and Cluster close where an element they cannot contain starts, at their sized parent's end, or at EOF. A child cannot overrun its parent, and input that ends inside any other element is refused asTruncated.TrackEntrypublishes when it ends, not whenTracksdoes. Collected masters (EBML,TrackEntry,Video,Audio,Colour,MasteringMetadata,Projection) keep one value per field they read, so a repeated field replaces the earlier one instead of accumulating. A number declaring more than 8 bytes is refused before its bytes are held. The existing config builders are unchanged.container::Producer::open/commitpair, so grouping, timestamp checks, HLS records, estimates, and send counts are shared withwrite(refactored intoprepare+written). Legacy and LOC frame prefixes depend only on the timestamp. Skipped and unknown tracks are discarded.MAX_CACHE_BYTESup front (FrameTooLarge). Unread output is evicted by the track cache rather than blocking the importer. Readers see a frame's bytes before its block completes. A frame cut short by an abort, a drop, a refused block, or a truncatedfinish()fails its group instead of hanging.finish()still ends the tracks with what was accepted. A seek while a block streams waits for it to end, keeping its laced frames in one group.Decisions
BlockGroupstreams only when aReferenceBlockprecedes itsBlockor theBlockends the group. Anything else is refused withTrailingReferencebefore theBlockpublishes. AudioBlockGroups stream whatever follows.SubtitleTrack(codec)before any rendition is advertised, matching the earlier precedent that an unsupported subtitle codec fails the import. The alternative was to skip the track with a warning, which keeps A/V working for MKVs that carry subtitles.StreamedCmaf.encode_atbuilds the wholemdatin memory, and a caller-supplied CMAF init cannot describe tracks the importer discovers. Legacy and LOC are unchanged.Impact
BlockGroups with fields after theirBlock. Migration: remux video asSimpleBlocks, extract subtitles separately, and select Legacy or LOC. Truncation now reportsmkv::Error::Truncatedinstead ofMatroskaParse.mkv::ErrordropsInvalidSubtitleand addsSubtitleTrack,TrailingReference,StreamedCmaf, andTruncated(the enum is#[non_exhaustive]). New crate-private items:container::Producer::{open, commit}andStreamed. Wire: none.doc/lib/rs/moq-mux.mddocuments the narrowed MKV support.MIGRATE.mdsections are written at release cut, perdoc/setup/upgrade.md.quest/m1/security-audit/mkv-stream-blocks.md, so the quest and its links are deleted. The fMP4 quest's prose now records the shared metadata decision. The fMP4 sibling moq-dev/moq#7232 also splitsProducer::writeintoprepare, so whichever lands second resolves that overlap. Its Legacy-onlystart_samplecould reuseopen/commit.Alternatives
A blanket element-size cap refuses ordinary large masters, and the transport frame cap already bounds output. Removing masters from ebml-iterable's capture list still buffers binary leaves, and 0.7.1 has no skip or stream hook. Buffering refused layouts in another layer would not fix memory ownership.
Validation
ignored bytes retained: 1030) and passes after, now assertingTruncatedat EOF.TrackEntrypublishing inside a 1 GiBTracks; skipped and unknown 1 MiB payloads discarded; 1 MiBName/Language/LanguageIETFand unsupported-sizeProjectionPrivatebodies discarded without being held; 64 MiB of unread output not stalling the importer; abort, drop, and truncation failing the open frame.BlockGrouplayouts at chunk sizes 1, 5, and whole (nothing from the refused block publishes); audioBlockGroups with trailing fields; multibyte track numbers split at every chunk size 1–9; subtitle refusal per codec and track order; CMAF refusal; seek mid-block.just rs test -p moq-mux: 1903 passed after merging main. Clippy-D warningsis clean.quest gate just ci origin/mainon head 884aca2: passed (rs, rs_shapes, js, markdown, gh, drill, quest, shell, toml, nix, justfile).mkv-payloadsis a new benchmark that sweeps 1 KiB, 64 KiB, and 1 MiB payloads across 1500 B, 64 KiB, and whole-file chunks. Before → after median, on a host with load average ~26 (noisy):mkv-chunks/1(byte at a time)mkv-chunks/7,/64, wholeLarge payloads are roughly 2× faster because each payload is copied once instead of twice. Byte-at-a-time input is about 1.9× slower because every byte becomes a readable write. Interop/gateway suites run in CI on ready PRs.
Review
gpt-6-astramedium (quest review --deep), head 87dbac6. 2 findings, both fixed in 86b5c6d:finish()left the open frame pending. It now aborts the frame with the error's reason.StereoModeandProjection; theimport_test.rsconflict was resolved by keeping both sides.Name,Language, andLanguageIETFwere read whole. They are now skipped.ProjectionPrivateof any size was read whole. Only the 20-byteequibody is read; any other size is skipped and recorded as unsupported, so type 1 still refuses it and type 0 still ignores it.gpt-6-astramedium (quest review --deep, new session), head 884aca2: 0 findings.Follow-ups
Consider field-specific bounds for consumed metadata still read whole (
CodecID,DocType,CodecPrivate); the no-blanket-cap decision leaves them unbounded.Land moq-dev/moq#7232 onto
Producer::open/commitrather than its Legacy-only sample writer.Consider streamed subtitle support if it is needed: a cue format whose length is known up front, or a two-pass seekable path.
Consider a release backport now that a real security fix exists.
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