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The selector admitted MP4 only. Matroska inferred cadence from equal rounded packet intervals, so 30 fps produced alternating 33 and 34 ms intervals without DefaultDuration. The pinned probe then reported 60 fps for the native stream.
What changes
Covered: opt-in native H.264 Matroska, including nominal cadence, aspect signaling, source-edit-preserving Opus copy, unchanged fallback arguments and the original command deadline. DefaultDuration comes from the admitted rational rate while block timestamps retain their existing millisecond precision.
Not covered: WebM, sub-millisecond precision, encoder algorithms, default or release features, the separate existing-writer Opus edit-list preservation follow-up, and early cadence rejection before encoding. Rates above 1000 fps and colliding rounded timestamps keep their existing external path, but cadence rejection can follow a native encode within the shared deadline. No command admitted natively at the base moves to fallback.
After merge: Update the command-compatibility tracking checklist with Matroska support and the deferred follow-ups.
How it works
sequenceDiagram
actor U as User
participant C as coreav CLI
participant T as Transcode pipeline
participant M as Matroska writer
U->>C: --native-h264-encoder ffmpeg ... out.mkv
rect rgb(254, 243, 199)
Note over C,M: New native Matroska output
C->>T: Existing native selection and exact clock
T->>M: Completed H.264 video and nominal cadence
M->>M: DefaultDuration with unchanged 1 ms timestamps
end
M-->>U: Atomically published Matroska file
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Decisions
Use a positive integer nanosecond DefaultDuration rounded half up from the exact rational rate, as represented by RFC 9559 Section 5.1.4.1.13. Keep TimestampScale 1,000,000 instead of introducing a second precision policy.
At 29/7 fps, the pinned probe reports a 58/7 r_frame_rate field-clock estimate and the correct 29/7 avg_frame_rate. Require the correct VUI frame rate, nominal duration, absolute timestamps and decoded pictures rather than altering valid signaling to fit that estimate; common rates must read back exactly in both fields.
Supply cadence only at the native video replacement boundary; no per-video BlockDuration overrides the nominal duration. This new path also follows the source Opus edit instead of treating informative PreSkip as extra trim, as specified by Opus ISO mapping Sections 4.3.2 and 4.4.
Keep the ordinary writer's current Opus trim behavior for the separate existing-writer Opus edit-list preservation follow-up. A source declaring 7,992 samples with media time zero and PreSkip of 312 yields all 7,992 samples natively, versus 7,680 through the existing writer. Default and external writers and native MP4 remain byte-identical in this PR.
Verify complete files against separately built binaries from the actual base, not only candidate thread comparisons. New Matroska files also match same-head MP4 codec configuration, access units, keyframe flags and complete decoded pictures.
Match baseline build features to each candidate mode. Full-command Matroska oracle fallback uses -fflags +bitexact to disable randomized container identifiers in both arms; CoreAV arguments, native external encoders and native output bytes are not normalized or changed.
Evidence
The design is the first commit.
Local writer tests: 8 passed, including cadence and source-edit regressions. Transcode: 89 passed; CLI adapter tests: 80 passed; Python: 36 passed. Clippy, formatting and existing documentation/probe/strict-safe limit tests passed.
Pinned FFmpeg 9.0.2: 374 complete native MP4 files match separately built base 796acf71b7629e1406b2b79dbba6b0f9f83ab5fd; 12 default/unselected/external files also match, including copied Opus. All 225 native Matroska cases and 41 fallback controls pass. Independent source-based PCM checks retain 7,992 declared samples from MP4 Opus and 7,680 from the Matroska source.
Linux CI executes all 38 added tests by name: 6 writer, 1 transcode, 1 CLI and 30 Python tests. All 36 Python tests pass. Its artifact confirms the same 374/225/12/41 matrix counts against separately built base 383ede6a31eef013d76386abce0cc7f8a9f1c594, with 10 source-Opus PCM cases and 2 direct decodes. All required checks pass.
Similarity at d8a7180257eedbfabbc0725967483c73c9bed1a9 against the main allowlist passes: 112 spans, 0 not allowlisted and 0 problems, with stale entries rejected.
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New Features
Native H.264 encoding is now available for Matroska output, with frame-rate-aware timing. WebM remains unsupported for this path.
Matroska output can preserve copied Opus audio presentation timing and trimming when using the cadence-aware option.
Bug Fixes
Matroska output rejects unsupported frame rates and timestamps that cannot be represented reliably, allowing eligible cases to use the existing fallback path.
Documentation
Added and updated guidance on native H.264 Matroska output, timing behavior, and verification.
Native H.264 selection now admits Matroska output and excludes WebM. The transcode pipeline passes the exact frame rate to a cadence-aware Matroska writer. Verification checks Matroska AVC output, copied Opus audio, baseline comparisons, and fallback behavior.
Changes: Native H.264 Matroska
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Summary
Native selection and cadence-aware writer crates/coreav-cli/src/ffmpeg/native_h264.rs, crates/coreav-isobmff-write/src/mkv_output*
Native H.264 selection admits Matroska and continues to exclude WebM. The writer adds VideoCadence and a cadence-aware entry point. It validates the selected AVC replacement and timestamps, sets the Matroska track default duration, and clears packet durations. Cadence output can preserve copied Opus edit presentation.
Native H.264 Matroska output uses the cadence-aware writer when a frame rate is available. Matroska Unsupported errors map to native ineligibility; other Matroska errors remain Matroska errors.
Matroska, AVC, and Opus validation scripts/native_h264_matroska.py, scripts/tests/test_native_h264_cli.py
New validators check Matroska AVC structure, packet timing, access units, keyframe flags, and output against an MP4 reference. Opus checks compare source presentation, packet timing, and decoded PCM. Tests cover malformed data and invalid timing.
CLI verification and CI coverage scripts/native_h264_cli.py, scripts/tests/test_native_h264_cli.py, .github/workflows/h264-encoder.yml, docs/design/cli-native-h264*
CLI verification adds Matroska conformance cases, byte comparisons against baseline binaries, deterministic fallback checks, and copied-audio checks. Tests cover these paths and baseline revision validation. The workflow runs the writer tests and passes the baseline revision. Design documents describe Matroska admission and cadence rules.
No actionable merge-blocking issue is established; merge after normal checks.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to d8a71
The new output path retains restrictive admission checks, bounded processing, and staged file publication. No introduced security issue was established, but interruption and concurrency behavior were not fully validated.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The demonstrated exposure expansion is local: selected Matroska jobs now exercise native encoding and cadence-aware writing under the invoking command's authority. The inspected path processes caller-selected media and writes the selected output; the evidence does not establish a cross-service or tenant authority expansion.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The writer checks cadence ownership against the replacement stream, codec, container, and selected source tracks. The routed test-file ranges call helpers and temporary fixtures; they do not establish a new production public entrypoint or additional subprocess authority.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The inherited publication helper is not a filesystem confinement boundary: forced replacement includes a documented concurrent-change window. This helper is unchanged against the supplied base, and the new route does not add publication authority. Cleanup evidence covers returned errors and normal unwinding, not guaranteed recovery after abrupt process termination.
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- Around line 142-143: Update opus_source_pcm and the Opus output decode to use
a dedicated decode_opus_pcm helper that includes the registered
oracle_audio.INPUT_ARGS in its ffmpeg invocation. Keep video-only and native
encode commands unchanged, and preserve any existing input_options when calling
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Reviewed head f448d0a. I read the design commit 055fb3b first, then the implementation.
Blocking
scripts/native_h264_cli.py:142 (CodeRabbit, confirmed): the script's ffmpeg audio decode call is missing the canonical audio input arguments that the oracle-pin check requires. deny-checks, deny and isobmff-fixtures fail on exactly this (AssertionError: Lists differ: ['scripts/native_h264_cli.py:142: audio de…'] != []). The fix is to use the shared canonical arguments, as oracle_audio.py does. I found no other blocking issue, so the re-review can be limited to that delta.
(1) Commands that are native at main: no change in what runs where, and no byte change from the Rust code.
MP4 is untouched. The only pipeline edit on the MP4 side swaps the "requires MP4 output" refusal for a WebM-only refusal. VideoCadence is built only inside if let Some(doc_type) = options.matroska_output.
write_output now delegates to write_output_inner(.., None, ..) with preserve_opus_edit: false, so every existing writer call, external and default Matroska included, keeps the old cadence(t) and the old Opus max(edit, PreSkip) trim. replace::validate already returned the codec.
Under the flag, Matroska commands used to fall back at once. They now try native first, and only Unsupported writer errors are mapped to NativeIneligible and retried. I/O, InvalidElement and Overflow errors stay terminal, which native_matroska_error_* tests.
WebM is excluded by both the CLI candidate predicate and the pipeline.
The 374 MP4 and 12 default/external byte-identity claims come from native-h264-cli, which was still queued at this head. The new workflow step that pins the baseline checkout to base.sha is the right guard. The merge evidence must quote the case counts from that job's log.
(2) Matroska timing is correct under RFC 9559.
The writer sets DefaultDuration (5.1.4.1.13, nanoseconds per frame, independent of TimestampScale) to round-half-up 1e9·den/num, computed in u128. Rates above 1000 fps or a non-positive result return Unsupported, so a value of 0 cannot be written.
TimestampScale stays 1,000,000, and block timestamps keep the existing output_pts millisecond rounding with no drift.
Clearing duration_ns per packet means no BlockDuration overrides the default. The collision check compares those already-rounded pts_ns, and video_cadence_refuses_millisecond_collisions… covers equal, reversed and sub-millisecond cases.
A constant clock with a period of at least 1 ms cannot collide after rounding, so in practice the only cadence fallback is the rate cap.
In the Opus edit path, set_delay writes the edit trim to both CodecDelay and the OpusHead pre-skip, so the two cannot disagree.
The 29/7 → r_frame_rate=58/7 exception is the oracle's guess and is recorded explicitly, while the SPS and DefaultDuration checks stay exact. That is acceptable.
(3) The default, release-default and release-full builds are unchanged. No feature was added. In a build without h264-native, cadence is None and the code path is the old write_output(..).map_err(Error::Matroska). Locally, cargo clippy -p coreav-transcode --all-targets with default features gives no new warnings (only the existing MSRV config notice).
Local run (macOS arm64).coreav-isobmff-write --lib mkv_output: 8 passed. coreav-cli native_h264: 6 passed, including matroska_selection_keeps_arguments_and_excludes_webm. coreav-transcode --features h264-native native: 8 passed. The workflow now runs cargo test -p coreav-isobmff-write --lib mkv_output in the native job.
Non-blocking
A shape that ends up Unsupported at write time (the >1000 fps cap) goes through a full native encode before it falls back. Under the shared deadline, a large source could then time out on the external retry, which at main ran at once. VideoCadence::new depends only on the admitted rate, so it could run next to native_timing before encoding. That would fall back early and save the encode. This is cheap and in scope.
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This is a delta review of head d8a7180 against f448d0a. The delta is one commit, d8a7180.
The blocking finding is fixed. Both oracle ffmpeg audio decodes in scripts/native_h264_cli.py now go through oracle_audio_pcm. That helper puts the shared INPUT_ARGS from oracle_audio.py (-threads:a 1, from scripts/oracle-audio-args.txt) before -i, and keeps the existing input options:
the source PCM in opus_source_pcm;
the PCM read back from the output in the Matroska matrix.
The map, codec and format arguments are unchanged.
No Rust or CoreAV arguments changed. The diff touches only the script, its unit test and the workflow path filters (oracle_audio.py and oracle-audio-args.txt added to both trigger lists). No crates/ file changed, and none of the candidate or base coreav command lines changed.
New guard.test_actual_driver_audio_commands_follow_the_shared_oracle_input_policy runs oracle_audio.python_problems on the actual driver file, so this mistake now fails the native job's unit tests as well as deny-checks.
Local run.test_native_h264_cli.py (36 tests) and test_oracle_audio.py (16 tests, 1 skipped) pass.
The CodeRabbit thread at scripts/native_h264_cli.py (missing canonical audio inputs) is resolved, and the fix is the one it asked for. There is no other CodeRabbit inline thread on the PR. CodeRabbit was still running on this head when I reviewed.
CI was still pending at this head. Before merge, deny-checks, isobmff-fixtures and native-h264-cli must be green. The native-h264-cli log must show the 374 native MP4 and 12 default/external byte-identity counts, and mkv_output test names.
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TL;DR
Tier: user-facing
Refs #25.
Background
The selector admitted MP4 only. Matroska inferred cadence from equal rounded packet intervals, so 30 fps produced alternating 33 and 34 ms intervals without DefaultDuration. The pinned probe then reported 60 fps for the native stream.
What changes
How it works
sequenceDiagram actor U as User participant C as coreav CLI participant T as Transcode pipeline participant M as Matroska writer U->>C: --native-h264-encoder ffmpeg ... out.mkv rect rgb(254, 243, 199) Note over C,M: New native Matroska output C->>T: Existing native selection and exact clock T->>M: Completed H.264 video and nominal cadence M->>M: DefaultDuration with unchanged 1 ms timestamps end M-->>U: Atomically published Matroska fileDecisions
r_frame_ratefield-clock estimate and the correct 29/7avg_frame_rate. Require the correct VUI frame rate, nominal duration, absolute timestamps and decoded pictures rather than altering valid signaling to fit that estimate; common rates must read back exactly in both fields.-fflags +bitexactto disable randomized container identifiers in both arms; CoreAV arguments, native external encoders and native output bytes are not normalized or changed.Evidence
796acf71b7629e1406b2b79dbba6b0f9f83ab5fd; 12 default/unselected/external files also match, including copied Opus. All 225 native Matroska cases and 41 fallback controls pass. Independent source-based PCM checks retain 7,992 declared samples from MP4 Opus and 7,680 from the Matroska source.383ede6a31eef013d76386abce0cc7f8a9f1c594, with 10 source-Opus PCM cases and 2 direct decodes. All required checks pass.d8a7180257eedbfabbc0725967483c73c9bed1a9against the main allowlist passes: 112 spans, 0 not allowlisted and 0 problems, with stale entries rejected.git commit -s, DCO).Open in [code]smith · Need help on this PR? Tag
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