@torrent-tv/proxy 2.83.3 → 2.83.5

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  1. package/CHANGELOG.md +32 -0
  2. package/package.json +1 -1
  3. package/research/handover-reader-claims-removal-2026-09-12.md +166 -0
  4. package/research/piece-withdrawn-but-still-claimed-2026-09-12.md +175 -0
  5. package/research/priority-map-is-the-truth-2026-09-12.md +225 -0
  6. package/routes/api/sources/files/get.js +23 -9
  7. package/routes/api/sources/warm/post.js +26 -22
  8. package/routes/api/transcode-sessions/post.js +1 -49
  9. package/routes/stream/get.js +2 -36
  10. package/services/controllers/SubtitleController.js +0 -3
  11. package/services/download/withdraw-claim.js +80 -0
  12. package/services/hls-session-manager.js +17 -110
  13. package/services/orchestrators/EncodeOrchestrator.js +133 -0
  14. package/services/piece-store/piece-disk-store.js +24 -1
  15. package/services/piece-store/shared-piece-store.js +71 -1
  16. package/services/playback-planner.js +12 -13
  17. package/services/priority/PriorityOrchestrator.js +40 -6
  18. package/services/torrent/Contents.js +324 -0
  19. package/services/torrent/files.js +8 -1
  20. package/services/torrent-pool.js +378 -102
  21. package/services/torrent-worker/client.js +0 -24
  22. package/services/torrent-worker/piece-reader.js +30 -1
  23. package/services/torrent-worker/pool-adapter.js +3 -33
  24. package/services/torrent-worker/protocol.js +0 -4
  25. package/services/torrent-worker/worker.js +60 -60
  26. package/test/file-edges.test.js +191 -0
  27. package/test/input-lost-quiets-the-plan.test.js +261 -0
  28. package/test/logger-repeats.test.js +120 -0
  29. package/test/priority-map-emptied.test.js +207 -0
  30. package/test/read-survives-withdrawal.test.js +164 -0
  31. package/test/source-files-route.test.js +103 -0
  32. package/test/stream-route.test.js +4 -8
  33. package/test/swarm-follows-readers.test.js +96 -14
  34. package/test/torrent-contents.test.js +235 -0
  35. package/test/upload-hurry.test.js +66 -28
  36. package/test/withdraw-piece-claim.test.js +212 -0
  37. package/utils/logger.js +105 -7
  38. package/services/torrent-worker/file-claims.js +0 -91
  39. package/test/file-claims.test.js +0 -64
@@ -33,6 +33,20 @@ import { contentionPenalty } from "../encode/contention.js";
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  import { waits } from "../priority/WaitLedger.js";
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  import { SegmentDemand } from "../encode/SegmentDemand.js";
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+ /**
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+ * How long nothing is placed on an output whose input has just gone, and the
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+ * ceiling that doubling reaches.
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+ *
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+ * Both are chosen, and are named here as chosen rather than dressed as
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+ * measurements: what they bound is not how long the data takes to come back —
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+ * that is the swarm's business and nobody here can know it — but how often it
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+ * is worth asking. They replace the same two figures, with the same values,
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+ * that lived in the session manager and governed only the dead run's own retry
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+ * while the plan placed fresh runs beside it every half second.
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+ */
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+ const INPUT_QUIET_BASE_MS = 2_000;
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+ const INPUT_QUIET_MAX_MS = 15_000;
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+
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  export class EncodeOrchestrator {
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  /** Output address to what has been made of it. @type {Map<string, CoverageMap>} */
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  #coverage = new Map();
@@ -47,6 +61,20 @@ export class EncodeOrchestrator {
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  /** How runs have ended, by cause. @type {Map<string, number>} */
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  #endings = new Map();
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+ /**
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+ * How many times in a row an output's run has died because its input was not
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+ * there. Cleared by any other ending, which is the input answering.
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+ *
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+ * @type {Map<string, number>}
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+ */
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+ #inputLostAttempts = new Map();
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+
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+ /** Output address to the time before which nothing is placed on it. @type {Map<string, number>} */
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+ #quietUntil = new Map();
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+
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+ /** The wake-up per output, so a quiet output is reconsidered. @type {Map<string, NodeJS.Timeout>} */
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+ #quietTimers = new Map();
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+
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  /** The last state said out loud, so an unchanged state is not repeated. */
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  #lastDescribed = "";
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@@ -97,6 +125,7 @@ export class EncodeOrchestrator {
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  refetchSecPerFilmSecond = () => 0,
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  startingSpeedFor = () => 0,
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  segmentStore = null,
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+ planSoon = null,
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  logger,
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  now
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  }) {
@@ -124,6 +153,9 @@ export class EncodeOrchestrator {
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  this.segmentSeconds = segmentSeconds;
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  this.logger = logger;
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  this.now = typeof now === "function" ? now : Date.now;
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+ // Asked for, not commanded: this class decides, and something else owns the
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+ // loop that calls it. Absent in a test, where the clock is the test's own.
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+ this.planSoon = typeof planSoon === "function" ? planSoon : () => undefined;
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  }
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  /**
@@ -366,6 +398,20 @@ export class EncodeOrchestrator {
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  });
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  }
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  }
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+ // ITS INPUT WAS NOT THERE A MOMENT AGO, so nothing is placed yet. The sweep
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+ // above still runs — a claim left by a dead run must be released whatever
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+ // the reason — and only the placing waits. This is the one thing that makes
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+ // the delay bind: it used to be timed against the dead run, which the plan
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+ // does not consult, so a fresh run went to the same place as fast as ffmpeg
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+ // could fail there.
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+ //
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+ // AND ONLY WHILE NOTHING IS PRODUCING THERE. A run still alive on this
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+ // output is proof the input can be read, whatever a run beside it met, so
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+ // the wait must not silence an output that is working.
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+ const quietMs = this.#quietFor(address);
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+ if (quietMs > 0 && this.runsOn(address).every((run) => !run.isAlive)) {
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+ return;
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+ }
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  // ONE MAP, NOT ONE WINDOW PER VIEWER PER ZONE.
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  //
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  // Two viewers a few seconds apart state stretches that overlap, and the plan
@@ -696,6 +742,93 @@ export class EncodeOrchestrator {
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  this.#runs.set(ended.address, remaining);
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  }
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  this.#endings.set(ended.ending, (this.#endings.get(ended.ending) ?? 0) + 1);
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+ this.#noteInputAvailability(ended);
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+ }
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+
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+ /**
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+ * Remember, per output, that its input was not there — and until when nothing
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+ * is to be placed on it.
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+ *
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+ * **Why the plan has to hold this.** A run whose input has gone is not alive,
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+ * so the plan sees the stretch it held as free and places another run there at
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+ * once — and the next one dies the same way, because nothing about the state
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+ * has changed. There WAS a delay for exactly this, doubling from 2 s to 15 s,
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+ * and it governed only the dead run's own retry while the plan went on placing
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+ * fresh ones beside it. The comment beside that timer predicted this in as
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+ * many words and the code did not prevent it. Field 2026-09-12: 2432 ffmpeg
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+ * starts in 23 minutes, one every 0.57 s, for 61 minutes, against a delay that
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+ * had long since reached its 15 s cap.
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+ *
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+ * So the delay lives where the decision is taken. It is not a cure for the
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+ * input being away — that is the store's claim being withdrawn and the piece
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+ * being fetched again — it is what stops one absent input from costing a
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+ * thousand processes and a quarter of a million log lines while it is away.
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+ *
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+ * @param {{ address: string, ending: string }} ended
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+ * @returns {void}
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+ */
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+ #noteInputAvailability(ended) {
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+ if (ended.ending !== ENCODE_EXIT.INPUT_LOST) {
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+ // CLEARED ONLY BY PROOF THAT THE INPUT WAS THERE, which is a segment
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+ // having come out of it. Any other ending was nearly the rule here and is
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+ // wrong: at the moment of failure several runs end at once, and one of
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+ // them ending `gone` or `stopped` without producing a thing says nothing
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+ // about the input — it would have lifted the wait the one beside it had
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+ // just set, which is the storm again with an extra step.
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+ const produced =
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+ ended.firstOutputMs !== null && ended.firstOutputMs !== undefined
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+ ? true
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+ : Number.isFinite(ended.reached) && Number.isFinite(ended.from) && ended.reached >= ended.from;
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+ if (produced) {
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+ this.#inputLostAttempts.delete(ended.address);
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+ this.#quietUntil.delete(ended.address);
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+ }
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+ return;
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+ }
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+ const attempts = (this.#inputLostAttempts.get(ended.address) ?? 0) + 1;
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+ this.#inputLostAttempts.set(ended.address, attempts);
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+ const delayMs = Math.min(
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+ INPUT_QUIET_MAX_MS,
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+ INPUT_QUIET_BASE_MS * 2 ** Math.min(attempts - 1, 6)
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+ );
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+ this.#quietUntil.set(ended.address, this.now() + delayMs);
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+ this.logger.info(
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+ `encode-plan on ${ended.address}: its input was not there (attempt ${attempts}) — ` +
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+ `placing nothing for ${Math.round(delayMs / 1000)}s`
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+ );
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+ // THE WAKE-UP, because a plan that refuses to act needs something to ask it
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+ // again: nothing about the state changes while the data is away, so no event
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+ // would arrive to reconsider it.
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+ const timer = setTimeout(() => {
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+ this.#quietTimers.delete(ended.address);
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+ this.planSoon();
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+ }, delayMs);
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+ timer.unref?.();
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+ const previous = this.#quietTimers.get(ended.address);
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+ if (previous) {
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+ clearTimeout(previous);
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+ }
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+ this.#quietTimers.set(ended.address, timer);
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+ }
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+
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+ /**
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+ * How long this output still has to wait before anything is placed on it, in
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+ * milliseconds; zero when it may be planned now.
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+ *
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+ * @param {string} address
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+ * @returns {number}
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+ */
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+ #quietFor(address) {
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+ const until = this.#quietUntil.get(address);
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+ if (!Number.isFinite(until)) {
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+ return 0;
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+ }
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+ const left = until - this.now();
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+ if (left <= 0) {
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+ this.#quietUntil.delete(address);
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+ return 0;
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+ }
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+ return left;
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  }
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  /**
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  /** Where the live readers stand, from whoever holds that fact. @type {() => number[]} */
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  #readHeads;
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+ /**
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+ * Said whenever this tier stops holding a piece, whatever the reason.
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+ *
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+ * It states THIS tier's own fact and nothing more — not whether the bytes can
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+ * still be had elsewhere, which this class has no way of knowing. Whoever
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+ * listens decides what the loss means.
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+ *
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+ * @type {(index: number) => void}
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+ */
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+ #onForgotten;
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+
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  * @param {object} params
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  * means nobody has said yet, and nothing is evicted until somebody does.
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  * @param {() => number} [params.now]
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  */
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- constructor({ directory, name, chunkLength, allowanceBytes = null, now = Date.now, readHeads = () => [] }) {
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+ constructor({
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+ directory,
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+ name,
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+ chunkLength,
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+ allowanceBytes = null,
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+ now = Date.now,
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+ readHeads = () => [],
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+ onForgotten = () => undefined
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+ }) {
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  this.#directory = path.join(directory, name);
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  this.#chunkLength = chunkLength;
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  this.#allowanceBytes = Number.isFinite(allowanceBytes) && allowanceBytes >= 0 ? allowanceBytes : null;
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  this.#now = now;
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  this.#readHeads = typeof readHeads === "function" ? readHeads : () => [];
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+ this.#onForgotten = typeof onForgotten === "function" ? onForgotten : () => undefined;
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  this.#adoptWhatIsAlreadyHere();
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  }
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@@ -345,6 +365,9 @@ export class PieceDiskStore {
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  }
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  });
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  this.#removing.set(index, removal);
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+ // SAID AFTER THE FACT IS TRUE, so a listener that asks this tier whether it
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+ // holds the piece is told the same thing this method has just made so.
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+ this.#onForgotten(index);
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  }
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  /**
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+ // Claims withdrawn: pieces this store stopped being able to produce at all,
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+ // and said so. It is the figure that says whether the bargain the eviction
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+ // states — "a seek back re-downloads it" — is being honoured, and before
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+ // 2026-09-12 it was not honoured once, because nothing was ever said.
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+ withdrawn: 0,
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  // Whether the store is doing its job or being asked to hold more than it
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  // has room for. An eviction that had to take a piece a reader declared it
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  // wants is the second, and it comes back from disk moments later
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  */
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+ /**
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+ * not on disk, and not inside a file held whole.
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+ *
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+ * **Why it has to exist.** This store holds the bytes, so it owns the fact
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+ * "this proxy has piece N". Something else kept a second copy of that fact —
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+ * the torrent's own completion bitfield — and nothing reconciled them: the
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+ * disk tier drops a piece behind every read head, correctly, and the bitfield
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+ * goes on saying the piece is verified. A read then concludes the piece is
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+ * had, asks for it, is told it is absent, and fails; and it is never
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+ * re-downloaded either, because the library does not fetch what it believes
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+ * it already owns. Field 2026-09-12: a film played 80 seconds, the encoder
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+ * ran on to 725 s, `forgetBehind` dropped some 565 spilled pieces including
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+ * piece 0, the encoder restarted and re-opened its input at byte 0, and
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+ * `/stream` answered `0 of 2363497962 bytes: Piece 0 is verified but absent
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+ * from the store` for 92 minutes while the browser retried one segment.
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+ *
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+ * So the bitfield becomes a projection of this fact, maintained by this
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+ * announcement. This store does not know what a torrent is, who listens, or
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+ * what they do about it — the same shape as `readPieceElsewhere` above.
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+ *
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+ */
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+ #onPieceGone = null;
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+ ? options.onPieceGone
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+ // EVERY WAY A PIECE LEAVES THE DISK COMES THROUGH HERE — behind the read
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+ // heads, over the allowance, dropped as a duplicate, or forgotten while a
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+ // spill finished. One listener instead of a list of call sites to
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+ // remember, which is what let the announcement be missed at three of them.
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+ /**
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+ * piece dropped as a duplicate of a file held whole has not been lost at all,
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+ * and one still resident is about to be spilled again rather than gone. Only
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+ * the third case — neither tier, no whole file — is a withdrawal of the claim
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+ * that this proxy has those bytes.
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+ *
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+ * Nothing is said while the store is closing: the torrent it belongs to is
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+ * being torn down, and a claim withdrawn against a dying torrent reaches
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+ * either a destroyed object or, worse, one that has already been added back.
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+ *
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+ #announceGoneIfNowhere(index) {
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+ if (this.#closed || this.#onPieceGone === null) {
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+ return;
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+ }
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+ if (this.#buffers.has(index) || this.#disk.has(index) || this.isInWholeFiles(index)) {
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+ try {
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+ } catch {
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+ import { contentsOf } from "./torrent/Contents.js";
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- * torrent's own name (which WebTorrent prefixes to every path) and how many
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- * pictures the torrent holds, which is what decides whether a sidecar with a
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- * name in common with nothing can still belong to the only video there is.
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+ * Asked of what the torrent says about itself, which works the grouping out
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+ * once and keeps it. It used to be worked out here on every call, and again
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+ * on the warm-up's own path over the same list, so one opened film paired the
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+ * same files several times and neither side could be sure of the other's
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+ * answer.
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+ return contentsOf(torrent ?? {}).sidecarsOf(fileIndex);
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  // file, and an unsupported codec like xvid gets copied → black video.
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+ // Awaited in the literal sense: this answer cannot be given until the
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+ // file has said what is in it, and a person is watching a loading screen
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+ // for as long as that takes.
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+ await torrentPool.prefetchFileEdges(torrent, fileIndex, { awaited: true });
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  /** Where the map goes once it is built. @type {(published: object) => void} */
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+ /**
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+ * The last map published per film and file, so an unchanged one is not
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+ * resent — and what it was about, so that a file everybody has left can be
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+ * published as wanting nothing.
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+ *
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+ if (this.#last.get(key)?.shape !== shape) {
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+ // have all gone can still be spoken for: what is published then is the
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+ *
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+ * the torrent itself was removed. Read from the register, a film nobody had
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+
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+ if (last) {
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+ // A file of unknown length cannot be divided into zones at all. A file
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+ // whose viewers have all gone CAN be spoken for, and must be: `build`
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+ // with nobody watching produces a map with nothing in it, which is the
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+ // truth and is what withdraws what was stated for them. Skipped, as it
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+ // was, the last thing said about that file stood for as long as the
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+ // torrent did.
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+ if (one.durationSeconds > 0) {
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