@torrent-tv/proxy 2.87.20 → 2.88.0

package/services/encode/CushionReport.js

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-/**
- * How much film is ready in front of the earliest viewer of each output, said
- * every half minute, and what that costs off the swarm.
- *
- * A reading, and it commands nothing: where encoders go is the plan's. The one
- * thing it starts is the fetch of a picture's spare soundtracks, once the
- * cushion is full and the swarm has demonstrably spare capacity.
- */
-
-export const LOOKAHEAD_PAUSE_SECONDS = 120;
-// How often each session says what its cushion is. Half a minute: the link
-// reports that feed it arrive every ten seconds, and a line per session per
-// ten seconds would drown the log on a host serving several.
-const CUSHION_REPORT_MS = 30_000;
-// How old a viewer's link report may be and still describe where they are. It
-// is sent every 10 s, and a seek in between moves them somewhere this cannot
-// predict — so anything older is treated as no report at all.
-const NET_REPORT_FRESH_MS = 15_000;
-
-/**
- * The last index of the unbroken run of segments starting at `from`.
- *
- * Null when `from` itself is absent. A hole matters: segments beyond one are
- * not look-ahead, because the viewer cannot reach them until it is filled.
- *
- * @param {Set<number>} present
- * @param {number} from
- * @returns {number | null}
- */
-export function contiguousEnd(present, from) {
-  if (!present.has(from)) {
-    return null;
-  }
-  let last = from;
-  while (present.has(last + 1)) {
-    last += 1;
-  }
-  return last;
-}
-
-export class CushionReport {
-  /** What this reads and asks of the rest of the proxy, and nothing else. @type {object} */
-  #host;
-
-  /** Files whose spare soundtracks have been fetched whole, once each. @type {Set<string>} */
-  #spareSoundtracksFetched = new Set();
-  #lastSaidAt = new WeakMap();
-  #lookAheadDisagreementSince = new WeakMap();
-
-  /**
-   * @param {object} host - `viewerSecondsOn`, `viewersOf`, `SourceFiles`, `logger`, `producedNumbers`, `encodeRuns`, `fetchWholeFile`, `getCachedAudioTracks`, `hostLoad`, `lookaheadSeconds`, `outputTimes`, `outputs`
-   */
-  constructor(host) {
-    this.#host = host;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Say what the cushion is, for every session.
-   *
-   * This is all that is left of `#enforceLookAhead`, which also SUSPENDED a run
-   * once it was `LOOKAHEAD_PAUSE_SECONDS` in front of the viewer and woke it at
-   * `LOOKAHEAD_RESUME_SECONDS` — two chosen numbers, and a second authority
-   * over the encoders beside the plan. The two contradicted each other
-   * directly: this one deliberately pushed a run past the window the plan was
-   * asking about, and the plan then killed it for standing there. Measured in
-   * the field 2026-09-05, 350-700ms per cycle, the viewer's picture stopped for
-   * 125 seconds.
-   *
-   * How far ahead a run may get is now a question for the plan alone, which
-   * answers it from the demand map. What remains here is a READING — how much
-   * film is ready in front of the earliest viewer — and a reading commands
-   * nothing.
-   */
-  reportCushions() {
-    for (const session of this.#host.outputs.values()) {
-      this.reportCushionFor(session);
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Decide whether one session's encoder should be running right now.
-   *
-   * Called both on the monitor's interval and the moment a segment is
-   * requested. It must be the SAME decision in both places: an earlier version
-   * simply resumed on any request, which meant a request for a segment produced
-   * ten minutes ago released an encoder that had nothing left to do — measured
-   * 2026-08-04, the encoder sawtoothed between suspended and running and drifted
-   * from 135 s to 702 s ahead of the viewer while doing it.
-   *
-   * @param {HlsSession} session
-   * @returns {void}
-   */
-  reportCushionFor(session) {
-    if (!this.#host.encodeRuns.isLive(session) || this.#host.encodeRuns.liveRunsOf(session).length === 0) {
-      return;
-    }
-    // How far the encoder has got, measured by what EXISTS. ffmpeg's own
-    // report of its timeline position is not evidence: field 2026-08-06, it
-    // claimed 6012 s at `speed=1.18e+03x` on a file that was one percent
-    // downloaded and had produced exactly one segment. The limiter believed it,
-    // suspended the encoder twelve seconds into the session, and segment #1 —
-    // which nobody was now making — was held for 45.7 s until the viewer gave
-    // up and seeked. A segment on disk is something the viewer can be served;
-    // a number from ffmpeg is not.
-    // Where the viewer is, from the one reading there is.
-    const viewerSegment = this.#host.outputTimes.segmentIndexForTime(session, this.#host.viewerSecondsOn(session));
-
-    // How much is ready CONTIGUOUSLY FROM WHERE THE VIEWER IS — not the highest
-    // segment number lying in the directory. The two are the same only while a
-    // viewer moves forward through one run, and the difference destroyed a
-    // session on 2026-08-06: a seek forward left segments 662-665 on disk, the
-    // viewer then seeked BACK to 646, and the limiter measured 6950 s of output
-    // against a viewer at 6700 s, called it "250s ahead" and suspended a run
-    // 136 ms after it started, before it had produced anything at all. Nothing
-    // was then encoding, so nothing read the input, so no pieces were asked for
-    // — `0 selection(s)` with 33 peers connected — and segment 646 was never
-    // made. Segments beyond a hole are not look-ahead: the viewer cannot reach
-    // them without the hole being filled first.
-    const reading = this.#contiguousAheadSeconds(session, viewerSegment);
-    const aheadSeconds = reading === null ? null : reading.seconds;
-    if (aheadSeconds === null) {
-      // The segment the viewer needs does not exist, so there is no cushion to
-      // report. Nothing is commanded here any more: whether an encoder should
-      // be working on it is the plan's question, and it is asked the moment
-      // anything the plan depends on changes.
-      return;
-    }
-
-    // Worth knowing when ffmpeg's own report and what exists disagree wildly —
-    // it is the only trace of whatever made it claim a position it had not
-    // reached. Reported on its EDGES, because it is a state and not a stream.
-    const claimed = Number(this.#host.encodeRuns.progressOf(session, viewerSegment)?.processedSeconds);
-    const encodedTo = this.#host.outputTimes.segmentStartTime(session, viewerSegment) + aheadSeconds;
-    this.#sayCushion(session, encodedTo);
-    const disagrees =
-      Number.isFinite(claimed) && Math.abs(claimed - encodedTo) > LOOKAHEAD_PAUSE_SECONDS;
-    const disagreementSince = this.#lookAheadDisagreementSince.get(session) ?? 0;
-    if (disagrees && !disagreementSince) {
-      this.#lookAheadDisagreementSince.set(session, Date.now());
-      this.#host.logger.info(
-        `transcode ${session.id} ffmpeg claims ${Math.round(claimed)}s processed ` +
-          `but the viewer's own run of segments ends at ${Math.round(encodedTo)}s`
-      );
-    } else if (!disagrees && disagreementSince) {
-      const lastedMs = Date.now() - disagreementSince;
-      this.#lookAheadDisagreementSince.delete(session);
-      this.#host.logger.info(
-        `transcode ${session.id} ffmpeg's position and the segments on disk agree again ` +
-          `after ${(lastedMs / 1000).toFixed(1)}s (ready through ${Math.round(encodedTo)}s)`
-      );
-    }
-
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * What the cushion actually is, said once every half minute per session.
-   *
-   * Three quantities that were never printed together, and could not be
-   * reconstructed afterwards from anything that was:
-   *
-   *   - how far the produced range runs ahead of the EARLIEST viewer's picture,
-   *     which is the protection an interruption would have to exhaust before
-   *     anybody saw it;
-   *   - what that costs the person hosting this proxy, in megabytes of film
-   *     pulled off the swarm ahead of the picture — the read window sits on top
-   *     of it, so this is a floor;
-   *   - what the browsers say they are holding, so the depth asked for on that
-   *     side can be checked against the depth that arrived.
-   *
-   * Every term is measured: the produced range comes from the segments on disk,
-   * the picture from the viewers' own reports, and the byte rate from the
-   * file's length over its duration. Roadmap item 4.
-   *
-   * @param {HlsSession} session
-   * @param {number} encodedTo - Seconds of film produced, contiguously, from
-   *   where the leading viewer is.
-   * @returns {void}
-   */
-  #sayCushion(session, encodedTo) {
-    const now = Date.now();
-    if (now - (this.#lastSaidAt.get(session) ?? 0) < CUSHION_REPORT_MS) {
-      return;
-    }
-    const { earliestPosition, deepestBuffer, viewers } = this.#reportedPictureOf(session, now);
-    // Nobody has said where they are, so there is no picture to measure
-    // against and the line would be about nothing.
-    if (earliestPosition === null) {
-      return;
-    }
-    this.#lastSaidAt.set(session, now);
-    const aheadOfPicture = Math.max(0, encodedTo - earliestPosition);
-    const fileLength = this.#host.hostLoad.fileLengthByKey.get(session.file.key);
-    const duration = Number(session.file.durationSeconds) || Number(session.file.durationSeconds) || 0;
-    const megabytes =
-      Number.isFinite(fileLength) && fileLength > 0 && duration > 0
-        ? ((aheadOfPicture * fileLength) / duration / 1e6).toFixed(0)
-        : "?";
-    this.#host.logger.info(
-      `transcode ${session.id.slice(0, 8)} cushion: ${Math.round(aheadOfPicture)}s of film ready ` +
-        `ahead of the picture at ${Math.round(earliestPosition)}s (~${megabytes}MB pulled ahead), ` +
-        `${viewers} viewer(s) holding up to ` +
-        `${deepestBuffer === null ? "?" : deepestBuffer.toFixed(1)}s`
-    );
-    this.#fetchSpareSoundtracks(session, aheadOfPicture);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Fetch the soundtracks that ship beside this picture, whole, while the swarm
-   * has capacity to spare.
-   *
-   * WHY IT WAITS FOR THE CUSHION. A soundtrack nobody has chosen is worth having
-   * on disk — it is a twentieth of the picture (30 MB against 566 MB on the
-   * field torrent) and having it makes every later switch instant instead of
-   * paying for its first pieces. But fetching it takes swarm capacity from the
-   * picture, and there is exactly one moment when that capacity is demonstrably
-   * spare: when the encoder is already as far ahead of the viewer as it is
-   * allowed to get. That is not a guess about the swarm — it is the measurement
-   * the line above just printed.
-   *
-   * WHY IT IS A READ AND NOT A SELECTION. `file.select()` claims every piece of
-   * a file at once, and `#syncSelections` in `torrent/torrent-pool.js` records what that
-   * cost when it was done alongside the readers' own windows: a claim covering
-   * everything always outranked the window, and a seek to 89.1% of a 4.7 GB film
-   * waited 93 s while the swarm fetched 2.47 GB in file order. So this goes
-   * through the same bounded read the edge warm-up uses, which claims a moving
-   * window like any other reader and gives it back when it ends.
-   *
-   * Once per file, and only for a soundtrack in a file of its own — the
-   * picture's own tracks are already in the bytes being played.
-   *
-   * @param {HlsSession} session
-   * @param {number} aheadOfPicture - Seconds of film ready ahead of the viewer.
-   * @returns {void}
-   */
-  #fetchSpareSoundtracks(session, aheadOfPicture) {
-    if (typeof this.#host.fetchWholeFile !== "function") {
-      return;
-    }
-    // The encoder is held at this distance and no further, so reaching it is the
-    // signal that nothing more is being asked of the swarm on the picture's
-    // behalf.
-    if (!(aheadOfPicture >= this.#host.lookaheadSeconds)) {
-      return;
-    }
-    const inventory = this.#host.getCachedAudioTracks?.({
-      sourceKey: session.file.sourceKey,
-      fileIndex: session.file.fileIndex
-    }) ?? [];
-    const wanted = new Set(
-      inventory
-        .filter((entry) => entry?.kind === "sidecar" && Number.isInteger(entry.fileIndex))
-        .map((entry) => entry.fileIndex)
-    );
-    for (const fileIndex of wanted) {
-      const key = this.#host.SourceFiles.keyFor(session.file.sourceKey, fileIndex);
-      if (this.#spareSoundtracksFetched.has(key)) {
-        continue;
-      }
-      this.#spareSoundtracksFetched.add(key);
-      this.#host.logger.info(
-        `transcode ${session.id.slice(0, 8)} the picture is ${Math.round(aheadOfPicture)}s ahead of ` +
-          `the viewer, so file ${fileIndex} — a soundtrack beside it — is fetched whole now; ` +
-          "a switch to it will not wait for the swarm"
-      );
-      // Not awaited: nothing depends on it finishing, and a failure costs only
-      // that the switch pays for its own pieces, as it did before this existed.
-      Promise.resolve(this.#host.fetchWholeFile({ sourceKey: session.file.sourceKey, fileIndex })).catch(
-        (error) => {
-          this.#host.logger.info(
-            `transcode: fetching soundtrack file ${fileIndex} whole failed ` +
-              `(${error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)}) — ` +
-              "it will be read when it is played"
-          );
-        }
-      );
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Seconds of playback ready without a gap, starting at the segment the viewer
-   * is on.
-   *
-   * Null when that very segment is missing — which is not "zero ahead" but
-   * "the viewer is waiting", and the two call for opposite decisions.
-   *
-   * @param {HlsSession} session
-   * @param {number} viewerSegment
-   * @returns {{ seconds: number, lastCovered: number, total: number } | null}
-   */
-  #contiguousAheadSeconds(session, viewerSegment) {
-    let present;
-    try {
-      present = new Set(this.#host.producedNumbers(session));
-    } catch {
-      return null;
-    }
-    const lastCovered = contiguousEnd(present, viewerSegment);
-    if (lastCovered === null) {
-      return null;
-    }
-    const from = this.#host.outputTimes.segmentStartTime(session, viewerSegment);
-    const to = this.#host.outputTimes.segmentStartTime(session, lastCovered + 1);
-    if (!Number.isFinite(from) || !Number.isFinite(to)) {
-      return null;
-    }
-    return { seconds: Math.max(0, to - from), lastCovered, total: present.size };
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Where the earliest viewer's picture is, and the deepest cushion any of them
-   * reports holding — both read from the link reports, both null when nobody
-   * has said recently.
-   *
-   * @param {HlsSession} session
-   * @param {number} now
-   * @returns {{ earliestPosition: number | null, deepestBuffer: number | null, viewers: number }}
-   */
-  #reportedPictureOf(session, now) {
-    let earliestPosition = null;
-    let deepestBuffer = null;
-    let viewers = 0;
-    // A session that has never had a link report is the ordinary state at a
-    // cold open, and the answer for it is the same as for one whose reports
-    // have all gone stale: nobody has said where they are.
-    for (const report of this.#host.linkReportsOn(session)) {
-      if (now - report.at > NET_REPORT_FRESH_MS) {
-        continue;
-      }
-      viewers += 1;
-      if (Number.isFinite(report.positionSeconds)) {
-        earliestPosition =
-          earliestPosition === null
-            ? report.positionSeconds
-            : Math.min(earliestPosition, report.positionSeconds);
-      }
-      if (Number.isFinite(report.bufferedAheadSec)) {
-        deepestBuffer =
-          deepestBuffer === null
-            ? report.bufferedAheadSec
-            : Math.max(deepestBuffer, report.bufferedAheadSec);
-      }
-    }
-    return { earliestPosition, deepestBuffer, viewers };
-  }
-}
+/**
+ * How much film is ready in front of the earliest viewer of each output, said
+ * every half minute, and what that costs off the swarm.
+ *
+ * A reading, and it commands nothing: where encoders go is the plan's. The one
+ * thing it starts is the fetch of a picture's spare soundtracks, once the
+ * cushion is full and the swarm has demonstrably spare capacity.
+ */
+
+export const LOOKAHEAD_PAUSE_SECONDS = 120;
+// How often each session says what its cushion is. Half a minute: the link
+// reports that feed it arrive every ten seconds, and a line per session per
+// ten seconds would drown the log on a host serving several.
+const CUSHION_REPORT_MS = 30_000;
+// How old a viewer's link report may be and still describe where they are. It
+// is sent every 10 s, and a seek in between moves them somewhere this cannot
+// predict — so anything older is treated as no report at all.
+const NET_REPORT_FRESH_MS = 15_000;
+
+/**
+ * The last index of the unbroken run of segments starting at `from`.
+ *
+ * Null when `from` itself is absent. A hole matters: segments beyond one are
+ * not look-ahead, because the viewer cannot reach them until it is filled.
+ *
+ * @param {Set<number>} present
+ * @param {number} from
+ * @returns {number | null}
+ */
+export function contiguousEnd(present, from) {
+  if (!present.has(from)) {
+    return null;
+  }
+  let last = from;
+  while (present.has(last + 1)) {
+    last += 1;
+  }
+  return last;
+}
+
+export class CushionReport {
+  /** What this reads and asks of the rest of the proxy, and nothing else. @type {object} */
+  #host;
+
+  /** Files whose spare soundtracks have been fetched whole, once each. @type {Set<string>} */
+  #spareSoundtracksFetched = new Set();
+  #lastSaidAt = new WeakMap();
+  #lookAheadDisagreementSince = new WeakMap();
+
+  /**
+   * @param {object} host - `viewerSecondsOn`, `viewersOf`, `SourceFiles`, `logger`, `producedNumbers`, `encodeRuns`, `fetchWholeFile`, `getCachedAudioTracks`, `hostLoad`, `lookaheadSeconds`, `outputTimes`, `outputs`
+   */
+  constructor(host) {
+    this.#host = host;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Say what the cushion is, for every session.
+   *
+   * This is all that is left of `#enforceLookAhead`, which also SUSPENDED a run
+   * once it was `LOOKAHEAD_PAUSE_SECONDS` in front of the viewer and woke it at
+   * `LOOKAHEAD_RESUME_SECONDS` — two chosen numbers, and a second authority
+   * over the encoders beside the plan. The two contradicted each other
+   * directly: this one deliberately pushed a run past the window the plan was
+   * asking about, and the plan then killed it for standing there. Measured in
+   * the field 2026-09-05, 350-700ms per cycle, the viewer's picture stopped for
+   * 125 seconds.
+   *
+   * How far ahead a run may get is now a question for the plan alone, which
+   * answers it from the demand map. What remains here is a READING — how much
+   * film is ready in front of the earliest viewer — and a reading commands
+   * nothing.
+   */
+  reportCushions() {
+    for (const session of this.#host.outputs.values()) {
+      this.reportCushionFor(session);
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Decide whether one session's encoder should be running right now.
+   *
+   * Called both on the monitor's interval and the moment a segment is
+   * requested. It must be the SAME decision in both places: an earlier version
+   * simply resumed on any request, which meant a request for a segment produced
+   * ten minutes ago released an encoder that had nothing left to do — measured
+   * 2026-08-04, the encoder sawtoothed between suspended and running and drifted
+   * from 135 s to 702 s ahead of the viewer while doing it.
+   *
+   * @param {HlsSession} session
+   * @returns {void}
+   */
+  reportCushionFor(session) {
+    if (!this.#host.encodeRuns.isLive(session) || this.#host.encodeRuns.liveRunsOf(session).length === 0) {
+      return;
+    }
+    // How far the encoder has got, measured by what EXISTS. ffmpeg's own
+    // report of its timeline position is not evidence: field 2026-08-06, it
+    // claimed 6012 s at `speed=1.18e+03x` on a file that was one percent
+    // downloaded and had produced exactly one segment. The limiter believed it,
+    // suspended the encoder twelve seconds into the session, and segment #1 —
+    // which nobody was now making — was held for 45.7 s until the viewer gave
+    // up and seeked. A segment on disk is something the viewer can be served;
+    // a number from ffmpeg is not.
+    // Where the viewer is, from the one reading there is.
+    const viewerSegment = this.#host.outputTimes.segmentIndexForTime(session, this.#host.viewerSecondsOn(session));
+
+    // How much is ready CONTIGUOUSLY FROM WHERE THE VIEWER IS — not the highest
+    // segment number lying in the directory. The two are the same only while a
+    // viewer moves forward through one run, and the difference destroyed a
+    // session on 2026-08-06: a seek forward left segments 662-665 on disk, the
+    // viewer then seeked BACK to 646, and the limiter measured 6950 s of output
+    // against a viewer at 6700 s, called it "250s ahead" and suspended a run
+    // 136 ms after it started, before it had produced anything at all. Nothing
+    // was then encoding, so nothing read the input, so no pieces were asked for
+    // — `0 selection(s)` with 33 peers connected — and segment 646 was never
+    // made. Segments beyond a hole are not look-ahead: the viewer cannot reach
+    // them without the hole being filled first.
+    const reading = this.#contiguousAheadSeconds(session, viewerSegment);
+    const aheadSeconds = reading === null ? null : reading.seconds;
+    if (aheadSeconds === null) {
+      // The segment the viewer needs does not exist, so there is no cushion to
+      // report. Nothing is commanded here any more: whether an encoder should
+      // be working on it is the plan's question, and it is asked the moment
+      // anything the plan depends on changes.
+      return;
+    }
+
+    // Worth knowing when ffmpeg's own report and what exists disagree wildly —
+    // it is the only trace of whatever made it claim a position it had not
+    // reached. Reported on its EDGES, because it is a state and not a stream.
+    const claimed = Number(this.#host.encodeRuns.progressOf(session, viewerSegment)?.processedSeconds);
+    const encodedTo = this.#host.outputTimes.segmentStartTime(session, viewerSegment) + aheadSeconds;
+    this.#sayCushion(session, encodedTo);
+    const disagrees =
+      Number.isFinite(claimed) && Math.abs(claimed - encodedTo) > LOOKAHEAD_PAUSE_SECONDS;
+    const disagreementSince = this.#lookAheadDisagreementSince.get(session) ?? 0;
+    if (disagrees && !disagreementSince) {
+      this.#lookAheadDisagreementSince.set(session, Date.now());
+      this.#host.logger.info(
+        `transcode ${session.id} ffmpeg claims ${Math.round(claimed)}s processed ` +
+          `but the viewer's own run of segments ends at ${Math.round(encodedTo)}s`
+      );
+    } else if (!disagrees && disagreementSince) {
+      const lastedMs = Date.now() - disagreementSince;
+      this.#lookAheadDisagreementSince.delete(session);
+      this.#host.logger.info(
+        `transcode ${session.id} ffmpeg's position and the segments on disk agree again ` +
+          `after ${(lastedMs / 1000).toFixed(1)}s (ready through ${Math.round(encodedTo)}s)`
+      );
+    }
+
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * What the cushion actually is, said once every half minute per session.
+   *
+   * Three quantities that were never printed together, and could not be
+   * reconstructed afterwards from anything that was:
+   *
+   *   - how far the produced range runs ahead of the EARLIEST viewer's picture,
+   *     which is the protection an interruption would have to exhaust before
+   *     anybody saw it;
+   *   - what that costs the person hosting this proxy, in megabytes of film
+   *     pulled off the swarm ahead of the picture — the read window sits on top
+   *     of it, so this is a floor;
+   *   - what the browsers say they are holding, so the depth asked for on that
+   *     side can be checked against the depth that arrived.
+   *
+   * Every term is measured: the produced range comes from the segments on disk,
+   * the picture from the viewers' own reports, and the byte rate from the
+   * file's length over its duration. Roadmap item 4.
+   *
+   * @param {HlsSession} session
+   * @param {number} encodedTo - Seconds of film produced, contiguously, from
+   *   where the leading viewer is.
+   * @returns {void}
+   */
+  #sayCushion(session, encodedTo) {
+    const now = Date.now();
+    if (now - (this.#lastSaidAt.get(session) ?? 0) < CUSHION_REPORT_MS) {
+      return;
+    }
+    const { earliestPosition, deepestBuffer, viewers } = this.#reportedPictureOf(session, now);
+    // Nobody has said where they are, so there is no picture to measure
+    // against and the line would be about nothing.
+    if (earliestPosition === null) {
+      return;
+    }
+    this.#lastSaidAt.set(session, now);
+    const aheadOfPicture = Math.max(0, encodedTo - earliestPosition);
+    const fileLength = this.#host.hostLoad.fileLengthByKey.get(session.file.key);
+    const duration = Number(session.file.durationSeconds) || Number(session.file.durationSeconds) || 0;
+    const megabytes =
+      Number.isFinite(fileLength) && fileLength > 0 && duration > 0
+        ? ((aheadOfPicture * fileLength) / duration / 1e6).toFixed(0)
+        : "?";
+    this.#host.logger.info(
+      `transcode ${session.id.slice(0, 8)} cushion: ${Math.round(aheadOfPicture)}s of film ready ` +
+        `ahead of the picture at ${Math.round(earliestPosition)}s (~${megabytes}MB pulled ahead), ` +
+        `${viewers} viewer(s) holding up to ` +
+        `${deepestBuffer === null ? "?" : deepestBuffer.toFixed(1)}s`
+    );
+    this.#fetchSpareSoundtracks(session, aheadOfPicture);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Fetch the soundtracks that ship beside this picture, whole, while the swarm
+   * has capacity to spare.
+   *
+   * WHY IT WAITS FOR THE CUSHION. A soundtrack nobody has chosen is worth having
+   * on disk — it is a twentieth of the picture (30 MB against 566 MB on the
+   * field torrent) and having it makes every later switch instant instead of
+   * paying for its first pieces. But fetching it takes swarm capacity from the
+   * picture, and there is exactly one moment when that capacity is demonstrably
+   * spare: when the encoder is already as far ahead of the viewer as it is
+   * allowed to get. That is not a guess about the swarm — it is the measurement
+   * the line above just printed.
+   *
+   * WHY IT IS A READ AND NOT A SELECTION. `file.select()` claims every piece of
+   * a file at once, and `#syncSelections` in `torrent/torrent-pool.js` records what that
+   * cost when it was done alongside the readers' own windows: a claim covering
+   * everything always outranked the window, and a seek to 89.1% of a 4.7 GB film
+   * waited 93 s while the swarm fetched 2.47 GB in file order. So this goes
+   * through the same bounded read the edge warm-up uses, which claims a moving
+   * window like any other reader and gives it back when it ends.
+   *
+   * Once per file, and only for a soundtrack in a file of its own — the
+   * picture's own tracks are already in the bytes being played.
+   *
+   * @param {HlsSession} session
+   * @param {number} aheadOfPicture - Seconds of film ready ahead of the viewer.
+   * @returns {void}
+   */
+  #fetchSpareSoundtracks(session, aheadOfPicture) {
+    if (typeof this.#host.fetchWholeFile !== "function") {
+      return;
+    }
+    // The encoder is held at this distance and no further, so reaching it is the
+    // signal that nothing more is being asked of the swarm on the picture's
+    // behalf.
+    if (!(aheadOfPicture >= this.#host.lookaheadSeconds)) {
+      return;
+    }
+    const inventory = this.#host.getCachedAudioTracks?.({
+      sourceKey: session.file.sourceKey,
+      fileIndex: session.file.fileIndex
+    }) ?? [];
+    const wanted = new Set(
+      inventory
+        .filter((entry) => entry?.kind === "sidecar" && Number.isInteger(entry.fileIndex))
+        .map((entry) => entry.fileIndex)
+    );
+    for (const fileIndex of wanted) {
+      const key = this.#host.SourceFiles.keyFor(session.file.sourceKey, fileIndex);
+      if (this.#spareSoundtracksFetched.has(key)) {
+        continue;
+      }
+      this.#spareSoundtracksFetched.add(key);
+      this.#host.logger.info(
+        `transcode ${session.id.slice(0, 8)} the picture is ${Math.round(aheadOfPicture)}s ahead of ` +
+          `the viewer, so file ${fileIndex} — a soundtrack beside it — is fetched whole now; ` +
+          "a switch to it will not wait for the swarm"
+      );
+      // Not awaited: nothing depends on it finishing, and a failure costs only
+      // that the switch pays for its own pieces, as it did before this existed.
+      Promise.resolve(this.#host.fetchWholeFile({ sourceKey: session.file.sourceKey, fileIndex })).catch(
+        (error) => {
+          this.#host.logger.info(
+            `transcode: fetching soundtrack file ${fileIndex} whole failed ` +
+              `(${error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)}) — ` +
+              "it will be read when it is played"
+          );
+        }
+      );
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Seconds of playback ready without a gap, starting at the segment the viewer
+   * is on.
+   *
+   * Null when that very segment is missing — which is not "zero ahead" but
+   * "the viewer is waiting", and the two call for opposite decisions.
+   *
+   * @param {HlsSession} session
+   * @param {number} viewerSegment
+   * @returns {{ seconds: number, lastCovered: number, total: number } | null}
+   */
+  #contiguousAheadSeconds(session, viewerSegment) {
+    let present;
+    try {
+      present = new Set(this.#host.producedNumbers(session));
+    } catch {
+      return null;
+    }
+    const lastCovered = contiguousEnd(present, viewerSegment);
+    if (lastCovered === null) {
+      return null;
+    }
+    const from = this.#host.outputTimes.segmentStartTime(session, viewerSegment);
+    const to = this.#host.outputTimes.segmentStartTime(session, lastCovered + 1);
+    if (!Number.isFinite(from) || !Number.isFinite(to)) {
+      return null;
+    }
+    return { seconds: Math.max(0, to - from), lastCovered, total: present.size };
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Where the earliest viewer's picture is, and the deepest cushion any of them
+   * reports holding — both read from the link reports, both null when nobody
+   * has said recently.
+   *
+   * @param {HlsSession} session
+   * @param {number} now
+   * @returns {{ earliestPosition: number | null, deepestBuffer: number | null, viewers: number }}
+   */
+  #reportedPictureOf(session, now) {
+    let earliestPosition = null;
+    let deepestBuffer = null;
+    let viewers = 0;
+    // A session that has never had a link report is the ordinary state at a
+    // cold open, and the answer for it is the same as for one whose reports
+    // have all gone stale: nobody has said where they are.
+    for (const report of this.#host.linkReportsOn(session)) {
+      if (now - report.at > NET_REPORT_FRESH_MS) {
+        continue;
+      }
+      viewers += 1;
+      if (Number.isFinite(report.positionSeconds)) {
+        earliestPosition =
+          earliestPosition === null
+            ? report.positionSeconds
+            : Math.min(earliestPosition, report.positionSeconds);
+      }
+      if (Number.isFinite(report.bufferedAheadSec)) {
+        deepestBuffer =
+          deepestBuffer === null
+            ? report.bufferedAheadSec
+            : Math.max(deepestBuffer, report.bufferedAheadSec);
+      }
+    }
+    return { earliestPosition, deepestBuffer, viewers };
+  }
+}