@torrent-tv/proxy 2.87.21 → 2.88.0

package/test/same-height-switch.test.js

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-/**
- * @file A viewer moved between two outputs of the height on their screen, at
- * two bitrate limits, without their player being told (roadmap item 97, step
- * 12).
- *
- * What is pinned here:
- *
- * 1. the move is prepared for ONE viewer, and nobody else's choice or output
- *    changes;
- * 2. it is made only once the segment that viewer will ask for NEXT is closed
- *    on the new output — a segment closed behind it, an event that arrives
- *    after a seek, or nothing given yet in the viewing all read the next one
- *    from where the viewer is NOW;
- * 3. the move is one synchronous stretch: choice, output on screen and where
- *    the viewer is registered agree the moment it returns;
- * 4. the output left is not disposed: it goes by the idle expiry, which keeps
- *    it while an assignment stands;
- * 5. a move no longer wanted is cancelled, for that viewer alone;
- * 6. a move waiting on an output that closes nothing does not stand for ever:
- *    the viewer's report and a failure of that output's encoding are events
- *    that ask again, and a failed output is not prepared onto.
- *
- * The catalog, the viewer registry and the viewer functions are the REAL ones:
- * what is checked is the records they keep. Only encoding and the store are
- * stood in for, and the store is nothing but which segments are closed.
- */
-
-import test from "node:test";
-import assert from "node:assert/strict";
-import { Renditions } from "../services/encode/Renditions.js";
-import { OutputCatalog } from "../services/encode/output/OutputCatalog.js";
-import { Viewers } from "../services/viewer/Viewers.js";
-import {
-  audioBeingWarmedOf,
-  audioChoiceOf,
-  bufferedSecondsOf,
-  chooseAudioTrack,
-  chooseOutput,
-  chosenOutputOf,
-  consumersOn,
-  generationOfRequest,
-  givenOutputOf,
-  heightsChosenAs,
-  highestGivenSegmentOf,
-  linkMbpsOf,
-  noteAudioBeingWarmed,
-  noteGivenOutput,
-  noteSameHeightSwitch,
-  noteServingVerdict,
-  noteStepBeingWarmed,
-  noteStepOnScreen,
-  outputsBeingPrepared,
-  placeOn,
-  presentOn,
-  qualityModeOf,
-  sameHeightSwitchOf,
-  stepBeingWarmedOf,
-  stepOnScreenOf,
-  switchingOnto,
-  watches
-} from "../services/viewer/choices.js";
-import { activeOutputFor } from "../services/viewer/active-output.js";
-import { EncodeAdmission } from "../services/encode/EncodeAdmission.js";
-import { SourceFile } from "../services/media/SourceFile.js";
-import { fmp4Format } from "../services/encode/segment-formats/fmp4.js";
-import { outputSpec } from "./helpers/output-spec.js";
-import { maxrateKbpsFor, nominalKbpsFor, softwareRateControlFor } from "../services/encode/args.js";
-import { LINK_SAFETY } from "../services/encode/quality/link-budget.js";
-
-const BASE_ID = "1111111122223333";
-const SEGMENT_SECONDS = 4;
-const SEGMENTS = 150;
-const HEIGHT = 720;
-const NOMINAL = nominalKbpsFor({ width: 1280, height: HEIGHT });
-// Three limits of one height, highest first. Given here, because the product
-// offers only the nominal one until the set is decided (step 14).
-const LIMITS = [NOMINAL, Math.round(NOMINAL * 0.6), Math.round(NOMINAL * 0.35)];
-// A re-encoded soundtrack, which is what these outputs carry.
-const AUDIO_MBPS = 0.128;
-
-/**
- * A link that admits an output of this limit, with its soundtrack, and nothing
- * above it.
- *
- * @param {number} limit
- * @returns {number}
- */
-function linkJustFor(limit) {
-  return (maxrateKbpsFor(limit) / 1000 + AUDIO_MBPS + 0.01) / LINK_SAFETY;
-}
-
-/**
- * One output of the picture: 720p at a limit, on the even grid, shaped as
- * production shapes it.
- *
- * @param {{ id: string, file: object, limit: number }} what
- * @returns {object}
- */
-function outputAt({ id, file, limit }) {
-  const width = 1280;
-  const spec = outputSpec({
-    transcodeVideo: true,
-    width,
-    height: HEIGHT,
-    rateControl: softwareRateControlFor({ width, height: HEIGHT, fps: 24, capKbps: limit })
-  });
-  return {
-    id,
-    file,
-    spec,
-    outputKey: spec.toKey(),
-    timeline: { cutGrid: "uniform", segmentCount: SEGMENTS },
-    segmentFormat: fmp4Format,
-    output: { encodeHeight: HEIGHT }
-  };
-}
-
-/**
- * A 720p picture at the nominal limit, watched by the viewers named, and
- * everything a move between its limits reads.
- *
- * @param {{ viewers?: string[], costSec?: number, cushionSec?: number }} [how]
- */
-function pictureAtNominal(how = {}) {
-  const file = new SourceFile({ sourceKey: "source-1", fileIndex: 0, name: "video.mkv" })
-    .learn({ durationSeconds: SEGMENTS * SEGMENT_SECONDS, height: 1080, width: 1920 });
-  const base = outputAt({ id: BASE_ID, file, limit: NOMINAL });
-  const outputs = new OutputCatalog();
-  outputs.set(BASE_ID, base);
-  const viewers = new Viewers();
-  const closed = new Set();
-  const disposed = [];
-  const opened = [];
-  // Outputs whose encoding has failed for good, as `EncodeRuns.hasFailed` says.
-  const failed = new Set();
-  let made = 0;
-  // What one encoder on any output here costs, in seconds of work per second of
-  // film, when the check is about the machine's places. Nothing runs in this
-  // setting, so what holds places is the preparations alone.
-  const admission = Number.isFinite(how.costSec)
-    ? new EncodeAdmission({
-      liveRunsByAddress: () => new Map(),
-      preparedAddresses: () => new Set(
-        [...outputsBeingPrepared(viewers)].map((id) => outputs.get(id)?.outputKey).filter(Boolean)
-      ),
-      loadOf: () => ({ costSec: how.costSec, fileKey: "", fileCostSec: 0 }),
-      availability: () => null
-    })
-    : null;
-  const renditions = new Renditions({
-    outputs,
-    viewers,
-    viewerCountOn: (output) => viewers.forOutput(output).size,
-    outputStillNeeded: (output) => viewers.stillNeeded(output),
-    viewerSecondsOn: () => 0,
-    activeOutputFor: (args) => activeOutputFor({ ...args, viewers }),
-    viewerPositionOf: (_id, consumerId) => viewers.get(consumerId)?.positionSeconds() ?? 0,
-    placeViewerOn: (output, consumerId, seconds) => placeOn(viewers, output, consumerId, seconds),
-    outputTimes: {
-      segmentStartTime: (_output, index) => index * SEGMENT_SECONDS,
-      segmentIndexForTime: (_output, seconds) => Math.floor(seconds / SEGMENT_SECONDS)
-    },
-    encodeRuns: { isLive: () => true, hasFailed: (output) => failed.has(output.id) },
-    quality: { variantsOnScreen: () => new Set() },
-    consumersOn: (output) => consumersOn(viewers, output),
-    presentOn: (output) => presentOn(viewers, output),
-    qualityModeOf: (output, consumerId) => qualityModeOf(viewers, output, consumerId),
-    linkMbpsOf: (output, consumerId) => linkMbpsOf(viewers, output, consumerId),
-    audioChoiceOf: (output, consumerId) => audioChoiceOf(viewers, output, consumerId),
-    chooseAudioTrack: (output, consumerId, choice) => chooseAudioTrack(viewers, output, consumerId, choice),
-    stepOnScreenOf: (output, consumerId) => stepOnScreenOf(viewers, output, consumerId),
-    noteStepOnScreen: (output, consumerId, stepId) => noteStepOnScreen(viewers, output, consumerId, stepId),
-    stepBeingWarmedOf: (output, consumerId) => stepBeingWarmedOf(viewers, output, consumerId),
-    noteStepBeingWarmed: (output, consumerId, stepId) => noteStepBeingWarmed(viewers, output, consumerId, stepId),
-    audioBeingWarmedOf: (output, consumerId) => audioBeingWarmedOf(viewers, output, consumerId),
-    noteAudioBeingWarmed: (output, consumerId, id) => noteAudioBeingWarmed(viewers, output, consumerId, id),
-    watches: (output, consumerId) => watches(viewers, output, consumerId),
-    placeOn: (output, consumerId, seconds) => placeOn(viewers, output, consumerId, seconds),
-    generationOfRequest: (consumerId, stated) => generationOfRequest(viewers, consumerId, stated),
-    givenOutputOf: (consumerId, generation, height, index) =>
-      givenOutputOf(viewers, consumerId, generation, height, index),
-    noteGivenOutput: (consumerId, generation, height, index, key) =>
-      noteGivenOutput(viewers, consumerId, generation, height, index, key),
-    chosenOutputOf: (consumerId, height) => chosenOutputOf(viewers, consumerId, height),
-    chooseOutput: (consumerId, height, key) => chooseOutput(viewers, consumerId, height, key),
-    noteServingVerdict: (consumerId, verdict) => noteServingVerdict(viewers, consumerId, verdict),
-    limitsFor: () => LIMITS,
-    heightsChosenAs: (consumerId, key) => heightsChosenAs(viewers, consumerId, key),
-    highestGivenSegmentOf: (consumerId, height) => highestGivenSegmentOf(viewers, consumerId, height),
-    sameHeightSwitchOf: (consumerId) => sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, consumerId),
-    noteSameHeightSwitch: (consumerId, value) => noteSameHeightSwitch(viewers, consumerId, value),
-    switchingOnto: (output) => switchingOnto(viewers, output),
-    segmentClosed: (key, index) => closed.has(`${key}#${index}`),
-    // What a viewer holds, as their page said, and the cushion a move that is
-    // not urgent waits for — none unless a check names one.
-    bufferedSecondsOf: (consumerId) => bufferedSecondsOf(viewers, consumerId),
-    minimumBufferSecondsFor: () => how.cushionSec ?? null,
-    headersCompatible: () => how.headerVerdict ?? { compatible: true, differences: [] },
-    // THE REAL ADMISSION over the viewers' own records, when a cost is given;
-    // otherwise every preparation is admitted, as the checks above need.
-    admitsPreparation: (output) => (admission
-      ? admission.admitsPreparation(output?.outputKey ?? "")
-      : { admitted: true, reason: "", speedX: null }),
-    getCachedAudioTracks: () => [],
-    // Opening at a named limit returns the output with that key, made once:
-    // the key is the output's identity, as `OutputOpening` has it.
-    createOrGetSession: async (request) => {
-      opened.push(request);
-      const probe = outputAt({ id: "probe", file, limit: request.capKbps ?? NOMINAL });
-      const existing = [...outputs.values()].find((output) => output.outputKey === probe.outputKey);
-      if (existing) {
-        if (Number.isInteger(how.preclosedIndex)) {
-          closed.add(`${existing.outputKey}#${how.preclosedIndex}`);
-        }
-        return existing;
-      }
-      made += 1;
-      const output = outputAt({ id: `${String(made).padStart(8, "9")}00000000`, file, limit: request.capKbps ?? NOMINAL });
-      outputs.set(output.id, output);
-      if (Number.isInteger(how.preclosedIndex)) {
-        closed.add(`${output.outputKey}#${how.preclosedIndex}`);
-      }
-      return output;
-    },
-    disposeSession: async (id) => { disposed.push(id); outputs.delete(id); },
-    planEncodersSoon: () => {},
-    viewerLeaves: (output, consumerId) => viewers.leaves(output, consumerId),
-    invalidateWaits: () => {},
-    logger: { info: () => {}, warn: () => {}, error: () => {} }
-  });
-  for (const consumerId of how.viewers ?? ["viewer-a"]) {
-    const viewer = viewers.of(base, consumerId);
-    viewer.qualityMode = "auto";
-    // What `ViewerRequests` records when the output is opened for them: the
-    // soundtrack it carries, re-encoded, which is a load with a bound.
-    viewer.audio = { trackIndex: 0, transcode: true };
-    viewer.moveTo(40);
-    // What production records when this viewer's player asked for 720p: the
-    // picture answered it, by the rule.
-    chooseOutput(viewers, consumerId, HEIGHT, base.outputKey);
-    viewer.report({ linkMbps: linkJustFor(NOMINAL) * 2, bufferedAheadSec: 20, positionSeconds: 40, playing: true });
-  }
-  /**
-   * The segments this viewer has been given in the viewing they are in.
-   *
-   * @param {string} consumerId
-   * @param {number} upTo
-   * @param {object} [output]
-   */
-  const given = (consumerId, upTo, output = base) => {
-    const generation = viewers.get(consumerId).assignments.generation;
-    for (let index = 0; index <= upTo; index += 1) {
-      noteGivenOutput(viewers, consumerId, generation, HEIGHT, index, output.outputKey);
-    }
-  };
-  /** @param {string} consumerId @param {number} limit */
-  const linkNow = (consumerId, limit) => {
-    viewers.get(consumerId).report({ linkMbps: linkJustFor(limit), bufferedAheadSec: 4, positionSeconds: viewers.get(consumerId).positionSeconds(), playing: true });
-  };
-  /** A segment closed on an output, and the store telling of it. */
-  const close = (output, index) => {
-    closed.add(`${output.outputKey}#${index}`);
-    renditions.noteSegmentPublished(output.outputKey, index);
-  };
-  /**
-   * A report from this viewer reaching the proxy: recorded, and then told, as
-   * the net-report route does it.
-   *
-   * @param {string} consumerId
-   * @param {number} linkMbps
-   */
-  const report = (consumerId, linkMbps) => {
-    viewers.get(consumerId).report({ linkMbps, bufferedAheadSec: 4, positionSeconds: viewers.get(consumerId).positionSeconds(), playing: true });
-    renditions.noteViewerReported(BASE_ID, consumerId);
-  };
-  /** Encoding an output failing for good, and `EncodeRuns` telling of it. */
-  const fail = (output) => {
-    failed.add(output.id);
-    renditions.noteProductionFailed(output);
-  };
-  return { renditions, outputs, viewers, base, file, closed, close, given, linkNow, report, fail, failed, disposed, opened };
-}
-
-test("a thin link moves only its own viewer to a lower limit of the same height", async () => {
-  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, given, linkNow, outputs } = pictureAtNominal({ viewers: ["viewer-a", "viewer-b"] });
-  given("viewer-a", 10);
-  given("viewer-b", 10);
-  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
-  const move = await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
-  assert.equal(move.started, true, move.reason);
-  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
-  assert.equal(prepared.spec.video.encode.rateControl.maxrateKbps, maxrateKbpsFor(LIMITS[1]), "the highest lower limit the link admits");
-  close(prepared, 11);
-  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), prepared.outputKey);
-  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-b", HEIGHT), base.outputKey, "the other viewer's choice is theirs");
-  assert.equal(stepOnScreenOf(viewers, base, "viewer-b"), null, "and so is what is on their screen");
-  assert.equal(viewers.forOutput(prepared).has("viewer-b"), false, "nobody else is put on the new output");
-});
-
-test("until the segment asked for next is closed on the new output, the choice stands", async () => {
-  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, given, linkNow, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
-  given("viewer-a", 10);
-  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
-  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
-  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
-  close(prepared, 12);
-  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), base.outputKey, "a later segment does not stand for #11");
-  close(prepared, 11);
-  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), prepared.outputKey);
-});
-
-test("a segment closed behind the one asked for next does not start the move", async () => {
-  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, given, linkNow, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
-  given("viewer-a", 10);
-  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
-  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
-  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
-  close(prepared, 5);
-  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), base.outputKey);
-  assert.ok(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), "still being prepared");
-});
-
-test("with nothing given yet in the viewing, the next segment is the one where the viewer stands", async () => {
-  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, linkNow, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
-  // Straight after a seek: a new viewing, nothing given in it.
-  viewers.get("viewer-a").moveTo(80);
-  viewers.get("viewer-a").assignments.statedGeneration(1);
-  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
-  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
-  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
-  close(prepared, 11);
-  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), base.outputKey, "#11 is not where they stand");
-  close(prepared, 80 / SEGMENT_SECONDS);
-  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), prepared.outputKey);
-});
-
-test("an event that arrives after a seek is judged against where the viewer is now", async () => {
-  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, given, linkNow, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
-  given("viewer-a", 10);
-  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
-  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
-  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
-  // They seek to 200 s before the closing of #11 is told.
-  viewers.get("viewer-a").moveTo(200);
-  viewers.get("viewer-a").assignments.statedGeneration(1);
-  close(prepared, 11);
-  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), base.outputKey, "#11 was the next segment of a viewing they left");
-  close(prepared, 200 / SEGMENT_SECONDS);
-  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), prepared.outputKey);
-});
-
-test("the move returns with the choice, the screen and the registration in agreement", async () => {
-  const { renditions, viewers, base, closed, given, linkNow, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
-  given("viewer-a", 10);
-  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
-  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
-  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
-  closed.add(`${prepared.outputKey}#11`);
-  // Told synchronously, and nothing about it is still to happen after it returns.
-  const returned = renditions.noteSegmentPublished(prepared.outputKey, 11);
-  assert.equal(returned, undefined, "not a promise: there is no await in the move");
-  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), prepared.outputKey);
-  assert.equal(stepOnScreenOf(viewers, base, "viewer-a"), prepared.id);
-  assert.equal(viewers.forOutput(prepared).has("viewer-a"), true);
-  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), null, "nothing left being prepared");
-  assert.equal(renditions.servingOutputFor(base, HEIGHT, "viewer-a"), prepared, "the next new address is answered by it");
-});
-
-test("a ready output with an incompatible init is refused as an unstarted move", async () => {
-  const { renditions, viewers, base, given, linkNow, outputs } = pictureAtNominal({
-    headerVerdict: { compatible: false, differences: ["avcC differs"] },
-    preclosedIndex: 11
-  });
-  given("viewer-a", 10);
-  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
-  const move = await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
-  const prepared = [...outputs.values()].find((output) => output !== base);
-  assert.equal(move.started, false, "the quality budget can try its next option immediately");
-  assert.match(move.reason, /not usable/);
-  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), base.outputKey, "the old output remains selected");
-  assert.equal(stepOnScreenOf(viewers, base, "viewer-a"), null, "the player is not assigned the incompatible init");
-  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), null, "the refused transition releases its preparation");
-  assert.equal(viewers.forOutput(prepared).has("viewer-a"), false, "the viewer leaves the refused output");
-});
-
-test("the output left is not disposed, and its assignments keep it", async () => {
-  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, given, linkNow, outputs, disposed } = pictureAtNominal();
-  // Their screen holds a STEP of the picture, at the middle limit.
-  const stepAtMiddle = outputAt({ id: "2222222233334445", file: base.file, limit: LIMITS[1] });
-  outputs.set(stepAtMiddle.id, stepAtMiddle);
-  outputs.markStep(stepAtMiddle);
-  stepAtMiddle.variantHeight = HEIGHT;
-  chooseOutput(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT, stepAtMiddle.outputKey);
-  noteStepOnScreen(viewers, base, "viewer-a", stepAtMiddle.id);
-  watches(viewers, stepAtMiddle, "viewer-a");
-  given("viewer-a", 10, stepAtMiddle);
-  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[2]);
-  const move = await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
-  assert.equal(move.started, true, move.reason);
-  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
-  close(prepared, 11);
-  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), prepared.outputKey);
-  assert.equal(viewers.forOutput(stepAtMiddle).has("viewer-a"), false, "they stop watching the step they left");
-  assert.deepEqual(disposed, [], "nothing is disposed by the move");
-  assert.equal(outputs.get(stepAtMiddle.id), stepAtMiddle);
-  assert.equal(viewers.assignmentsHold(stepAtMiddle), true, "what it gave in this viewing still holds it against the idle expiry");
-  assert.equal(viewers.forOutput(base).has("viewer-a"), true, "and the picture itself is never left");
-});
-
-test("a viewer moved off the picture itself stays registered on it", async () => {
-  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, given, linkNow, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
-  given("viewer-a", 10);
-  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
-  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
-  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
-  close(prepared, 11);
-  assert.equal(viewers.forOutput(base).has("viewer-a"), true);
-  assert.equal(stepOnScreenOf(viewers, base, "viewer-a"), prepared.id);
-});
-
-test("up goes one limit at a time, and at the height's highest limit there is nowhere to go", async () => {
-  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, given, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
-  const lowest = outputAt({ id: "3333333344445555", file: base.file, limit: LIMITS[2] });
-  outputs.set(lowest.id, lowest);
-  outputs.markStep(lowest);
-  lowest.variantHeight = HEIGHT;
-  chooseOutput(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT, lowest.outputKey);
-  noteStepOnScreen(viewers, base, "viewer-a", lowest.id);
-  watches(viewers, lowest, "viewer-a");
-  given("viewer-a", 10, lowest);
-  const up = await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "up", "room");
-  assert.equal(up.started, true, up.reason);
-  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
-  assert.equal(prepared.spec.video.encode.rateControl.maxrateKbps, maxrateKbpsFor(LIMITS[1]), "the next limit, not the highest");
-  close(prepared, 11);
-  // And from the picture's own limit, which is the height's highest, up is refused
-  // — which is what sends the budget to the next HEIGHT instead.
-  const fresh = pictureAtNominal();
-  const refused = await fresh.renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(fresh.base, "viewer-a", "up", "room");
-  assert.equal(refused.started, false);
-  assert.match(refused.reason, /highest/);
-});
-
-test("one of two viewers giving up a move does not take the other off it", async () => {
-  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, given, linkNow, outputs } = pictureAtNominal({ viewers: ["viewer-a", "viewer-b"] });
-  given("viewer-a", 10);
-  given("viewer-b", 10);
-  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
-  linkNow("viewer-b", LIMITS[1]);
-  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
-  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-b", "down", "thin");
-  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
-  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-b").outputId, prepared.id, "one output of that limit, for both");
-  // A's link recovers; the next event about the prepared output cancels A's move.
-  viewers.get("viewer-a").report({ linkMbps: linkJustFor(NOMINAL) * 2, bufferedAheadSec: 20, positionSeconds: 40, playing: true });
-  close(prepared, 3);
-  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), null, "A's move is cancelled");
-  assert.equal(viewers.forOutput(prepared).has("viewer-a"), false);
-  assert.ok(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-b"), "B's is not");
-  assert.equal(viewers.forOutput(prepared).has("viewer-b"), true);
-  assert.equal(outputs.get(prepared.id), prepared, "and the output stays");
-});
-
-test("a link that fell further while the output was being prepared cancels the move", async () => {
-  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, given, linkNow, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
-  given("viewer-a", 10);
-  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
-  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
-  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
-  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[2]);
-  close(prepared, 11);
-  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), base.outputKey, "not moved onto what no longer fits");
-  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), null);
-});
-
-test("a move is refused where there is no limit to change", async () => {
-  const { renditions, viewers, base, given, linkNow } = pictureAtNominal();
-  given("viewer-a", 10);
-  // No lower limit this link admits.
-  viewers.get("viewer-a").report({ linkMbps: 0.2, bufferedAheadSec: 4, positionSeconds: 40, playing: true });
-  const refused = await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
-  assert.equal(refused.started, false);
-  assert.match(refused.reason, /no lower limit/);
-  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
-  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), null);
-});
-
-// A MOVE MUST NOT STAND FOR EVER ON AN OUTPUT THAT CLOSES NOTHING (review
-// 2026-09-24). Publication was its only event; an output that produces nothing
-// sends none, and the quality budget leaves a viewer with a move pending alone.
-
-test("a link that recovered cancels the move on the viewer's report, with nothing published", async () => {
-  const { renditions, viewers, base, given, linkNow, report, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
-  given("viewer-a", 10);
-  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
-  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
-  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
-  report("viewer-a", linkJustFor(NOMINAL) * 2);
-  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), null, "cancelled with no segment closed anywhere");
-  assert.equal(renditions.sameHeightSwitchPending("viewer-a"), false, "so the budget decides for them again");
-  assert.equal(viewers.forOutput(prepared).has("viewer-a"), false);
-  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), base.outputKey);
-});
-
-test("a report while the move is still wanted and not ready leaves it waiting", async () => {
-  const { renditions, viewers, base, given, linkNow, report } = pictureAtNominal();
-  given("viewer-a", 10);
-  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
-  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
-  report("viewer-a", linkJustFor(LIMITS[1]));
-  assert.ok(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), "still being prepared");
-  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), base.outputKey, "and not made: #11 is not closed");
-});
-
-test("encoding the output being prepared failing for good cancels the move, with nothing published", async () => {
-  const { renditions, viewers, base, given, linkNow, fail, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
-  given("viewer-a", 10);
-  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
-  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
-  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
-  fail(prepared);
-  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), null);
-  assert.equal(viewers.forOutput(prepared).has("viewer-a"), false);
-  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), base.outputKey);
-});
-
-test("a move is not prepared onto an output whose encoding has failed", async () => {
-  const { renditions, viewers, base, given, linkNow, fail, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
-  given("viewer-a", 10);
-  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
-  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
-  fail(outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId));
-  // The next budget pass asks for the same move: opening that limit returns the
-  // same, failed, output.
-  const again = await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
-  assert.equal(again.started, false);
-  assert.match(again.reason, /has failed/);
-  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), null);
-});
-
-// A PLACE ON THIS MACHINE (roadmap item 97, step 13). One encoder here costs
-// 0.6 s of work per second of film: one alone makes 1.67x, two make 0.83x, so
-// the machine has room for exactly one.
-
-test("two moves onto two different outputs with room for one: one is admitted, the other refused and not recorded", async () => {
-  const { renditions, viewers, base, given, linkNow } = pictureAtNominal({ viewers: ["viewer-a", "viewer-b"], costSec: 0.6 });
-  given("viewer-a", 10);
-  given("viewer-b", 10);
-  // Two different targets: the highest lower limit each link admits.
-  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
-  linkNow("viewer-b", LIMITS[2]);
-  const moves = await Promise.all([
-    renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin"),
-    renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-b", "down", "thin")
-  ]);
-  assert.equal(moves.filter((move) => move.started).length, 1, "one place, one move");
-  const refused = moves.find((move) => !move.started);
-  assert.equal(refused.noPlace, true, "refused for the machine, not for a missing limit");
-  const loser = moves[0].started ? "viewer-b" : "viewer-a";
-  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, loser), null, "nothing recorded for the refused one");
-  assert.equal(renditions.sameHeightSwitchPending(loser), false, "so the budget goes to its other lever at once");
-  assert.equal(outputsBeingPrepared(viewers).size, 1, "only the admitted move holds a place");
-});
-
-test("two moves onto one output take one place, and one of them giving up keeps it", async () => {
-  const { renditions, viewers, base, given, linkNow, report } = pictureAtNominal({
-    viewers: ["viewer-a", "viewer-b", "viewer-c"],
-    costSec: 0.6
-  });
-  for (const viewer of ["viewer-a", "viewer-b", "viewer-c"]) {
-    given(viewer, 10);
-  }
-  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
-  linkNow("viewer-b", LIMITS[1]);
-  const [first, second] = await Promise.all([
-    renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin"),
-    renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-b", "down", "thin")
-  ]);
-  assert.equal(first.started, true, first.reason);
-  assert.equal(second.started, true, "the same output needs one encoder however many wait for it");
-  assert.equal(outputsBeingPrepared(viewers).size, 1);
-  // A's link recovers: A's move is cancelled, B's still holds the place.
-  report("viewer-a", linkJustFor(NOMINAL) * 2);
-  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), null);
-  assert.equal(outputsBeingPrepared(viewers).size, 1, "B still holds it");
-  linkNow("viewer-c", LIMITS[2]);
-  const third = await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-c", "down", "thin");
-  assert.equal(third.started, false, "the place B holds is not free");
-  assert.equal(third.noPlace, true);
-});
-
-test("a move UP is made once the viewer holds the cushion, on the report that says so", async () => {
-  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, given, outputs } = pictureAtNominal({ cushionSec: 12 });
-  const lowest = outputAt({ id: "3333333344445555", file: base.file, limit: LIMITS[2] });
-  outputs.set(lowest.id, lowest);
-  outputs.markStep(lowest);
-  lowest.variantHeight = HEIGHT;
-  chooseOutput(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT, lowest.outputKey);
-  noteStepOnScreen(viewers, base, "viewer-a", lowest.id);
-  watches(viewers, lowest, "viewer-a");
-  given("viewer-a", 10, lowest);
-  viewers.get("viewer-a").report({ linkMbps: linkJustFor(NOMINAL) * 2, bufferedAheadSec: 4, positionSeconds: 40, playing: true });
-  const up = await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "up", "room");
-  assert.equal(up.started, true, up.reason);
-  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
-  close(prepared, 11);
-  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), lowest.outputKey, "ready, but 4 s held against 12 s needed");
-  viewers.get("viewer-a").report({ linkMbps: linkJustFor(NOMINAL) * 2, bufferedAheadSec: 14, positionSeconds: 40, playing: true });
-  renditions.noteViewerReported(BASE_ID, "viewer-a");
-  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), prepared.outputKey, "the cushion is held: the move is made");
-});
-
-test("a move DOWN is made the moment the piece is ready, whatever the cushion", async () => {
-  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, given, linkNow, outputs } = pictureAtNominal({ cushionSec: 30 });
-  given("viewer-a", 10);
-  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
-  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
-  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
-  close(prepared, 11);
-  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), prepared.outputKey, "a shrinking buffer is not waited on");
-});
-
-test("with no place on the machine the output on screen stays", async () => {
-  const { renditions, viewers, base, given, linkNow } = pictureAtNominal({ costSec: 2 });
-  given("viewer-a", 10);
-  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
-  const move = await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
-  assert.equal(move.started, false);
-  assert.equal(move.noPlace, true);
-  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), base.outputKey, "nothing moved");
-  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), null, "and nothing is left waiting");
-});
-
-test("a height is ready for a viewer only when the piece they ask for next is closed on it", () => {
-  const { renditions, outputs, base, closed, given } = pictureAtNominal();
-  const smaller = outputAt({ id: "4444444455556666", file: base.file, limit: LIMITS[2] });
-  smaller.variantHeight = 480;
-  outputs.set(smaller.id, smaller);
-  outputs.markStep(smaller);
-  given("viewer-a", 10);
-  assert.equal(renditions.heightReadyFor(base, "viewer-a", 480), false, "nothing closed on it");
-  closed.add(`${smaller.outputKey}#9`);
-  assert.equal(renditions.heightReadyFor(base, "viewer-a", 480), false, "a piece behind the next one says nothing");
-  closed.add(`${smaller.outputKey}#11`);
-  assert.equal(renditions.heightReadyFor(base, "viewer-a", 480), true);
-  assert.equal(renditions.heightReadyFor(base, "viewer-a", 360), false, "no step at that height at all");
-});
-
-test("a move up can be taken back by the budget, for that viewer alone", async () => {
-  const { renditions, viewers, base, given, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
-  const lowest = outputAt({ id: "3333333344445555", file: base.file, limit: LIMITS[2] });
-  outputs.set(lowest.id, lowest);
-  outputs.markStep(lowest);
-  lowest.variantHeight = HEIGHT;
-  chooseOutput(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT, lowest.outputKey);
-  noteStepOnScreen(viewers, base, "viewer-a", lowest.id);
-  watches(viewers, lowest, "viewer-a");
-  given("viewer-a", 10, lowest);
-  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "up", "room");
-  assert.equal(renditions.sameHeightSwitchDirection("viewer-a"), "up");
-  renditions.cancelSameHeightSwitch("viewer-a", "the room went");
-  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), null);
-  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), lowest.outputKey, "they stay where they are");
-});
+/**
+ * @file A viewer moved between two outputs of the height on their screen, at
+ * two bitrate limits, without their player being told (roadmap item 97, step
+ * 12).
+ *
+ * What is pinned here:
+ *
+ * 1. the move is prepared for ONE viewer, and nobody else's choice or output
+ *    changes;
+ * 2. it is made only once the segment that viewer will ask for NEXT is closed
+ *    on the new output — a segment closed behind it, an event that arrives
+ *    after a seek, or nothing given yet in the viewing all read the next one
+ *    from where the viewer is NOW;
+ * 3. the move is one synchronous stretch: choice, output on screen and where
+ *    the viewer is registered agree the moment it returns;
+ * 4. the output left is not disposed: it goes by the idle expiry, which keeps
+ *    it while an assignment stands;
+ * 5. a move no longer wanted is cancelled, for that viewer alone;
+ * 6. a move waiting on an output that closes nothing does not stand for ever:
+ *    the viewer's report and a failure of that output's encoding are events
+ *    that ask again, and a failed output is not prepared onto.
+ *
+ * The catalog, the viewer registry and the viewer functions are the REAL ones:
+ * what is checked is the records they keep. Only encoding and the store are
+ * stood in for, and the store is nothing but which segments are closed.
+ */
+
+import test from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { Renditions } from "../services/encode/Renditions.js";
+import { OutputCatalog } from "../services/encode/output/OutputCatalog.js";
+import { Viewers } from "../services/viewer/Viewers.js";
+import {
+  audioBeingWarmedOf,
+  audioChoiceOf,
+  bufferedSecondsOf,
+  chooseAudioTrack,
+  chooseOutput,
+  chosenOutputOf,
+  consumersOn,
+  generationOfRequest,
+  givenOutputOf,
+  heightsChosenAs,
+  highestGivenSegmentOf,
+  linkMbpsOf,
+  noteAudioBeingWarmed,
+  noteGivenOutput,
+  noteSameHeightSwitch,
+  noteServingVerdict,
+  noteStepBeingWarmed,
+  noteStepOnScreen,
+  outputsBeingPrepared,
+  placeOn,
+  presentOn,
+  qualityModeOf,
+  sameHeightSwitchOf,
+  stepBeingWarmedOf,
+  stepOnScreenOf,
+  switchingOnto,
+  watches
+} from "../services/viewer/choices.js";
+import { activeOutputFor } from "../services/viewer/active-output.js";
+import { EncodeAdmission } from "../services/encode/EncodeAdmission.js";
+import { SourceFile } from "../services/media/SourceFile.js";
+import { fmp4Format } from "../services/encode/segment-formats/fmp4.js";
+import { outputSpec } from "./helpers/output-spec.js";
+import { maxrateKbpsFor, nominalKbpsFor, softwareRateControlFor } from "../services/encode/args.js";
+import { LINK_SAFETY } from "../services/encode/quality/link-budget.js";
+
+const BASE_ID = "1111111122223333";
+const SEGMENT_SECONDS = 4;
+const SEGMENTS = 150;
+const HEIGHT = 720;
+const NOMINAL = nominalKbpsFor({ width: 1280, height: HEIGHT });
+// Three limits of one height, highest first. Given here, because the product
+// offers only the nominal one until the set is decided (step 14).
+const LIMITS = [NOMINAL, Math.round(NOMINAL * 0.6), Math.round(NOMINAL * 0.35)];
+// A re-encoded soundtrack, which is what these outputs carry.
+const AUDIO_MBPS = 0.128;
+
+/**
+ * A link that admits an output of this limit, with its soundtrack, and nothing
+ * above it.
+ *
+ * @param {number} limit
+ * @returns {number}
+ */
+function linkJustFor(limit) {
+  return (maxrateKbpsFor(limit) / 1000 + AUDIO_MBPS + 0.01) / LINK_SAFETY;
+}
+
+/**
+ * One output of the picture: 720p at a limit, on the even grid, shaped as
+ * production shapes it.
+ *
+ * @param {{ id: string, file: object, limit: number }} what
+ * @returns {object}
+ */
+function outputAt({ id, file, limit }) {
+  const width = 1280;
+  const spec = outputSpec({
+    transcodeVideo: true,
+    width,
+    height: HEIGHT,
+    rateControl: softwareRateControlFor({ width, height: HEIGHT, fps: 24, capKbps: limit })
+  });
+  return {
+    id,
+    file,
+    spec,
+    outputKey: spec.toKey(),
+    timeline: { cutGrid: "uniform", segmentCount: SEGMENTS },
+    segmentFormat: fmp4Format,
+    output: { encodeHeight: HEIGHT }
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * A 720p picture at the nominal limit, watched by the viewers named, and
+ * everything a move between its limits reads.
+ *
+ * @param {{ viewers?: string[], costSec?: number, cushionSec?: number }} [how]
+ */
+function pictureAtNominal(how = {}) {
+  const file = new SourceFile({ sourceKey: "source-1", fileIndex: 0, name: "video.mkv" })
+    .learn({ durationSeconds: SEGMENTS * SEGMENT_SECONDS, height: 1080, width: 1920 });
+  const base = outputAt({ id: BASE_ID, file, limit: NOMINAL });
+  const outputs = new OutputCatalog();
+  outputs.set(BASE_ID, base);
+  const viewers = new Viewers();
+  const closed = new Set();
+  const disposed = [];
+  const opened = [];
+  // Outputs whose encoding has failed for good, as `EncodeRuns.hasFailed` says.
+  const failed = new Set();
+  let made = 0;
+  // What one encoder on any output here costs, in seconds of work per second of
+  // film, when the check is about the machine's places. Nothing runs in this
+  // setting, so what holds places is the preparations alone.
+  const admission = Number.isFinite(how.costSec)
+    ? new EncodeAdmission({
+      liveRunsByAddress: () => new Map(),
+      preparedAddresses: () => new Set(
+        [...outputsBeingPrepared(viewers)].map((id) => outputs.get(id)?.outputKey).filter(Boolean)
+      ),
+      loadOf: () => ({ costSec: how.costSec, fileKey: "", fileCostSec: 0 }),
+      availability: () => null
+    })
+    : null;
+  const renditions = new Renditions({
+    outputs,
+    viewers,
+    viewerCountOn: (output) => viewers.forOutput(output).size,
+    outputStillNeeded: (output) => viewers.stillNeeded(output),
+    viewerSecondsOn: () => 0,
+    activeOutputFor: (args) => activeOutputFor({ ...args, viewers }),
+    viewerPositionOf: (_id, consumerId) => viewers.get(consumerId)?.positionSeconds() ?? 0,
+    placeViewerOn: (output, consumerId, seconds) => placeOn(viewers, output, consumerId, seconds),
+    outputTimes: {
+      segmentStartTime: (_output, index) => index * SEGMENT_SECONDS,
+      segmentIndexForTime: (_output, seconds) => Math.floor(seconds / SEGMENT_SECONDS)
+    },
+    encodeRuns: { isLive: () => true, hasFailed: (output) => failed.has(output.id) },
+    quality: { variantsOnScreen: () => new Set() },
+    consumersOn: (output) => consumersOn(viewers, output),
+    presentOn: (output) => presentOn(viewers, output),
+    qualityModeOf: (output, consumerId) => qualityModeOf(viewers, output, consumerId),
+    linkMbpsOf: (output, consumerId) => linkMbpsOf(viewers, output, consumerId),
+    audioChoiceOf: (output, consumerId) => audioChoiceOf(viewers, output, consumerId),
+    chooseAudioTrack: (output, consumerId, choice) => chooseAudioTrack(viewers, output, consumerId, choice),
+    stepOnScreenOf: (output, consumerId) => stepOnScreenOf(viewers, output, consumerId),
+    noteStepOnScreen: (output, consumerId, stepId) => noteStepOnScreen(viewers, output, consumerId, stepId),
+    stepBeingWarmedOf: (output, consumerId) => stepBeingWarmedOf(viewers, output, consumerId),
+    noteStepBeingWarmed: (output, consumerId, stepId) => noteStepBeingWarmed(viewers, output, consumerId, stepId),
+    audioBeingWarmedOf: (output, consumerId) => audioBeingWarmedOf(viewers, output, consumerId),
+    noteAudioBeingWarmed: (output, consumerId, id) => noteAudioBeingWarmed(viewers, output, consumerId, id),
+    watches: (output, consumerId) => watches(viewers, output, consumerId),
+    placeOn: (output, consumerId, seconds) => placeOn(viewers, output, consumerId, seconds),
+    generationOfRequest: (consumerId, stated) => generationOfRequest(viewers, consumerId, stated),
+    givenOutputOf: (consumerId, generation, height, index) =>
+      givenOutputOf(viewers, consumerId, generation, height, index),
+    noteGivenOutput: (consumerId, generation, height, index, key) =>
+      noteGivenOutput(viewers, consumerId, generation, height, index, key),
+    chosenOutputOf: (consumerId, height) => chosenOutputOf(viewers, consumerId, height),
+    chooseOutput: (consumerId, height, key) => chooseOutput(viewers, consumerId, height, key),
+    noteServingVerdict: (consumerId, verdict) => noteServingVerdict(viewers, consumerId, verdict),
+    limitsFor: () => LIMITS,
+    heightsChosenAs: (consumerId, key) => heightsChosenAs(viewers, consumerId, key),
+    highestGivenSegmentOf: (consumerId, height) => highestGivenSegmentOf(viewers, consumerId, height),
+    sameHeightSwitchOf: (consumerId) => sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, consumerId),
+    noteSameHeightSwitch: (consumerId, value) => noteSameHeightSwitch(viewers, consumerId, value),
+    switchingOnto: (output) => switchingOnto(viewers, output),
+    segmentClosed: (key, index) => closed.has(`${key}#${index}`),
+    // What a viewer holds, as their page said, and the cushion a move that is
+    // not urgent waits for — none unless a check names one.
+    bufferedSecondsOf: (consumerId) => bufferedSecondsOf(viewers, consumerId),
+    minimumBufferSecondsFor: () => how.cushionSec ?? null,
+    headersCompatible: () => how.headerVerdict ?? { compatible: true, differences: [] },
+    // THE REAL ADMISSION over the viewers' own records, when a cost is given;
+    // otherwise every preparation is admitted, as the checks above need.
+    admitsPreparation: (output) => (admission
+      ? admission.admitsPreparation(output?.outputKey ?? "")
+      : { admitted: true, reason: "", speedX: null }),
+    getCachedAudioTracks: () => [],
+    // Opening at a named limit returns the output with that key, made once:
+    // the key is the output's identity, as `OutputOpening` has it.
+    createOrGetSession: async (request) => {
+      opened.push(request);
+      const probe = outputAt({ id: "probe", file, limit: request.capKbps ?? NOMINAL });
+      const existing = [...outputs.values()].find((output) => output.outputKey === probe.outputKey);
+      if (existing) {
+        if (Number.isInteger(how.preclosedIndex)) {
+          closed.add(`${existing.outputKey}#${how.preclosedIndex}`);
+        }
+        return existing;
+      }
+      made += 1;
+      const output = outputAt({ id: `${String(made).padStart(8, "9")}00000000`, file, limit: request.capKbps ?? NOMINAL });
+      outputs.set(output.id, output);
+      if (Number.isInteger(how.preclosedIndex)) {
+        closed.add(`${output.outputKey}#${how.preclosedIndex}`);
+      }
+      return output;
+    },
+    disposeSession: async (id) => { disposed.push(id); outputs.delete(id); },
+    planEncodersSoon: () => {},
+    viewerLeaves: (output, consumerId) => viewers.leaves(output, consumerId),
+    invalidateWaits: () => {},
+    logger: { info: () => {}, warn: () => {}, error: () => {} }
+  });
+  for (const consumerId of how.viewers ?? ["viewer-a"]) {
+    const viewer = viewers.of(base, consumerId);
+    viewer.qualityMode = "auto";
+    // What `ViewerRequests` records when the output is opened for them: the
+    // soundtrack it carries, re-encoded, which is a load with a bound.
+    viewer.audio = { trackIndex: 0, transcode: true };
+    viewer.moveTo(40);
+    // What production records when this viewer's player asked for 720p: the
+    // picture answered it, by the rule.
+    chooseOutput(viewers, consumerId, HEIGHT, base.outputKey);
+    viewer.report({ linkMbps: linkJustFor(NOMINAL) * 2, bufferedAheadSec: 20, positionSeconds: 40, playing: true });
+  }
+  /**
+   * The segments this viewer has been given in the viewing they are in.
+   *
+   * @param {string} consumerId
+   * @param {number} upTo
+   * @param {object} [output]
+   */
+  const given = (consumerId, upTo, output = base) => {
+    const generation = viewers.get(consumerId).assignments.generation;
+    for (let index = 0; index <= upTo; index += 1) {
+      noteGivenOutput(viewers, consumerId, generation, HEIGHT, index, output.outputKey);
+    }
+  };
+  /** @param {string} consumerId @param {number} limit */
+  const linkNow = (consumerId, limit) => {
+    viewers.get(consumerId).report({ linkMbps: linkJustFor(limit), bufferedAheadSec: 4, positionSeconds: viewers.get(consumerId).positionSeconds(), playing: true });
+  };
+  /** A segment closed on an output, and the store telling of it. */
+  const close = (output, index) => {
+    closed.add(`${output.outputKey}#${index}`);
+    renditions.noteSegmentPublished(output.outputKey, index);
+  };
+  /**
+   * A report from this viewer reaching the proxy: recorded, and then told, as
+   * the net-report route does it.
+   *
+   * @param {string} consumerId
+   * @param {number} linkMbps
+   */
+  const report = (consumerId, linkMbps) => {
+    viewers.get(consumerId).report({ linkMbps, bufferedAheadSec: 4, positionSeconds: viewers.get(consumerId).positionSeconds(), playing: true });
+    renditions.noteViewerReported(BASE_ID, consumerId);
+  };
+  /** Encoding an output failing for good, and `EncodeRuns` telling of it. */
+  const fail = (output) => {
+    failed.add(output.id);
+    renditions.noteProductionFailed(output);
+  };
+  return { renditions, outputs, viewers, base, file, closed, close, given, linkNow, report, fail, failed, disposed, opened };
+}
+
+test("a thin link moves only its own viewer to a lower limit of the same height", async () => {
+  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, given, linkNow, outputs } = pictureAtNominal({ viewers: ["viewer-a", "viewer-b"] });
+  given("viewer-a", 10);
+  given("viewer-b", 10);
+  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
+  const move = await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
+  assert.equal(move.started, true, move.reason);
+  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
+  assert.equal(prepared.spec.video.encode.rateControl.maxrateKbps, maxrateKbpsFor(LIMITS[1]), "the highest lower limit the link admits");
+  close(prepared, 11);
+  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), prepared.outputKey);
+  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-b", HEIGHT), base.outputKey, "the other viewer's choice is theirs");
+  assert.equal(stepOnScreenOf(viewers, base, "viewer-b"), null, "and so is what is on their screen");
+  assert.equal(viewers.forOutput(prepared).has("viewer-b"), false, "nobody else is put on the new output");
+});
+
+test("until the segment asked for next is closed on the new output, the choice stands", async () => {
+  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, given, linkNow, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
+  given("viewer-a", 10);
+  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
+  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
+  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
+  close(prepared, 12);
+  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), base.outputKey, "a later segment does not stand for #11");
+  close(prepared, 11);
+  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), prepared.outputKey);
+});
+
+test("a segment closed behind the one asked for next does not start the move", async () => {
+  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, given, linkNow, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
+  given("viewer-a", 10);
+  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
+  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
+  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
+  close(prepared, 5);
+  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), base.outputKey);
+  assert.ok(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), "still being prepared");
+});
+
+test("with nothing given yet in the viewing, the next segment is the one where the viewer stands", async () => {
+  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, linkNow, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
+  // Straight after a seek: a new viewing, nothing given in it.
+  viewers.get("viewer-a").moveTo(80);
+  viewers.get("viewer-a").assignments.statedGeneration(1);
+  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
+  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
+  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
+  close(prepared, 11);
+  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), base.outputKey, "#11 is not where they stand");
+  close(prepared, 80 / SEGMENT_SECONDS);
+  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), prepared.outputKey);
+});
+
+test("an event that arrives after a seek is judged against where the viewer is now", async () => {
+  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, given, linkNow, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
+  given("viewer-a", 10);
+  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
+  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
+  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
+  // They seek to 200 s before the closing of #11 is told.
+  viewers.get("viewer-a").moveTo(200);
+  viewers.get("viewer-a").assignments.statedGeneration(1);
+  close(prepared, 11);
+  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), base.outputKey, "#11 was the next segment of a viewing they left");
+  close(prepared, 200 / SEGMENT_SECONDS);
+  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), prepared.outputKey);
+});
+
+test("the move returns with the choice, the screen and the registration in agreement", async () => {
+  const { renditions, viewers, base, closed, given, linkNow, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
+  given("viewer-a", 10);
+  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
+  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
+  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
+  closed.add(`${prepared.outputKey}#11`);
+  // Told synchronously, and nothing about it is still to happen after it returns.
+  const returned = renditions.noteSegmentPublished(prepared.outputKey, 11);
+  assert.equal(returned, undefined, "not a promise: there is no await in the move");
+  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), prepared.outputKey);
+  assert.equal(stepOnScreenOf(viewers, base, "viewer-a"), prepared.id);
+  assert.equal(viewers.forOutput(prepared).has("viewer-a"), true);
+  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), null, "nothing left being prepared");
+  assert.equal(renditions.servingOutputFor(base, HEIGHT, "viewer-a"), prepared, "the next new address is answered by it");
+});
+
+test("a ready output with an incompatible init is refused as an unstarted move", async () => {
+  const { renditions, viewers, base, given, linkNow, outputs } = pictureAtNominal({
+    headerVerdict: { compatible: false, differences: ["avcC differs"] },
+    preclosedIndex: 11
+  });
+  given("viewer-a", 10);
+  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
+  const move = await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
+  const prepared = [...outputs.values()].find((output) => output !== base);
+  assert.equal(move.started, false, "the quality budget can try its next option immediately");
+  assert.match(move.reason, /not usable/);
+  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), base.outputKey, "the old output remains selected");
+  assert.equal(stepOnScreenOf(viewers, base, "viewer-a"), null, "the player is not assigned the incompatible init");
+  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), null, "the refused transition releases its preparation");
+  assert.equal(viewers.forOutput(prepared).has("viewer-a"), false, "the viewer leaves the refused output");
+});
+
+test("the output left is not disposed, and its assignments keep it", async () => {
+  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, given, linkNow, outputs, disposed } = pictureAtNominal();
+  // Their screen holds a STEP of the picture, at the middle limit.
+  const stepAtMiddle = outputAt({ id: "2222222233334445", file: base.file, limit: LIMITS[1] });
+  outputs.set(stepAtMiddle.id, stepAtMiddle);
+  outputs.markStep(stepAtMiddle);
+  stepAtMiddle.variantHeight = HEIGHT;
+  chooseOutput(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT, stepAtMiddle.outputKey);
+  noteStepOnScreen(viewers, base, "viewer-a", stepAtMiddle.id);
+  watches(viewers, stepAtMiddle, "viewer-a");
+  given("viewer-a", 10, stepAtMiddle);
+  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[2]);
+  const move = await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
+  assert.equal(move.started, true, move.reason);
+  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
+  close(prepared, 11);
+  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), prepared.outputKey);
+  assert.equal(viewers.forOutput(stepAtMiddle).has("viewer-a"), false, "they stop watching the step they left");
+  assert.deepEqual(disposed, [], "nothing is disposed by the move");
+  assert.equal(outputs.get(stepAtMiddle.id), stepAtMiddle);
+  assert.equal(viewers.assignmentsHold(stepAtMiddle), true, "what it gave in this viewing still holds it against the idle expiry");
+  assert.equal(viewers.forOutput(base).has("viewer-a"), true, "and the picture itself is never left");
+});
+
+test("a viewer moved off the picture itself stays registered on it", async () => {
+  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, given, linkNow, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
+  given("viewer-a", 10);
+  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
+  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
+  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
+  close(prepared, 11);
+  assert.equal(viewers.forOutput(base).has("viewer-a"), true);
+  assert.equal(stepOnScreenOf(viewers, base, "viewer-a"), prepared.id);
+});
+
+test("up goes one limit at a time, and at the height's highest limit there is nowhere to go", async () => {
+  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, given, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
+  const lowest = outputAt({ id: "3333333344445555", file: base.file, limit: LIMITS[2] });
+  outputs.set(lowest.id, lowest);
+  outputs.markStep(lowest);
+  lowest.variantHeight = HEIGHT;
+  chooseOutput(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT, lowest.outputKey);
+  noteStepOnScreen(viewers, base, "viewer-a", lowest.id);
+  watches(viewers, lowest, "viewer-a");
+  given("viewer-a", 10, lowest);
+  const up = await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "up", "room");
+  assert.equal(up.started, true, up.reason);
+  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
+  assert.equal(prepared.spec.video.encode.rateControl.maxrateKbps, maxrateKbpsFor(LIMITS[1]), "the next limit, not the highest");
+  close(prepared, 11);
+  // And from the picture's own limit, which is the height's highest, up is refused
+  // — which is what sends the budget to the next HEIGHT instead.
+  const fresh = pictureAtNominal();
+  const refused = await fresh.renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(fresh.base, "viewer-a", "up", "room");
+  assert.equal(refused.started, false);
+  assert.match(refused.reason, /highest/);
+});
+
+test("one of two viewers giving up a move does not take the other off it", async () => {
+  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, given, linkNow, outputs } = pictureAtNominal({ viewers: ["viewer-a", "viewer-b"] });
+  given("viewer-a", 10);
+  given("viewer-b", 10);
+  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
+  linkNow("viewer-b", LIMITS[1]);
+  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
+  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-b", "down", "thin");
+  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
+  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-b").outputId, prepared.id, "one output of that limit, for both");
+  // A's link recovers; the next event about the prepared output cancels A's move.
+  viewers.get("viewer-a").report({ linkMbps: linkJustFor(NOMINAL) * 2, bufferedAheadSec: 20, positionSeconds: 40, playing: true });
+  close(prepared, 3);
+  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), null, "A's move is cancelled");
+  assert.equal(viewers.forOutput(prepared).has("viewer-a"), false);
+  assert.ok(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-b"), "B's is not");
+  assert.equal(viewers.forOutput(prepared).has("viewer-b"), true);
+  assert.equal(outputs.get(prepared.id), prepared, "and the output stays");
+});
+
+test("a link that fell further while the output was being prepared cancels the move", async () => {
+  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, given, linkNow, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
+  given("viewer-a", 10);
+  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
+  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
+  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
+  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[2]);
+  close(prepared, 11);
+  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), base.outputKey, "not moved onto what no longer fits");
+  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), null);
+});
+
+test("a move is refused where there is no limit to change", async () => {
+  const { renditions, viewers, base, given, linkNow } = pictureAtNominal();
+  given("viewer-a", 10);
+  // No lower limit this link admits.
+  viewers.get("viewer-a").report({ linkMbps: 0.2, bufferedAheadSec: 4, positionSeconds: 40, playing: true });
+  const refused = await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
+  assert.equal(refused.started, false);
+  assert.match(refused.reason, /no lower limit/);
+  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
+  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), null);
+});
+
+// A MOVE MUST NOT STAND FOR EVER ON AN OUTPUT THAT CLOSES NOTHING (review
+// 2026-09-24). Publication was its only event; an output that produces nothing
+// sends none, and the quality budget leaves a viewer with a move pending alone.
+
+test("a link that recovered cancels the move on the viewer's report, with nothing published", async () => {
+  const { renditions, viewers, base, given, linkNow, report, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
+  given("viewer-a", 10);
+  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
+  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
+  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
+  report("viewer-a", linkJustFor(NOMINAL) * 2);
+  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), null, "cancelled with no segment closed anywhere");
+  assert.equal(renditions.sameHeightSwitchPending("viewer-a"), false, "so the budget decides for them again");
+  assert.equal(viewers.forOutput(prepared).has("viewer-a"), false);
+  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), base.outputKey);
+});
+
+test("a report while the move is still wanted and not ready leaves it waiting", async () => {
+  const { renditions, viewers, base, given, linkNow, report } = pictureAtNominal();
+  given("viewer-a", 10);
+  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
+  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
+  report("viewer-a", linkJustFor(LIMITS[1]));
+  assert.ok(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), "still being prepared");
+  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), base.outputKey, "and not made: #11 is not closed");
+});
+
+test("encoding the output being prepared failing for good cancels the move, with nothing published", async () => {
+  const { renditions, viewers, base, given, linkNow, fail, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
+  given("viewer-a", 10);
+  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
+  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
+  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
+  fail(prepared);
+  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), null);
+  assert.equal(viewers.forOutput(prepared).has("viewer-a"), false);
+  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), base.outputKey);
+});
+
+test("a move is not prepared onto an output whose encoding has failed", async () => {
+  const { renditions, viewers, base, given, linkNow, fail, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
+  given("viewer-a", 10);
+  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
+  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
+  fail(outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId));
+  // The next budget pass asks for the same move: opening that limit returns the
+  // same, failed, output.
+  const again = await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
+  assert.equal(again.started, false);
+  assert.match(again.reason, /has failed/);
+  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), null);
+});
+
+// A PLACE ON THIS MACHINE (roadmap item 97, step 13). One encoder here costs
+// 0.6 s of work per second of film: one alone makes 1.67x, two make 0.83x, so
+// the machine has room for exactly one.
+
+test("two moves onto two different outputs with room for one: one is admitted, the other refused and not recorded", async () => {
+  const { renditions, viewers, base, given, linkNow } = pictureAtNominal({ viewers: ["viewer-a", "viewer-b"], costSec: 0.6 });
+  given("viewer-a", 10);
+  given("viewer-b", 10);
+  // Two different targets: the highest lower limit each link admits.
+  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
+  linkNow("viewer-b", LIMITS[2]);
+  const moves = await Promise.all([
+    renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin"),
+    renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-b", "down", "thin")
+  ]);
+  assert.equal(moves.filter((move) => move.started).length, 1, "one place, one move");
+  const refused = moves.find((move) => !move.started);
+  assert.equal(refused.noPlace, true, "refused for the machine, not for a missing limit");
+  const loser = moves[0].started ? "viewer-b" : "viewer-a";
+  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, loser), null, "nothing recorded for the refused one");
+  assert.equal(renditions.sameHeightSwitchPending(loser), false, "so the budget goes to its other lever at once");
+  assert.equal(outputsBeingPrepared(viewers).size, 1, "only the admitted move holds a place");
+});
+
+test("two moves onto one output take one place, and one of them giving up keeps it", async () => {
+  const { renditions, viewers, base, given, linkNow, report } = pictureAtNominal({
+    viewers: ["viewer-a", "viewer-b", "viewer-c"],
+    costSec: 0.6
+  });
+  for (const viewer of ["viewer-a", "viewer-b", "viewer-c"]) {
+    given(viewer, 10);
+  }
+  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
+  linkNow("viewer-b", LIMITS[1]);
+  const [first, second] = await Promise.all([
+    renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin"),
+    renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-b", "down", "thin")
+  ]);
+  assert.equal(first.started, true, first.reason);
+  assert.equal(second.started, true, "the same output needs one encoder however many wait for it");
+  assert.equal(outputsBeingPrepared(viewers).size, 1);
+  // A's link recovers: A's move is cancelled, B's still holds the place.
+  report("viewer-a", linkJustFor(NOMINAL) * 2);
+  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), null);
+  assert.equal(outputsBeingPrepared(viewers).size, 1, "B still holds it");
+  linkNow("viewer-c", LIMITS[2]);
+  const third = await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-c", "down", "thin");
+  assert.equal(third.started, false, "the place B holds is not free");
+  assert.equal(third.noPlace, true);
+});
+
+test("a move UP is made once the viewer holds the cushion, on the report that says so", async () => {
+  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, given, outputs } = pictureAtNominal({ cushionSec: 12 });
+  const lowest = outputAt({ id: "3333333344445555", file: base.file, limit: LIMITS[2] });
+  outputs.set(lowest.id, lowest);
+  outputs.markStep(lowest);
+  lowest.variantHeight = HEIGHT;
+  chooseOutput(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT, lowest.outputKey);
+  noteStepOnScreen(viewers, base, "viewer-a", lowest.id);
+  watches(viewers, lowest, "viewer-a");
+  given("viewer-a", 10, lowest);
+  viewers.get("viewer-a").report({ linkMbps: linkJustFor(NOMINAL) * 2, bufferedAheadSec: 4, positionSeconds: 40, playing: true });
+  const up = await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "up", "room");
+  assert.equal(up.started, true, up.reason);
+  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
+  close(prepared, 11);
+  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), lowest.outputKey, "ready, but 4 s held against 12 s needed");
+  viewers.get("viewer-a").report({ linkMbps: linkJustFor(NOMINAL) * 2, bufferedAheadSec: 14, positionSeconds: 40, playing: true });
+  renditions.noteViewerReported(BASE_ID, "viewer-a");
+  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), prepared.outputKey, "the cushion is held: the move is made");
+});
+
+test("a move DOWN is made the moment the piece is ready, whatever the cushion", async () => {
+  const { renditions, viewers, base, close, given, linkNow, outputs } = pictureAtNominal({ cushionSec: 30 });
+  given("viewer-a", 10);
+  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
+  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
+  const prepared = outputs.get(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a").outputId);
+  close(prepared, 11);
+  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), prepared.outputKey, "a shrinking buffer is not waited on");
+});
+
+test("with no place on the machine the output on screen stays", async () => {
+  const { renditions, viewers, base, given, linkNow } = pictureAtNominal({ costSec: 2 });
+  given("viewer-a", 10);
+  linkNow("viewer-a", LIMITS[1]);
+  const move = await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "down", "thin");
+  assert.equal(move.started, false);
+  assert.equal(move.noPlace, true);
+  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), base.outputKey, "nothing moved");
+  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), null, "and nothing is left waiting");
+});
+
+test("a height is ready for a viewer only when the piece they ask for next is closed on it", () => {
+  const { renditions, outputs, base, closed, given } = pictureAtNominal();
+  const smaller = outputAt({ id: "4444444455556666", file: base.file, limit: LIMITS[2] });
+  smaller.variantHeight = 480;
+  outputs.set(smaller.id, smaller);
+  outputs.markStep(smaller);
+  given("viewer-a", 10);
+  assert.equal(renditions.heightReadyFor(base, "viewer-a", 480), false, "nothing closed on it");
+  closed.add(`${smaller.outputKey}#9`);
+  assert.equal(renditions.heightReadyFor(base, "viewer-a", 480), false, "a piece behind the next one says nothing");
+  closed.add(`${smaller.outputKey}#11`);
+  assert.equal(renditions.heightReadyFor(base, "viewer-a", 480), true);
+  assert.equal(renditions.heightReadyFor(base, "viewer-a", 360), false, "no step at that height at all");
+});
+
+test("a move up can be taken back by the budget, for that viewer alone", async () => {
+  const { renditions, viewers, base, given, outputs } = pictureAtNominal();
+  const lowest = outputAt({ id: "3333333344445555", file: base.file, limit: LIMITS[2] });
+  outputs.set(lowest.id, lowest);
+  outputs.markStep(lowest);
+  lowest.variantHeight = HEIGHT;
+  chooseOutput(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT, lowest.outputKey);
+  noteStepOnScreen(viewers, base, "viewer-a", lowest.id);
+  watches(viewers, lowest, "viewer-a");
+  given("viewer-a", 10, lowest);
+  await renditions.prepareSameHeightSwitch(base, "viewer-a", "up", "room");
+  assert.equal(renditions.sameHeightSwitchDirection("viewer-a"), "up");
+  renditions.cancelSameHeightSwitch("viewer-a", "the room went");
+  assert.equal(sameHeightSwitchOf(viewers, "viewer-a"), null);
+  assert.equal(chosenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", HEIGHT), lowest.outputKey, "they stay where they are");
+});