@torrent-tv/proxy 2.89.1 → 2.89.3

package/test/encode-orchestrator.test.js

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-/**
- * @file Encoders managed to suit whoever is watching, with no viewer reaching
- * the decision.
- *
- * Runs are built by the test, so nothing here spawns ffmpeg. What is exercised
- * is the whole path a request takes: a viewer states a window, a plan is made
- * from the union, runs are started, moved and stopped, and every ending is
- * counted.
- */
-
-import test from "node:test";
-import assert from "node:assert/strict";
-import { EventEmitter } from "node:events";
-import { EncodeRun } from "../services/encode/EncodeRun.js";
-import { ENCODE_EXIT } from "../services/encode/encode-exit.js";
-import { SoftwareEncoder } from "../services/encode/SoftwareEncoder.js";
-import { EncodeOrchestrator } from "../services/encode/EncodeOrchestrator.js";
-import { penaltiesFrom } from "../services/encode/contention.js";
-
-// WHAT A SECOND ENCODER COSTS THE FIRST — measured, never a formula.
-//
-// Addon host, 2026-09-03: 854x480 through libx264 `ultrafast` ran at 7.12x with
-// the machine to itself, and at 4.20x and 4.16x when two ran at once. The
-// penalty is read off that reading by the SAME two functions production uses,
-// so nothing here invents a shape: beyond what was measured the reading is held
-// rather than extrapolated.
-const MEASURED_PENALTIES = penaltiesFrom(7.12, [{ others: 1, speed: 4.18 }]);
-
-// What a start and a stop cost, measured on the same host: a spawn with its
-// input open is 0.12 s there.
-const RUN_COSTS = { killCostSec: 0, firstByteWaitSec: 0.12 };
-
-
-const PICTURE = "torrent:abc:fmt=fmp4:grid=kf@0:video-only:v=0/copy";
-
-class FakeProcess extends EventEmitter {
-  constructor() {
-    super();
-    this.pid = 1;
-    this.signals = [];
-  }
-
-  kill(signal) {
-    this.signals.push(signal);
-    // A real ffmpeg dies a moment later; the test wants the bookkeeping to
-    // happen where it can be seen, so the exit is immediate and synchronous.
-    this.emit("close", null, signal);
-  }
-}
-
-/**
- * @param {{ maxRuns?: number }} [options]
- */
-/**
- * What is wanted of the picture, as ONE map.
- *
- * The encoding receives a map per output, already merged and with nobody's name
- * on it; these tests state the same thing, so what a viewer's zone becomes is
- * the priority layer's business and not asserted here.
- *
- * @param {EncodeOrchestrator} made
- * @param {{ from: number, to: number, priority?: number, withinSeconds?: number }[]} zones
- */
-function wants(made, zones) {
-  made.notePriorityMap(PICTURE, zones.map((zone) => ({
-    from: zone.from,
-    to: zone.to,
-    priority: zone.priority ?? 1,
-    withinSeconds: zone.withinSeconds ?? 0
-  })));
-}
-
-/**
- * How many encoders are working the stretch a given number falls in.
- *
- * The count that matters for a viewer is not how many exist — what the machine
- * has spare goes to finishing the file, which is what makes a seek back into a
- * made part start at once — but how many are crowded onto one place.
- *
- * @param {EncodeOrchestrator} made
- * @param {number} segment
- */
-function onTheStretchOf(made, segment) {
-  return made.runsOn(PICTURE).filter((run) => {
-    const to = run.to < run.from ? Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY : run.to;
-    return run.from <= segment && segment <= to;
-  }).length;
-}
-
-function orchestrator({ maxRuns = 2 } = {}) {
-  const lines = [];
-  const processes = new Map();
-  /** @type {EncodeOrchestrator} */
-  let made;
-  made = new EncodeOrchestrator({
-    maxRunsFor: () => maxRuns,
-    segmentSeconds: 4,
-    ...RUN_COSTS,
-    // A host that has measured what the swarm charges to fetch a second of film
-    // again. Without it the drive-or-move comparison has only one side and the
-    // plan keeps the encoder rather than paying an unknown price — which is its
-    // own check in `encode-plan.test.js` rather than the shape every check here
-    // is written against.
-    refetchSecPerFilmSecond: () => 0.25,
-    // What this host was measured to encode at before any run reported —
-    // the startup benchmark, which exists before a viewer does.
-    startingSpeedFor: () => 2,
-    // What a second encoder costs the first, measured on the addon host
-    // 2026-09-03: 1.70x beside one other at 480p, 1.98x at 1080p. Sharing one
-    // machine is close to proportional, so this is the measured shape. Without
-    // it every extra process is free and the score always wants more of them —
-    // and fewer encoders can genuinely finish sooner.
-    contentionPenalties: MEASURED_PENALTIES,
-    now: () => 1000,
-    logger: { info: (line) => lines.push(line), warn: (line) => lines.push(line) },
-    makeRun: ({ address, from, to }) => {
-      const process_ = new FakeProcess();
-      const run = new EncodeRun({
-        address,
-        encoder: new SoftwareEncoder(),
-        from,
-        to,
-        buildArgs: () => ["-i", "in", "out"],
-        spawn: () => process_,
-        logger: { info: (line) => lines.push(line), warn: (line) => lines.push(line) },
-        now: () => 1000,
-        onEnded: (ended) => made.noteEnded(ended)
-      });
-      // Filed under the run itself: a run has no name, so a test that has to
-      // reach its process asks with the run in hand.
-      processes.set(run, process_);
-      return run;
-    }
-  });
-  made.setSegmentCount(PICTURE, 1000);
-  // A run built the way the session builds the FIRST one of an output: outside
-  // the plan, and with no end, because the free stretch reaches the last
-  // segment of the film and `-1` is how that is written everywhere here.
-  const buildRun = ({ address = PICTURE, from = 0, to = -1 } = {}) => {
-    const process_ = new FakeProcess();
-    const run = new EncodeRun({
-      address,
-      encoder: new SoftwareEncoder(),
-      from,
-      to,
-      buildArgs: () => ["-i", "in", "out"],
-      spawn: () => process_,
-      logger: { info: (line) => lines.push(line), warn: (line) => lines.push(line) },
-      now: () => 1000,
-      onEnded: (ended) => made.noteEnded(ended)
-    });
-    processes.set(run, process_);
-    return run;
-  };
-  return { made, lines, processes, buildRun };
-}
-
-test("how many encoders are running is answered by the one thing that makes them", () => {
-  // ONE FACT, ONE OWNER. The session manager answered this twice by walking its
-  // own registry — once per SESSION and once per RUN — and the two agreed only
-  // while a session held at most one run. It has held several since the plan was
-  // allowed to place them, and what a second encoder costs the first was
-  // measured between ffmpeg PROCESSES, so the per-session count was the wrong
-  // one of the two exactly where they differed.
-  const { made, buildRun, processes } = orchestrator();
-  assert.equal(made.runningCount(), 0, "nothing is running before anything is made");
-
-  const first = buildRun({ from: 0, to: 99 });
-  const second = buildRun({ from: 100, to: 199 });
-  made.adopt(PICTURE, first);
-  made.adopt(PICTURE, second);
-  assert.equal(made.runningCount(), 2, "two processes on one output are two encoders, not one");
-
-  // And a run that has ended is forgotten as it ends, not at the next pass.
-  processes.get(first).emit("close", 0, null);
-  assert.equal(made.runningCount(), 1);
-
-  // A SUSPENDED run is stopped where it stands and is using nothing, so a cost
-  // measured beside it is a cost measured alone.
-  //
-  // Stated as a run-shaped value rather than by suspending a real one: `pause`
-  // sends SIGSTOP by pid, which this platform does not have — so a check that
-  // went through it would pass or fail by the machine it ran on, and this
-  // project would rather have no check than one of those.
-  made.adopt(PICTURE, { id: "parked", from: 300, to: 399, head: 300, speedX: 1, isAlive: true, isSuspended: true, stop() {} });
-  assert.equal(made.runningCount(), 1, "a parked encoder is not one that is running");
-
-  // Nor is one on its way out. A run told to stop is still here — its exit
-  // arrives a turn or two later — and counting it makes whoever is deciding
-  // whether to start an encoder decide not to, on the strength of a process
-  // that is leaving.
-  made.adopt(PICTURE, { id: "leaving", from: 400, to: 499, head: 400, speedX: 1, isAlive: false, isSuspended: false, stop() {} });
-  assert.equal(made.runningCount(), 1);
-});
-
-test("a viewer waiting gets an encoder at what they are waiting for", () => {
-  const { made } = orchestrator();
-  wants(made, [{ from: 100, to: 130 }]);
-  made.reconcile();
-  const runs = made.runsOn(PICTURE);
-  assert.equal(onTheStretchOf(made, 100), 1, "one encoder where the viewer is stopped");
-  assert.ok(runs.some((run) => run.from === 100), "and it begins exactly there");
-});
-
-test("an encoder already working covers what it will reach in time", () => {
-  // THE MODEL, not a case: a segment is late when it arrives after it is needed,
-  // and an encoder placed at `a` delivers `a + j` at `(j + 1) / r`. So the
-  // question asked of a working encoder is the same one asked of a new one —
-  // when would it get here — and the answer decides whether a second process is
-  // wanted at all.
-  const { made, buildRun } = orchestrator();
-  const first = buildRun({ from: 0, to: -1 });
-  first.noteSpeed(8);
-  made.adopt(PICTURE, first);
-  made.noteProduced(PICTURE, 0);
-  made.noteProduced(PICTURE, 1);
-  assert.equal(first.head, 2, "where it stands");
-
-  const coverage = made.coverageOf(PICTURE);
-  assert.equal(coverage.stateOf(15), "making", "it holds the road it was given");
-  assert.equal(coverage.stateOf(500), "making", "all of it, to the end of the film");
-
-  // Wanted fourteen segments ahead of it, and not needed for a hundred seconds.
-  // At 8x on four-second segments it makes two a second, so it arrives in about
-  // seven — in time, and no second process is bought.
-  wants(made, [{ from: 15, to: 45, withinSeconds: 100 }]);
-  made.reconcile();
-  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length, 1, "one encoder, because one is enough");
-  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE)[0], first);
-});
-
-test("somebody stopped where no encoder can arrive in time is served, and the score says how", () => {
-  // The encoder that exists is 197 pieces behind them and would take 788 seconds
-  // to arrive. What serves them soonest is the question, and on a machine where
-  // a second encoder costs the first half its speed the answer is to bring this
-  // one — two of them, each at half, deliver the piece later than one at full.
-  //
-  // Nobody is watching where it stood, so nothing is lost by moving it. That the
-  // film there goes unmade is the third of the three counts, and the first —
-  // seconds anybody spends looking at a spinner — outranks it.
-  const { made, buildRun } = orchestrator();
-  const first = buildRun({ from: 0, to: -1 });
-  first.noteSpeed(1);
-  made.adopt(PICTURE, first);
-  made.noteProduced(PICTURE, 0);
-  made.noteProduced(PICTURE, 1);
-  made.noteProduced(PICTURE, 2);
-
-  wants(made, [{ from: 200, to: 230, withinSeconds: 0 }]);
-  made.reconcile();
-
-  assert.equal(made.coverageOf(PICTURE).stateOf(200), "making",
-    "somebody is making what the viewer is waiting for");
-  assert.equal(onTheStretchOf(made, 200), 1, "and one encoder is on it, not a crowd");
-});
-
-test("two encoders on one output never share a segment number", () => {
-  // Non-overlap is not a rule here, it is a consequence: placements partition
-  // the line, because past its neighbour's start an encoder would only make
-  // what that neighbour makes sooner.
-  const { made, buildRun } = orchestrator();
-  const first = buildRun({ from: 0, to: -1 });
-  first.noteSpeed(1);
-  made.adopt(PICTURE, first);
-  made.noteProduced(PICTURE, 0);
-  wants(made, [{ from: 200, to: 230, withinSeconds: 0 }]);
-  made.reconcile();
-  const spans = made.runsOn(PICTURE)
-    .map((run) => [run.from, run.to < run.from ? Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY : run.to])
-    .sort((left, right) => left[0] - right[0]);
-  for (let index = 0; index < spans.length - 1; index += 1) {
-    assert.ok(spans[index][1] < spans[index + 1][0],
-      `#${spans[index][0]}..#${spans[index][1]} must end before #${spans[index + 1][0]}`);
-  }
-});
-
-test("a second viewer at the same place starts nothing more", () => {
-  // One encode serves everyone standing in front of it, which is the whole
-  // reason the decision is made from a union and not per viewer.
-  const { made } = orchestrator();
-  wants(made, [{ from: 100, to: 130 }]);
-  made.reconcile();
-  wants(made, [{ from: 102, to: 132 }]);
-  made.reconcile();
-  assert.equal(onTheStretchOf(made, 102), 1, "the same encoder serves them both");
-});
-
-test("a second viewer far behind is served, at whatever the score says is soonest", () => {
-  // They may get an encoder of their own, or the one in front may come back to
-  // them — which is better depends on what a second process costs this machine,
-  // and that is measured. What must hold is that somebody is making what they
-  // are waiting for.
-  const { made } = orchestrator();
-  wants(made, [{ from: 500, to: 530, withinSeconds: 0 }]);
-  made.reconcile();
-  for (const run of made.runsOn(PICTURE)) {
-    run.noteSpeed(2);
-  }
-  wants(made, [
-    { from: 500, to: 530, withinSeconds: 0 },
-    { from: 100, to: 130, withinSeconds: 0 }
-  ]);
-  made.reconcile();
-
-  assert.equal(made.coverageOf(PICTURE).stateOf(100), "making", "the one behind is served");
-  assert.ok(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length <= 2, "and never more than the machine holds");
-});
-
-test("a machine that can afford one encoder does not start a second", () => {
-  const { made } = orchestrator({ maxRuns: 1 });
-  wants(made, [{ from: 100, to: 130 }]);
-  made.reconcile();
-  wants(made, [{ from: 500, to: 530 }]);
-  made.reconcile();
-  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length, 1);
-});
-
-test("a viewer asking for what is already made starts nothing", () => {
-  const { made } = orchestrator();
-  made.noteAlreadyMade(PICTURE, [100, 101, 102, 103, 104]);
-  wants(made, [{ from: 100, to: 104 }]);
-  made.reconcile();
-  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length, 0);
-});
-
-test("segments left by a previous life of this process are used, not remade", () => {
-  // The startup sweep tells the map what survived; from there it is material
-  // like any other, whoever made it and whatever became of them.
-  const { made } = orchestrator();
-  made.noteAlreadyMade(PICTURE, [100, 101, 102]);
-  wants(made, [{ from: 100, to: 110 }]);
-  made.reconcile();
-  const runs = made.runsOn(PICTURE);
-  assert.ok(runs.some((run) => run.from === 103), "it starts at the first thing missing");
-  assert.equal(onTheStretchOf(made, 103), 1, "and one encoder is enough for it");
-});
-
-test("a viewer who leaves takes the encoder with them", () => {
-  const { made } = orchestrator();
-  wants(made, [{ from: 100, to: 130 }]);
-  made.reconcile();
-  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length, 1);
-  // Nobody left watching. An EMPTY map is how that is said: there is no name to
-  // release, because no viewer's name ever reaches this layer.
-  wants(made, []);
-  made.reconcile();
-  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length, 0);
-  assert.equal(made.endings()[ENCODE_EXIT.STOPPED], 1);
-});
-
-test("a run that meets material made elsewhere is moved past it", () => {
-  const { made } = orchestrator();
-  wants(made, [{ from: 100, to: 200 }]);
-  made.reconcile();
-  const first = made.runsOn(PICTURE)[0];
-  // It has made a few, and meanwhile 105..150 arrived from somewhere else.
-  made.noteProduced(PICTURE, 100);
-  made.noteProduced(PICTURE, 101);
-  for (let index = 102; index <= 150; index += 1) {
-    made.coverageOf(PICTURE).markReady(index);
-  }
-  first.noteSpeed(1);
-  made.reconcile();
-  const runs = made.runsOn(PICTURE);
-  assert.equal(runs.length, 1, "one encoder, moved rather than joined by another");
-  assert.equal(runs[0].from, 151);
-  assert.notEqual(runs[0], first, "a move is this one ending and another beginning");
-});
-
-test("every ending is counted, and our own kill is not counted as normal", () => {
-  const { made, processes } = orchestrator();
-  wants(made, [{ from: 100, to: 130 }]);
-  made.reconcile();
-  const run = made.runsOn(PICTURE)[0];
-  processes.get(run).emit("close", 255, null);
-  wants(made, []);
-  made.reconcile();
-  const tally = made.endings();
-  assert.equal(tally[ENCODE_EXIT.FAILED], 1);
-  assert.equal(tally[ENCODE_EXIT.COMPLETE], 0);
-});
-
-test("the line says whether anybody is still waiting", () => {
-  // A proxy with encoders running and a viewer stopped at a segment nobody is
-  // making is the failure this layer removes; it has to be readable, not
-  // inferred.
-  const { made } = orchestrator();
-  wants(made, [{ from: 100, to: 130 }]);
-  made.reconcile();
-  assert.match(made.describe(), /waiting=#100/);
-  for (let index = 100; index <= 130; index += 1) {
-    made.noteProduced(PICTURE, index);
-  }
-  assert.match(made.describe(), /waiting=nobody/);
-});
-
-test("nothing wanted anywhere is said plainly", () => {
-  const { made } = orchestrator();
-  assert.match(made.describe(), /nothing wanted/);
-});
-
-test("the swarm limits the encoders, whatever the processor allows", () => {
-  // Every encoder reads the same torrent, so together they cannot consume
-  // faster than it is delivered. At 0.25 seconds of swarm time per second of
-  // film, one encoder running at 8x takes twice everything there is — so a
-  // machine whose processor would allow two gets one.
-  const { made, lines } = orchestrator({ maxRuns: 2 });
-  wants(made, [{ from: 100, to: 130 }]);
-  made.reconcile();
-  made.runsOn(PICTURE)[0].noteSpeed(8);
-  wants(made, [{ from: 500, to: 530 }]);
-  made.reconcile();
-
-  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length, 1);
-  assert.ok(
-    lines.some((line) => line.includes("what the swarm delivers")),
-    "and the line says which limit decided it"
-  );
-});
+/**
+ * @file Encoders managed to suit whoever is watching, with no viewer reaching
+ * the decision.
+ *
+ * Runs are built by the test, so nothing here spawns ffmpeg. What is exercised
+ * is the whole path a request takes: a viewer states a window, a plan is made
+ * from the union, runs are started, moved and stopped, and every ending is
+ * counted.
+ */
+
+import test from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { EventEmitter } from "node:events";
+import { EncodeRun } from "../services/encode/EncodeRun.js";
+import { ENCODE_EXIT } from "../services/encode/encode-exit.js";
+import { SoftwareEncoder } from "../services/encode/SoftwareEncoder.js";
+import { EncodeOrchestrator } from "../services/encode/EncodeOrchestrator.js";
+import { penaltiesFrom } from "../services/encode/contention.js";
+
+// WHAT A SECOND ENCODER COSTS THE FIRST — measured, never a formula.
+//
+// Addon host, 2026-09-03: 854x480 through libx264 `ultrafast` ran at 7.12x with
+// the machine to itself, and at 4.20x and 4.16x when two ran at once. The
+// penalty is read off that reading by the SAME two functions production uses,
+// so nothing here invents a shape: beyond what was measured the reading is held
+// rather than extrapolated.
+const MEASURED_PENALTIES = penaltiesFrom(7.12, [{ others: 1, speed: 4.18 }]);
+
+// What a start and a stop cost, measured on the same host: a spawn with its
+// input open is 0.12 s there.
+const RUN_COSTS = { killCostSec: 0, firstByteWaitSec: 0.12 };
+
+
+const PICTURE = "torrent:abc:fmt=fmp4:grid=kf@0:video-only:v=0/copy";
+
+class FakeProcess extends EventEmitter {
+  constructor() {
+    super();
+    this.pid = 1;
+    this.signals = [];
+  }
+
+  kill(signal) {
+    this.signals.push(signal);
+    // A real ffmpeg dies a moment later; the test wants the bookkeeping to
+    // happen where it can be seen, so the exit is immediate and synchronous.
+    this.emit("close", null, signal);
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * @param {{ maxRuns?: number }} [options]
+ */
+/**
+ * What is wanted of the picture, as ONE map.
+ *
+ * The encoding receives a map per output, already merged and with nobody's name
+ * on it; these tests state the same thing, so what a viewer's zone becomes is
+ * the priority layer's business and not asserted here.
+ *
+ * @param {EncodeOrchestrator} made
+ * @param {{ from: number, to: number, priority?: number, withinSeconds?: number }[]} zones
+ */
+function wants(made, zones) {
+  made.notePriorityMap(PICTURE, zones.map((zone) => ({
+    from: zone.from,
+    to: zone.to,
+    priority: zone.priority ?? 1,
+    withinSeconds: zone.withinSeconds ?? 0
+  })));
+}
+
+/**
+ * How many encoders are working the stretch a given number falls in.
+ *
+ * The count that matters for a viewer is not how many exist — what the machine
+ * has spare goes to finishing the file, which is what makes a seek back into a
+ * made part start at once — but how many are crowded onto one place.
+ *
+ * @param {EncodeOrchestrator} made
+ * @param {number} segment
+ */
+function onTheStretchOf(made, segment) {
+  return made.runsOn(PICTURE).filter((run) => {
+    const to = run.to < run.from ? Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY : run.to;
+    return run.from <= segment && segment <= to;
+  }).length;
+}
+
+function orchestrator({ maxRuns = 2 } = {}) {
+  const lines = [];
+  const processes = new Map();
+  /** @type {EncodeOrchestrator} */
+  let made;
+  made = new EncodeOrchestrator({
+    maxRunsFor: () => maxRuns,
+    segmentSeconds: 4,
+    ...RUN_COSTS,
+    // A host that has measured what the swarm charges to fetch a second of film
+    // again. Without it the drive-or-move comparison has only one side and the
+    // plan keeps the encoder rather than paying an unknown price — which is its
+    // own check in `encode-plan.test.js` rather than the shape every check here
+    // is written against.
+    refetchSecPerFilmSecond: () => 0.25,
+    // What this host was measured to encode at before any run reported —
+    // the startup benchmark, which exists before a viewer does.
+    startingSpeedFor: () => 2,
+    // What a second encoder costs the first, measured on the addon host
+    // 2026-09-03: 1.70x beside one other at 480p, 1.98x at 1080p. Sharing one
+    // machine is close to proportional, so this is the measured shape. Without
+    // it every extra process is free and the score always wants more of them —
+    // and fewer encoders can genuinely finish sooner.
+    contentionPenalties: MEASURED_PENALTIES,
+    now: () => 1000,
+    logger: { info: (line) => lines.push(line), warn: (line) => lines.push(line) },
+    makeRun: ({ address, from, to }) => {
+      const process_ = new FakeProcess();
+      const run = new EncodeRun({
+        address,
+        encoder: new SoftwareEncoder(),
+        from,
+        to,
+        buildArgs: () => ["-i", "in", "out"],
+        spawn: () => process_,
+        logger: { info: (line) => lines.push(line), warn: (line) => lines.push(line) },
+        now: () => 1000,
+        onEnded: (ended) => made.noteEnded(ended)
+      });
+      // Filed under the run itself: a run has no name, so a test that has to
+      // reach its process asks with the run in hand.
+      processes.set(run, process_);
+      return run;
+    }
+  });
+  made.setSegmentCount(PICTURE, 1000);
+  // A run built the way the session builds the FIRST one of an output: outside
+  // the plan, and with no end, because the free stretch reaches the last
+  // segment of the film and `-1` is how that is written everywhere here.
+  const buildRun = ({ address = PICTURE, from = 0, to = -1 } = {}) => {
+    const process_ = new FakeProcess();
+    const run = new EncodeRun({
+      address,
+      encoder: new SoftwareEncoder(),
+      from,
+      to,
+      buildArgs: () => ["-i", "in", "out"],
+      spawn: () => process_,
+      logger: { info: (line) => lines.push(line), warn: (line) => lines.push(line) },
+      now: () => 1000,
+      onEnded: (ended) => made.noteEnded(ended)
+    });
+    processes.set(run, process_);
+    return run;
+  };
+  return { made, lines, processes, buildRun };
+}
+
+test("how many encoders are running is answered by the one thing that makes them", () => {
+  // ONE FACT, ONE OWNER. The session manager answered this twice by walking its
+  // own registry — once per SESSION and once per RUN — and the two agreed only
+  // while a session held at most one run. It has held several since the plan was
+  // allowed to place them, and what a second encoder costs the first was
+  // measured between ffmpeg PROCESSES, so the per-session count was the wrong
+  // one of the two exactly where they differed.
+  const { made, buildRun, processes } = orchestrator();
+  assert.equal(made.runningCount(), 0, "nothing is running before anything is made");
+
+  const first = buildRun({ from: 0, to: 99 });
+  const second = buildRun({ from: 100, to: 199 });
+  made.adopt(PICTURE, first);
+  made.adopt(PICTURE, second);
+  assert.equal(made.runningCount(), 2, "two processes on one output are two encoders, not one");
+
+  // And a run that has ended is forgotten as it ends, not at the next pass.
+  processes.get(first).emit("close", 0, null);
+  assert.equal(made.runningCount(), 1);
+
+  // A SUSPENDED run is stopped where it stands and is using nothing, so a cost
+  // measured beside it is a cost measured alone.
+  //
+  // Stated as a run-shaped value rather than by suspending a real one: `pause`
+  // sends SIGSTOP by pid, which this platform does not have — so a check that
+  // went through it would pass or fail by the machine it ran on, and this
+  // project would rather have no check than one of those.
+  made.adopt(PICTURE, { id: "parked", from: 300, to: 399, head: 300, speedX: 1, isAlive: true, isSuspended: true, stop() {} });
+  assert.equal(made.runningCount(), 1, "a parked encoder is not one that is running");
+
+  // Nor is one on its way out. A run told to stop is still here — its exit
+  // arrives a turn or two later — and counting it makes whoever is deciding
+  // whether to start an encoder decide not to, on the strength of a process
+  // that is leaving.
+  made.adopt(PICTURE, { id: "leaving", from: 400, to: 499, head: 400, speedX: 1, isAlive: false, isSuspended: false, stop() {} });
+  assert.equal(made.runningCount(), 1);
+});
+
+test("a viewer waiting gets an encoder at what they are waiting for", () => {
+  const { made } = orchestrator();
+  wants(made, [{ from: 100, to: 130 }]);
+  made.reconcile();
+  const runs = made.runsOn(PICTURE);
+  assert.equal(onTheStretchOf(made, 100), 1, "one encoder where the viewer is stopped");
+  assert.ok(runs.some((run) => run.from === 100), "and it begins exactly there");
+});
+
+test("an encoder already working covers what it will reach in time", () => {
+  // THE MODEL, not a case: a segment is late when it arrives after it is needed,
+  // and an encoder placed at `a` delivers `a + j` at `(j + 1) / r`. So the
+  // question asked of a working encoder is the same one asked of a new one —
+  // when would it get here — and the answer decides whether a second process is
+  // wanted at all.
+  const { made, buildRun } = orchestrator();
+  const first = buildRun({ from: 0, to: -1 });
+  first.noteSpeed(8);
+  made.adopt(PICTURE, first);
+  made.noteProduced(PICTURE, 0);
+  made.noteProduced(PICTURE, 1);
+  assert.equal(first.head, 2, "where it stands");
+
+  const coverage = made.coverageOf(PICTURE);
+  assert.equal(coverage.stateOf(15), "making", "it holds the road it was given");
+  assert.equal(coverage.stateOf(500), "making", "all of it, to the end of the film");
+
+  // Wanted fourteen segments ahead of it, and not needed for a hundred seconds.
+  // At 8x on four-second segments it makes two a second, so it arrives in about
+  // seven — in time, and no second process is bought.
+  wants(made, [{ from: 15, to: 45, withinSeconds: 100 }]);
+  made.reconcile();
+  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length, 1, "one encoder, because one is enough");
+  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE)[0], first);
+});
+
+test("somebody stopped where no encoder can arrive in time is served, and the score says how", () => {
+  // The encoder that exists is 197 pieces behind them and would take 788 seconds
+  // to arrive. What serves them soonest is the question, and on a machine where
+  // a second encoder costs the first half its speed the answer is to bring this
+  // one — two of them, each at half, deliver the piece later than one at full.
+  //
+  // Nobody is watching where it stood, so nothing is lost by moving it. That the
+  // film there goes unmade is the third of the three counts, and the first —
+  // seconds anybody spends looking at a spinner — outranks it.
+  const { made, buildRun } = orchestrator();
+  const first = buildRun({ from: 0, to: -1 });
+  first.noteSpeed(1);
+  made.adopt(PICTURE, first);
+  made.noteProduced(PICTURE, 0);
+  made.noteProduced(PICTURE, 1);
+  made.noteProduced(PICTURE, 2);
+
+  wants(made, [{ from: 200, to: 230, withinSeconds: 0 }]);
+  made.reconcile();
+
+  assert.equal(made.coverageOf(PICTURE).stateOf(200), "making",
+    "somebody is making what the viewer is waiting for");
+  assert.equal(onTheStretchOf(made, 200), 1, "and one encoder is on it, not a crowd");
+});
+
+test("two encoders on one output never share a segment number", () => {
+  // Non-overlap is not a rule here, it is a consequence: placements partition
+  // the line, because past its neighbour's start an encoder would only make
+  // what that neighbour makes sooner.
+  const { made, buildRun } = orchestrator();
+  const first = buildRun({ from: 0, to: -1 });
+  first.noteSpeed(1);
+  made.adopt(PICTURE, first);
+  made.noteProduced(PICTURE, 0);
+  wants(made, [{ from: 200, to: 230, withinSeconds: 0 }]);
+  made.reconcile();
+  const spans = made.runsOn(PICTURE)
+    .map((run) => [run.from, run.to < run.from ? Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY : run.to])
+    .sort((left, right) => left[0] - right[0]);
+  for (let index = 0; index < spans.length - 1; index += 1) {
+    assert.ok(spans[index][1] < spans[index + 1][0],
+      `#${spans[index][0]}..#${spans[index][1]} must end before #${spans[index + 1][0]}`);
+  }
+});
+
+test("a second viewer at the same place starts nothing more", () => {
+  // One encode serves everyone standing in front of it, which is the whole
+  // reason the decision is made from a union and not per viewer.
+  const { made } = orchestrator();
+  wants(made, [{ from: 100, to: 130 }]);
+  made.reconcile();
+  wants(made, [{ from: 102, to: 132 }]);
+  made.reconcile();
+  assert.equal(onTheStretchOf(made, 102), 1, "the same encoder serves them both");
+});
+
+test("a second viewer far behind is served, at whatever the score says is soonest", () => {
+  // They may get an encoder of their own, or the one in front may come back to
+  // them — which is better depends on what a second process costs this machine,
+  // and that is measured. What must hold is that somebody is making what they
+  // are waiting for.
+  const { made } = orchestrator();
+  wants(made, [{ from: 500, to: 530, withinSeconds: 0 }]);
+  made.reconcile();
+  for (const run of made.runsOn(PICTURE)) {
+    run.noteSpeed(2);
+  }
+  wants(made, [
+    { from: 500, to: 530, withinSeconds: 0 },
+    { from: 100, to: 130, withinSeconds: 0 }
+  ]);
+  made.reconcile();
+
+  assert.equal(made.coverageOf(PICTURE).stateOf(100), "making", "the one behind is served");
+  assert.ok(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length <= 2, "and never more than the machine holds");
+});
+
+test("a machine that can afford one encoder does not start a second", () => {
+  const { made } = orchestrator({ maxRuns: 1 });
+  wants(made, [{ from: 100, to: 130 }]);
+  made.reconcile();
+  wants(made, [{ from: 500, to: 530 }]);
+  made.reconcile();
+  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length, 1);
+});
+
+test("a viewer asking for what is already made starts nothing", () => {
+  const { made } = orchestrator();
+  made.noteAlreadyMade(PICTURE, [100, 101, 102, 103, 104]);
+  wants(made, [{ from: 100, to: 104 }]);
+  made.reconcile();
+  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length, 0);
+});
+
+test("segments left by a previous life of this process are used, not remade", () => {
+  // The startup sweep tells the map what survived; from there it is material
+  // like any other, whoever made it and whatever became of them.
+  const { made } = orchestrator();
+  made.noteAlreadyMade(PICTURE, [100, 101, 102]);
+  wants(made, [{ from: 100, to: 110 }]);
+  made.reconcile();
+  const runs = made.runsOn(PICTURE);
+  assert.ok(runs.some((run) => run.from === 103), "it starts at the first thing missing");
+  assert.equal(onTheStretchOf(made, 103), 1, "and one encoder is enough for it");
+});
+
+test("a viewer who leaves takes the encoder with them", () => {
+  const { made } = orchestrator();
+  wants(made, [{ from: 100, to: 130 }]);
+  made.reconcile();
+  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length, 1);
+  // Nobody left watching. An EMPTY map is how that is said: there is no name to
+  // release, because no viewer's name ever reaches this layer.
+  wants(made, []);
+  made.reconcile();
+  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length, 0);
+  assert.equal(made.endings()[ENCODE_EXIT.STOPPED], 1);
+});
+
+test("a run that meets material made elsewhere is moved past it", () => {
+  const { made } = orchestrator();
+  wants(made, [{ from: 100, to: 200 }]);
+  made.reconcile();
+  const first = made.runsOn(PICTURE)[0];
+  // It has made a few, and meanwhile 105..150 arrived from somewhere else.
+  made.noteProduced(PICTURE, 100);
+  made.noteProduced(PICTURE, 101);
+  for (let index = 102; index <= 150; index += 1) {
+    made.coverageOf(PICTURE).markReady(index);
+  }
+  first.noteSpeed(1);
+  made.reconcile();
+  const runs = made.runsOn(PICTURE);
+  assert.equal(runs.length, 1, "one encoder, moved rather than joined by another");
+  assert.equal(runs[0].from, 151);
+  assert.notEqual(runs[0], first, "a move is this one ending and another beginning");
+});
+
+test("every ending is counted, and our own kill is not counted as normal", () => {
+  const { made, processes } = orchestrator();
+  wants(made, [{ from: 100, to: 130 }]);
+  made.reconcile();
+  const run = made.runsOn(PICTURE)[0];
+  processes.get(run).emit("close", 255, null);
+  wants(made, []);
+  made.reconcile();
+  const tally = made.endings();
+  assert.equal(tally[ENCODE_EXIT.FAILED], 1);
+  assert.equal(tally[ENCODE_EXIT.COMPLETE], 0);
+});
+
+test("the line says whether anybody is still waiting", () => {
+  // A proxy with encoders running and a viewer stopped at a segment nobody is
+  // making is the failure this layer removes; it has to be readable, not
+  // inferred.
+  const { made } = orchestrator();
+  wants(made, [{ from: 100, to: 130 }]);
+  made.reconcile();
+  assert.match(made.describe(), /waiting=#100/);
+  for (let index = 100; index <= 130; index += 1) {
+    made.noteProduced(PICTURE, index);
+  }
+  assert.match(made.describe(), /waiting=nobody/);
+});
+
+test("nothing wanted anywhere is said plainly", () => {
+  const { made } = orchestrator();
+  assert.match(made.describe(), /nothing wanted/);
+});
+
+test("the swarm limits the encoders, whatever the processor allows", () => {
+  // Every encoder reads the same torrent, so together they cannot consume
+  // faster than it is delivered. At 0.25 seconds of swarm time per second of
+  // film, one encoder running at 8x takes twice everything there is — so a
+  // machine whose processor would allow two gets one.
+  const { made, lines } = orchestrator({ maxRuns: 2 });
+  wants(made, [{ from: 100, to: 130 }]);
+  made.reconcile();
+  made.runsOn(PICTURE)[0].noteSpeed(8);
+  wants(made, [{ from: 500, to: 530 }]);
+  made.reconcile();
+
+  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length, 1);
+  assert.ok(
+    lines.some((line) => line.includes("what the swarm delivers")),
+    "and the line says which limit decided it"
+  );
+});