@torrent-tv/proxy 2.89.5 → 2.89.7

package/services/encode/quality/output-format.js

@@ -1,319 +1,319 @@
-/**
- * @file The format an output produces, decided before it is named — because
- * the name IS the format (decided with the user 2026-09-16).
- *
- * A copy is the source's own picture. A re-encode is which encoder, the size,
- * the frame rate, the speed setting, whether HDR is tone mapped, and the rate
- * control:
- *
- * 1. a size produced exactly — every rung of a master — is the box asked for,
- *    fitted to the source, and only its speed setting is chosen;
- * 2. a size left to the budget is the highest rung of the viewer's own ladder
- *    this machine holds, with the speed setting for that rung;
- * 3. on a hardware encoder, or with no startup measurement, there is no ladder
- *    to choose from and the box asked for is produced.
- *
- * The rate control is part of the format: a software encode is bounded at a
- * limit from `limitsFor(frame)` — the nominal one until a set of lower limits
- * is decided — or at the limit asked for (`capKbps`), and declared at the
- * level of that size's nominal output. A hardware encoder is given no bound.
- *
- * AND THE VIEWER'S LINK DECIDES WHETHER IT MAY BE GIVEN AT ALL (roadmap item
- * 97, step 11). Every format considered is judged by what this viewer's link
- * does with its whole load — the picture and the soundtrack THEY chose
- * (`link-budget.js`). In order:
- *
- * 1. an output already here that suits them (`serving-output.js`);
- * 2. the size wanted, at the highest limit their link admits;
- * 3. in AUTO only, a smaller rung of their ladder at the highest limit their
- *    link admits — a smaller size proves nothing by itself;
- * 4. otherwise NOTHING: the answer is `unavailable`, with the figures, and no
- *    output is named. A format known not to fit is never handed over.
- *
- * Nothing here reads the machine or the disk: what it needs arrives as values
- * and as functions over them.
- */
-
-import { computeOutputDimensions, nominalKbpsFor, softwareRateControlFor } from "../args.js";
-import { buildResolutionLadder, canSustainOutput, pickSoftwarePreset } from "../hwaccel.js";
-import { OutputSpec } from "../output/OutputSpec.js";
-import { chooseServingOutput, nextRungAreaBelow, servingCandidates } from "./serving-output.js";
-import { linkAnswerFigures, linkCouldCarry, linkRefusalReason, loadOf, videoLoadOfSpec } from "./link-budget.js";
-
-/**
- * @param {object} params
- * @param {boolean} params.encodesPicture - The output carries a picture and re-encodes it.
- * @param {boolean} params.exact - The size is produced exactly as asked.
- * @param {{ width: number, height: number }} params.target - The box asked for; zeroes mean the source's.
- * @param {{ width: number, height: number, megabitsPerSecond: number | null, decode: object | null }} params.source
- * @param {number} params.fps
- * @param {{ kind: string, name: string }} params.encoder
- * @param {unknown} params.benchmark - The startup measurement of the software encoder, or null.
- * @param {{ decodeModel: object | null, observedDecodeCostSec: number | null, requiredSpeed: number | null }} params.cost
- * @param {(params: object) => object | null} params.chooseBudget - The realtime budget's ladder choice.
- * @param {(spec: OutputSpec) => { admitted: boolean, reason: string, speedX: number | null }} [params.machineAdmission] -
- *   The proxy's machine-wide capacity decision for a candidate output.
- * @param {boolean} params.tonemap
- * @param {number | null} [params.capKbps] - A nominal limit asked for outright;
- *   above the size's own it is refused (`softwareRateControlFor`).
- * @param {(frame: { width: number, height: number }) => number[]} [params.limitsFor] -
- *   The nominal limits a frame may be produced at, highest first; the row is
- *   chosen by the frame's area (`limitRowFor`).
- * @param {import("./link-budget.js").LoadPart | null} [params.audioLoad] - The
- *   soundtrack this viewer receives with the picture, from it or beside it.
- * @param {(encode: object | null) => OutputSpec} params.specWith - The output
- *   with this picture format and every other part as the request made it.
- * @param {{ mode: "auto" | "manual", linkMbps: number | null, keys: Iterable<string>, readyAt: (key: string) => boolean, observedPeakMbps?: (spec: OutputSpec) => number | null }} params.serving
- * @returns {{
- *   spec: OutputSpec | null,
- *   budget: object | null,
- *   wantedKey: string,
- *   reusedKey: string | null,
- *   answer: object | null,
- *   unavailable: { reason: string, figures: object | null } | null
- * }}
- */
-export function decideOutputFormat({
-  encodesPicture,
-  exact,
-  target,
-  source,
-  fps,
-  encoder,
-  benchmark,
-  cost,
-  chooseBudget,
-  tonemap,
-  capKbps = null,
-  limitsFor = (frame) => [nominalKbpsFor(frame)],
-  audioLoad = null,
-  specWith,
-  serving,
-  machineAdmission = null
-}) {
-  const judge = (spec) => linkCouldCarry(
-    serving.linkMbps,
-    loadOf(videoLoadOfSpec(spec, source.megabitsPerSecond, serving.observedPeakMbps?.(spec) ?? null), audioLoad)
-  );
-  const given = (spec, answer, extra = {}) => ({
-    spec,
-    budget: null,
-    wantedKey: spec.toKey(),
-    reusedKey: null,
-    answer,
-    unavailable: null,
-    ...extra
-  });
-  const refused = (spec, answer, reason, extra = {}) => ({
-    spec: null,
-    budget: null,
-    wantedKey: spec.toKey(),
-    reusedKey: null,
-    answer,
-    unavailable: { reason, figures: answer ? linkAnswerFigures(answer) : null, bound: "link" },
-    ...extra
-  });
-
-  if (!encodesPicture) {
-    const spec = specWith(null);
-    if (!spec.video) {
-      // A soundtrack on its own: the viewer's load was judged with the picture
-      // it plays beside, which counted this track.
-      return given(spec, null);
-    }
-    const answer = judge(spec);
-    return answer.admitted
-      ? given(spec, answer)
-      : refused(spec, answer, linkRefusalReason(answer, "the source's own picture is more than this viewer's link carries"));
-  }
-
-  const ceiling = computeOutputDimensions(target.width, target.height, source.width, source.height);
-  const budget = exact
-    ? null
-    : chooseBudget({
-        transcodeVideo: true,
-        targetWidth: target.width,
-        targetHeight: target.height,
-        sourceWidth: source.width,
-        sourceHeight: source.height,
-        outputFps: fps,
-        source: source.decode,
-        requiredSpeed: cost.requiredSpeed
-      });
-  const width = budget?.width ?? ceiling?.w ?? 0;
-  const height = budget?.height ?? ceiling?.h ?? 0;
-  const priced = {
-    decodeModel: cost.decodeModel,
-    source: source.decode,
-    observedDecodeCostSec: cost.observedDecodeCostSec,
-    requiredSpeed: cost.requiredSpeed
-  };
-  const software = encoder.kind === "software";
-  const measured = software && Boolean(benchmark);
-  // WHETHER THIS MACHINE HAS SHOWN IT CAN ENCODE THIS SIZE (roadmap item 97,
-  // step 14): a mode of this encoder qualified at startup, measured at this
-  // frame, and fast enough on its own for this source. A size that fails is not
-  // a format anybody is given here — not the one asked for, and not a lower
-  // one in its place. Whether the machine has room for it BESIDE what already
-  // runs is the admission's, asked when the output is opened.
-  const machineCan = (w, h) => {
-    if (!(w > 0 && h > 0)) {
-      return true; // no size to judge: the source's own, which the probe could not read
-    }
-    if (!Array.isArray(benchmark)) {
-      return true; // not calibrated: a wiring made without the startup calibration
-    }
-    if (benchmark.length === 0) {
-      return false; // calibrated, and no mode qualified
-    }
-    return canSustainOutput({ benchmark, ...priced, outputPixelsPerSec: w * h * fps, frame: { width: w, height: h } }).sustainable;
-  };
-  const presetFor = (w, h) => (budget && w === width && h === height
-    ? budget.preset
-    : measured && w > 0
-      ? pickSoftwarePreset(benchmark, w * h * fps, priced, { width: w, height: h })
-      : null);
-  const budgetFor = (spec) => {
-    const encode = spec.video?.encode;
-    if (!budget || !encode) {
-      return budget;
-    }
-    const rungIndex = budget.ladder?.findIndex((rung) =>
-      rung.width === encode.width && rung.height === encode.height
-    ) ?? budget.rungIndex;
-    return {
-      ...budget,
-      width: encode.width,
-      height: encode.height,
-      preset: encode.preset,
-      rungIndex: rungIndex >= 0 ? rungIndex : budget.rungIndex
-    };
-  };
-  // Every format at one size this viewer could be given, highest limit first.
-  // A hardware encoder is given no limit, so it has exactly one.
-  const formatsAt = (w, h) => {
-    const limits = !software || !(w > 0 && h > 0)
-      ? [null]
-      : capKbps !== null && capKbps !== undefined && w === width && h === height
-        ? [capKbps]
-        : limitsFor({ width: w, height: h });
-    return limits.map((limit) => specWith({
-      encoder: encoder.name,
-      width: w,
-      height: h,
-      fps,
-      preset: presetFor(w, h),
-      tonemap,
-      rateControl: limit === null ? null : softwareRateControlFor({ width: w, height: h, fps, capKbps: limit })
-    }));
-  };
-  const wantedFormats = formatsAt(width, height);
-  const wantedSpec = wantedFormats[0];
-  const wantedKey = wantedSpec.toKey();
-
-  // A LIMIT NAMED IN THE REQUEST IS WHAT WAS ASKED FOR, and no other output
-  // stands in for it. It is named when a viewer is being moved to another
-  // limit of the height they watch (roadmap item 97, step 12), and the output
-  // they are being moved OFF always suits them by the rule below — so letting
-  // the rule answer would hand them back the very output the move is for
-  // leaving. An output with exactly this limit is still reused: it has the same
-  // key, and the key is what `OutputOpening` looks up.
-  const limitNamed = capKbps !== null && capKbps !== undefined;
-  if (ceiling && !limitNamed) {
-    const served = chooseServingOutput({
-      mode: serving.mode,
-      wanted: { width, height },
-      nextLowerArea: nextRungAreaBelow(buildResolutionLadder(ceiling.w, ceiling.h), height),
-      atRisk: measured && !canSustainOutput({ benchmark, ...priced, outputPixelsPerSec: width * height * fps, frame: { width, height } }).sustainable,
-      judge: (candidate) => judge(candidate.spec),
-      candidates: servingCandidates({
-        wanted: wantedSpec,
-        keys: serving.keys,
-        source,
-        encoderName: encoder.name,
-        readyAt: serving.readyAt
-      })
-    });
-    if (served && served.key !== wantedKey) {
-      return given(OutputSpec.fromKey(served.key), served.answer, { budget, wantedKey, reusedKey: served.key });
-    }
-  }
-
-  let anySizeHeld = false;
-  let machineRefusal = null;
-  const admittedByMachine = (spec) => {
-    if (!machineCan(spec.video?.encode?.width ?? 0, spec.video?.encode?.height ?? 0)) {
-      return false;
-    }
-    const answer = typeof machineAdmission === "function" ? machineAdmission(spec) : null;
-    if (answer?.admitted === false) {
-      machineRefusal ??= answer;
-      return false;
-    }
-    return true;
-  };
-  if (machineCan(width, height)) {
-    for (const spec of wantedFormats) {
-      if (!admittedByMachine(spec)) {
-        continue;
-      }
-      anySizeHeld = true;
-      const answer = judge(spec);
-      if (answer.admitted) {
-        return given(spec, answer, { budget: budgetFor(spec), wantedKey });
-      }
-    }
-  }
-  if (serving.mode !== "manual" && ceiling) {
-    for (const rung of buildResolutionLadder(ceiling.w, ceiling.h).filter((one) => one.height < height)) {
-      if (!machineCan(rung.width, rung.height)) {
-        continue;
-      }
-      for (const spec of formatsAt(rung.width, rung.height)) {
-        if (!admittedByMachine(spec)) {
-          continue;
-        }
-        anySizeHeld = true;
-        const answer = judge(spec);
-        if (answer.admitted) {
-          return given(spec, answer, { budget: budgetFor(spec), wantedKey });
-        }
-      }
-    }
-  }
-  if (!anySizeHeld) {
-    // Not the viewer's link: this machine. Said apart, because the answer to
-    // it is another proxy, found before anything plays.
-    return {
-      ...refused(
-        wantedSpec,
-        null,
-        machineRefusal?.reason ?? `this machine has not shown it can re-encode this picture at ${width}x${height}@${fps} or any size below it`,
-        { budget, wantedKey }
-      ),
-      unavailable: {
-        reason: machineRefusal?.reason ?? `this machine has not shown it can re-encode this picture at ${width}x${height}@${fps} or any size below it`,
-        figures: {
-          width,
-          height,
-          fps,
-          encoder: encoder.name,
-          ...(Number.isFinite(machineRefusal?.speedX) ? { speedX: Number(machineRefusal.speedX.toFixed(3)) } : {})
-        },
-        bound: "machine"
-      }
-    };
-  }
-  const wantedAnswer = judge(wantedSpec);
-  return refused(
-    wantedSpec,
-    wantedAnswer,
-    linkRefusalReason(
-      wantedAnswer,
-      serving.mode === "manual"
-        ? "no limit of the size picked is admitted by this viewer's link"
-        : "no size and limit this viewer's ladder offers is admitted by their link"
-    ),
-    { budget, wantedKey }
-  );
-}
+/**
+ * @file The format an output produces, decided before it is named — because
+ * the name IS the format (decided with the user 2026-09-16).
+ *
+ * A copy is the source's own picture. A re-encode is which encoder, the size,
+ * the frame rate, the speed setting, whether HDR is tone mapped, and the rate
+ * control:
+ *
+ * 1. a size produced exactly — every rung of a master — is the box asked for,
+ *    fitted to the source, and only its speed setting is chosen;
+ * 2. a size left to the budget is the highest rung of the viewer's own ladder
+ *    this machine holds, with the speed setting for that rung;
+ * 3. on a hardware encoder, or with no startup measurement, there is no ladder
+ *    to choose from and the box asked for is produced.
+ *
+ * The rate control is part of the format: a software encode is bounded at a
+ * limit from `limitsFor(frame)` — the nominal one until a set of lower limits
+ * is decided — or at the limit asked for (`capKbps`), and declared at the
+ * level of that size's nominal output. A hardware encoder is given no bound.
+ *
+ * AND THE VIEWER'S LINK DECIDES WHETHER IT MAY BE GIVEN AT ALL (roadmap item
+ * 97, step 11). Every format considered is judged by what this viewer's link
+ * does with its whole load — the picture and the soundtrack THEY chose
+ * (`link-budget.js`). In order:
+ *
+ * 1. an output already here that suits them (`serving-output.js`);
+ * 2. the size wanted, at the highest limit their link admits;
+ * 3. in AUTO only, a smaller rung of their ladder at the highest limit their
+ *    link admits — a smaller size proves nothing by itself;
+ * 4. otherwise NOTHING: the answer is `unavailable`, with the figures, and no
+ *    output is named. A format known not to fit is never handed over.
+ *
+ * Nothing here reads the machine or the disk: what it needs arrives as values
+ * and as functions over them.
+ */
+
+import { computeOutputDimensions, nominalKbpsFor, softwareRateControlFor } from "../args.js";
+import { buildResolutionLadder, canSustainOutput, pickSoftwarePreset } from "../hwaccel.js";
+import { OutputSpec } from "../output/OutputSpec.js";
+import { chooseServingOutput, nextRungAreaBelow, servingCandidates } from "./serving-output.js";
+import { linkAnswerFigures, linkCouldCarry, linkRefusalReason, loadOf, videoLoadOfSpec } from "./link-budget.js";
+
+/**
+ * @param {object} params
+ * @param {boolean} params.encodesPicture - The output carries a picture and re-encodes it.
+ * @param {boolean} params.exact - The size is produced exactly as asked.
+ * @param {{ width: number, height: number }} params.target - The box asked for; zeroes mean the source's.
+ * @param {{ width: number, height: number, megabitsPerSecond: number | null, decode: object | null }} params.source
+ * @param {number} params.fps
+ * @param {{ kind: string, name: string }} params.encoder
+ * @param {unknown} params.benchmark - The startup measurement of the software encoder, or null.
+ * @param {{ decodeModel: object | null, observedDecodeCostSec: number | null, requiredSpeed: number | null }} params.cost
+ * @param {(params: object) => object | null} params.chooseBudget - The realtime budget's ladder choice.
+ * @param {(spec: OutputSpec) => { admitted: boolean, reason: string, speedX: number | null }} [params.machineAdmission] -
+ *   The proxy's machine-wide capacity decision for a candidate output.
+ * @param {boolean} params.tonemap
+ * @param {number | null} [params.capKbps] - A nominal limit asked for outright;
+ *   above the size's own it is refused (`softwareRateControlFor`).
+ * @param {(frame: { width: number, height: number }) => number[]} [params.limitsFor] -
+ *   The nominal limits a frame may be produced at, highest first; the row is
+ *   chosen by the frame's area (`limitRowFor`).
+ * @param {import("./link-budget.js").LoadPart | null} [params.audioLoad] - The
+ *   soundtrack this viewer receives with the picture, from it or beside it.
+ * @param {(encode: object | null) => OutputSpec} params.specWith - The output
+ *   with this picture format and every other part as the request made it.
+ * @param {{ mode: "auto" | "manual", linkMbps: number | null, keys: Iterable<string>, readyAt: (key: string) => boolean, observedPeakMbps?: (spec: OutputSpec) => number | null }} params.serving
+ * @returns {{
+ *   spec: OutputSpec | null,
+ *   budget: object | null,
+ *   wantedKey: string,
+ *   reusedKey: string | null,
+ *   answer: object | null,
+ *   unavailable: { reason: string, figures: object | null } | null
+ * }}
+ */
+export function decideOutputFormat({
+  encodesPicture,
+  exact,
+  target,
+  source,
+  fps,
+  encoder,
+  benchmark,
+  cost,
+  chooseBudget,
+  tonemap,
+  capKbps = null,
+  limitsFor = (frame) => [nominalKbpsFor(frame)],
+  audioLoad = null,
+  specWith,
+  serving,
+  machineAdmission = null
+}) {
+  const judge = (spec) => linkCouldCarry(
+    serving.linkMbps,
+    loadOf(videoLoadOfSpec(spec, source.megabitsPerSecond, serving.observedPeakMbps?.(spec) ?? null), audioLoad)
+  );
+  const given = (spec, answer, extra = {}) => ({
+    spec,
+    budget: null,
+    wantedKey: spec.toKey(),
+    reusedKey: null,
+    answer,
+    unavailable: null,
+    ...extra
+  });
+  const refused = (spec, answer, reason, extra = {}) => ({
+    spec: null,
+    budget: null,
+    wantedKey: spec.toKey(),
+    reusedKey: null,
+    answer,
+    unavailable: { reason, figures: answer ? linkAnswerFigures(answer) : null, bound: "link" },
+    ...extra
+  });
+
+  if (!encodesPicture) {
+    const spec = specWith(null);
+    if (!spec.video) {
+      // A soundtrack on its own: the viewer's load was judged with the picture
+      // it plays beside, which counted this track.
+      return given(spec, null);
+    }
+    const answer = judge(spec);
+    return answer.admitted
+      ? given(spec, answer)
+      : refused(spec, answer, linkRefusalReason(answer, "the source's own picture is more than this viewer's link carries"));
+  }
+
+  const ceiling = computeOutputDimensions(target.width, target.height, source.width, source.height);
+  const budget = exact
+    ? null
+    : chooseBudget({
+        transcodeVideo: true,
+        targetWidth: target.width,
+        targetHeight: target.height,
+        sourceWidth: source.width,
+        sourceHeight: source.height,
+        outputFps: fps,
+        source: source.decode,
+        requiredSpeed: cost.requiredSpeed
+      });
+  const width = budget?.width ?? ceiling?.w ?? 0;
+  const height = budget?.height ?? ceiling?.h ?? 0;
+  const priced = {
+    decodeModel: cost.decodeModel,
+    source: source.decode,
+    observedDecodeCostSec: cost.observedDecodeCostSec,
+    requiredSpeed: cost.requiredSpeed
+  };
+  const software = encoder.kind === "software";
+  const measured = software && Boolean(benchmark);
+  // WHETHER THIS MACHINE HAS SHOWN IT CAN ENCODE THIS SIZE (roadmap item 97,
+  // step 14): a mode of this encoder qualified at startup, measured at this
+  // frame, and fast enough on its own for this source. A size that fails is not
+  // a format anybody is given here — not the one asked for, and not a lower
+  // one in its place. Whether the machine has room for it BESIDE what already
+  // runs is the admission's, asked when the output is opened.
+  const machineCan = (w, h) => {
+    if (!(w > 0 && h > 0)) {
+      return true; // no size to judge: the source's own, which the probe could not read
+    }
+    if (!Array.isArray(benchmark)) {
+      return true; // not calibrated: a wiring made without the startup calibration
+    }
+    if (benchmark.length === 0) {
+      return false; // calibrated, and no mode qualified
+    }
+    return canSustainOutput({ benchmark, ...priced, outputPixelsPerSec: w * h * fps, frame: { width: w, height: h } }).sustainable;
+  };
+  const presetFor = (w, h) => (budget && w === width && h === height
+    ? budget.preset
+    : measured && w > 0
+      ? pickSoftwarePreset(benchmark, w * h * fps, priced, { width: w, height: h })
+      : null);
+  const budgetFor = (spec) => {
+    const encode = spec.video?.encode;
+    if (!budget || !encode) {
+      return budget;
+    }
+    const rungIndex = budget.ladder?.findIndex((rung) =>
+      rung.width === encode.width && rung.height === encode.height
+    ) ?? budget.rungIndex;
+    return {
+      ...budget,
+      width: encode.width,
+      height: encode.height,
+      preset: encode.preset,
+      rungIndex: rungIndex >= 0 ? rungIndex : budget.rungIndex
+    };
+  };
+  // Every format at one size this viewer could be given, highest limit first.
+  // A hardware encoder is given no limit, so it has exactly one.
+  const formatsAt = (w, h) => {
+    const limits = !software || !(w > 0 && h > 0)
+      ? [null]
+      : capKbps !== null && capKbps !== undefined && w === width && h === height
+        ? [capKbps]
+        : limitsFor({ width: w, height: h });
+    return limits.map((limit) => specWith({
+      encoder: encoder.name,
+      width: w,
+      height: h,
+      fps,
+      preset: presetFor(w, h),
+      tonemap,
+      rateControl: limit === null ? null : softwareRateControlFor({ width: w, height: h, fps, capKbps: limit })
+    }));
+  };
+  const wantedFormats = formatsAt(width, height);
+  const wantedSpec = wantedFormats[0];
+  const wantedKey = wantedSpec.toKey();
+
+  // A LIMIT NAMED IN THE REQUEST IS WHAT WAS ASKED FOR, and no other output
+  // stands in for it. It is named when a viewer is being moved to another
+  // limit of the height they watch (roadmap item 97, step 12), and the output
+  // they are being moved OFF always suits them by the rule below — so letting
+  // the rule answer would hand them back the very output the move is for
+  // leaving. An output with exactly this limit is still reused: it has the same
+  // key, and the key is what `OutputOpening` looks up.
+  const limitNamed = capKbps !== null && capKbps !== undefined;
+  if (ceiling && !limitNamed) {
+    const served = chooseServingOutput({
+      mode: serving.mode,
+      wanted: { width, height },
+      nextLowerArea: nextRungAreaBelow(buildResolutionLadder(ceiling.w, ceiling.h), height),
+      atRisk: measured && !canSustainOutput({ benchmark, ...priced, outputPixelsPerSec: width * height * fps, frame: { width, height } }).sustainable,
+      judge: (candidate) => judge(candidate.spec),
+      candidates: servingCandidates({
+        wanted: wantedSpec,
+        keys: serving.keys,
+        source,
+        encoderName: encoder.name,
+        readyAt: serving.readyAt
+      })
+    });
+    if (served && served.key !== wantedKey) {
+      return given(OutputSpec.fromKey(served.key), served.answer, { budget, wantedKey, reusedKey: served.key });
+    }
+  }
+
+  let anySizeHeld = false;
+  let machineRefusal = null;
+  const admittedByMachine = (spec) => {
+    if (!machineCan(spec.video?.encode?.width ?? 0, spec.video?.encode?.height ?? 0)) {
+      return false;
+    }
+    const answer = typeof machineAdmission === "function" ? machineAdmission(spec) : null;
+    if (answer?.admitted === false) {
+      machineRefusal ??= answer;
+      return false;
+    }
+    return true;
+  };
+  if (machineCan(width, height)) {
+    for (const spec of wantedFormats) {
+      if (!admittedByMachine(spec)) {
+        continue;
+      }
+      anySizeHeld = true;
+      const answer = judge(spec);
+      if (answer.admitted) {
+        return given(spec, answer, { budget: budgetFor(spec), wantedKey });
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  if (serving.mode !== "manual" && ceiling) {
+    for (const rung of buildResolutionLadder(ceiling.w, ceiling.h).filter((one) => one.height < height)) {
+      if (!machineCan(rung.width, rung.height)) {
+        continue;
+      }
+      for (const spec of formatsAt(rung.width, rung.height)) {
+        if (!admittedByMachine(spec)) {
+          continue;
+        }
+        anySizeHeld = true;
+        const answer = judge(spec);
+        if (answer.admitted) {
+          return given(spec, answer, { budget: budgetFor(spec), wantedKey });
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  if (!anySizeHeld) {
+    // Not the viewer's link: this machine. Said apart, because the answer to
+    // it is another proxy, found before anything plays.
+    return {
+      ...refused(
+        wantedSpec,
+        null,
+        machineRefusal?.reason ?? `this machine has not shown it can re-encode this picture at ${width}x${height}@${fps} or any size below it`,
+        { budget, wantedKey }
+      ),
+      unavailable: {
+        reason: machineRefusal?.reason ?? `this machine has not shown it can re-encode this picture at ${width}x${height}@${fps} or any size below it`,
+        figures: {
+          width,
+          height,
+          fps,
+          encoder: encoder.name,
+          ...(Number.isFinite(machineRefusal?.speedX) ? { speedX: Number(machineRefusal.speedX.toFixed(3)) } : {})
+        },
+        bound: "machine"
+      }
+    };
+  }
+  const wantedAnswer = judge(wantedSpec);
+  return refused(
+    wantedSpec,
+    wantedAnswer,
+    linkRefusalReason(
+      wantedAnswer,
+      serving.mode === "manual"
+        ? "no limit of the size picked is admitted by this viewer's link"
+        : "no size and limit this viewer's ladder offers is admitted by their link"
+    ),
+    { budget, wantedKey }
+  );
+}