@torrent-tv/proxy 2.89.7 → 2.89.8

package/test/decode-cost.test.js

@@ -1,475 +1,475 @@
-/**
- * @file What a re-encode costs on this host, decoding included.
- *
- * The budget used to price the encoder alone. Measured on the addon host
- * 2026-08-14, that made it offer a 240p rung it then ran at 0.388-0.947x while
- * claiming the host cleared the bar 2.5 times over — the error on that rung was
- * 209 %. The decode term brings a controlled measurement to within 5 %.
- *
- * WHAT IS ASSERTED HERE IS ARITHMETIC, over constants that were measured once
- * on the addon host and written down. The live benchmark used to run here too —
- * on the reasoning that a fit which only ever meets invented numbers can be
- * wrong in every way that matters — and it could not be asserted about: a clip
- * that "said nothing" under load makes the whole benchmark answer with nothing,
- * so the very first line of that test failed by luck. The orderings it was for
- * are held over the fit itself, deterministically, in `decode-cost-fit.test.js`.
- *
- * What no test covers as a result is the live path — lifting a clip out of its
- * container, feeding it through the pipe, reading the slope. That is integration
- * over real ffmpeg, and it belongs to a stand run before a release rather than
- * to a check that measures whatever else the machine was doing (roadmap item
- * 52).
- */
-
-import test from "node:test";
-import assert from "node:assert/strict";
-import { Timeline } from "../services/encode/output/Timeline.js";
-import { createRequire } from "node:module";
-import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
-import { mkdtemp, rm } from "node:fs/promises";
-import { decodeCostOf, decodeFamilyOf } from "../services/encode/decode-cost-fit.js";
-import { Output } from "../services/encode/output/Output.js";
-import { outputSpec } from "./helpers/output-spec.js";
-import os from "node:os";
-import path from "node:path";
-import {
-  canSustainOutput,
-  decodeSpeedFor,
-  predictedRealtimeSpeed,
-  speedBar
-} from "../services/encode/hwaccel.js";
-import { wireOutputs } from "../services/server/wire-outputs.js";
-import { SourceFile, sourceDecodeCharacteristics } from "../services/media/SourceFile.js";
-import { parseFfmpegBitrateKbps, parseFfmpegVideoDimensions, parseFfmpegVideoFps } from "../services/media/ffmpeg-banner.js";
-import { fmp4Format } from "../services/encode/segment-formats/fmp4.js";
-
-const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
-const ffmpegBin = require("ffmpeg-static");
-const CALIBRATION_DIR = path.join(import.meta.dirname, "..", "assets", "calibration");
-
-// The constants measured on the addon host (CM4) on 2026-08-14. Used here as
-// a fixed host, so the arithmetic can be checked against figures that were
-// measured rather than against figures this test invented.
-const ADDON_HOST_MODEL = { pixelTerm: 0.005555, bitrateTerm: 0.00990, constantTerm: 0.0572 };
-// The film measured that day: 1920x1080 at 24 fps, about 8 Mbit/s.
-const MEASURED_FILM = { megapixelsPerSecond: (1920 * 1080 * 24) / 1e6, megabitsPerSecond: 8 };
-
-test("decode cost prices the film it was checked against", () => {
-  const speed = decodeSpeedFor(ADDON_HOST_MODEL, MEASURED_FILM);
-
-  // 0.005555 x 49.77 + 0.00990 x 8 + 0.0572 = 0.4129 s per second of video.
-  assert.ok(Math.abs(1 / speed - 0.4129) < 0.001, `cost was ${(1 / speed).toFixed(4)} s/s`);
-  // Measured that day: 0.434 s/s. The claim is 5 %, not exactness.
-  assert.ok(Math.abs(1 / speed - 0.434) / 0.434 < 0.05);
-});
-
-test("decoding and encoding share the machine, so their speeds combine", () => {
-  // The rung that broke playback: 240p at 24 fps, encoded at 5.99x by the
-  // measurement, decoded at 2.31x. Measured combined speed was 1.48x.
-  const outputPixelsPerSec = 426 * 240 * 24;
-  const speed = predictedRealtimeSpeed({
-    decodeModel: { pixelTerm: 0, bitrateTerm: 0, constantTerm: 1 / 2.31 },
-    encodePixelsPerSec: outputPixelsPerSec * 5.99,
-    outputPixelsPerSec,
-    source: MEASURED_FILM
-  });
-
-  assert.ok(Math.abs(speed - 1.67) < 0.01, `predicted ${speed.toFixed(2)}x`);
-  // 1.67 against the 1.48x that rung measured under a controlled encode: 12.8 %
-  // out. The figure is pinned so a change to the combination has to state what
-  // it does to it.
-  assert.ok(Math.abs(speed - 1.48) / 1.48 < 0.13);
-});
-
-test("with no decode fit the prediction is the encoder alone — what it was before", () => {
-  const outputPixelsPerSec = 426 * 240 * 24;
-  const speed = predictedRealtimeSpeed({
-    decodeModel: null,
-    encodePixelsPerSec: outputPixelsPerSec * 5.99,
-    outputPixelsPerSec,
-    source: MEASURED_FILM
-  });
-
-  assert.equal(speed, 5.99, "the old figure, four times the truth on that rung");
-});
-
-test("a rung is refused when the combined speed is under the bar", () => {
-  // The addon host's fastest preset, read from its own log: 11.2 Mpx/s.
-  const benchmark = [{ preset: "ultrafast", pixelsPerSec: 11.2e6 }];
-  const source = MEASURED_FILM;
-
-  const heavy = canSustainOutput({
-    benchmark,
-    decodeModel: ADDON_HOST_MODEL,
-    source,
-    outputPixelsPerSec: 1280 * 720 * 24
-  });
-  assert.equal(heavy.sustainable, false, "720p needs 22 Mpx/s from an 11.2 Mpx/s host");
-  assert.ok(heavy.speed < 1, `predicted ${heavy.speed.toFixed(2)}x`);
-
-  // The 240p rung of that film predicts 1.58x on an idle machine, and with
-  // nothing known about the swarm the bar is realtime, so it is offered.
-  const light = canSustainOutput({
-    benchmark,
-    decodeModel: ADDON_HOST_MODEL,
-    source,
-    outputPixelsPerSec: 426 * 240 * 24
-  });
-  assert.ok(Math.abs(light.speed - 1.58) < 0.01, `predicted ${light.speed.toFixed(2)}x`);
-  assert.equal(light.sustainable, true);
-});
-
-test("the bar is what this file's own supply demands, when it has been measured", () => {
-  // The field torrent of 2026-08-17: waits of 1.49 s median arriving every
-  // 2.22 s demand 1.67x of any step that is to survive them. The same 240p rung
-  // predicted at 1.58x clears realtime and does not clear that.
-  const benchmark = [{ preset: "ultrafast", pixelsPerSec: 11.2e6 }];
-  const rung = {
-    benchmark,
-    decodeModel: ADDON_HOST_MODEL,
-    source: MEASURED_FILM,
-    outputPixelsPerSec: 426 * 240 * 24
-  };
-  assert.equal(canSustainOutput({ ...rung, requiredSpeed: 1.67 }).sustainable, false);
-  assert.equal(canSustainOutput({ ...rung, requiredSpeed: 1.2 }).sustainable, true);
-  // A swarm that has not been measured cannot raise the bar, and cannot lower
-  // it below realtime either.
-  assert.equal(speedBar(null), 1);
-  assert.equal(speedBar(0.4), 1);
-  assert.equal(speedBar(1.67), 1.67);
-});
-
-test("a reading from the running encoder outranks the model of the clips", () => {
-  // The field case, 2026-08-14: the 240p rung of that film ran at 0.95x at its
-  // best on a host whose fastest preset benchmarked at 11.2 Mpx/s. Subtracting
-  // the encode half of that reading leaves what the SOURCE costs to decode
-  // there — 0.83 s per second of video, i.e. 1.20x — which is four times what
-  // the H.264 clips predicted for it, and is the truth about this file.
-  const benchmark = [{ preset: "ultrafast", pixelsPerSec: 11.2e6 }];
-  const observedDecodeCostSec = 1 / 0.95 - (426 * 240 * 24) / 11.2e6;
-  assert.ok(Math.abs(observedDecodeCostSec - 0.8335) < 0.001);
-
-  const withObservation = canSustainOutput({
-    benchmark,
-    decodeModel: ADDON_HOST_MODEL,
-    source: MEASURED_FILM,
-    outputPixelsPerSec: 426 * 240 * 24,
-    observedDecodeCostSec
-  });
-
-  // The same rung the clip model called 1.58x and admitted is now priced at
-  // 0.95x — the speed it was actually seen to run at — and refused.
-  assert.ok(Math.abs(withObservation.speed - 0.95) < 0.01, `priced ${withObservation.speed.toFixed(2)}x`);
-  assert.equal(withObservation.sustainable, false);
-});
-
-test("an observation prices a host whose clips were never fitted", () => {
-  // No model at all — clips missing, or a fit rejected. Before an observation
-  // nothing can be refused; after one, the same rung is priced and refused.
-  const benchmark = [{ preset: "ultrafast", pixelsPerSec: 11.2e6 }];
-  const outputPixelsPerSec = 426 * 240 * 24;
-
-  const unpriced = canSustainOutput({
-    benchmark,
-    decodeModel: null,
-    source: MEASURED_FILM,
-    outputPixelsPerSec
-  });
-  assert.deepEqual(unpriced, { speed: null, sustainable: true });
-
-  const priced = canSustainOutput({
-    benchmark,
-    decodeModel: null,
-    source: MEASURED_FILM,
-    outputPixelsPerSec,
-    observedDecodeCostSec: 0.8335
-  });
-  assert.equal(priced.sustainable, false);
-  assert.ok(priced.speed < 1, `priced ${priced.speed?.toFixed(2)}x`);
-});
-
-test("not calibrated means nothing judged; calibrated with nothing qualified means refused", () => {
-  const uncalibrated = canSustainOutput({
-    benchmark: null,
-    decodeModel: null,
-    source: null,
-    outputPixelsPerSec: 1920 * 1080 * 24
-  });
-  assert.deepEqual(uncalibrated, { speed: null, sustainable: true });
-
-  const nothingQualified = canSustainOutput({
-    benchmark: [],
-    decodeModel: null,
-    source: null,
-    outputPixelsPerSec: 1920 * 1080 * 24
-  });
-  assert.deepEqual(nothingQualified, { speed: null, sustainable: false });
-});
-
-test("a real ffmpeg banner reads into the figures the budget prices", async () => {
-  // The chain a session actually runs: ffmpeg prints its banner, the four
-  // readers take the four facts out of it, and `sourceDecodeCharacteristics`
-  // turns them into the two the fit uses. Run against a real file, because the
-  // bitrate reader is new and a banner is the one input nobody can invent
-  // faithfully.
-  const stderr = await new Promise((resolve) => {
-    let text = "";
-    const child = spawn(
-      ffmpegBin,
-      ["-hide_banner", "-loglevel", "info", "-i", path.join(CALIBRATION_DIR, "cal-h264-720-hi.mp4"), "-t", "0.1", "-f", "null", "-"],
-      { stdio: ["ignore", "ignore", "pipe"], windowsHide: true }
-    );
-    child.stderr.on("data", (chunk) => {
-      text += String(chunk);
-    });
-    child.on("close", () => resolve(text));
-  });
-
-  // The VIDEO stream's rate (9940), not the container's (9946). On a clip that
-  // carries nothing else the two differ only by container overhead; on a film
-  // with two AC-3 tracks they differ by the whole of the audio, and the fit
-  // these figures feed was made from clips decoded with `-an`.
-  assert.equal(parseFfmpegBitrateKbps(stderr), 9940, "the video stream's own bitrate, in kb/s");
-  const dimensions = parseFfmpegVideoDimensions(stderr);
-  const figures = sourceDecodeCharacteristics({
-    width: dimensions.width,
-    height: dimensions.height,
-    fps: parseFfmpegVideoFps(stderr),
-    bitrateKbps: parseFfmpegBitrateKbps(stderr)
-  });
-  assert.ok(Math.abs(figures.megapixelsPerSecond - (1280 * 720 * 24) / 1e6) < 0.01);
-  assert.ok(Math.abs(figures.megabitsPerSecond - 9.94) < 0.001);
-});
-
-test("the video stream's bitrate is preferred, and the output's is never read", () => {
-  // A real banner states three rates: the container's, the input video
-  // stream's, and — below "Stream mapping:" — the one ffmpeg is about to
-  // produce. Only the middle one describes the source.
-  const banner = [
-    "  Duration: 01:31:19.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 9500 kb/s",
-    "  Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1920x1080, 7800 kb/s, 23.98 fps",
-    "  Stream #0:1: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1, fltp, 640 kb/s",
-    "Stream mapping:",
-    "  Stream #0:0(und): Video: wrapped_avframe, yuv420p, 1920x1080, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 24 fps"
-  ].join("\n");
-  assert.equal(parseFfmpegBitrateKbps(banner), 7800);
-
-  // No per-stream rate: the container's stands in, as it always did.
-  const noStreamRate = [
-    "  Duration: 00:10:00.00, bitrate: 4200 kb/s",
-    "  Stream #0:0: Video: hevc (Main 10), yuv420p10le, 1920x1080, 23.98 fps"
-  ].join("\n");
-  assert.equal(parseFfmpegBitrateKbps(noStreamRate), 4200);
-});
-
-test("a banner with no bitrate reads as no bitrate, not as zero", () => {
-  assert.equal(parseFfmpegBitrateKbps("Duration: 00:01:00.00, start: 0.000000\n"), null);
-  assert.equal(parseFfmpegBitrateKbps(""), null);
-  assert.equal(parseFfmpegBitrateKbps("Duration: 00:01:00.00, start: 0.000, bitrate: 8000 kb/s"), 8000);
-});
-
-test("the source's decode figures come off the probe, or not at all", () => {
-  assert.deepEqual(sourceDecodeCharacteristics({ width: 1920, height: 1080, fps: 24, bitrateKbps: 8000 }), {
-    megapixelsPerSecond: (1920 * 1080 * 24) / 1e6,
-    megabitsPerSecond: 8,
-    // Which measurement of this host applies. Absent on the probe means absent
-    // here — the caller then prices the source as H.264 8-bit, which is what
-    // every source was priced as before the model was fitted per family.
-    codec: "",
-    bitDepth: null
-  });
-  assert.deepEqual(
-    sourceDecodeCharacteristics({ width: 1920, height: 1080, fps: 24, bitrateKbps: 8000, codec: "hevc", bitDepth: 10 }),
-    {
-      megapixelsPerSecond: (1920 * 1080 * 24) / 1e6,
-      megabitsPerSecond: 8,
-      codec: "hevc",
-      bitDepth: 10
-    }
-  );
-  assert.equal(sourceDecodeCharacteristics({ width: 1920, height: 1080, fps: 24, bitrateKbps: null }), null);
-  assert.equal(sourceDecodeCharacteristics(null), null);
-});
-
-test("the OFFER drops the rungs the host cannot hold, and the master keeps addressing them", async (t) => {
-  const dirPath = await mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "decode-cost-"));
-  const manager = wireOutputs({
-    enabled: true,
-    ffmpegBin: "ffmpeg",
-    localBindHost: "127.0.0.1",
-    localPort: 9090,
-    // A host that can encode a little: 3 Mpx/s, so only the smallest rungs of a
-    // 1080p source can be produced faster than they are watched.
-    softwarePresetBenchmark: [{ preset: "ultrafast", pixelsPerSec: 3e6 }],
-    decodeCostModel: ADDON_HOST_MODEL
-  });
-  t.after(async () => {
-    await manager.lifecycle.disposeAll();
-    await rm(dirPath, { recursive: true, force: true });
-  });
-
-  const session = {
-    id: "ccccccccddddeeee",
-    spec: outputSpec({ transcodeVideo: false, cutGrid: "keyframe" }),
-    dirPath,
-    // Where this file is cut, held by the file. A fixture that stated it
-    // on the session was describing what production no longer does.
-    timeline: new Timeline({
-      boundaries: Array.from({ length: 101 }, (_, index) => index * 4),
-      cutGrid: "keyframe"
-    }),
-    state: "ready",
-    // The file's own facts: the picture's size, and what decoding it costs,
-    // which is derived from them rather than stated beside them. These are the
-    // measured film of MEASURED_FILM above — 1080p24 at 8 Mbit/s.
-    file: new SourceFile({ sourceKey: "source-1", fileIndex: 0, name: "video.mkv" }).learn({
-      width: 1920,
-      height: 1080,
-      fps: 24,
-      bitrateKbps: 8000
-    }),
-    // An ordinary session reads its own file, and its sound is inside it. The
-    // three differ only for a soundtrack shipped as a file of its own.
-    get inputFile() { return this.file; },
-    get audioFile() { return this.file; },
-    startedAt: Date.now(),
-    lastAccessedAt: Date.now(),
-    ffmpeg: null,
-    lastError: "",
-    consumers: new Set(),
-    segmentFormat: fmp4Format,
-    transcodeVideo: false,
-    transcodeAudio: true,
-    audioTrackIndex: 0,
-    // A copy can only be cut where the source already has a keyframe, and a
-    // master is offered only when that grid is real.
-    // The shape this output is encoded AS, decided once for the output.
-    output: new Output({
-      encodeWidth: 0,
-      encodeHeight: 0,
-      outputFps: 24,
-      softwarePreset: null,
-      applyTonemap: false
-    }),
-    usesExplicitCuts: true,
-    useSyntheticPlaylist: true,
-    playlistText: "#EXTM3U\n",
-    segmentCount: 100,
-    progress: { state: "running", processedSeconds: 0, startPositionSeconds: 0 }
-  };
-  manager.outputs.set(session.id, session);
-
-  assert.deepEqual(
-    manager.quality.offeredHeights(session),
-    [1080],
-    "every rung under the copy runs below realtime here, so there is nothing to switch to"
-  );
-  // The master is NOT that answer. It says which rungs can be spliced onto this
-  // cut grid, which is a fact about the file, and it has to hold still for the
-  // session's life: the browser is handed its address at creation, and a live
-  // figure that withdrew it left a session answering 404 to itself (field
-  // 2026-08-18, "Moana (2016).mkv" — nothing played at all).
-  const weakMaster = manager.renditions.buildMasterPlaylist(session.id);
-  assert.ok(weakMaster, "published once, whatever the host is managing this second");
-  assert.deepEqual(
-    [...weakMaster.matchAll(/^v\/(\d+)\/index\.m3u8$/gm)].map((match) => Number(match[1])),
-    [1080, 720, 540, 480, 360, 240],
-    "the ladder of the source, addressable — the menu the viewer sees is offeredHeights"
-  );
-
-  // A host with a little more encoder keeps the rungs it can actually hold. A
-  // second host, because the encoder's measured modes are a fact the host is
-  // started with — read through the encoder in use, never assigned later — and
-  // a second session on it, because the answer is settled once per session.
-  const strongerHost = wireOutputs({
-    enabled: true,
-    ffmpegBin: "ffmpeg",
-    localBindHost: "127.0.0.1",
-    localPort: 9090,
-    softwarePresetBenchmark: [{ preset: "ultrafast", pixelsPerSec: 12e6 }],
-    decodeCostModel: ADDON_HOST_MODEL
-  });
-  t.after(() => strongerHost.lifecycle.disposeAll());
-  const stronger = { ...session, id: "ddddddddeeeeffff", offeredHeightsCache: undefined };
-  strongerHost.outputs.set(stronger.id, stronger);
-  assert.deepEqual(
-    strongerHost.quality.offeredHeights(stronger),
-    [1080, 360, 240],
-    "nothing is known about this swarm, so the bar is realtime"
-  );
-  const master = strongerHost.renditions.buildMasterPlaylist(stronger.id);
-  assert.ok(master, "1080p copied plus every rung that can be spliced beside it");
-  assert.deepEqual(
-    [...master.matchAll(/^v\/(\d+)\/index\.m3u8$/gm)].map((match) => Number(match[1])),
-    [1080, 720, 540, 480, 360, 240],
-    "the same published set as before: what the host manages is the offer's business, not the document's"
-  );
-
-  // The same host, once the reader has measured what this file's supply
-  // demands: waits arriving as they did on the field torrent of 2026-08-17 ask
-  // 1.67x of any step, and the rungs that only just cleared realtime go.
-  // What the supply demands is a fact of the FILE, measured by its reader
-  // (1 + worst wait 1.49 s / median interval 2.22 s, twelve waits), and it is
-  // asked of the host's load by the file — not read off a session.
-  strongerHost.hostLoad.requiredSpeedFor = () => 1.67;
-  const onAThinSwarm = {
-    ...stronger,
-    id: "eeeeeeeeffff0000",
-    offeredHeightsCache: undefined
-  };
-  strongerHost.outputs.set(onAThinSwarm.id, onAThinSwarm);
-  assert.deepEqual(
-    strongerHost.quality.offeredHeights(onAThinSwarm),
-    [1080],
-    "the copied height costs no encoder and stays; nothing re-encoded survives that supply"
-  );
-});
-
-test("a source is priced by its own codec family when that family was measured", () => {
-  // A model as the startup benchmark now returns it: H.264 terms at the top
-  // level, for a caller that knows nothing about codecs, and the measured
-  // families beside them.
-  const model = {
-    pixelTerm: 0.006, bitrateTerm: 0.012, constantTerm: 0,
-    families: {
-      h264: { pixelTerm: 0.006, bitrateTerm: 0.012, constantTerm: 0 },
-      hevc: { pixelTerm: 0.011, bitrateTerm: 0.020, constantTerm: 0 },
-      hevc10: { pixelTerm: 0.017, bitrateTerm: 0.026, constantTerm: 0 }
-    }
-  };
-  const rates = { megapixelsPerSecond: 50, megabitsPerSecond: 9 };
-  const asH264 = decodeCostOf(model, { ...rates, codec: "h264", bitDepth: 8 });
-  const asHevc = decodeCostOf(model, { ...rates, codec: "hevc", bitDepth: 8 });
-  const asHevc10 = decodeCostOf(model, { ...rates, codec: "hevc", bitDepth: 10 });
-  assert.equal(Number(asH264.toFixed(4)), 0.408);
-  assert.equal(Number(asHevc.toFixed(4)), 0.73);
-  assert.equal(Number(asHevc10.toFixed(4)), 1.084);
-  // The whole point: the same file costs more as HEVC than as H.264, and more
-  // again at ten bits. A single fit could not say that.
-  assert.ok(asHevc > asH264 && asHevc10 > asHevc);
-});
-
-test("a family with no clips is priced as H.264, and a model with no families still works", () => {
-  const withFamilies = {
-    pixelTerm: 0.006, bitrateTerm: 0.012, constantTerm: 0,
-    families: { h264: { pixelTerm: 0.006, bitrateTerm: 0.012, constantTerm: 0 } }
-  };
-  const rates = { megapixelsPerSecond: 50, megabitsPerSecond: 9 };
-  // AV1 has no set of its own yet.
-  assert.equal(
-    decodeCostOf(withFamilies, { ...rates, codec: "av1", bitDepth: 8 }),
-    decodeCostOf(withFamilies, { ...rates, codec: "h264", bitDepth: 8 })
-  );
-  // And a flat model — every model before this release — is unchanged.
-  const flat = { pixelTerm: 0.006, bitrateTerm: 0.012, constantTerm: 0 };
-  assert.equal(decodeCostOf(flat, { ...rates, codec: "hevc", bitDepth: 10 }), 0.408);
-});
-
-test("the family is chosen by codec and depth, and unknown names fall to H.264", () => {
-  assert.equal(decodeFamilyOf({ codec: "hevc", bitDepth: 8 }), "hevc");
-  assert.equal(decodeFamilyOf({ codec: "HEVC", bitDepth: 10 }), "hevc10");
-  assert.equal(decodeFamilyOf({ codec: "h265", bitDepth: 12 }), "hevc10");
-  assert.equal(decodeFamilyOf({ codec: "h264", bitDepth: 10 }), "h264");
-  assert.equal(decodeFamilyOf({ codec: "vc1", bitDepth: null }), "h264");
-  assert.equal(decodeFamilyOf({}), "h264");
-});
+/**
+ * @file What a re-encode costs on this host, decoding included.
+ *
+ * The budget used to price the encoder alone. Measured on the addon host
+ * 2026-08-14, that made it offer a 240p rung it then ran at 0.388-0.947x while
+ * claiming the host cleared the bar 2.5 times over — the error on that rung was
+ * 209 %. The decode term brings a controlled measurement to within 5 %.
+ *
+ * WHAT IS ASSERTED HERE IS ARITHMETIC, over constants that were measured once
+ * on the addon host and written down. The live benchmark used to run here too —
+ * on the reasoning that a fit which only ever meets invented numbers can be
+ * wrong in every way that matters — and it could not be asserted about: a clip
+ * that "said nothing" under load makes the whole benchmark answer with nothing,
+ * so the very first line of that test failed by luck. The orderings it was for
+ * are held over the fit itself, deterministically, in `decode-cost-fit.test.js`.
+ *
+ * What no test covers as a result is the live path — lifting a clip out of its
+ * container, feeding it through the pipe, reading the slope. That is integration
+ * over real ffmpeg, and it belongs to a stand run before a release rather than
+ * to a check that measures whatever else the machine was doing (roadmap item
+ * 52).
+ */
+
+import test from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { Timeline } from "../services/encode/output/Timeline.js";
+import { createRequire } from "node:module";
+import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
+import { mkdtemp, rm } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { decodeCostOf, decodeFamilyOf } from "../services/encode/decode-cost-fit.js";
+import { Output } from "../services/encode/output/Output.js";
+import { outputSpec } from "./helpers/output-spec.js";
+import os from "node:os";
+import path from "node:path";
+import {
+  canSustainOutput,
+  decodeSpeedFor,
+  predictedRealtimeSpeed,
+  speedBar
+} from "../services/encode/hwaccel.js";
+import { wireOutputs } from "../services/server/wire-outputs.js";
+import { SourceFile, sourceDecodeCharacteristics } from "../services/media/SourceFile.js";
+import { parseFfmpegBitrateKbps, parseFfmpegVideoDimensions, parseFfmpegVideoFps } from "../services/media/ffmpeg-banner.js";
+import { fmp4Format } from "../services/encode/segment-formats/fmp4.js";
+
+const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
+const ffmpegBin = require("ffmpeg-static");
+const CALIBRATION_DIR = path.join(import.meta.dirname, "..", "assets", "calibration");
+
+// The constants measured on the addon host (CM4) on 2026-08-14. Used here as
+// a fixed host, so the arithmetic can be checked against figures that were
+// measured rather than against figures this test invented.
+const ADDON_HOST_MODEL = { pixelTerm: 0.005555, bitrateTerm: 0.00990, constantTerm: 0.0572 };
+// The film measured that day: 1920x1080 at 24 fps, about 8 Mbit/s.
+const MEASURED_FILM = { megapixelsPerSecond: (1920 * 1080 * 24) / 1e6, megabitsPerSecond: 8 };
+
+test("decode cost prices the film it was checked against", () => {
+  const speed = decodeSpeedFor(ADDON_HOST_MODEL, MEASURED_FILM);
+
+  // 0.005555 x 49.77 + 0.00990 x 8 + 0.0572 = 0.4129 s per second of video.
+  assert.ok(Math.abs(1 / speed - 0.4129) < 0.001, `cost was ${(1 / speed).toFixed(4)} s/s`);
+  // Measured that day: 0.434 s/s. The claim is 5 %, not exactness.
+  assert.ok(Math.abs(1 / speed - 0.434) / 0.434 < 0.05);
+});
+
+test("decoding and encoding share the machine, so their speeds combine", () => {
+  // The rung that broke playback: 240p at 24 fps, encoded at 5.99x by the
+  // measurement, decoded at 2.31x. Measured combined speed was 1.48x.
+  const outputPixelsPerSec = 426 * 240 * 24;
+  const speed = predictedRealtimeSpeed({
+    decodeModel: { pixelTerm: 0, bitrateTerm: 0, constantTerm: 1 / 2.31 },
+    encodePixelsPerSec: outputPixelsPerSec * 5.99,
+    outputPixelsPerSec,
+    source: MEASURED_FILM
+  });
+
+  assert.ok(Math.abs(speed - 1.67) < 0.01, `predicted ${speed.toFixed(2)}x`);
+  // 1.67 against the 1.48x that rung measured under a controlled encode: 12.8 %
+  // out. The figure is pinned so a change to the combination has to state what
+  // it does to it.
+  assert.ok(Math.abs(speed - 1.48) / 1.48 < 0.13);
+});
+
+test("with no decode fit the prediction is the encoder alone — what it was before", () => {
+  const outputPixelsPerSec = 426 * 240 * 24;
+  const speed = predictedRealtimeSpeed({
+    decodeModel: null,
+    encodePixelsPerSec: outputPixelsPerSec * 5.99,
+    outputPixelsPerSec,
+    source: MEASURED_FILM
+  });
+
+  assert.equal(speed, 5.99, "the old figure, four times the truth on that rung");
+});
+
+test("a rung is refused when the combined speed is under the bar", () => {
+  // The addon host's fastest preset, read from its own log: 11.2 Mpx/s.
+  const benchmark = [{ preset: "ultrafast", pixelsPerSec: 11.2e6 }];
+  const source = MEASURED_FILM;
+
+  const heavy = canSustainOutput({
+    benchmark,
+    decodeModel: ADDON_HOST_MODEL,
+    source,
+    outputPixelsPerSec: 1280 * 720 * 24
+  });
+  assert.equal(heavy.sustainable, false, "720p needs 22 Mpx/s from an 11.2 Mpx/s host");
+  assert.ok(heavy.speed < 1, `predicted ${heavy.speed.toFixed(2)}x`);
+
+  // The 240p rung of that film predicts 1.58x on an idle machine, and with
+  // nothing known about the swarm the bar is realtime, so it is offered.
+  const light = canSustainOutput({
+    benchmark,
+    decodeModel: ADDON_HOST_MODEL,
+    source,
+    outputPixelsPerSec: 426 * 240 * 24
+  });
+  assert.ok(Math.abs(light.speed - 1.58) < 0.01, `predicted ${light.speed.toFixed(2)}x`);
+  assert.equal(light.sustainable, true);
+});
+
+test("the bar is what this file's own supply demands, when it has been measured", () => {
+  // The field torrent of 2026-08-17: waits of 1.49 s median arriving every
+  // 2.22 s demand 1.67x of any step that is to survive them. The same 240p rung
+  // predicted at 1.58x clears realtime and does not clear that.
+  const benchmark = [{ preset: "ultrafast", pixelsPerSec: 11.2e6 }];
+  const rung = {
+    benchmark,
+    decodeModel: ADDON_HOST_MODEL,
+    source: MEASURED_FILM,
+    outputPixelsPerSec: 426 * 240 * 24
+  };
+  assert.equal(canSustainOutput({ ...rung, requiredSpeed: 1.67 }).sustainable, false);
+  assert.equal(canSustainOutput({ ...rung, requiredSpeed: 1.2 }).sustainable, true);
+  // A swarm that has not been measured cannot raise the bar, and cannot lower
+  // it below realtime either.
+  assert.equal(speedBar(null), 1);
+  assert.equal(speedBar(0.4), 1);
+  assert.equal(speedBar(1.67), 1.67);
+});
+
+test("a reading from the running encoder outranks the model of the clips", () => {
+  // The field case, 2026-08-14: the 240p rung of that film ran at 0.95x at its
+  // best on a host whose fastest preset benchmarked at 11.2 Mpx/s. Subtracting
+  // the encode half of that reading leaves what the SOURCE costs to decode
+  // there — 0.83 s per second of video, i.e. 1.20x — which is four times what
+  // the H.264 clips predicted for it, and is the truth about this file.
+  const benchmark = [{ preset: "ultrafast", pixelsPerSec: 11.2e6 }];
+  const observedDecodeCostSec = 1 / 0.95 - (426 * 240 * 24) / 11.2e6;
+  assert.ok(Math.abs(observedDecodeCostSec - 0.8335) < 0.001);
+
+  const withObservation = canSustainOutput({
+    benchmark,
+    decodeModel: ADDON_HOST_MODEL,
+    source: MEASURED_FILM,
+    outputPixelsPerSec: 426 * 240 * 24,
+    observedDecodeCostSec
+  });
+
+  // The same rung the clip model called 1.58x and admitted is now priced at
+  // 0.95x — the speed it was actually seen to run at — and refused.
+  assert.ok(Math.abs(withObservation.speed - 0.95) < 0.01, `priced ${withObservation.speed.toFixed(2)}x`);
+  assert.equal(withObservation.sustainable, false);
+});
+
+test("an observation prices a host whose clips were never fitted", () => {
+  // No model at all — clips missing, or a fit rejected. Before an observation
+  // nothing can be refused; after one, the same rung is priced and refused.
+  const benchmark = [{ preset: "ultrafast", pixelsPerSec: 11.2e6 }];
+  const outputPixelsPerSec = 426 * 240 * 24;
+
+  const unpriced = canSustainOutput({
+    benchmark,
+    decodeModel: null,
+    source: MEASURED_FILM,
+    outputPixelsPerSec
+  });
+  assert.deepEqual(unpriced, { speed: null, sustainable: true });
+
+  const priced = canSustainOutput({
+    benchmark,
+    decodeModel: null,
+    source: MEASURED_FILM,
+    outputPixelsPerSec,
+    observedDecodeCostSec: 0.8335
+  });
+  assert.equal(priced.sustainable, false);
+  assert.ok(priced.speed < 1, `priced ${priced.speed?.toFixed(2)}x`);
+});
+
+test("not calibrated means nothing judged; calibrated with nothing qualified means refused", () => {
+  const uncalibrated = canSustainOutput({
+    benchmark: null,
+    decodeModel: null,
+    source: null,
+    outputPixelsPerSec: 1920 * 1080 * 24
+  });
+  assert.deepEqual(uncalibrated, { speed: null, sustainable: true });
+
+  const nothingQualified = canSustainOutput({
+    benchmark: [],
+    decodeModel: null,
+    source: null,
+    outputPixelsPerSec: 1920 * 1080 * 24
+  });
+  assert.deepEqual(nothingQualified, { speed: null, sustainable: false });
+});
+
+test("a real ffmpeg banner reads into the figures the budget prices", async () => {
+  // The chain a session actually runs: ffmpeg prints its banner, the four
+  // readers take the four facts out of it, and `sourceDecodeCharacteristics`
+  // turns them into the two the fit uses. Run against a real file, because the
+  // bitrate reader is new and a banner is the one input nobody can invent
+  // faithfully.
+  const stderr = await new Promise((resolve) => {
+    let text = "";
+    const child = spawn(
+      ffmpegBin,
+      ["-hide_banner", "-loglevel", "info", "-i", path.join(CALIBRATION_DIR, "cal-h264-720-hi.mp4"), "-t", "0.1", "-f", "null", "-"],
+      { stdio: ["ignore", "ignore", "pipe"], windowsHide: true }
+    );
+    child.stderr.on("data", (chunk) => {
+      text += String(chunk);
+    });
+    child.on("close", () => resolve(text));
+  });
+
+  // The VIDEO stream's rate (9940), not the container's (9946). On a clip that
+  // carries nothing else the two differ only by container overhead; on a film
+  // with two AC-3 tracks they differ by the whole of the audio, and the fit
+  // these figures feed was made from clips decoded with `-an`.
+  assert.equal(parseFfmpegBitrateKbps(stderr), 9940, "the video stream's own bitrate, in kb/s");
+  const dimensions = parseFfmpegVideoDimensions(stderr);
+  const figures = sourceDecodeCharacteristics({
+    width: dimensions.width,
+    height: dimensions.height,
+    fps: parseFfmpegVideoFps(stderr),
+    bitrateKbps: parseFfmpegBitrateKbps(stderr)
+  });
+  assert.ok(Math.abs(figures.megapixelsPerSecond - (1280 * 720 * 24) / 1e6) < 0.01);
+  assert.ok(Math.abs(figures.megabitsPerSecond - 9.94) < 0.001);
+});
+
+test("the video stream's bitrate is preferred, and the output's is never read", () => {
+  // A real banner states three rates: the container's, the input video
+  // stream's, and — below "Stream mapping:" — the one ffmpeg is about to
+  // produce. Only the middle one describes the source.
+  const banner = [
+    "  Duration: 01:31:19.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 9500 kb/s",
+    "  Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1920x1080, 7800 kb/s, 23.98 fps",
+    "  Stream #0:1: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1, fltp, 640 kb/s",
+    "Stream mapping:",
+    "  Stream #0:0(und): Video: wrapped_avframe, yuv420p, 1920x1080, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 24 fps"
+  ].join("\n");
+  assert.equal(parseFfmpegBitrateKbps(banner), 7800);
+
+  // No per-stream rate: the container's stands in, as it always did.
+  const noStreamRate = [
+    "  Duration: 00:10:00.00, bitrate: 4200 kb/s",
+    "  Stream #0:0: Video: hevc (Main 10), yuv420p10le, 1920x1080, 23.98 fps"
+  ].join("\n");
+  assert.equal(parseFfmpegBitrateKbps(noStreamRate), 4200);
+});
+
+test("a banner with no bitrate reads as no bitrate, not as zero", () => {
+  assert.equal(parseFfmpegBitrateKbps("Duration: 00:01:00.00, start: 0.000000\n"), null);
+  assert.equal(parseFfmpegBitrateKbps(""), null);
+  assert.equal(parseFfmpegBitrateKbps("Duration: 00:01:00.00, start: 0.000, bitrate: 8000 kb/s"), 8000);
+});
+
+test("the source's decode figures come off the probe, or not at all", () => {
+  assert.deepEqual(sourceDecodeCharacteristics({ width: 1920, height: 1080, fps: 24, bitrateKbps: 8000 }), {
+    megapixelsPerSecond: (1920 * 1080 * 24) / 1e6,
+    megabitsPerSecond: 8,
+    // Which measurement of this host applies. Absent on the probe means absent
+    // here — the caller then prices the source as H.264 8-bit, which is what
+    // every source was priced as before the model was fitted per family.
+    codec: "",
+    bitDepth: null
+  });
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    sourceDecodeCharacteristics({ width: 1920, height: 1080, fps: 24, bitrateKbps: 8000, codec: "hevc", bitDepth: 10 }),
+    {
+      megapixelsPerSecond: (1920 * 1080 * 24) / 1e6,
+      megabitsPerSecond: 8,
+      codec: "hevc",
+      bitDepth: 10
+    }
+  );
+  assert.equal(sourceDecodeCharacteristics({ width: 1920, height: 1080, fps: 24, bitrateKbps: null }), null);
+  assert.equal(sourceDecodeCharacteristics(null), null);
+});
+
+test("the OFFER drops the rungs the host cannot hold, and the master keeps addressing them", async (t) => {
+  const dirPath = await mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "decode-cost-"));
+  const manager = wireOutputs({
+    enabled: true,
+    ffmpegBin: "ffmpeg",
+    localBindHost: "127.0.0.1",
+    localPort: 9090,
+    // A host that can encode a little: 3 Mpx/s, so only the smallest rungs of a
+    // 1080p source can be produced faster than they are watched.
+    softwarePresetBenchmark: [{ preset: "ultrafast", pixelsPerSec: 3e6 }],
+    decodeCostModel: ADDON_HOST_MODEL
+  });
+  t.after(async () => {
+    await manager.lifecycle.disposeAll();
+    await rm(dirPath, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  const session = {
+    id: "ccccccccddddeeee",
+    spec: outputSpec({ transcodeVideo: false, cutGrid: "keyframe" }),
+    dirPath,
+    // Where this file is cut, held by the file. A fixture that stated it
+    // on the session was describing what production no longer does.
+    timeline: new Timeline({
+      boundaries: Array.from({ length: 101 }, (_, index) => index * 4),
+      cutGrid: "keyframe"
+    }),
+    state: "ready",
+    // The file's own facts: the picture's size, and what decoding it costs,
+    // which is derived from them rather than stated beside them. These are the
+    // measured film of MEASURED_FILM above — 1080p24 at 8 Mbit/s.
+    file: new SourceFile({ sourceKey: "source-1", fileIndex: 0, name: "video.mkv" }).learn({
+      width: 1920,
+      height: 1080,
+      fps: 24,
+      bitrateKbps: 8000
+    }),
+    // An ordinary session reads its own file, and its sound is inside it. The
+    // three differ only for a soundtrack shipped as a file of its own.
+    get inputFile() { return this.file; },
+    get audioFile() { return this.file; },
+    startedAt: Date.now(),
+    lastAccessedAt: Date.now(),
+    ffmpeg: null,
+    lastError: "",
+    consumers: new Set(),
+    segmentFormat: fmp4Format,
+    transcodeVideo: false,
+    transcodeAudio: true,
+    audioTrackIndex: 0,
+    // A copy can only be cut where the source already has a keyframe, and a
+    // master is offered only when that grid is real.
+    // The shape this output is encoded AS, decided once for the output.
+    output: new Output({
+      encodeWidth: 0,
+      encodeHeight: 0,
+      outputFps: 24,
+      softwarePreset: null,
+      applyTonemap: false
+    }),
+    usesExplicitCuts: true,
+    useSyntheticPlaylist: true,
+    playlistText: "#EXTM3U\n",
+    segmentCount: 100,
+    progress: { state: "running", processedSeconds: 0, startPositionSeconds: 0 }
+  };
+  manager.outputs.set(session.id, session);
+
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    manager.quality.offeredHeights(session),
+    [1080],
+    "every rung under the copy runs below realtime here, so there is nothing to switch to"
+  );
+  // The master is NOT that answer. It says which rungs can be spliced onto this
+  // cut grid, which is a fact about the file, and it has to hold still for the
+  // session's life: the browser is handed its address at creation, and a live
+  // figure that withdrew it left a session answering 404 to itself (field
+  // 2026-08-18, "Moana (2016).mkv" — nothing played at all).
+  const weakMaster = manager.renditions.buildMasterPlaylist(session.id);
+  assert.ok(weakMaster, "published once, whatever the host is managing this second");
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    [...weakMaster.matchAll(/^v\/(\d+)\/index\.m3u8$/gm)].map((match) => Number(match[1])),
+    [1080, 720, 540, 480, 360, 240],
+    "the ladder of the source, addressable — the menu the viewer sees is offeredHeights"
+  );
+
+  // A host with a little more encoder keeps the rungs it can actually hold. A
+  // second host, because the encoder's measured modes are a fact the host is
+  // started with — read through the encoder in use, never assigned later — and
+  // a second session on it, because the answer is settled once per session.
+  const strongerHost = wireOutputs({
+    enabled: true,
+    ffmpegBin: "ffmpeg",
+    localBindHost: "127.0.0.1",
+    localPort: 9090,
+    softwarePresetBenchmark: [{ preset: "ultrafast", pixelsPerSec: 12e6 }],
+    decodeCostModel: ADDON_HOST_MODEL
+  });
+  t.after(() => strongerHost.lifecycle.disposeAll());
+  const stronger = { ...session, id: "ddddddddeeeeffff", offeredHeightsCache: undefined };
+  strongerHost.outputs.set(stronger.id, stronger);
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    strongerHost.quality.offeredHeights(stronger),
+    [1080, 360, 240],
+    "nothing is known about this swarm, so the bar is realtime"
+  );
+  const master = strongerHost.renditions.buildMasterPlaylist(stronger.id);
+  assert.ok(master, "1080p copied plus every rung that can be spliced beside it");
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    [...master.matchAll(/^v\/(\d+)\/index\.m3u8$/gm)].map((match) => Number(match[1])),
+    [1080, 720, 540, 480, 360, 240],
+    "the same published set as before: what the host manages is the offer's business, not the document's"
+  );
+
+  // The same host, once the reader has measured what this file's supply
+  // demands: waits arriving as they did on the field torrent of 2026-08-17 ask
+  // 1.67x of any step, and the rungs that only just cleared realtime go.
+  // What the supply demands is a fact of the FILE, measured by its reader
+  // (1 + worst wait 1.49 s / median interval 2.22 s, twelve waits), and it is
+  // asked of the host's load by the file — not read off a session.
+  strongerHost.hostLoad.requiredSpeedFor = () => 1.67;
+  const onAThinSwarm = {
+    ...stronger,
+    id: "eeeeeeeeffff0000",
+    offeredHeightsCache: undefined
+  };
+  strongerHost.outputs.set(onAThinSwarm.id, onAThinSwarm);
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    strongerHost.quality.offeredHeights(onAThinSwarm),
+    [1080],
+    "the copied height costs no encoder and stays; nothing re-encoded survives that supply"
+  );
+});
+
+test("a source is priced by its own codec family when that family was measured", () => {
+  // A model as the startup benchmark now returns it: H.264 terms at the top
+  // level, for a caller that knows nothing about codecs, and the measured
+  // families beside them.
+  const model = {
+    pixelTerm: 0.006, bitrateTerm: 0.012, constantTerm: 0,
+    families: {
+      h264: { pixelTerm: 0.006, bitrateTerm: 0.012, constantTerm: 0 },
+      hevc: { pixelTerm: 0.011, bitrateTerm: 0.020, constantTerm: 0 },
+      hevc10: { pixelTerm: 0.017, bitrateTerm: 0.026, constantTerm: 0 }
+    }
+  };
+  const rates = { megapixelsPerSecond: 50, megabitsPerSecond: 9 };
+  const asH264 = decodeCostOf(model, { ...rates, codec: "h264", bitDepth: 8 });
+  const asHevc = decodeCostOf(model, { ...rates, codec: "hevc", bitDepth: 8 });
+  const asHevc10 = decodeCostOf(model, { ...rates, codec: "hevc", bitDepth: 10 });
+  assert.equal(Number(asH264.toFixed(4)), 0.408);
+  assert.equal(Number(asHevc.toFixed(4)), 0.73);
+  assert.equal(Number(asHevc10.toFixed(4)), 1.084);
+  // The whole point: the same file costs more as HEVC than as H.264, and more
+  // again at ten bits. A single fit could not say that.
+  assert.ok(asHevc > asH264 && asHevc10 > asHevc);
+});
+
+test("a family with no clips is priced as H.264, and a model with no families still works", () => {
+  const withFamilies = {
+    pixelTerm: 0.006, bitrateTerm: 0.012, constantTerm: 0,
+    families: { h264: { pixelTerm: 0.006, bitrateTerm: 0.012, constantTerm: 0 } }
+  };
+  const rates = { megapixelsPerSecond: 50, megabitsPerSecond: 9 };
+  // AV1 has no set of its own yet.
+  assert.equal(
+    decodeCostOf(withFamilies, { ...rates, codec: "av1", bitDepth: 8 }),
+    decodeCostOf(withFamilies, { ...rates, codec: "h264", bitDepth: 8 })
+  );
+  // And a flat model — every model before this release — is unchanged.
+  const flat = { pixelTerm: 0.006, bitrateTerm: 0.012, constantTerm: 0 };
+  assert.equal(decodeCostOf(flat, { ...rates, codec: "hevc", bitDepth: 10 }), 0.408);
+});
+
+test("the family is chosen by codec and depth, and unknown names fall to H.264", () => {
+  assert.equal(decodeFamilyOf({ codec: "hevc", bitDepth: 8 }), "hevc");
+  assert.equal(decodeFamilyOf({ codec: "HEVC", bitDepth: 10 }), "hevc10");
+  assert.equal(decodeFamilyOf({ codec: "h265", bitDepth: 12 }), "hevc10");
+  assert.equal(decodeFamilyOf({ codec: "h264", bitDepth: 10 }), "h264");
+  assert.equal(decodeFamilyOf({ codec: "vc1", bitDepth: null }), "h264");
+  assert.equal(decodeFamilyOf({}), "h264");
+});