nixamp 0.28.35 → 0.28.36

package/dist/server.js

@@ -904,7 +904,7 @@ export async function pullChannel(channels, ffprobe, id, name, source, input = [
     if (assumed)
         console.log(`  "${id}": the source would not say what it holds; carrying it as ${kind}.`);
     // A film has a length and a place to go back to; a live source has neither.
-    // A list is a station: joined where it is, and never seeked.
+    // Listeners join a playlist live; its producer resumes the saved entry and position.
     const playlist = known.playlist && known.playlist.length > 0 ? known.playlist : null;
     const live = playlist ? true : (known.live ?? !((codecs.duration ?? 0) > 0));
     const encode = kind === "video"
@@ -926,14 +926,12 @@ export async function pullChannel(channels, ffprobe, id, name, source, input = [
     // MP3's tags name the episode and the show, and "Inspiring Founders" is a
     // card; "ep-0412-final.mp3" is not.
     const tagged = looksLikeFileName(name) && codecs.tags?.title ? codecs.tags.title : name;
-    const channel = channels.pull(id, tagged, source, encode, kind, true, undefined, opening, kind === "video" ? audio : "", { live, position: known.position ?? 0, ...(playlist ? { playlist } : {}) }, 
+    const channel = channels.pull(id, tagged, source, encode, kind, true, undefined, opening, kind === "video" ? audio : "", { live, position: known.position ?? 0, ...(playlist ? { playlist, playlistAt: known.playlistAt ?? 0 } : {}) }, 
     // Known before the first dial: whether the source is a transport stream
     // decides whether it can be read here for a source-boundary relay.
     assumed ? undefined : codecs);
     if (channel && !assumed)
         channel.info.codecs = codecs;
-    if (channel && playlist && known.playlistAt !== undefined)
-        channel.info.playlistAt = known.playlistAt;
     if (channel) {
         // Its picture from wherever it came with one, and a line about it: what
         // was given, else the show and the album the file's own tags name.
@@ -965,7 +963,7 @@ export async function pullChannel(channels, ffprobe, id, name, source, input = [
     // told otherwise would cut fMP4 segments for a stream that did not need
     // them.
     if (channel && kind === "video") {
-        channel.info.emits = encode.includes("libx264") ? "h264" : codecs.video || "h264";
+        channel.info.emits = (playlist && playlist.length > 1 && playlist.every(one => !/^https?:\/\//i.test(one))) || encode.includes("libx264") ? "h264" : codecs.video || "h264";
     }
     return channel;
 }
@@ -5588,6 +5586,7 @@ export async function serve(argv, version = "0.1.0") {
     const outro = new Outro({ ffmpeg: tools.ffmpeg, dir: join(stateDir(), "outro"), onEvent: (message) => console.log(message) });
     const channels = new Channels({
         ffmpeg: tools.ffmpeg,
+        ffprobe: tools.ffprobe,
         ...(tools.carries ? { outro: (kind) => outro.clip(kind) } : {}),
         onOutro: (info) => console.log(`  "${info.id}" has ended; the outro plays for an hour.`),
         onStart: (info) => console.log(`  ${info.name} is publishing to "${info.id}" (${info.format} over ${info.via}).`),
@@ -5627,7 +5626,7 @@ export async function serve(argv, version = "0.1.0") {
     // every restart used to take CNN off the air until somebody noticed.
     const remembering = (list) => rememberChannels(stateDir(), options.port, list);
     for (const one of rememberedChannels(stateDir(), options.port)) {
-        const where = one.position && !one.live ? `, from ${Math.floor(one.position / 60)}m${Math.floor(one.position % 60)}s` : "";
+        const where = one.position && (!one.live || one.playlist?.length) ? `, from ${Math.floor(one.position / 60)}m${Math.floor(one.position % 60)}s` : "";
         console.log(`  Putting "${one.id}" (${one.name}) back on the air${where}.`);
         // With what was written down about it: what it holds, so the source is
         // not asked again, and where it had got to, so a film carries on.
@@ -5651,7 +5650,7 @@ export async function serve(argv, version = "0.1.0") {
     let lastRemembered = "";
     setInterval(() => {
         const now = rememberedNow(channels);
-        // A list moves on without a position: which entry is on is the thing to keep.
+        // Both the entry and its elapsed time advance during a directory live.
         if (!now.some((one) => one.position !== undefined || one.playlist))
             return;
         const text = JSON.stringify(now);

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "nixamp",
-  "version": "0.28.35",
+  "version": "0.28.36",
   "description": "It really whips the terminal's ass. A Winamp-shaped audio player for your terminal.",
   "license": "MIT",
   "type": "module",

package/src/audio.ts

@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ export interface Codecs {
  * answering other requests, and a synchronous probe per media request is how
  * the whole library came to be tagged with the process wedged solid.
  */
-export async function codecsOf(tools: Tools, path: string, input: string[] = []): Promise<Codecs> {
+export async function codecsOf(tools: Tools, path: string, input: string[] = [], signal?: AbortSignal): Promise<Codecs> {
   const [cmd, ...rest] = tools.ffprobe;
   const empty: Codecs = { video: "", audio: "", container: "" };
   if (!cmd) return empty;
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ export async function codecsOf(tools: Tools, path: string, input: string[] = [])
         ...input,
         path,
       ],
-      { stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "ignore"] },
+      { stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "ignore"], signal },
     );
     let out = "";
     child.stdout.on("data", (chunk: Buffer) => {

package/src/channels.ts

@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@
  */
 import { spawn, type ChildProcess } from "node:child_process";
 import { randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
-import { mkdirSync, mkdtempSync, readFileSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { mkdirSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
 import { dirname, join } from "node:path";
-import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import { PlaylistInputStream } from "./playlist-input.ts";
 import type { Readable } from "node:stream";
-import { Fragments, isOpening } from "./fragments.ts";
+import { FragmentClock, Fragments, isOpening } from "./fragments.ts";
 
 /** Somewhere for a channel's audio to go. A response, in practice. */
 export interface Listener {
@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ export interface ChannelInfo {
   redials?: number;
   /**
    * For a channel that plays a list: the entries, in order, and which one is
-   * on. When one ends the next is dialled at once, and the last is followed
-   * by the first: a station, not a file. A restart picks up at the entry
-   * that was on.
+   * on. Local files are normalized into one continuous stream. After the
+   * final entry the show ends. A restart picks up at the saved entry and
+   * position within it.
    */
   playlist?: string[];
   playlistAt?: number;
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ export interface PullResume {
   position: number;
   /** For a list of things rather than one: every entry, in order. */
   playlist?: string[];
+  playlistAt?: number;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -188,18 +189,9 @@ export const BACKLOG_AUDIO = 64 * 1024;
  */
 export const LISTENER_QUEUE = 16 * 1024 * 1024;
 
-/**
- * The backlog is really a number of seconds, and four megabytes was that
- * number for the stream we happened to have.
- *
- * Six seconds of 720p is about 4 MB. Six seconds of a 1080p transport stream
- * copied straight through is nearer 12, and of 4K nearer 30 -- so a fixed
- * 4 MB hands a 4K joiner under a second of video, which is the live edge with
- * no cushion, which is the play-wait-play loop the backlog exists to prevent.
- * So the cap follows the stream: seconds times the rate it is actually
- * running at, between the old floor and a ceiling that keeps a channel's
- * memory bounded whatever it is carrying.
- */
+/** Media-time window for complete MP4 fragments. Byte limits are a separate
+ * memory ceiling; the measured byte rate is only a fallback for inputs with
+ * no usable fragment timestamps. It must never make low-bitrate video old. */
 export const BACKLOG_SECONDS = 6;
 export const BACKLOG_VIDEO_MAX = 48 * 1024 * 1024;
 /**
@@ -253,6 +245,7 @@ export function cleanId(value: unknown, fallback = "main"): string {
 
 export interface ChannelOptions {
   ffmpeg: string[];
+  ffprobe?: string[];
   onStart?: (info: ChannelInfo) => void;
   onEnd?: (info: ChannelInfo) => void;
   /**
@@ -314,6 +307,8 @@ export class Channel {
    * can begin at; for MP3 any point will do, a frame announces itself.
    */
   private recent: Buffer[] = [];
+  private fragmentClock = new FragmentClock();
+  private fragmentTimes = new WeakMap<Buffer, number>();
   private recentBytes = 0;
   /** The rate window: when it opened, what has arrived in it, and what the last closed one measured. */
   private rateStart = 0;
@@ -330,8 +325,6 @@ export class Channel {
   private readonly sourceTaps = new Set<Listener>();
   /** Pulls the plug on the current read-through, when there is one. */
   private throughAbort: AbortController | null = null;
-  /** ffmpeg concat manifest for a local multi-file live. */
-  private concatListPath: string | null = null;
 
   constructor(
     readonly info: ChannelInfo,
@@ -403,42 +396,27 @@ export class Channel {
     if (this.info.kind === "video") this.fragments = new Fragments();
     const [command, ...prefix] = this.options.ffmpeg as [string, ...string[]];
     this.info.live = resume.live;
-    if (!resume.live) this.info.position = Math.max(0, resume.position);
+    if (!resume.live || resume.playlist?.length) this.info.position = Math.max(0, resume.position);
     // A list plays entry by entry: the one that is on is what gets dialled,
     // and an entry that ended is followed by the next, at once.
     const list = resume.playlist && resume.playlist.length > 0 ? resume.playlist : null;
-    // A local directory live must be one ffmpeg input. Starting a new ffmpeg
-    // process for every file makes browsers see a new MP4 stream at each
-    // boundary, even when the HTTP listener stays attached. The concat
-    // demuxer keeps timestamps and the output pipe continuous.
-    const concatList = list && list.length > 1 && list.every((one) => !/^https?:\/\//i.test(one))
-      ? list
-      : null;
-    if (this.concatListPath) {
-      rmSync(this.concatListPath, { force: true });
-      this.concatListPath = null;
-    }
-    if (concatList) {
-      const dir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "nixamp-playlist-"));
-      this.concatListPath = join(dir, "playlist.txt");
-      const quote = (one: string): string => one.replaceAll("'", "'\\''");
-      writeFileSync(this.concatListPath, concatList.map((one) => `file '${quote(one)}'`).join("\n") + "\n");
-    }
+    const localPlaylist = list && list.length > 1 && list.every(one => !/^https?:\/\//i.test(one)) ? list : null;
     let at = 0;
     if (list) {
       this.info.playlist = list;
-      at = Math.min(Math.max(0, this.info.playlistAt ?? 0), list.length - 1);
+      at = Math.min(Math.max(0, resume.playlistAt ?? this.info.playlistAt ?? 0), list.length - 1);
       this.info.playlistAt = at;
     }
     let current = list ? (list[at] as string) : source;
     // The last entry is the end of the show, not a way back to the first:
     // a list that played through is over, and says so with the outro.
-    this.advance = list && list.length > 1 && !concatList
+    this.advance = list && list.length > 1 && !localPlaylist
       ? () => {
           if (at + 1 >= list.length) return false;
           at += 1;
           this.info.playlistAt = at;
           current = list[at] as string;
+          this.info.position = 0;
           return true;
         }
       : null;
@@ -457,7 +435,7 @@ export class Channel {
       // the place was written down a moment ago and a moment of it twice is
       // better than a moment of it missing. A live source is joined as is,
       // and a film that has barely started is started.
-      const from = resume.live ? 0 : Math.max(0, Math.floor((this.info.position ?? 0) - REWIND));
+      const from = resume.live && !list ? 0 : Math.max(0, Math.floor((this.info.position ?? 0) - REWIND));
       const seek = from > 0 ? ["-ss", String(from)] : [];
       // Read the source here rather than in ffmpeg, when a policy wants the
       // original bytes and the source is the kind that can be. ffmpeg then
@@ -467,26 +445,19 @@ export class Channel {
       this.throughAbort?.abort();
       this.throughAbort = null;
       // The outro is a file read by ffmpeg itself: a pipe cannot loop.
-      const through = this.outroOn ? null : this.options.through?.(this.info, from, input, audio) ?? null;
-      this.info.teed = through !== null;
-    const concatInput = this.concatListPath
-      ? [
-          ...(paced ? ["-re"] : []),
-            // Directory lives may contain different codecs, dimensions, or
-            // timestamp bases. Copying the first file's streams can make
-            // ffmpeg reject later entries and leave the audience on entry 1.
-            // The output settings below normalize the entire concat stream.
-            "-f", "concat", "-safe", "0", "-i", this.concatListPath,
-          ]
-      : null;
-      const concatEncode = this.concatListPath && this.info.kind === "video"
-        ? [
-            "-c:v", "libx264", "-preset", "veryfast", "-crf", "23",
-            "-pix_fmt", "yuv420p", "-g", "48", "-keyint_min", "48", "-sc_threshold", "0",
-            "-c:a", "aac", "-b:a", "160k", "-ac", "2",
-            "-f", "mp4", "-movflags", "frag_keyframe+empty_moov+default_base_moof",
-          ]
-        : null;
+      const playlistInput = localPlaylist ? new PlaylistInputStream({
+        ffmpeg: this.options.ffmpeg,
+        ffprobe: this.options.ffprobe ?? this.options.ffmpeg.map(one => one.replace(/ffmpeg(?=(?:\.exe)?$)/, "ffprobe")),
+        files: localPlaylist, at: this.info.playlistAt ?? 0, position: from,
+        video: this.info.kind === "video", width: this.info.codecs?.width, height: this.info.codecs?.height,
+      }) : null;
+      const through = this.outroOn ? null : playlistInput
+        ? { format: "mpegts", open: async (signal: AbortSignal) => playlistInput.open(signal) }
+        : this.options.through?.(this.info, from, input, audio) ?? null;
+      this.info.teed = through !== null && !playlistInput;
+      const playlistEncode = !playlistInput ? null : this.info.kind === "video"
+        ? ["-c", "copy", "-bsf:a", "aac_adtstoasc", "-f", "mp4", "-movflags", "frag_keyframe+empty_moov+default_base_moof"]
+        : ["-af", "aresample=async=1:first_pts=0", ...encode];
       const child = spawn(
         command,
         [
@@ -508,7 +479,7 @@ export class Channel {
                 // headers, which only a source read through us leaves out,
                 // are no use to a pipe and are not here (a source that needs
                 // them is not read through us in the first place).
-                ...input,
+                ...(playlistInput ? ["-probesize", "32768", "-analyzeduration", "1000000"] : input),
                 "-f", through.format,
                 ...(paced ? ["-re"] : []),
                 "-i", "pipe:0",
@@ -529,12 +500,12 @@ export class Channel {
                 // What the source's site expects on the request: a user agent, a
                 // referer, a cookie. A link resolved by yt-dlp comes with these,
                 // and a CDN that got them from yt-dlp and not from us answers 403.
-                ...(concatInput ?? [...input, ...seek, "-i", current]),
+                ...input, ...seek, "-i", current,
                 // The sound, when the site keeps it apart from the picture: a
                 // second input, dialled the same way, that the encode maps in.
                 ...(audio ? [...remoteArgs, ...(paced ? ["-re"] : []), ...input, ...seek, "-i", audio] : []),
               ]),
-          ...(concatEncode ?? encode),
+          ...(playlistEncode ?? encode),
           "pipe:1",
         ],
         { stdio: [through ? "pipe" : "ignore", "pipe", "pipe", "pipe"] },
@@ -551,18 +522,26 @@ export class Channel {
       let progress = "";
       (child.stdio[3] as Readable | null)?.on("data", (chunk: Buffer) => {
         progress = (progress + chunk.toString("utf8")).slice(-4000);
-        if (this.child !== child || resume.live) return;
+        if (this.child !== child || (resume.live && !list)) return;
         const lines = progress.split("\n");
         progress = lines.pop() ?? "";
         for (const line of lines) {
           const match = /^out_time_us=(\d+)/.exec(line.trim());
-          if (match) this.info.position = from + Number(match[1]) / 1e6;
+          if (match) {
+            const seconds = Number(match[1]) / 1e6;
+            if (playlistInput) {
+              const place = playlistInput.place(seconds);
+              this.info.playlistAt = place.at;
+              this.info.position = place.position;
+            } else this.info.position = from + seconds;
+          }
         }
       });
       (child.stdio[3] as Readable | null)?.on("error", () => undefined);
       child.stdout?.on("data", (chunk: Buffer) => {
         // An ffmpeg that was replaced can still have a chunk in the pipe.
         if (this.child !== child) return;
+        if (!sent) this.info.error = undefined;
         sent = true;
         this.info.bytes += chunk.byteLength;
         this.rearm(child);
@@ -572,8 +551,12 @@ export class Channel {
       drain(child.stderr, (tail) => { this.stderr = tail; });
       // Only the ffmpeg we are currently running gets to say the source
       // dropped. One that was killed to make way for a restart is not news.
-      child.on("error", () => { if (this.child === child) this.dropped(sent); });
-      child.on("close", () => { if (this.child === child) this.dropped(sent); });
+      child.on("error", () => { if (this.child === child) this.dropped(sent, false); });
+      child.on("close", (code, signal) => {
+        if (this.child !== child) return;
+        if (playlistInput?.error) this.stderr = playlistInput.error.message;
+        this.dropped(sent, code === 0 && !signal && (!playlistInput || playlistInput.complete));
+      });
     };
 
     this.redial = dial;
@@ -596,6 +579,7 @@ export class Channel {
     const kind = this.info.kind ?? "audio";
     const old = this.child;
     this.child = null;
+    this.throughAbort?.abort();
     if (this.watchdog) clearTimeout(this.watchdog);
     this.watchdog = null;
     if (this.timer) clearTimeout(this.timer);
@@ -642,7 +626,7 @@ export class Channel {
       this.info.playlistAt = 0;
       this.startOver();
       const show = this.dialed;
-      this.pull(show.source, show.encode, show.paced, show.stall, show.input, show.audio, { ...show.resume, position: 0 });
+      this.pull(show.source, show.encode, show.paced, show.stall, show.input, show.audio, { ...show.resume, position: 0, playlistAt: 0 });
       return true;
     }
     const dial = this.redial;
@@ -676,6 +660,8 @@ export class Channel {
   private startOver(preserveListeners = false): void {
     if (this.info.kind === "video") this.fragments = new Fragments();
     this.recent = [];
+    this.fragmentClock = new FragmentClock();
+    this.fragmentTimes = new WeakMap();
     this.recentBytes = 0;
     // A new source may be a different size of stream, and the rate measured
     // off the old one is not evidence about this one.
@@ -734,7 +720,7 @@ export class Channel {
    * worth dialling again, and a URL that has never once produced a byte is a
    * mistake somebody made, and retrying it for ever helps nobody.
    */
-  private dropped(sent: boolean): void {
+  private dropped(sent: boolean, clean = false): void {
     if (this.closing || !this.redial) return;
     // An outro that stopped is over; there is nothing after it.
     if (this.outroOn) {
@@ -742,26 +728,26 @@ export class Channel {
       return;
     }
     this.child = null;
+    this.throughAbort?.abort();
     if (this.watchdog) clearTimeout(this.watchdog);
     this.watchdog = null;
     const said = lastLine(this.stderr);
     if (said) this.info.error = said;
-    this.failures = sent ? 0 : this.failures + 1;
+    this.failures = sent && clean ? 0 : this.failures + 1;
     if (this.failures >= GIVE_UP) {
       this.close();
       return;
     }
-    // A list moves on. An entry that played to its end is not a source that
-    // dropped: the next is dialled now, and it is not a redial. One that
-    // gave nothing is skipped the same way, counted as the failure it was,
-    // so a list of dead links gives up rather than cycling for ever.
-    const moved = this.advance?.() ?? false;
+    // Only a clean EOF advances a per-URL playlist. Decoder errors, a
+    // watchdog kill, or a failed normalized input recover at the saved place
+    // with bounded retries; an MP4 header alone is not a completed show.
+    const moved = clean ? this.advance?.() ?? false : false;
     // A show that ended: a film or a podcast that played to its end, a
     // list whose last entry did. That is not a source that dropped, and it
     // is not dialled again from the top; it is over, and the outro says
     // so. A live feed that stopped is a feed that dropped, and is redialled.
     const list = (this.info.playlist?.length ?? 0) > 0;
-    if (sent && !moved && (this.info.live === false || list)) {
+    if (clean && sent && !moved && (this.info.live === false || list)) {
       void this.endShow();
       return;
     }
@@ -798,7 +784,19 @@ export class Channel {
     }
     const cap = this.backlogCap();
     for (const box of this.fragments.push(chunk)) {
-      if (!isOpening(boxType(box))) this.remember(box, cap, true);
+      const time = this.fragmentClock.read(box);
+      if (time !== null) this.fragmentTimes.set(box, time);
+      if (!isOpening(boxType(box))) this.remember(box, time === null ? cap : BACKLOG_VIDEO_MAX, true);
+      if (time !== null) {
+        // Drop complete old fragments even when six seconds occupy only a
+        // few kilobytes (slides, static cameras, or a paused game screen).
+        while (this.recent.length > 0) {
+          const oldest = this.fragmentTimes.get(this.recent[0]!);
+          if (oldest === undefined || time - oldest < BACKLOG_SECONDS) break;
+          do { this.recentBytes -= this.recent.shift()!.byteLength; }
+          while (this.recent.length && boxType(this.recent[0]!) !== "moof");
+        }
+      }
       this.send(box);
     }
   }
@@ -978,8 +976,11 @@ export class Channel {
           // Wait for ffmpeg to take it, or for the pipe to go: a pipe that
           // closed never drains, and waiting on it would hold the read open.
           await new Promise<void>((done) => {
-            stdin.once("drain", done);
-            stdin.once("close", done);
+            const finish = (): void => {
+              stdin.off("drain", finish); stdin.off("close", finish); done();
+            };
+            stdin.once("drain", finish);
+            stdin.once("close", finish);
           });
         }
       }
@@ -1063,10 +1064,7 @@ export class Channel {
     this.child = null;
     this.throughAbort?.abort();
     this.throughAbort = null;
-    if (this.concatListPath) {
-      rmSync(dirname(this.concatListPath), { force: true, recursive: true });
-      this.concatListPath = null;
-    }
+
     this.endTaps();
     try {
       child?.stdin?.end();
@@ -1437,7 +1435,7 @@ export function rememberedNow(channels: Channels): RememberedChannel[] {
       if (one.kind) kept.kind = one.kind;
       if (one.codecs) kept.codecs = one.codecs;
       if (typeof one.live === "boolean") kept.live = one.live;
-      if (!one.live && typeof one.position === "number" && one.position > 0) kept.position = Math.floor(one.position);
+      if ((!one.live || one.playlist?.length) && typeof one.position === "number" && one.position > 0) kept.position = Math.floor(one.position);
       if (one.startedBy) kept.startedBy = one.startedBy;
       if (one.playlist && one.playlist.length > 0) {
         kept.playlist = one.playlist;

package/src/fragments.ts

@@ -64,6 +64,52 @@ export function isOpening(type: string): boolean {
   return type === "ftyp" || type === "moov";
 }
 
+function children(box: Buffer): Box[] {
+  let rest = box.subarray(box.readUInt32BE(0) === 1 ? BIG : HEADER);
+  const found: Box[] = [];
+  for (;;) {
+    const next = firstBox(rest);
+    if (!next) return found;
+    found.push(next.box);
+    rest = next.rest;
+  }
+}
+
+/** Decode timestamps use each track's own timescale, never its byte rate. */
+export class FragmentClock {
+  private scales = new Map<number, number>();
+  read(box: Buffer): number | null {
+    const type = box.toString("latin1", 4, 8);
+    if (type === "moov") {
+      for (const track of children(box).filter(one => one.type === "trak")) {
+        const parts = children(track.bytes);
+        const tkhd = parts.find(one => one.type === "tkhd")?.bytes;
+        const mdia = parts.find(one => one.type === "mdia")?.bytes;
+        const mdhd = mdia && children(mdia).find(one => one.type === "mdhd")?.bytes;
+        if (!tkhd || !mdhd) continue;
+        const idAt = tkhd[8] === 1 ? 28 : 20;
+        const scaleAt = mdhd[8] === 1 ? 28 : 20;
+        if (tkhd.length < idAt + 4 || mdhd.length < scaleAt + 4) continue;
+        const scale = mdhd.readUInt32BE(scaleAt);
+        if (scale) this.scales.set(tkhd.readUInt32BE(idAt), scale);
+      }
+    }
+    if (type !== "moof") return null;
+    const times: number[] = [];
+    for (const track of children(box).filter(one => one.type === "traf")) {
+      const parts = children(track.bytes);
+      const tfhd = parts.find(one => one.type === "tfhd")?.bytes;
+      const tfdt = parts.find(one => one.type === "tfdt")?.bytes;
+      if (!tfhd || tfhd.length < 16 || !tfdt || tfdt.length < (tfdt[8] === 1 ? 20 : 16)) continue;
+      const scale = this.scales.get(tfhd.readUInt32BE(12));
+      if (!scale) continue;
+      const time = tfdt[8] === 1 ? Number(tfdt.readBigUInt64BE(12)) : tfdt.readUInt32BE(12);
+      times.push(time / scale);
+    }
+    return times.length ? Math.min(...times) : null;
+  }
+}
+
 /**
  * A fragmented MP4 arriving in pieces, handed back a box at a time.
  *

package/src/playlist-input.ts

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+import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
+import type { Readable } from "node:stream";
+import { codecsOf } from "./audio.ts";
+
+export interface PlaylistInput {
+  ffmpeg: string[];
+  ffprobe: string[];
+  files: string[];
+  at: number;
+  position: number;
+  video: boolean;
+  width?: number;
+  height?: number;
+}
+
+/** Decode each file independently; feed one persistent muxer a fixed stream
+ * profile and continuous timestamps. A concat demuxer cannot decode a list
+ * whose input codecs differ. Only one entry is encoded at a time, with pipe
+ * backpressure bounding read-ahead independently of the directory's size. */
+export class PlaylistInputStream {
+  private entries: { at: number; start: number; position: number }[] = [];
+  error: Error | null = null;
+  complete = false;
+  constructor(private readonly options: PlaylistInput) {}
+
+  place(seconds: number): { at: number; position: number } {
+    const entry = this.entries.findLast(one => seconds >= one.start) ?? this.entries[0];
+    return entry ? { at: entry.at, position: Math.max(0, seconds - entry.start + entry.position) }
+      : { at: this.options.at, position: this.options.position };
+  }
+
+  async *open(signal: AbortSignal): AsyncGenerator<Buffer> {
+    const o = this.options;
+    const [command, ...prefix] = o.ffmpeg as [string, ...string[]];
+    const ratio = Math.min(1, 1280 / (o.width || 1280), 720 / (o.height || 720));
+    const width = Math.max(2, Math.floor((o.width || 1280) * ratio / 2) * 2);
+    const height = Math.max(2, Math.floor((o.height || 720) * ratio / 2) * 2);
+    let offset = 0;
+    try {
+      for (let at = o.at; at < o.files.length && !signal.aborted; at++) {
+        const file = o.files[at]!;
+        const codecs = await codecsOf({ ffmpeg: o.ffmpeg, ffprobe: o.ffprobe, play: null }, file, [], AbortSignal.any([signal, AbortSignal.timeout(10_000)]));
+        if (signal.aborted) return;
+        if (!codecs.audio && !codecs.video) throw new Error(`Cannot decode playlist entry ${at + 1}`);
+        const position = at === o.at ? o.position : 0;
+        const duration = (codecs.duration ?? 0) - position;
+        if (duration <= 0) throw new Error(`No playable duration for playlist entry ${at + 1}`);
+        this.entries.push({ at, start: offset, position });
+        const hasVideo = Boolean(codecs.video);
+        const extra = o.video && !hasVideo
+          ? ["-f", "lavfi", "-i", `color=c=black:s=${width}x${height}:r=30`]
+          : o.video && !codecs.audio ? ["-f", "lavfi", "-i", "anullsrc=r=48000:cl=stereo"] : [];
+        const args = [
+          ...prefix, "-hide_banner", "-loglevel", "error", "-nostdin", "-filter_threads", "2",
+          "-threads", "2", ...(position > 0 ? ["-ss", String(position)] : []), "-i", file,
+          ...extra, "-t", String(duration),
+          ...(o.video ? [
+            "-map", hasVideo ? "0:v:0" : "1:v:0", "-map", codecs.audio ? "0:a:0" : "1:a:0",
+            "-vf", `fps=30,scale=${width}:${height}:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease,pad=${width}:${height}:(ow-iw)/2:(oh-ih)/2,setsar=1,setpts=PTS-STARTPTS`,
+            "-c:v", "libx264", "-threads", "2", "-preset", "veryfast", "-tune", "zerolatency",
+            "-crf", "23", "-pix_fmt", "yuv420p", "-g", "60", "-keyint_min", "60", "-sc_threshold", "0",
+          ] : ["-map", "0:a:0", "-vn"]),
+          "-af", "aresample=48000,asetpts=PTS-STARTPTS", "-c:a", "aac", "-b:a", "160k", "-ac", "2",
+          "-mpegts_flags", "+initial_discontinuity", "-output_ts_offset", String(offset), "-mpegts_copyts", "1", "-muxdelay", "0", "-muxpreload", "0",
+          "-f", "mpegts", "pipe:1",
+        ];
+        const child = spawn(command, args, { stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "pipe"] });
+        let tail = "";
+        child.stderr.on("data", chunk => { tail = (tail + chunk.toString()).slice(-1500); });
+        const closed = new Promise<number | null>((resolve) => {
+          child.once("error", error => { tail = error.message; resolve(-1); });
+          child.once("close", code => resolve(code));
+        });
+        const abort = (): void => { child.kill("SIGKILL"); };
+        signal.addEventListener("abort", abort, { once: true });
+        try {
+          for await (const chunk of child.stdout as Readable) {
+            if (signal.aborted) return;
+            yield chunk as Buffer;
+          }
+          const code = await closed;
+          if (signal.aborted) return;
+          if (code !== 0) throw new Error(`Playlist entry ${at + 1} failed: ${tail.trim()}`);
+        } finally {
+          signal.removeEventListener("abort", abort);
+          abort();
+          await closed;
+        }
+        // Match the frame grid used above so rounding cannot accumulate a
+        // backwards timestamp over hundreds of short files.
+        offset += o.video ? Math.ceil(duration * 30) / 30 : duration;
+      }
+      this.complete = !signal.aborted;
+    } catch (error) {
+      this.error = error instanceof Error ? error : new Error(String(error));
+      throw this.error;
+    }
+  }
+}