The video codec parsers (HEVC, H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2) used
pes.dts.or(pes.pts) as each frame's timestamp. MKV block timecodes
are presentation timestamps; frames are stored in decode order and
the player reorders for display by timecode. Using DTS makes the
timecode monotonic in storage order, presenting B-frames in decode
order — visible motion judder / wrong frames on playback, and
PTS-based seeking lands on the wrong frame.
The compressed video was always byte-correct (verified by NAL-level
diff against a known-good demux); this was purely a timestamp defect
affecting every B-frame title. Fix: prefer PTS (pes.pts.or(pes.dts)).
Verified on a real UHD iso->mkv: emitted PTS now reorders for
B-frames identically to a reference muxer.
Update the two tests that asserted the old DTS-preferred behavior and
add an HEVC regression test pinning PTS as the block timecode.
Audit-driven fixes (rounds 1–3):
- hevc: correct hvcC profile/level SPS offsets (HEVC has a 2-byte NAL header)
- mkv: map all DTS variants to the registered A_DTS codec id; force a new
cluster before the i16 cluster-relative timestamp can overflow
- ebml/mkvstream: bound untrusted EBML sizes (no multi-GB allocs); reject
uint>8 (was an OOB panic) and non-{0,4,8} float widths (were a desync)
- ts: skip PES-header bytes that span a TS packet boundary; add the PMT
section_len/prog_info_len bounds the PAT parser already had
- ac3: preserve a 0x0B77 syncword split across a PES boundary; cap buffer
- dts: validate each next-core boundary by decoded core size (a 0x7FFE8001
pattern inside XLL payload no longer false-splits/drops the lossless
extension); reject sub-minimum core frames; fix forced-emit PTS base
- lpcm: DVD program-stream PCM no longer double-strips the BD LPCM header
- vc1/mpeg2: do not emit a parameter-set-only PES as a standalone frame
- pgs/truehd: cap the pending reassembly buffer (parity with ac3/dts)
- aacs: ts_syncs_intact uses the exact packet count
- prefetched: capacity-guard the recycled-buffer set_len
- Cargo.toml: exclude project docs from the published crate
Convergence: a third independent audit pass found no remaining material
(CRITICAL/HIGH/MEDIUM) issues. Full precommit (fmt + clippy -D + tests,
Rust 1.86) green.
DTS-HD MA/HRA access units on Blu-ray are a DTS core frame (sync
0x7FFE8001) followed by one or more DTS extension substreams (sync
0x64582025) carrying the lossless audio. Ground-truthing the Dunkirk
ISO showed the m2ts demuxer hands these out as SEPARATE PES packets on
the same PID: one core PES (exactly core-sized, nothing trailing), then
the extension substreams in following PES packets with their own later
PTS.
The old DtsParser emitted one frame per PES the moment a core frame was
complete, and dropped any PES with no core sync. So every core became a
core-only (lossy) frame and the extension PES packets were discarded as
junk -- silently downgrading the track to lossy DTS core (1557 kb/s CBR,
16-bit) instead of DTS-HD MA (VBR, 24-bit lossless).
Rewrite the parser to assemble across PES boundaries: an access unit
runs from its core sync up to (but not including) the NEXT core sync, so
the core plus every following extension substream stays together. Add a
CodecParser::flush() (default empty) called at end-of-stream by both the
pipelined and inline DiscStream mux paths to drain the final buffered
unit. A 64 KiB cap guarantees forward progress and never stalls if a
boundary can't be found.
Validated on the rip1 testbed: Dunkirk eng+ger and Fight Club eng main
audio now ffprobe as profile=DTS-HD MA (Fight Club eng at 24-bit), with
VBR packet sizes (~2716-2788 B) well above the old fixed 2012 B lossy
core. Genuinely-lossy DTS dub tracks are left untouched.
Adds truehd_channels(format_info) + truehd_channels_from_stream(): the
real presentation channel count (8ch/7.1 when present, else 6ch/5.1)
from the TrueHD major sync, which the MPLS audio_format base field
understates (declares 5.1 even on a 7.1/Atmos track — the Dune case).
Per the MLP spec presentation channel-assignment masks. 3 unit tests.
This is the decoder; wiring it to correct AudioStream.channels requires
a mux-time probe of the DECRYPTED audio payload (the channel truth isn't
readable at scan — the m2ts is AACS-encrypted until the key is applied
at mux), to be added + validated on a real rip.
The DTS parser emitted a core-only frame and discarded the trailing
DTS-HD extension substream whenever the extension straddled a PES
boundary (it advanced past only the core, then re-synced on the core
syncword, skipping the leftover extension bytes). That silently
downgrades DTS-HD MA / HRA to lossy DTS core.
Now: when an extension sync is visible after the core — full, or a
partial prefix at the buffer edge — wait for the full extension instead
of splitting it off; only 'nothing after the core' (final unit / EOF,
no parser flush) is taken as a genuine lossy core-only unit. Adds a
boundary-split regression test asserting core+extension is preserved.
- MkvTrack::audio emits A_DTS/MA, A_DTS/HR, A_DTS per the DTS family
instead of mislabelling everything as A_DTS. Plex transcoder and
strict hardware decoders reject DTS-HD MA payload under a plain
A_DTS track.
- PgsParser is now stateful: pairs display PCS with the following
empty PCS to compute a duration. Frame::duration_ns + PesFrame::duration_ns
carry it through; MkvMuxer::write_frame gains a final Option<u64>
parameter that emits BlockGroup + BlockDuration when set. Fixes
subtitle bitmaps lingering past their intended end-time.
Introduces the freemkv mux throughput highway: a three-stage thread
pipeline that replaces the inline single-thread read path for any
file-backed source (ISO and m2ts file URLs both route through it).
Thread A: read + decrypt (PrefetchedSectorSource / BytePrefetcher)
Thread B: M2TS demux (DemuxThread)
Thread C: codec parse (PipelinedPesStream, on caller thread)
Each handoff uses a bounded crossbeam channel with a recycled buffer
pool — no allocations or memcpys in the steady-state hot loop.
Component map:
* io/byte_prefetcher.rs (new) — std::io::Read producer thread with
recycled Vec<u8> pool. Pairs with PrefetchedSectorSource (sector
side) so demux_thread::spawn_zero_copy can wire either upstream.
* sector/prefetched.rs — recycled buffer pool added; into_channels()
peels off the rx/recycle_tx/shell triple for zero-copy demux.
* mux/demux_thread.rs (new) — owns the TsDemuxer/PsDemuxer, runs
feed() on its thread, ships Vec<PesPacket> batches.
* mux/pipelined_stream.rs (new) — the read-side Stream impl. Pulls
packets from the demux thread and runs codec parse on the caller.
* mux/resolve.rs — build_iso_pipeline (public) / build_m2ts_pipeline
(private) assemble the three stages; iso:// and m2ts:// both
return PipelinedPesStream.
* mux/m2ts.rs — collapsed to a write-only sink (Mode::Read deleted;
the read direction lives on the highway now).
* mux/codec/h264.rs — find_start_code uses memchr SIMD memmem::find.
* mux/codec/hevc.rs — tightened frame_data initial capacity.
* mux/ts.rs — boundary-packet handling avoids the per-batch 16 MiB
remainder copy; PesAssembler starts at 16 KiB to dodge the 64-page
first-touch fault tax that the previous 256 KiB pre-alloc paid on
every PES boundary.
* mux/disc.rs — gains DiscStream::new_pipeline + read_pipeline as
the legacy autorip ingress (drive + multipass paths still need
on_event / skip_errors before they migrate to the highway).
* io/file_sector_source/* — per-OS prefetch() syscall hook
(Linux readahead, macOS F_RDADVISE, Windows/other no-op).
* decrypt.rs — FREEMKV_DECRYPT_THREADS renamed to FREEMKV_THREADS;
pool sized to all cores by default.
Measured on rip1 testbed (Civil War UHD, 62 GiB ISO → null://):
60 → 322 MB/s warm cache (old new_pipeline path)
60 → 660 MB/s warm cache (highway path, this commit)
60 → 126 MB/s sustained disk-bound
The IsoSectorReader baseline reader was deleted in favour of
FileSectorSource so the freemkv CLI and autorip exercise the same
read path.
- DTS: buffer with core sync detection + frame size from header
- TrueHD: buffer with unit length field parsing
- Same pattern as AC3 fix: incomplete frames held for next PES
- When PES boundaries align (normal case), buffering is a no-op
- Add state to Ac3Parser (was stateless, split frames at PES boundaries)
- Buffer leftover bytes from incomplete frames for next PES packet
- Calculate exact AC3 frame size from fscod/frmsizecod table
- Calculate EAC3 frame size from frmsiz field
- Skip invalid frame sizes (0 or >8192)
- Eliminates all AC3 decode errors on BD and UHD output
Stream trait: read() returns PesFrame, write() accepts PesFrame.
A stream is a stream — you read from it or write to it.
No separate Input/Output traits.
API: libfreemkv::input(url) and libfreemkv::output(url, title, codecs)
Returns Box<dyn Stream>.
- Doc comments on DriveSession, find_drives, all Error variants, Result type
- 24 format! strings inlined (clippy pedantic)
- 25 long hex literals with separators (0xFFFFFFFF → 0xFFFF_FFFF)
- README install example updated to 0.8
MattJackson