Second mutation pass over src/mux/. 26 survivors killed, no production
change. Verified on HEAD before landing: each mutation below passes all
1,237 mux tests unmutated-suite.
The priority item was the honest-loss-reporting surface. Both
DiscStream::errors and DiscStream::lost_bytes could return a constant
with nothing failing — a rip that lost sectors would report zero loss
to the caller. This project has already shipped one defect of that
shape (a total decryption failure reported as an empty title, exit 0).
Driven now through two short-read fills so both land on values that are
neither 0 nor 1 and differ from each other; no constant and no field
swap survives.
MkvStream::finish -> Ok(()) also survived. MkvMuxer::finish has the
zero-frame MkvInvalid guard and two tests cover it, but the Stream
wrapper above it could return Ok unconditionally and bypass the guard
entirely — the empty-title defence was one layer thinner than it looked.
au_assembly: pinned au_opener_from behaviourally to the normative byte
values for all four modes, with negative cases for codes that are
explicitly not openers (MPEG-2 slice 0x01..0xAF, user data 0xB2,
extension 0xB5, sequence end 0xB7 per 13818-2 Table 6-1; VC-1
0x0A/0x0B/0x0C; H.264 SPS/PPS/IDR-slice). au_assembly and codec/ hold
independent copies of these constants; they agree today, and comparing
constants would not catch logic drifting apart, so both sides are now
pinned to the spec instead of to each other.
demux_sink::sanitize: every filename component demux:// writes comes
from disc-controlled text, so the path-separator arm is a traversal
guard. Deleting it now fails, including an end-to-end case where
base = "../evil/Title" must produce exactly one file inside the
chosen directory.
stts_and_ctts_expand renamed to stts_expands_runs_to_per_sample_deltas_in_order
and given runs with distinct deltas AND distinct lengths. Its old name
claimed ctts coverage it never had, which is why the composition-time
chain went unconstrained for eight rounds; the doc comment now points
at the tests that do cover ctts.
Correction to the previous pass: codec/truehd.rs flush -> vec![] IS
equivalent. Applied it, full mux suite green. TrueHD buffers across PES
but parse emits every complete unit immediately, so a residual buffer
at EOF is a truncated access unit and is correctly discarded. The
vec![Default::default()] variants are genuinely different and are
killed.
Deliberately not constrained: mkv::set_opening_capture (diagnostics
behind a process-global tracing check, flaky under the parallel
runner), and the three stdio.rs header paths (StdioStream holds
concrete io::Stdin/Stdout and cannot be driven without a production
refactor to injectable Read/Write).
Four conformance defects in the read paths, two of them silent corruption.
**Lacing was ignored entirely.** RFC 9559 §10.2 defines Xiph, EBML and
fixed-size lacing, where one Block carries several frames; the reader took the
Block payload verbatim, so a laced Block became a single "frame" consisting of a
lacing header followed by concatenated frames — garbage to the codec parser, no
error. Audio tracks from other muxers commonly use lacing, so an ordinary
foreign MKV was silently mangled.
All three modes are now parsed: Xiph 255-run sizes including the trailing-zero
rule for exact multiples of 255, EBML unsigned first size plus SIGNED VINT deltas
with the 2^((7*n)-1)-1 bias of §10.3.3, and fixed-size even division, with the
last frame's size deduced from the remainder. Laced timestamps follow §10.3.5:
the first frame takes the Block timestamp and the rest are spaced by the track's
DefaultDuration, else BlockDuration/count, else shared with a warn.
Parsing was chosen over refusing because refusal would leave freemkv unable to
remux common foreign audio at all, and each mode is about fifteen lines.
A malformed lacing header now raises a NEW code, E_MKV_LACING_INVALID = 9052,
deliberately NOT MkvInvalid — because is_skippable_title_stub classifies
MkvInvalid as a skippable nav stub, so reusing it would have recreated the exact
conflation that is still open as a separate finding. A test asserts the new code
is not skippable.
**TrackNumber was assumed to be 1..N in TrackEntry order.** RFC 9559 §5.1.4.1.1
only requires it to be non-zero and unique, so sparse or unordered numbers are
legal. Block routing and codec_private both computed track + 1. A real
TrackNumber map is now built, recorded only for TrackEntries that yield a stream
so dropped track types no longer shift the mapping.
Verified red here independently, and the failure mode is worse than mis-routing:
with track + 1 restored, a buttons track's payload was attributed to the AUDIO
stream — wrong payload into the wrong codec parser.
**The NAL length prefix was hardcoded to 4 bytes.** lengthSizeMinusOne lives in
avcC byte 4 and hvcC byte 21 (ISO/IEC 14496-15 §5.3.3.1.2, §8.3.3.1.2) and was
never read, so a source declaring 1- or 2-byte prefixes had its raw prefixed
bytes emitted verbatim with no start codes. All four conversion sites now derive
the width from the track's own configuration record.
**Edit lists were ignored.** No edts/elst was parsed, so the presentation
timeline an edit list defines (ISO/IEC 14496-12 §8.6.5/§8.6.6) was dropped —
which is how encoder delay is normally expressed. Leading empty edits and the
first media edit's media_time are now applied to both dts and pts, with the movie
vs media timescale distinction respected. A list needing more than a constant
shift applies the leading edit and warns rather than presenting the result as
faithful.
17 tests. I reproduced the lacing mutant independently: returning the body whole
kills five of them, including the exact-payload and malformed-header cases.
Still open and deliberately untouched: the MkvInvalid / is_skippable_title_stub
conflation across ~20 reader raise sites. It is a cross-cutting error.rs change
and E_MKV_LACING_INVALID is the template for it.
mp4 demuxer (untrusted input): bound every allocation sized from a box
field (stsz/stco/stsc counts, stts/ctts run-lengths, per-sample and moov
sizes, plus an absolute cap so a sparse file can't inflate file_len);
guard the parse_stsd slice and a zero mdhd timescale; cap track count so
the per-track PID can't overflow; rewrite read_moov to handle size==0 /
size<8 / 64-bit largesize; parse esds/AudioSpecificConfig for AAC; write
tkhd duration in the movie timescale.
decrypt: resolve_mux_key_map now fails loud on an extent no key can
classify instead of inheriting the previous extent's key, so a keymap
never silently carries a wrong key; the sweep/patch key-fetch recovery
fails loud when a unit is still unresolved after the retry.
AACS: reject inverted forensic segments in both range builders; compare
the forensic index in u16 space so an out-of-range value can't truncate
onto a valid u8 index. RECOVERED_ERROR no longer latches the damage zone,
preserving the 30s wedge cooldown for a following hard error.
audio: AAC/MP2/MP3/FLAC carry the last PTS across a PES with no timestamp;
the DTS-HD extension-sync search is bounded to after the core; the MP4
16.16 sample-rate field saturates. demux_sink records the video reference
before the kind filter so audio:// / sub:// keep multi-clip PTS continuity
and the DELAY tag.
Remove a dead error variant and the AACS-unsupported-video code; codec
comments cite the primary format specs; assorted doc/naming fixes and
regression tests throughout.
Delete re-implementations in the demux:// sink and wire to proven helpers;
keep only genuinely-new functionality.
- AnnexB reframing: delete the sink's local length_prefixed_to_annexb (it
break'd on a zero-length NAL, dropping the rest of the access unit) and
call the canonical append_length_prefixed_as_annex_b in mux::hevc, which
skips just the empty NAL.
- HEVC param sets: delete hvcc_param_sets; reuse hvcc_to_annex_b.
- avcC param sets: hoist as the new canonical avcc_to_annex_b in mux::hevc,
next to hvcc_to_annex_b (the symmetry point); the sink calls it.
- PGS .sup: emit a synthetic clear display set (empty PCS + END) at
pts + duration_ns so subtitles time out instead of lingering to EOF.
- TimelineContinuity: move verbatim into the shared mux::timeline module
(with the prev_offset straggler-remap intact) and use it from both the
MKV muxer and the demux sink; delete the sink's drifted TimelineRebase
copy (which lacked the straggler branch).
- VobSub .idx: emit the conventional 'id: <lang2>, index: 0' line mkvmerge
reads to assign the subtitle language; palette reuse unchanged.
- output(): seed DemuxOptions.base from title.playlist when non-empty.
New constants for the PGS clear-segment framing and avcC header cite the
public HDMV PGS (BD-ROM Part 3) and ISO/IEC 14496-15 specs.
Tests: a zero-length NAL mid-frame no longer truncates the AU; a frame with
duration_ns produces a .sup clear segment; existing demux tests stay green.
Test-hardening release, no runtime changes. Adds spec-grounded unit tests
across the silent-corruption surfaces — UDF/MPLS/CLPI/IFO parsing, BD/DVD
title + extent assembly, AACS/CSS key handling, TS/PS demux + codec parsers,
MKV/EBML container output, the mux pipeline, sector prefetch + decrypt
decorator, drive/SCSI sense decoding, label extraction, and core I/O. Each
test is grounded in the format spec or real on-disc behavior and verified to
fail under a targeted source mutation. No behavior changed.
Library-wide review-and-fix pass: tightened AACS keydb/handshake/variant
handling and trailing-partial-unit policy, corrected MPLS mark offset and
added UDF allocation bounds, hardened the mux/codec framing and M2TS paths,
guarded SCSI READ CAPACITY short transfers and unified error mapping, added
overflow guards on untrusted disc input, and made prefetch shutdown
deterministic. Release profile now builds with thin LTO + single codegen unit.
- m2ts_mux: replace u64::is_multiple_of (stable in 1.87+) with %.
CI on the pinned 1.86 toolchain rejected the unstable feature use.
- mux/{fmp4,hevc,m2ts_mux}: rustfmt drift cleanup (test-code wrapping).
SocketSink + UdpSocketSink (`src/io/sink/socket.rs`) — sequential-only
TCP/UDP write destinations. SocketSink wraps BufWriter<TcpStream> with
1 MiB capacity, tunes SO_SNDBUF on construction, calls shutdown(Write)
on finish(). UdpSocketSink emits one datagram per write — caller
packetizes. Both impl Write+Send and thus satisfy SequentialSink via
the Phase 2 blanket; neither impls Seek, so RandomAccessSink is
correctly inaccessible (compile error to mux MKV onto a socket).
New sequential container muxers in src/mux/:
- hevc/ — raw HEVC Annex B elementary stream. Length-prefixed NALU
→ 00 00 00 01 NALU. hvcC parsing emits VPS/SPS/PPS once at stream
head. Fully ships.
- m2ts_mux/ — standard MPEG-TS (188-byte packets). Single program,
HEVC video on PID 0x100, optional AC3/TrueHD audio on PID 0x101.
PAT+PMT re-emitted every 250 packets; PCR stamped on video every
40 packets. Hand-rolled, no new deps. Distinct from the existing
BD-TS (192-byte) `mux::m2ts::M2tsStream` — that path stays as-is.
- fmp4/ — fragmented MP4. STUB: ftyp + minimal moov skeleton with
one HEVC video trak + mvex/trex. Media fragments (moof+mdat) are
TODO for v0.22.0 — write_video accumulates frames into a pending
buffer that finish() clears. Init segment is well-formed enough
that init_segment_starts_with_ftyp_then_moov asserts the box
chain.
17 new unit tests added (socket round-trip, HEVC Annex B conversion,
M2TS packet alignment + PAT/PMT cadence + per-PID CC, fMP4 box chain).
All 514 lib tests + 17 new = pass on Rust 1.86 (fmt + clippy + test
via (internal)/scripts/precommit.sh libfreemkv).
No new dependencies. No version bump. Don't-touch list clean.
Matthew Jackson