A sparse passive track — a subtitle with no event near a clip's mark —
was held to the dense-video crossing window, so it stayed on the previous
clip's offset until its PTS passed that clip's OUT and every event in
between was mistimed by the overlap. Video keeps the tight window,
because its backward steps are also B-frame reorder; passive tracks have
no reorder, so any backward step into the next clip's range is a join.
Frames the marks exclude were dropped without a trace. Dropping is right
at a join, but this codebase has shipped complete-looking wrong output
before, so the count is kept per track and reported when the mux
finishes, alongside the pre-cluster counter that exists for the same
reason.
A File Identifier Descriptor records its name length in one byte, and the
length was narrowed with a cast: a 255-byte name — POSIX NAME_MAX,
entirely ordinary — encodes to 256 and wrote zero, which would read every
later entry in that directory from the wrong offset. A directory's link
count is 16 bits and was computed as 1 + subdirectory count, which the
global entry cap alone permits overflowing. Both are refused while
planning, where the tree can still be rejected cleanly.
The module and struct docs described inference as the whole algorithm;
they now say which path decides what.
Users keep discs as extracted folders — a DVD VIDEO_TS or a Blu-ray BDMV,
usually a backup that is already decrypted. dir:// could only ever be a
destination, so those folders could be produced and never read back.
Everything above the sector layer wants a UdfFs over a SectorSource, and
every UdfFs read re-reads the ICB off that source at call time, so a
folder has to present itself as sectors. It does: dirimage plans a block
layout over the real files, encodes a UDF 1.02 filesystem for the
metadata, and serves data straight from disk. read_filesystem then parses
it exactly as it parses a disc, so nothing above changes — and the
iso:// arm of input() is now shared rather than duplicated, so dir://
inherits its decrypt gates, title selection and stream pruning.
The encoder is validated by more than its own reader: macOS mounts the
synthesized image and the mounted files compare byte-identical to the
originals. A round-trip through our own parser could not have shown that
— the tag CRC seeds at zero, and a wrong seed would satisfy us and no
real driver.
DVD placement is not free packing: a VTS IFO records where its title
VOBS begins relative to itself, so the VOB has to land exactly there.
Unsatisfiable marks fail loudly rather than misplace the file. 3D folders
are refused for now: the scanner detects SSIF and the planner cannot
alias its extents yet, so accepting them would produce quiet nonsense.
Left for later: metadata capture, HD-DVD, FMTS, encrypted folders.
Matthew Jackson