Mutation testing over src/mux/. No production change — 49 survivors
killed, all proven red before green.
The MP4 composition-time chain was entirely unconstrained: VideoTiming::ctts,
build_ctts and parse_ctts could each return a constant and the suite
stayed green. Confirmed on HEAD: build_ctts -> vec![] passes all 1,220
mux tests. A demuxed B-frame title presenting in decode order would
have shipped.
The cause is a test whose name asserts coverage its body does not
deliver — stts_and_ctts_expand builds an stts box and never touches
ctts, and write_then_read_round_trip asserts sample sizes and keyframe
flags but not one PTS. Same shape as the set_speed forwarding finding,
different disguise.
mlp_num_substreams / mlp_substr_header_size: every TrueHD fixture in
the crate uses one substream and no extraword, so both could return a
constant and agree with all of them. These position mlp_parity_ok's
window over the AU header, so a constant mis-windows the parity check
on exactly the multi-substream AUs that carry 7.1 and Atmos.
CodecPrivate absent vs empty: mkv.rs writes Some(bytes) verbatim and
omits the element on None (RFC 9559 5.1.4.1.24), so a zero-length Some
emits a track header asserting the config IS empty. Four parsers could
return Some(vec![]) before any frame.
Also: mandatory ISO/IEC 14496-12 boxes (tkhd, vmhd, smhd, dinf, mdhd)
could each build empty; HEVC num_extra_slice_header_bits (H.265 7.3.2.3)
was never non-zero in any fixture, so the slice-type offset skip was
unexercised; chapter names from the disc go straight into
<ChapterString> and the & escape must run first; a stray 0x47 in a
payload must not latch a TS resync.
Documented as equivalent rather than killed: CodecParser::flush and the
three parser flush bodies that differ from the mutant only by a tracing
call, and DropTally::log_summary.
Matthew Jackson
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