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Follow-up to #2906, from a Codex review that landed after it merged.

Root cause. A Broadcast already publishes the catalog minus renditions this consumer can't use: filterCatalog drops any whose reference escapes above the root. It missed the other way a reference can name nothing, a broadcast that isn't announced to us, because that is dynamic while the filter ran once per catalog update.

So a catalog referencing a broadcast the viewer can't see, e.g. a transcoder published under public/ pointing at a source under private/, kept a rendition that selection would happily pick as the highest quality. relativeBroadcast then resolved it to nothing and the decoder cleared the current frame and emptied the buffer, with no signal back to selection and no runtime stall feeding re-selection. The result is a blank picture rather than a fallback to a rung the viewer can actually fetch.

Fix. The effective catalog moves into its own effect, derived from the published one. Both halves of "can this reference name anything" become a single predicate, shared with relativeBroadcast so playback and selection can't disagree, and it is re-evaluated as announcements arrive: a rendition appears when its broadcast does and disappears when it goes away, without waiting for a new catalog.

Splitting the derivation out needed one more fix, caught in review: the writes into the internal signal notify unconditionally. A caller who mutates their catalog signal in place keeps the same object, and the rerun that delivers it lands inside the same flush, where the value-compare coalesces the write away and strands the filtered copy on the previous contents. The old single-effect path avoided this by building a fresh filtered object per update.

One related change: the announcement check no longer reports "not announced" when there is no connection at all. There is nothing to ask, relativeBroadcast still bails on the missing connection, and without it a reconnect would briefly hide every cross-broadcast rendition.

This is the player-side gap #2906 exposed rather than created: it applies to any catalog carrying cross-broadcast references, including hand-authored ones. #2906 made it reachable from the transcoder by referencing a source outside the output's subtree.

Public API changes

None. An earlier revision of this PR added Broadcast.relativeAvailable and an exported reachableRenditions helper, with video and audio selection each filtering through them. Putting the rule where the catalog is already filtered removes both, and leaves video/source.ts and audio/source.ts untouched: everything downstream of the catalog inherits the fix. No Rust changes, no wire changes.

Test plan

  • just check and just test clean: 116 @moq/watch tests, 0 failures across every JS package.
  • New js/watch/src/broadcast.test.ts drives the real announcement stream through a fake connection rather than stubbing the predicate: a rendition referencing ../private/source is absent from the effective catalog, appears when that path is announced, and disappears when it is withdrawn.
  • A second test pins the coalescing regression above: a manual catalog mutated in place republishes the added rendition. It fails without the forced notification.
  • Verified it fails without the fix by restoring the escaping-only filter, which keeps the unreachable rendition and is exactly the blank-playback bug.
  • The existing "ignores escaping renditions before selecting a valid fallback" test still passes unchanged, so the escaping half of the rule kept its behavior while moving into the shared predicate.

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Broadcast catalogs now retain raw entries and derive filtered renditions from current reachability. Manual and fetched catalogs use the same reactive filtering path. Relative broadcast resolution uses shared target classification for local references, root escapes, sibling broadcasts, unavailable connections, announcements, and disabled states. Tests verify remote rendition visibility and in-place manual catalog updates.

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A Broadcast already publishes the catalog minus renditions this consumer can't
use: `filterCatalog` drops one whose reference escapes above the root. It missed
the other way a reference names nothing, a broadcast that isn't announced to us,
because that is dynamic and the filter ran once per catalog update.

So a catalog referencing a broadcast the viewer can't see, e.g. a transcoder
under `public/` pointing at a source under `private/`, kept a rendition that
selection would happily pick as the highest quality. `relativeBroadcast` then
resolved it to nothing and the decoder cleared the frame, with no signal back to
selection: a blank picture instead of a fallback to a rung.

The effective catalog is now derived in its own effect, so both halves of "can
this reference name anything" are one predicate, shared with playback, and
re-evaluated as announcements arrive. A rendition appears when its broadcast
does and disappears when it goes away, without a new catalog.

The announcement check no longer reports "not announced" with no connection at
all: there is nothing to ask, playback bails on the missing connection anyway,
and it kept a reconnect from briefly hiding every cross-broadcast rendition.

Found by Codex reviewing #2906, which made this reachable from the transcoder by
referencing a source outside the output's subtree.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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js/watch/src/broadcast.test.ts (1)

8-12: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Wait for the expected catalog state instead of five timer turns.

Use Signal.changed() with a named timeout or attempt budget. This removes the magic number and ties each assertion to the catalog update.

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Deriving the effective catalog from a separate signal lost an update the old
single-effect path couldn't: a caller who mutates their catalog signal in place
keeps the same object, and the rerun that delivers it lands inside the same
flush, where the value-compare coalesces the write away. The filtered copy then
stranded on the previous contents, so a rendition added that way never appeared.

Both writers notify unconditionally, which is what the pre-split path did in
effect by building a fresh filtered object per update.

Reported by Codex on #2918, with a regression test that reproduces it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 94-106: Wrap the Broadcast test body after constructing the
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Comment on lines +94 to +106
const broadcast = new Broadcast({ enabled: true, catalogFormat: "manual", catalog });

await settle();
expect(renditions(broadcast)).toEqual(["one"]);

// The input is a signal the caller owns, so it can be updated in place.
catalog.mutate((c) => {
if (c.video) c.video.renditions.two = video("avc1.640028");
});
await settle();
expect(renditions(broadcast)).toEqual(["one", "two"]);

broadcast.close();

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Ensure Broadcast cleanup runs when assertions fail.

Both tests close their Broadcast instance only after the assertions, so a failed assertion can leave reactive resources active and affect later tests. Wrap each test body in try/finally and call broadcast.close() from the finally block.

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In `@js/watch/src/broadcast.test.ts` around lines 94 - 106, Wrap the Broadcast
test body after constructing the instance in a try/finally block, and move
broadcast.close() into the finally clause so cleanup runs even when either
assertion fails. Keep the existing catalog mutation and assertions unchanged.

Apply the same fix in `@js/watch/src/broadcast.test.ts` around lines 1 - 87: The
same failure-safe cleanup requirement applies to the other Broadcast instance.

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fperex pushed a commit to fperex/moq that referenced this pull request Aug 21, 2026
Semantic conflicts resolved beyond the textual ones:

- js/net origin.ts: dev put the broadcast routing table there (moq-dev#2705), main
  moved the origin *id* module there from lite/ (moq-dev#2910). The table keeps
  origin.ts; the id module is now the internal js/net/src/hop.ts, shared by
  both wire protocols as main intended.
- js/watch broadcast.ts: dev rejects a whole catalog when a rendition's
  broadcast reference escapes the root (moq-dev#2630); main hides renditions whose
  broadcast is not announced (moq-dev#2918). Both kept. The announcement gate moved
  into #relativeTarget so playback and rendition selection cannot disagree
  about what is reachable, and filterCatalog now covers text renditions.
- js/net ietf publisher: main's options-object constructor plus dev's
  origin-backed broadcasts and main's cluster advert.
- moq-ffi session: main's wasm32 browser client alongside dev's reconnecting
  moq_tokio::Connection, with Inner::Connection, MoqBackoff, and the
  moq_tokio::Status conversion gated to native.
- moq-net ietf subscriber: main's Arrival parameter plus dev's GOAWAY drain
  cost.

web-transport-wasm 0.6 implements the poll traits moq-net requires
(moq-dev/web-transport#369), so the hand-written adapters in moq-wasm and
moq-ffi are gone; both files are now just the dial. This is what unblocks
moq-ffi's wasm32 build (moq-dev#2911) under dev's poll-only transport (moq-dev#2736).

Two of main's additions were written against APIs dev had already changed,
and merged cleanly because neither side touched the other's lines:

- test/wasm harness published through Established.publish, removed by moq-dev#2705.
  It now publishes into an Origin and passes publish: origin.consume().
- test/wasm, rs/justfile, moq-bench's hd.toml, and the new iroh doc invoked
  --server-bind / --server-version / --client-connect, which moq-dev#2915 refuses.

moq_net::model::resume::consecutive_updates_wake asserted an absolute wake
count. main's kio Park now reuses a still-registered waiter (moq-dev#2905), so
applying a subscription change notifies a list the poll is parked on and
self-wakes once. That costs a redundant poll and nothing else, while a lost
wakeup parks the task forever, so the test measures the delta instead.

moq-mux's tdt_round_trips_as_latest_value fails here and on dev alike; it is
not a merge regression.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wFQ5wqKbvWwET3G5MJXY9
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