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This includes playback clock advancement; it is not first visible frame/photon latency.", "method": "One mounted 640x360 native Mac window per process, sequential runs, alternate engine order by repetition. Three repetitions for 14 local files with a 2 s steady observation; two repetitions for 7 extended cases with a 3 s observation. Seek to 12 then 4 seconds where duration exceeds 15 seconds. Landing tolerance is 1 second.", "upstreamProtocolLimits": "The paired public API harness uses exact upstream media recipes. It does not port all upstream internal regression assertions. The paced-live HTTP origin matches the upstream 1316-byte/87500-byte-per-second/preroll recipe but differs from Other Player original custom IOReader. First-byte timeout injection, paused seek, request budgets, DVR rewind-to-live, all software packet regressions and FEL GPU benchmarks were not run as paired tests.", "identity": "The same byte files were supplied to both engines. Upstream generation recipes and codec settings were preserved. No claim of identical bytes to unpublished historical author encodes is made.", "local": [ { "media": "av1.mp4", "engines": { "BOSS": { "repetitions": 3, "medianClockReadySeconds": 0.6204591666682973, "minClockReadySeconds": 0.620368125004461, "maxClockReadySeconds": 0.623826499999268, "medianProcessCPUSeconds": 0.125655, "medianPeakProcessRSSMiB": 80.296875, "timingEligibleForVideoComparison": true, "videoWitness": "clock-only matrix; no presentation-layer instrumentation" }, "Other Player": { "repetitions": 3, "medianClockReadySeconds": 0.6165257916654809, "minClockReadySeconds": 0.6100976250017993, "maxClockReadySeconds": 0.6623215416693711, "medianProcessCPUSeconds": 0.11082200000000002, "medianPeakProcessRSSMiB": 76.453125, "timingEligibleForVideoComparison": true, "videoWitness": "clock-only matrix; no presentation-layer instrumentation" } } }, { "media": "bridge-eac3-51.mkv", "engines": { "BOSS": { "repetitions": 3, "medianClockReadySeconds": 0.6238332916618674, 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BOSS clock advances, but AVPlayerItem has zero video tracks, 0x0 presentation size and no ready video layer. Other Player renders the same files.", "next": "Integrate and accept the correction in actual consumer app builds on each platform; expand to additional HLS graph types separately." }, { "id": "hdr10plus-carrier", "priority": 2, "status": "explained-by-fixture-field-validation-control-passed", "title": "Exact HDR10+ fixture decodes but metadata carrier is rejected", "evidence": "BOSS owned path submits both frames and reports decoded/output HDR10+ status invalid. Other Player official probe recognizes ST 2094-40 metadata in the same 0.2 s fixture.", "next": "The original fixture field is 5000000/1; a separate 500/1 control attaches metadata and renders both frames. Keep the original benchmark unchanged and retain semantic validation." }, { "id": "private-fel-benchmarks", "priority": 3, "status": "blocked-missing-exact-media", "title": "Published FEL GPU/reconstruction comparison cannot yet be reproduced", "evidence": "Other Player author figures use other hardware and private clips absent from the repository. The measured Other Player default build has DualLayerDolbyVision and TrueHD optional traits disabled.", "next": "Obtain the original identified clips and hashes, enable the appropriate Other Player trait, then measure matched reconstruction and metadata timing on this Mac. Do not substitute unrelated media or compare Mac values to the published A12/M2 numbers." } ], "limits": [ "No cold-cache, statistical significance, energy, thermal or system-wide memory claim.", "CPU seconds cover the complete observed process session; peak RSS is lifetime process memory, not all OS services.", "AV presentation-layer counts may count the same layer through overlapping view/layer traversal; only presence is used, never the numeric count.", "All 112 clocks advanced and all 100 seek clocks landed, but this does not mean 112 video passes: four HEVC HLS runs have confirmed missing video.", "The initial 84-run matrix has no per-run presentation-layer witness. AVI was checked separately through VLC displayed-picture statistics.", "HDR10+ exact sample is 2 frames / 0.2 seconds. It is not lengthened to satisfy the 0.5-second clock metric.", "No iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, HDMI analyzer or receiver qualification was performed. No active Odyssey app was modified or installed." ], "baselineCounts": { "pairedRuns": 112, "localRuns": 84, "extendedRuns": 28, "clockAdvancementChecksPassed": 112, "seekClockChecksPassed": 100, "confirmedVideoFailureRuns": 4 }, "postFix": { "date": "2026-11-04", "status": "implemented-and-native-Mac-validated", "scope": "Finite, continuous, unencrypted MPEG-TS HLS media playlists with range-capable segments. No whole-media download or persistent movie/library file. Encoded video and metadata are unchanged. Adaptive/master, encrypted, byte-range, discontinuity, partial/low-latency and live graphs retain existing routing and are outside this correction.", "runs": 16, "seekClockLandings": 38, "unitRegressionsPassed": 4, "ownedSeekVideoWitness": "Frames were submitted near targets at 12, 90 and 4 seconds for plain, timestamp-offset and authorized HEVC HLS.", "authorizationRevocation": "Stopped with expected error -20002", "headerGateFailures": 0, "maximumTeardownSeconds": 0.10967337500187568, "appInstalledOrUploaded": false, "odysseyAppModified": false, "tradeoff": "An initial one-byte range request per segment establishes the finite byte index; long playlists add setup requests. No claim of optimal startup for every CDN." }, "postFixRawResults": "post-fix-results.json", "hdr10PlusValidationControl": "hdr10plus-validation-control.json", "finalComparison": { "hardware": { "computer": "Mac mini", "chip": "Apple M6", "modelIdentifier": "Mac18,5", "architecture": "arm64", "cpuCores": 12, "memoryGB": 24, "macOS": "27.0.1", "osBuild": "26A434", "swift": "6.4 (swiftlang-6.4.0.34.1)", "power": "AC", "configuration": "Release / default optimized SwiftPM build", "environment": "User Mac with normal background activity; no thermal isolation or cold-cache control" }, "validPairedComparison": { "BOSS": { "clockReadySeconds": 0.7324835416657152, "cpuSeconds": 0.18239599999999997, "peakRSSBytes": 93257728, "validPairedRuns": 39, "seekClockLandings": 30, "medianSeekSeconds": 0.05273454167036107 }, "Other Player": { "clockReadySeconds": 0.7458870416667196, "cpuSeconds": 0.15285999999999997, "peakRSSBytes": 72089600, "validPairedRuns": 39, "seekClockLandings": 30, "medianSeekSeconds": 0.07805920833197888 } }, "qualification": "Exclude the three missing-video AVC runs and their Other Player counterparts from paired aggregate CPU/RSS/startup. 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