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fix(join): whole-frame clip lengths and frame-exact xfade offsets; release waits for the npm version, not for latest - #473
join.py cuts clips to whole frames and their sound to whole samples (#455). Each clip was trimmed to its length in milliseconds (trim=duration=0.167 for 5 frames at 30 fps), and the next clip started after it. Rounding errors added up: 60 five-frame clips had one-frame holes from about 8 s on.
Lengths are now counted in frames of the join's exact rate: the first clip's r_frame_rate, so 30000/1001 rather than 29.97. The fps filter runs at that fraction too.
The picture is cut with trim=end_frame. The sound is cut with apad=whole_len / atrim=end_sample, at sample counts taken from the running frame total, so the sound stays within one sample of the picture.
New result keys: frame_rate, clip_frames, transition_frames (added to the contract).
A transition starts on its frame (#468). The xfade offset was written to the millisecond, and xfade starts on the first frame at or after it. So 2.566667 s, written 2.567, started the fade a frame late: 92 + 60 frames with --duration 0.5 gave 138 frames where 137 were due.
Offsets are now that frame's time rounded down to the microsecond.
The transition is a whole number of frames, and acrossfade=ns= overlaps the same samples.
The picture chain keeps the fps filter's one-frame time base instead of settb=AVTB, so every downstream timestamp is a frame number.
Release: a slow latest on npm no longer skips the MCP Registry publish. On 3.6.2, npm's latest dist-tag still read 3.6.1 after five minutes. The verify step failed, and every later step was skipped, the MCP Registry publish included, even though npm already had 3.6.2. A re-run of the failed job finished it.
The verify step now fails only when npm does not have the version.
A latest still behind after ten minutes fails the job in its last step, after the registry steps have run.
Test plan
test_join_clip_lengths_are_whole_frames_and_samples: 60 × 5-frame clips at 30 and at 30000/1001 give 300 frames, no hole in the timestamps, each output frame equal to the source frame of the same index, and sound length equal to picture length within one AAC frame.
test_join_transition_starts_on_its_frame: 92+60 at 30 fps gives 137 frames, the 91+60 control gives 136, and a four-clip fade at 30000/1001 gives 232. Each offset is at or before its frame.
tests.test_contract: 321 tests OK (2 skipped). The join tests in tests.test_editing (23) pass.
FFmpeg 7.1 / 8 / 9 in CI (run locally on 6.1.1 only).
The release change takes effect on the next release.
Siblings
Class: a frame-exact length or offset written as rounded seconds into an ffmpeg filter, where the filter's boundary decides which frame is in.
tests/sweep.py c92.mp4 --baseline c90.mp4 showed no row differing. Single-input tools do not chain lengths, so the multi-input tools were checked by hand:
render.py's join stage: fixed through join.py.
grid.py (cells run in parallel), multicam.py (neighbouring ranges share a boundary), broll.py (placed once on a continuous base picture): not affected in this shape.
cut / reverse / speedramp / freeze / _smartcut / decision.av_trim: not affected, they already use .6f on the frame grid.
Follow-up:sequence.py's concat list writes duration 1/fps rounded to the microsecond for each frame. That adds up to half a frame after about 28 minutes at 30 fps. It is a different mechanism (the concat demuxer, not a filter), filed separately.
Video joins now align clip boundaries, transitions, and audio trimming to whole frames, including at fractional frame rates.
Joined audio retains the widest input layout instead of being forced to stereo.
Release publication waits for the exact npm version, gives the latest tag up to ten minutes to catch up, and runs MCP Registry steps before failing if it remains behind.
New Features
Join results now report the frame rate, frame count for each clip, and transition overlap in frames.
Documentation
Updated join documentation to explain frame-based timing and the additional result details.
Scorecard is pinned to the commits in ossf/scorecard's own workflow, and it
publishes results and uploads SARIF. server.json and glama.json follow the
current official schemas. npx ffmpeg-skill mcp starts the stdio server, which
is the command the registry package argument names.
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…remove
join.py --copy --transition none joins clips by the concat demuxer with -c copy when their first
video and audio streams match (cut.py's stream signature, now in _common.probe), no clip hides
edit-list pre-roll, and each clip's picture and sound end within 50 ms. A mismatch is refused by
name (join_copy_mismatch). The join is measured beside the output -- video packet count and
length against the clips' -- before it is renamed into place.
cut.py --remove A-B,... is the inverse of --segments: the ranges are dropped and the rest is cut
exactly as the equivalent --segments would be.
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Every writing tool reports output_identity {size, mtime_ns} for the file it wrote; check.py
--expect-identity SIZE:MTIME_NS FAILs an identity row when the file at the path is another one (an
older file a failed run left, or a later run's), and check.py reports input_identity. SKILL.md's
delivery check passes it. check.py --compare REF measures SSIM (mean and worst frame) and PSNR
against a reference in one pass, WARN under a mean SSIM of 0.98.
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…ured
The preset's x264 line takes the video bitrate the running time leaves after the audio (97% of the
budget) in place of its CRF and runs in two passes; the written size is a file_size verification
step, with a size_over_limit warning when the encoder overshot. Refused for non-x264 presets and
--hw, with --crf, without a duration, and under 100 kb/s for the picture.
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…the damage
Timestamps regenerated, corrupt packets dropped, demuxing past errors, negative timestamps shifted
to zero; the input is only read. Both files are decoded once at -v warning and the timestamp
warnings and other errors counted (repair: {before, after}); the repair step fails if either grew,
and errors a remux cannot fix are a repair_incomplete warning.
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Decode errors are log lines whose count changes with the container (one
full run logged 51 before and 53 after), so they are reported before and
after but no longer fail the verification step; timestamp warnings, the
part a remux rewrites, do. The test source is encoded single-threaded so
its damage is the same every run.
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… edges, --max-mb
- check.py --compare reads V:0 (not cover art), times the worst frame by
its presentation time, counts frames from packets when nb_frames is
missing, prints that note in plain text, runs under --dry-run when both
files exist, and starts each main() with no leftover notes.
- join.py --copy compares the first non-cover video stream, judges A/V
alignment on each stream's end (start + length), includes colour matrix
and range in the signature, refuses --sample-rate/--channels, fails the
packet check when nothing was counted, and reports short and silent
clips as the re-encoding join does.
- cut.py --remove refuses any explicit --start and --snap beats, and
clamps a range that starts before 0.
- export.py --max-mb refuses nan and inf.
- contract: join is conditional on audio; check notes name --compare.
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The repair test overwrote bytes anywhere in the middle of the TS, which on
ffmpeg 5.1.1 hit data its ffprobe could not open the file past; it now
flips one byte in 40 video payload packets, never a TS header, the
PAT/PMT or audio. The demo shows --remove 2-4 on the gallery's clip.
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…--compare pairs by index
- The concat demuxer maps each clip's packets by stream index, so a clip
whose streams are laid out differently (a cover picture between video
and sound) is refused before the signatures are compared.
- Picture and sound must start, as well as end, within 50 ms of each
other in each clip.
- check.py --compare re-times both pictures to their frame index before
ssim/psnr, which otherwise pair frames by timestamp.
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The identity was skipped for every dry run; it is skipped only for a
pending placeholder now, as the content rows are.
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…y reads twice
- Matroska/WebM state no stream length, so the A/V guard compared nothing
there; the starts are now compared whenever both streams exist and the
ends only where both lengths are known.
- check.py reads the input's identity before measuring and again after:
a file replaced mid-check FAILs, and a path that holds no regular file
is a FAIL row rather than no row.
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…without --expect-identity
The second identity read now follows every measurement, --compare's
pass included, so a replacement during that pass is caught. Without
--expect-identity no row is added (the row set is unchanged), but a file
that changed while it was being checked is named in notes.
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…very ffprobe
SKILL.md: routing rows for export --max-mb, cut --remove, join --copy,
export --preset copy --repair and check --compare; the report format moved
above the routing table (inside the first ~5000 tokens kept after compaction);
the --dry-run and VFR-phone rows dropped (covered by the shared-flag line and
a gotcha). Checked with a blind behaviour test, original vs trimmed, on 10
prompts: trimmed 60/60, original 56/60.
test_delivery: the repair source is one TS appended to itself byte for byte,
not bytes flipped inside packets; ffprobe 5.1.1 could not open the latter.
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The static ffprobe 5.1.1 build segfaults on every MPEG-TS file (the same
reason test_contract gates its TS cut test), so the appended-recording
source is written as MPEG-PS there; both containers are what a recorder
appends to, and the assertions run unchanged on every runner.
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On the static 5.1.1 build an appended program stream decoded without a
timestamp warning, so nothing was counted before the repair. The PS copy
now also has bytes flipped inside packs of its middle half; the MPEG-2
decoder reports those as decode errors on every version.
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…ult filler; link ffmpeg-full PATH setup
- README / gotchas: `--switch energy` picks the loudest camera, not a
recognised speaker; it needs each speaker on their own camera's mic.
- design-decisions / scripts.md: Chinese 啊 is out of the zh list for the
same reason as `like` (a sentence-final particle far more often than a
hesitation); `--filler-extra 啊` adds it.
- README HDR section: the zscale note links to Install for putting the
keg-only ffmpeg-full on PATH.
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…ith the tree
color.py: FFmpeg's CPU tonemap filter has no BT.2390 curve in any version
(only tonemap_opencl and libplacebo do), so --tonemap bt2390 always failed.
The choices are now the filter's own curves; a test checks every choice
against the ffmpeg under test and that bt2390 is refused.
README, checked against the code:
- CI runs on pull requests and pushes to main, not every push; the FFmpeg
list includes the Ubuntu 26.04 / 8.0.1 job.
- templates include audiogram; --template all renders the seven video
destinations, not every template.
- doctor's fonts.scripts covers bn, ta, lo and latin too.
- --crf was removed except on export.py; --codec/--quality are not on
export.py, render.py or batch.py.
- output_schema names output_identity (every tool but probe).
tests: the Windows skip for the POSIX shim was on the wrong test since
#269; it is back on test_dry_run_never_runs_ffmpeg_and_writes_nothing.
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… inputs; empty --expect-identity
- ssim/psnr ran with eof_action=repeat, so a shorter output's last frame was
measured against the rest of the reference (a mean of 0.90 for 52
identical frames, the worst frame timed past the file's end): shortest=1.
- An RGB file printed "SSIM R:"/"PSNR r:", which the parser missed ("could
not measure"), and the value depended on argument order: both inputs go
through format=yuv444p and the parser takes any channel letter.
- A clip stored sideways was compared by its stored size although ffmpeg
auto-rotates: the size check uses the displayed size.
- --expect-identity "" (an unset shell variable) skipped the identity row;
it is now malformed (kind input), parsed before any measurement.
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…ped tracks. cut.py --remove outside the file
- The A/V end check read stated stream lengths: Matroska/WebM state none, so
a clip whose sound stopped 1.5 s early joined as verified; MPEG-TS states
an estimate, so every AAC .ts was refused with wrong numbers. Each
stream's span now comes from its first and last packet.
- VP8/VP9 carry no extradata in WebM: identical clips were refused as
"codec configuration differs" (and cut.py --remove/--segments fell back
to an x264 re-encode into .webm, which ffmpeg refuses).
- --copy with --codec, --quality or --hw ignored them silently; refused now.
- A copy join drops subtitle/data tracks: dropped_non_av_streams says so.
- cut.py --remove 15-20 on a 4 s file kept a range past the end and removed
nothing; a range outside the file is refused.
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…render.py --stop-after keeps its output
- --preset gif returned before --max-mb was applied, so a 0.7 MB GIF passed
a 1 KB limit as verified: refused. A limit so large it constrains nothing
is refused as input instead of failing inside libx264.
- --repair counted "Packet corrupt (... dts = ...)" as a timestamp warning
and "Last message repeated N times" as a decode error, so a remux that
made timestamps worse could pass: repeat+warning prints each occurrence
and corrupt-packet lines count as damage.
- render.py --stop-after (before export) without --work removed the work
directory at exit, deleting the file the result named; it is kept.
- docs/contract.md lists size_over_limit and repair_incomplete.
- CHANGELOG: the fixes found reviewing 2.24.0.
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…any --quality
- _stream_span skipped a packet without a time and measured the rest, which
could invent (or hide) an A/V gap; it returns None, and join_copy refuses
the copy when either span is unmeasured instead of skipping the clip.
- --quality was refused only when it differed from the default, so
--quality 18 passed silently; any --quality given is refused.
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…on fixture for FFmpeg 5.x
The ffmpeg 5.1.1 job refused every copy join as "could not measure": a
row of the csv packet listing did not parse as a time there. The spans are
read from ffprobe's JSON (only packet entries), and a packet without a pts
falls back to its dts; a packet with neither still makes the span
unmeasured.
-display_rotation is FFmpeg 6.0+; the rotated --compare fixture falls back
to the rotate tag, and the test asserts the rotation was written.
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…nly; test the dts fallback
_stream_span listed every packet of the first video and audio stream of
each clip to keep two numbers. A clip longer than 30 s is now read at its
first 64 packets (past B-frame reordering) and its last 10 s; a test checks
that this gives the same span as reading every packet. A packet with no pts
is placed by its dts, now pinned by a test.
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-read_intervals takes timestamps, so the tail read started at
duration - 10 s on the absolute clock. A clip whose clock starts late (an
MPEG-TS hours in) read from its first packet instead, and one starting
below -10 s read nothing and was refused. The seek is start_time +
duration - 10 s; a test checks a clip starting at 100 s.
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…converted the main)
The new PiP test failed on ubuntu-latest's FFmpeg 8.0.1: a BT.709-tagged main
under an untagged PiP came back 88/103/192 instead of 80/110/192 at every
opacity, because 8.0's overlay negotiates one colourspace and took the
untagged side as BT.601. The untagged picture is now labelled whenever the
other one is tagged, not only when one is converted; two untagged inputs are
left as they are (the decided join/grid/broll/multicam plans are unchanged).
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…z jobs cover
parse_time is the grammar for offsets too (sync --offset -0.5), so the
parse_time target no longer treats a negative result as a crash; seed added.
CHANGELOG: SRI pins the icon stylesheet (its fonts load from it unpinned), and
the PR fuzz job runs on the workflow's path filters.
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…--compare's own display conversion
Three CodeRabbit findings on #469, each verified against the tree first:
- reinsert_srt_markup anchored a tag pair that encloses no visible
character like any other tag: closing after the character before,
opening before the one after, so `A<font color=red> </font>B` coloured
B. In a gap holding such a pair the tags now keep their source order
(opening before the whitespace, closing after; whole at the next line's
start when the whitespace became the break). Other tags are anchored as
before.
- carry_srt_markup took the cue's {\anN} from the first chunk that had
one, so chunks before it were left unplaced. The alignment is now read
from all chunks first.
- look.py --compare built the display conversion from the first input's
tags and ran it on both pictures: an SDR clip beside a PQ one was read
as PQ, and an HDR clip given second was not tone-mapped. Each input now
gets display_conversion() of its own probe; BT.709 SDR gets none.
Swept: look.py is the only tool that converts two inputs for display
(color.py has one input; grid.py's no-tone-map is decided);
reinsert/carry_srt_markup have one caller (caption.py layout_cues).
Tests: test_markup_around_whitespace_only_keeps_its_place,
test_a_split_cue_takes_its_alignment_from_any_piece,
test_look_compare_converts_each_input_by_its_own_tags (all fail on the
parent commit).
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(cherry picked from commit 95b6ee8997b69dd09a874c14dbdaf01dee86bfcf)
…te picture's first frame; sync seeks early
Three CodeRabbit findings on #469:
- cut.first_frame_from (re-encode) and fit --method trim clamp the start to the
picture's first frame before the grid lookup: a source whose video starts
after the file's origin was stamped a frame before its picture (00:59:59:21
for a cut from 0.2 s of a picture starting at 0.5 s). sync's padded head
still counts back.
- output_timecode_args takes the delivered rate: the source label is read at
the source's rate and written at the output's. fit passes --fps (or the rate
cfr_args forces) and relabels whenever the rate changes, without copying the
source's tmcd track (run_keeping_subtitles(relabel_timecode=True)); cut's
re-encode passes the rate cfr_args forces on a VFR source; sync does not
change the rate. render.py reaches frame.fps through fit, so it is covered.
- sync --trim-second seeks SEEK_MARGIN early and drops the margin on the output
side (on the drift-corrected clock), as cut.py's re-encode does. SEEK_MARGIN
moves to _common.decision so both import it.
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(cherry picked from commit c54f59fbd527e31ebd5418fd14e4732bc97418dd)
…d per path where each is written
The replace permission was a Boolean taken when the item started and handed to
every step as --overwrite, so a hand-edited sidecar (.srt) or a file swapped in
meanwhile was replaced. Now each step gets a snapshot of the files this item
delivered (size, mtime, inode) and its own output check passes only those, still
unchanged; deliver() compares the final path again under the output lock.
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…trim seeks early
The source label and the offset to the first frame were rounded apart, so a
rate change could land one frame off (4.8 frames written as 4). A delivered rate
below 1 fps divided by a zero-length day; it now writes no label. fit --method
trim seeked straight to its start before -i, which can lose the frames before a
keyframe on a B-frame HEVC source; it now seeks SEEK_MARGIN early and drops the
margin on the output side, as cut.py does.
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…the stream
On macOS and Windows (FFmpeg 8) csv output repeats the stream section, so the
count read back as '92\n\n92'.
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…en the item ends
caption.py writes its SRT before the video finishes encoding. batch stated every
reported path after the whole item completed, so an SRT corrected while the
video encoded was recorded as batch's own and the next watch pass replaced it.
Each writer now reports the identity its file has right after the write
(runner.report_committed, from run()'s place step, place_output, write_srt and
remember_written), and deliver() records the final path under the output lock.
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… the MCP Registry steps
npm's latest dist-tag read lagged more than five minutes behind the 3.6.2
publish, the verify step failed and skipped the MCP Registry steps for a
version npm already had. The verify step now fails only when npm lacks the
version; a latest still behind after ten minutes fails the job in its last
step, after the registry steps have run.
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…frame (#455, #468)
join.py trimmed each clip's picture and sound to its length in milliseconds
(trim=duration / atrim=duration) and wrote each xfade offset to the
millisecond. A whole-frame length or offset that rounds up puts the next
clip, or the fade, one frame late: 60 five-frame clips at 30 fps had
one-frame holes from about 8 s, and 92 + 60 frames with a 0.5 s fade gave
138 frames where 137 were due.
Lengths are now counted in frames of the join's exact rate (the first
clip's r_frame_rate, so 30000/1001 rather than 29.97): the picture is cut
with trim=end_frame, the sound with apad=whole_len/atrim=end_sample at the
samples those frames last (from the running frame total), the transition
is a whole number of frames that acrossfade=ns overlaps by the same
samples, and each xfade offset is its frame's time rounded down to the
microsecond. The picture chain keeps the fps filter's one-frame time base
instead of settb=AVTB, so every downstream timestamp is a frame number.
The result reports frame_rate, clip_frames and transition_frames.
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Video joins now align clip trimming, transitions, and audio samples to frame-based timing. Release verification checks exact npm version availability separately and delays failure for a lagging latest until after MCP Registry steps.
Changes: Frame-Aligned Video Joins
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Frame and sample timing model scripts/join.py, scripts/_contract.py, docs/contract.md, docs/design-decisions.md, CHANGELOG.md
The join selects an exact frame rate and calculates clip and transition lengths in whole frames. The output contract and documentation describe the frame rate and frame-count fields.
Aligned filter graph and regression coverage scripts/join.py, tests/test_editing.py, CHANGELOG.md
Video trimming and transition offsets use frame counts. Audio trimming and crossfades use sample counts. Tests check frame order, duration, transition placement, and audio overlap at 30 and 30000/1001 fps.
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npm version checks .github/workflows/release.yml
The release job checks that the exact package version exists, then polls npm’s latest dist-tag. It records any remaining lag instead of failing at that point.
Deferred failure and changelog .github/workflows/release.yml, CHANGELOG.md
A final step fails the job if latest remains behind after the MCP Registry steps. The changelog records this release change.
kajisho5/ffmpeg-skill#448 — It concerns npm version verification. This change updates that verification flow but does not add a recovery path.
kajisho5/ffmpeg-skill#474 — It describes frame-timing drift in sequence.py; this pull request applies frame-based timing changes to join.py, not sequence.py.
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kajisho5/ffmpeg-skill#445 — It adds the MCP Registry publishing steps that this pull request runs before the final npm lag failure check.
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Invalid --duration values such as negative, nan or inf either produce an unintended one-frame transition or crash with a traceback rather than a clean error. This affects only malformed input to the join command, so the risk is bounded. Validating the duration before it is rounded would close it.
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Linked issues #455 and #468 are open and directly linked. Both have coding requirements.
[#455, #468] Whole-frame timing in join.py: - Without --fps, output_rate uses the first clip's exact `r_fr…
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The title names the two main changes: whole-frame clip lengths and frame-exact xfade offsets in join.py, plus the release workflow change to wait for the npm version rather than latest. It is specific and matches the changeset and objectives. It is long (116 characters) and combines two topics, but it is not misleading.
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The description follows the template. It has a Summary that explains the why for the join.py frame-alignment fixes (#455, #468) and the release change. It has a Test plan with checked evidence and unchecked items for FFmpeg 7.1/8/9 CI and the next-release check. It has a Siblings section that gives the defect class, the sweep command (tests/sweep.py c92.mp4 --baseline c90.mp4), the affected tools, and a follow-up. The template asks for a sibling sweep, and the description provides one. The description is thorough and complete.
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Linked issues #455 and #468 are open and directly linked. Both have coding requirements.
[#455, #468] Whole-frame timing in join.py:
Without --fps, output_rate uses the first clip's exact r_frame_rate (for example 30000/1001). The fps filter uses the same fraction. This addresses the 29.97 fps requirement of #455.
Picture is trimmed by frame count (trim=end_frame). Sound is trimmed by sample count (apad/atrim=end_sample), using counts from the running frame total. This addresses the sample-exact audio requirement of #455.
The result reports frame_rate, clip_frames, and transition_frames. These keys also appear in scripts/_contract.py and docs/contract.md. This addresses the frame-count reporting requirement of #455.
Xfade offsets come from frame positions. frame_time() rounds each offset down to the microsecond, so no offset is above its frame time. This addresses #468.
The transition is round(d * fps) frames, with a minimum of one frame. acrossfade uses the matching ns= sample count. The picture chain keeps the fps filter time base (settb=AVTB removed).
Tests named in the PR (test_join_clip_lengths_are_whole_frames_and_samples, test_join_transition_starts_on_its_frame) cover the 60-clip, 30000/1001, 92+60 and 91+60 cases. The PR reports these pass and fail on the old code.
Limits of this review: the assessment relies on the whole-PR diff summary and the reported test results. I did not read the test file or run the tests. FFmpeg 7.1, 8, and 9 CI runs are not done. Those runs check compatibility, not a coding requirement of these issues.
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The whole PR still changes .github/workflows/release.yml and adds a release entry to CHANGELOG.md. The release change alters the npm latest verify step, the wait durations, and a final always() failure step. Neither #455 nor #468 requests this work. Both issues scope the change to scripts/join.py and its join timing. Neither linked issue mentions the npm latest tag, the verify step, or the MCP Registry publish.
The PR description and objectives state that the release change is intentional, and that it takes effect on the next release. That reason explains timing. It does not link the change to #455 or #468. No linked issue states this release requirement. The join.py, docs/contract.md, docs/design-decisions.md, scripts/_contract.py, and tests/test_editing.py changes do support the linked issues.
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- Line 734: Update the transition frame-count logic in the function containing
`tframes` so an enabled transition never emits `acrossfade` with `ns=0`: enforce
a one-frame minimum, or reject zero duration before building the FFmpeg command.
Preserve the existing behavior when transitions are disabled.
- Line 746: Replace the independently rounded overlap calculation in the
`tsamples` logic with sample boundaries derived from cumulative output-frame
positions, accounting for prior overlaps so rounding error does not accumulate.
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… output's frame positions
--duration 0 with a transition built acrossfade=ns=0, which FFmpeg refuses.
Each overlap was rounded on its own (9 frames at 30000/1001 = 14414.4 samples
-> 14414), so the sound ran 0.4 samples longer per transition. Every clip's
samples and every overlap are now differences of the output's rounded frame
positions, which telescope to the picture's length.
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On the out-of-scope check: the release.yml change is in this PR on purpose. It is the fix for the 3.6.2 release, where the MCP Registry publish was skipped. This repository releases from one working branch, and the next release run is the first place the change can be exercised. Keeping it with this PR means it takes effect on the release this PR produces.
Measure the output audio in the fractional-overlap test.
The sample-count assertion checks the planned command, and this line checks only output video frames. The test can pass if encoding changes the output audio length. Compare the probed audio and video durations for both transition lengths, using the one-AAC-frame tolerance used at Line 1608. The PR objective requires sound length within one audio frame of picture length.
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Update the fractional-overlap test to probe the encoded output’s audio and video durations for both transition lengths, and assert they differ by no more than the existing one-AAC-frame tolerance used in the test near line 1608. Keep the planned sample-count assertion and video-frame check.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Reject negative and non-finite --duration values before rounding.
With a transition, args.duration reaches round(d * fps) without a check. The parser uses type=float with no range check, so negative, nan, and inf values all parse.
A negative value, such as --duration -1, makes max(1, round(d * fps)) return 1. The join then builds a one-frame transition and succeeds. The requested duration is not used.
nan makes round() raise ValueError. inf makes it raise OverflowError. Both fail at this line, before the die() check at line 741 runs.
Validate the value before this line. Zero stays valid and still maps to the one-frame minimum.
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d = args.duration if args.transition != "none" else 0.0
+ if args.transition != "none" and not 0 <= args.duration < float("inf"):+ die(f"--duration must be a finite number of seconds, 0 or more; got {args.duration}")
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Validate args.duration before the tframes calculation when a transition is enabled, rejecting negative and non-finite values through the existing die() path before rounding; keep zero valid so it still produces the one-frame minimum.
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Fixed in b96dcfc. A negative --duration is now refused (--duration must be 0 or more seconds). Zero still gives the one-frame minimum. nan and inf never reached this line: add_common() registers finite_float for every type=float, and join.py --duration nan already exits with "argument --duration: 'nan' is not a finite number". The negative case is in test_join_sound_overlaps_add_up_to_the_picture.
That test now also compares the encoded sound's length with the picture's, to one AAC frame, for both transition lengths, as the nitpick asked.
…FFmpeg 7.1 is #475
On FFmpeg 7.1 each 5-frame AAC clip was read with its sound 1-2 frames past
the picture, and join.py keeps a clip as long as such sound (narration is never
cut), so the test measured that rule instead of the cut. PCM in MOV gives each
clip exactly its frames' sound; the AAC question is filed as #475. The test
still fails on the old join.py (a one-frame hole at 30 fps).
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…e written sound
A negative transition length was taken as the one-frame minimum and the join
succeeded with a fade nobody asked for (nan and inf are already refused by the
parser). The fractional-overlap test now also compares the encoded sound's
length with the picture's, to one AAC frame.
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Summary
join.py cuts clips to whole frames and their sound to whole samples (#455). Each clip was trimmed to its length in milliseconds (
trim=duration=0.167for 5 frames at 30 fps), and the next clip started after it. Rounding errors added up: 60 five-frame clips had one-frame holes from about 8 s on.r_frame_rate, so 30000/1001 rather than 29.97. The fps filter runs at that fraction too.trim=end_frame. The sound is cut withapad=whole_len/atrim=end_sample, at sample counts taken from the running frame total, so the sound stays within one sample of the picture.frame_rate,clip_frames,transition_frames(added to the contract).A transition starts on its frame (#468). The xfade offset was written to the millisecond, and xfade starts on the first frame at or after it. So 2.566667 s, written
2.567, started the fade a frame late: 92 + 60 frames with--duration 0.5gave 138 frames where 137 were due.acrossfade=ns=overlaps the same samples.settb=AVTB, so every downstream timestamp is a frame number.Release: a slow
lateston npm no longer skips the MCP Registry publish. On 3.6.2, npm'slatestdist-tag still read 3.6.1 after five minutes. The verify step failed, and every later step was skipped, the MCP Registry publish included, even though npm already had 3.6.2. A re-run of the failed job finished it.lateststill behind after ten minutes fails the job in its last step, after the registry steps have run.Test plan
test_join_clip_lengths_are_whole_frames_and_samples: 60 × 5-frame clips at 30 and at 30000/1001 give 300 frames, no hole in the timestamps, each output frame equal to the source frame of the same index, and sound length equal to picture length within one AAC frame.test_join_transition_starts_on_its_frame: 92+60 at 30 fps gives 137 frames, the 91+60 control gives 136, and a four-clip fade at 30000/1001 gives 232. Each offset is at or before its frame.138 != 137and233 != 232. Two subtests (the 30000/1001 case of the [from Velisa] join.py: frame-exact clip lengths (millisecond lengths leave one-frame holes in long edits) #455 test, whose old error stays under half a frame, and the 91+60 control) failed on the old code only because the new result keys were missing, not on a measurement.tests.test_contract: 321 tests OK (2 skipped). The join tests intests.test_editing(23) pass.Siblings
Class: a frame-exact length or offset written as rounded seconds into an ffmpeg filter, where the filter's boundary decides which frame is in.
tests/sweep.py c92.mp4 --baseline c90.mp4showed no row differing. Single-input tools do not chain lengths, so the multi-input tools were checked by hand:_smartcut/decision.av_trim: not affected, they already use.6fon the frame grid.sequence.py's concat list writesduration 1/fpsrounded to the microsecond for each frame. That adds up to half a frame after about 28 minutes at 30 fps. It is a different mechanism (the concat demuxer, not a filter), filed separately.Closes #455, closes #468.
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