1.4 KiB
1.4 KiB
Context
The current harness sends one fixed 1,179-byte payload per logical sample. It reaches the production path but does not represent encoded frames at 60/120 FPS or exercise realistic fragmentation, reassembly, queue bytes, and keyframe pressure.
Goals / Non-Goals
Goals:
- Deterministically generate complete variable-size frame units at exact profile frame rates and target bitrates.
- Include bounded periodic keyframes while preserving exact aggregate bytes.
- Measure the existing production path and independent reassembly with frame-level accounting.
Non-Goals:
- A real encoder, codec parsing, a second simulator, or a normative run before immutable Protocol publication.
Decisions
- Derive bytes per fixed interval from bitrate and FPS, distribute integer remainder deterministically, and shift bounded bytes into periodic keyframes while keeping the interval total exact.
- Carry a deterministic frame index/pattern only in the generated payload bytes; no codec semantics are claimed.
- Keep the existing path/impairment/resource driver and change its unit from datagram payload to complete frame.
Risks / Trade-offs
- [Keyframes can exceed queue budget] → use the reviewed 1 MiB frame ceiling and production byte-bound queue.
- [Short smoke windows have rounding effects] → assert exact generated totals and report measured duration separately from normative ten-minute gates.