fix(llc): fixes around audio output on web - #1303
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds browser remote-audio playback monitoring and recovery. It makes web sink selection asynchronous and failure-reporting, adds cross-platform playback APIs, supports partial output-device switching, and preserves audio state across remote-track lifecycle changes. ChangesAudio playback and device handling
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This PR changes web audio playback and device routing, but the current implementation can apply stale asynchronous sink updates, throw from fallback audio handling during call setup or recovery, and produce unhandled browser Promise rejections. These issues can leave audio routing incorrect or prevent calls from initializing reliably, so the PR is not merge-ready until they are addressed. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant RtcMediaDeviceNotifier
participant Call
participant rtc_audio_html
participant HTMLAudioElement
participant Tracer
RtcMediaDeviceNotifier->>rtc_audio_html: Register audio trace handler
rtc_audio_html->>HTMLAudioElement: Monitor remote playback
HTMLAudioElement-->>rtc_audio_html: Report blocked or playing state
rtc_audio_html->>Tracer: Emit playback trace
rtc_audio_html-->>RtcMediaDeviceNotifier: Emit blocked-state change
RtcMediaDeviceNotifier-->>Call: Forward blocked state
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In `@packages/stream_video/lib/src/webrtc/rtc_audio_api/rtc_audio_html.dart`:
- Around line 117-124: Update the setSinkId flow in RtcRemoteTrack so
HTMLAudioElement.setSinkId failures are propagated or represented by an explicit
unsuccessful result instead of completing normally. Only update audioSinkId
after the browser accepts the change, and ensure RtcManager.setAudioOutputDevice
reports the failure rather than success.
- Around line 132-135: Update the blocked-track loop in the relevant playback
method to invoke every watchdog play() synchronously and collect the returned
futures, then await them together with Future.wait after the loop. Preserve
removal from _blockedTrackIds and ensure all playback attempts begin within the
user gesture before any await.
In `@packages/stream_video/lib/src/webrtc/rtc_audio_api/rtc_audio_stub.dart`:
- Around line 6-7: Update the fallback implementations of setAudioTraceHandler,
setSinkId, and resumeAudioPlayback to no-ops instead of throwing; make
isAudioPlaybackBlocked return false, matching the native implementation and
non-web notifier contract.
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The diagnosis is right and the shape of the fix is sound — autoplay alone genuinely does fail silently under autoplay policy, and driving play() explicitly with a watchdog is the correct remedy.
The two smaller fixes bundled in are both real:
.toList()insetAudioOutputDeviceis now required, not cosmetic — the loop awaits, soonRemoteTrackcan insert intotracksmid-iteration and blow up the lazy iterable.disposeWebAudioPlayer: falseon unpublish is correctly bounded: participant-left and call teardown both go throughunpublishTrack→stop()with the defaulttrue, so elements still get cleaned up.
One thing I'd want fixed before merge (inline): after the watchdog gives up, the track is permanently silent with no path back — not even a user gesture. The rest are worth-addressing / nits.
Also: patch coverage is 10%. The DOM parts are awkward to test, but _backoff() is pure and the _degraded/_computeSkipReason transitions would be testable if the watchdog took a small element abstraction. Given that the one blocking finding is a state-machine bug, some coverage there would pay for itself.
CHANGELOG correctly under ## Upcoming ✅
# Conflicts: # packages/stream_video/CHANGELOG.md
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In `@packages/stream_video/lib/src/webrtc/rtc_audio_api/rtc_audio_html.dart`:
- Around line 194-200: Update the setSinkId support check in the audio element
capability logic to inspect whether the element has the setSinkId property via
hasProperty and toDart, rather than invoking setSinkId inside the synchronous
try/catch. Preserve the existing true/false assignment to
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Re-reviewed at 3bbe656. Everything I flagged last round is genuinely fixed — the give-up path now resets _degraded/_attempt and routes through the new _stalledTrackIds so resumeAudioPlayback() can reach it, resume() zeroes _attempt, the retries go out under one Future.wait, NotAllowedError is detected by reading the name property, and setSinkId rejections propagate all the way to Result.failure. Dropping the readyState gate from _computeSkipReason also retires my "needs a manual check on a Bluetooth profile switch" question — a paused element now always enters recovery regardless of buffer state.
Two things block merge, one design question is still open, and the rest are inline.
Blocking: format:verify is red (one spot, inline), and the CHANGELOG is missing an ### ✅ Added section for the new public API.
Still open from last round: isAudioPlaybackBlocked has no change notification. I dug into this further and it's narrower than I first described — see the inline comment. Short version: there is no state update at all, and the only real consumer of the signal is our own backend telemetry.
Tests. Still nothing. Two of the seven findings across both rounds have been bugs in the same watchdog state machine, which is the strongest argument for coverage there. _backoff() is pure and needs no harness. RtcManager.setAudioOutputDevice's partial-failure branch (all-fail → failure, some-fail → success) needs no DOM at all. And behind a two-member element abstraction (play(), paused) the _degraded/_computeSkipReason transitions become ordinary unit tests — including the latch case below, which is exactly the kind of thing that is invisible in review and obvious in a test.
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Reviewed at 472744b5. Everything from the last two rounds is genuinely fixed: the state flows through CallState.isWebAudioPlaybackBlocked instead of a polled getter, _markPlaying unifies both recovery observers, the _degraded latch has an exit on the skip path, _attempt resets on gesture-driven resume, _isNotAllowedError reads the property, the same-sink shortcut kills the O(N^2) awaits, and the changelog has its Added section. Format is green.
Five things I'd still want settled, one of them a regression introduced by this round's API redesign — the stalled-track path is no longer reachable from the app, so give-up is terminal in practice. Details inline.
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| _blockedTrackIds.removeAll(pending); | ||
| _stalledTrackIds.removeAll(pending); | ||
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The flag flickers off before you know whether the retry worked.
This clears _blockedTrackIds and notifies before the retries run. If the gesture-driven retry still fails, _blockedTrackIds.add re-notifies true a moment later. Net UI effect: the "tap to enable sound" button disappears and comes back.
Nothing depends on the early removal — resume() calls play() directly and never consults _computeSkipReason, so the blocked skip branch isn't in play here. Either move _notifyBlocked() below await Future.wait(retries), or drop the up-front _blockedTrackIds.removeAll entirely and let _markPlaying() clear it on success.
| if (_blockedTrackIds.contains(trackId)) return 'blocked'; | ||
| if (!element.paused) return 'notPaused'; | ||
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Dropping the readyState >= 2 guard was the right call — it was the thing I couldn't settle from the code last round. But it widens what counts as an outage, so it's worth one real-browser check before merge.
A suspend fired shortly after srcObject is assigned lands with paused == true, srcObject != null, ended == false, not blocked — so _computeSkipReason returns null, _handlePauseOrSuspend traces mediaPlayback.paused, and a redundant play() gets armed 250ms later on every track start, followed by a recover.success when it lands.
If that's what happens, the new dashboard signal is mostly startup noise. Not something I can settle from the code.
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| 'navigator.mediaDevices.enumeratedevices'; | ||
| static const String setSinkId = 'navigator.mediaDevices.setSinkId'; |
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Still navigator.mediaDevices.setSinkId. The thread got resolved but the string didn't change.
It also now contradicts the comment added directly below at L116-118, which explains the new tags carry no navigator.mediaDevices. prefix because they aren't device operations. setSinkId is HTMLMediaElement.setSinkId — same reasoning applies. Worth fixing in this pass; these strings are what dashboards join on, and a wrong name is expensive to correct once data has accumulated under it.
| mediaStream: mediaStream ?? this.mediaStream, | ||
| mediaTrack: mediaTrack ?? this.mediaTrack, | ||
| videoDimension: videoDimension ?? this.videoDimension, | ||
| transceiver: transceiver ?? this.transceiver, |
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The fix itself is right, but it un-noops a call that looks wrong, and the changelog frames restoring that call as the point.
RtcRemoteTrack.transceiver comes from subscriber.onTrack (rtc_manager.dart:71, constructed at :302). unpublishTrack then passes its sender to publisher?.pc.removeTrack (rtc_manager.dart:353-364) — a subscriber transceiver's sender handed to the publisher peer connection.
That branch was dead on any track that had been through copyWith; now it's live on every remote-track teardown (call end via dispose, participant leave via removeSubscriber), on all platforms. Best case it throws into the existing catch and logs a warning; either way it isn't doing what the changelog entry says it does.
Worth deciding whether that branch should exist at all before flipping it on — a remote subscriber track isn't something you removeTrack from the publisher. And a one-line copyWith test would at least pin the field so this can't silently regress again.
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| /// Web only; a no-op on other platforms. Unrelated to [resumeAudioPlayout], | ||
| /// which unmutes playout paused via [pauseAudioPlayout]. | ||
| Future<void> resumeWebAudioPlayback() => rtc_audio.resumeAudioPlayback(); |
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API asymmetry, worth settling before this is public.
You read the condition from call.state.isWebAudioPlaybackBlocked and act on it through a global singleton. Every other paired read/act on this surface lives on Call — setAudioOutputDevice, setCameraEnabled, and so on. A three-line Call.resumeWebAudioPlayback() forwarder is far cheaper now than after it ships.
Related, and not inline anywhere because it's an absence: nothing in stream_video_flutter or the samples surfaces the new flag. The PR introduces a required web affordance and leaves every integrator to build it from the changelog text. Putting it in the dogfooding sample also buys you the manual verification for the whole autoplay path, which no unit test can reach.
| await expectBlocked(call, isBlocked: false); | ||
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These four cover the Call <-> notifier wiring well, including the BehaviorSubject seeding rationale.
What's still uncovered is everything with actual logic in it. The watchdog state machine needs a browser, fair enough — but two of the PR's fixes are plain Dart and testable as-is:
RtcManager.setAudioOutputDevice's new branching (all tracks fail ->Result.failure; partial failure -> success; no remote audio tracks -> success). That's the behaviour the changelog promises, and it's three tests over a map of fakes.RtcRemoteTrack.copyWithpreservingtransceiver— one assertion.
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1901-1911: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winCommit sink results only for the current track instance.
setSinkIdreturns a copy after awaiting the platform API. Iftracks[trackId]is removed or replaced during that wait, the unconditional assignment can resurrect the removed track or overwrite the replacement. Associate each result with its source track and write it only whenidentical(tracks[trackId], sourceTrack)is true. Add a regression test for removal and replacement during a pending sink change.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@packages/stream_video/CHANGELOG.md`:
- Line 18: Update the changelog entry for Call.setAudioOutputDevice to say that
switching is attempted for every track, successful tracks are updated, and the
selection is rejected only when no track accepts the device; do not claim that
every track is switched.
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In `@packages/stream_video/lib/src/webrtc/rtc_manager.dart`:
- Around line 1901-1911: Update the sink-change flow around audioTrack.setSinkId
and the applied-results loop to retain each result’s source track, then update
tracks only when identical(tracks[updatedTrack.trackId], sourceTrack) is true;
otherwise discard the stale result. Add regression coverage for both removing
and replacing a track while setSinkId is pending.
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| - [Web] Fixed remote audio staying silent for the rest of the call after the browser's autoplay policy blocked playback, or after an audio element paused on its own (for example when a Bluetooth headset switches profile as the microphone is unmuted). Playback is now started explicitly, watched, and retried with a backoff, instead of relying on the element's `autoplay` attribute and failing with no indication. | ||
| - [Web] Fixed the selected audio output device being lost when a remote participant unmuted. | ||
| - [Web] Fixed `Call.setAudioOutputDevice` reporting success when the browser rejected the device or did not support output selection at all. | ||
| - [Web] Fixed `Call.setAudioOutputDevice` leaving playback split across two output devices when one remote track rejected the switch. Every track is now switched, and the selection is only rejected when no track could take the device. |
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Describe partial switching as an attempt, not a guarantee.
Line 18 says that every track is switched. rtc_manager.dart attempts every track, but it retains only successful updates and allows partial success when some tracks reject the device. Change this to state that every track is attempted and successful tracks are updated.
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In `@packages/stream_video/CHANGELOG.md` at line 18, Update the changelog entry
for Call.setAudioOutputDevice to say that switching is attempted for every
track, successful tracks are updated, and the selection is rejected only when no
track accepts the device; do not claim that every track is switched.
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