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Playback rate wall to media delta · case 01

The media timeline advances at normal speed regardless of playback rate.

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ROOT CAUSE

The media timeline advances at normal speed regardless of playback rate.

VERIFIED REPAIR

Preserve the media contract: Advance media position by nonnegative wall-time delta times nonnegative playback rate; zero rate freezes position.

Unsuccessful approach: Dividing by rate reverses faster and slower playback behavior.

Case contract

Advance media position by nonnegative wall-time delta times nonnegative playback rate; zero rate freezes position.

Why this case matters

A deterministic local media controller stage; metadata and downloaded data are supplied explicitly. No external player, service or codec is required.

1 / The failure

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json
import math
N = 1
observations = []
def solve(position, wall_delta, rate):
    return position+wall_delta
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('fixture 1',solve(*(10, 2, 2)),14)
check('fixture 2',solve(*(10, 2, 0.5)),11)
check('fixture 3',solve(*(10, 2, 0)),10)
check('fixture 4',solve(*(0, 0, 1)),0)
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
fixture 11214Failed
fixture 21211Failed
fixture 31210Failed
fixture 400Passed

SHA-256 / ff2496675dfca5eb29706e7496cb2b49b7b475ff83ddb0603735ada9fa2c6c27

2 / The unsuccessful fix

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json
import math
N = 1
observations = []
def solve(position, wall_delta, rate):
    return position+wall_delta/rate if rate else position
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('fixture 1',solve(*(10, 2, 2)),14)
check('fixture 2',solve(*(10, 2, 0.5)),11)
check('fixture 3',solve(*(10, 2, 0)),10)
check('fixture 4',solve(*(0, 0, 1)),0)
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
fixture 111.014Failed
fixture 214.011Failed
fixture 31010Passed
fixture 40.00Passed

SHA-256 / 986d32d8bfed52bff9d7e23e241cc6d6c15cb1d16a1100dd10620ec90ae2d67a

3 / The verified repair

Exit 0
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json
import math
N = 1
observations = []
def solve(position, wall_delta, rate):
    return position+wall_delta*rate
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('fixture 1',solve(*(10, 2, 2)),14)
check('fixture 2',solve(*(10, 2, 0.5)),11)
check('fixture 3',solve(*(10, 2, 0)),10)
check('fixture 4',solve(*(0, 0, 1)),0)
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
fixture 11414Passed
fixture 211.011Passed
fixture 31010Passed
fixture 400Passed

SHA-256 / 9f3b4d4a21897c9715a163903ff2f7063894fdae78235373efb4efe6e3721a6c

Verification & scope

This reproducer isolates one failure mechanism. Results cover the supplied fixtures. Variants within a family share a test contract and should remain grouped when constructing evaluation splits. Related mechanisms with a shared evaluation_group must also remain together; these controlled models are not independent production incidents.

Observations recorded using Python 3.12.14 at 2026-09-29T14:38:46.303983+00:00.

Case digest / 54babffdfb212045bfb1ef21d5f56e92978ac9fee30757eeff237d7acbd71811