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[HLSTree] Fix no audio due to orphan rendition with shared uri - #2122

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alternative fix to proposed fix PR #2115
my idea is to have less code loops between builtin methods such as "for", "find", etc..

added three new tests

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Examle HLS

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-VERSION:7
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="group_aud_orphan",NAME="audio_0",DEFAULT=YES,URI="stream_0/out.m3u8"
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="group_aud_low",NAME="audio_0",DEFAULT=YES,URI="stream_0/out.m3u8"
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=1170400,RESOLUTION=1280x720,CODECS="avc1.64001f,mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="group_aud_low"
stream_1/out.m3u8

this media end up to have no audio track, the reason is

  • group_aud_orphan is parsed first, so it keeps m_isUriDuplicate == false.
  • group_aud_low has the same URI and is marked a duplicate, so it is skipped.
  • group_aud_orphan then reaches the orphan check: no variant carries
    AUDIO="group_aud_orphan", so with the default
    hlsAddOrphansRenditions == false it is skipped too.

a side effect introduced with PR #2112

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  • Bug Fixes
    • HLS audio renditions are associated more consistently with matching streams, including when audio groups share a URI.
    • Unreferenced audio groups follow the configured orphan-rendition setting: they’re omitted when disabled and included when enabled.
    • Renditions and streams with shared URIs are handled separately when building the playlist.

@CastagnaIT CastagnaIT added Type: Fix non-breaking change which fixes an issue Component: HLS v22 Piers labels Oct 3, 2026
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The HLS parser associates audio and subtitle renditions with matching variants and tracks processed rendition and variant URIs. Tests cover orphan audio rendition groups when orphan renditions are enabled or disabled.

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HLS rendition processing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Rendition association, URI tracking, and tests
src/parser/HLSTree.h, src/parser/HLSTree.cpp, src/test/TestHLSTree.cpp, src/test/manifests/hls/*orphan*.m3u8
The parser associates renditions with variants by group ID and processes matched renditions first. It tracks processed audio, subtitle, and variant URIs. Tests cover orphan audio groups with orphan renditions enabled and disabled, including groups that share a URI.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix


Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2eb39

The parser currently handles identical mixed-case URIs correctly, but the new test would not catch a regression in that behavior. This is a bounded coverage risk, not a demonstrated playback failure.

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Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2eb39

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: src

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  • observed — src (service) was modified; 5 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

  • observed — Modified behavior in src/parser/HLSTree.h: Rendition now has a Variant forward declaration and a pointer to the first variant related to its GROUP-ID. The old declaration had no such association.
  • observed — Modified behavior in src/parser/HLSTree.h: Removed Rendition::m_isUriDuplicate, which recorded whether another rendition had the same URI.
  • observed — Modified behavior in src/parser/HLSTree.h: Removed Variant::m_isUriDuplicate, which recorded whether another variant had the same URI.
  • observed — Modified behavior in src/test/TestHLSTree.cpp: OpenTestFileMaster now passes the fixture’s Kodi properties to InitStage1 instead of an empty property set.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the HLS audio issue caused by orphan renditions with shared URIs.
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Review comments at @src/parser/HLSTree.cpp:
- Line 1571: Update the audio rendition handling in HLSTree.cpp to insert
r.m_uri unchanged into collectedUris, matching the exact-string duplicate check
and the subtitle and variant paths.
- Line 1545: Update the rendition deduplication check in the `collectedUris`
loop so URI-based deduplication applies only when `r.m_uri` is nonempty. Also
insert audio URIs into `collectedUris` only when nonempty, allowing distinct
URI-less `EXT-X-MEDIA` audio entries to reach `FindMergeable`.

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cc @gizmocuz @matthuisman
this is the alternative PR

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Tested this: it fixes the shared-uri case, and it also drops the orphan in
@matthuisman's example above, so both behaviours look right. Caching the variant
pointer on the rendition and sorting is nicer than the loops in #2115.

One bug though. The audio claim goes into collectedUris lowercased, but every
lookup uses the raw string:

// audio loop
collectedUris.insert(STRING::ToLower(r.m_uri));
// subtitle loop
collectedUris.insert(r.m_uri);
// variant loops, twice
collectedUris.insert(var.m_uri);

// all three checks
if (collectedUris.contains(r.m_uri))
if (collectedUris.contains(var.m_uri))

So for any uri containing an uppercase character the audio claim is stored under
a key nothing will match, and the de-duplication silently stops working.

This shape triggers it. Two audio groups, both referenced by a variant so the
orphan check plays no part, sharing one uri spelled with uppercase letters:

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-VERSION:7
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="g1",LANGUAGE="eng",NAME="First",DEFAULT=YES,AUTOSELECT=YES,URI="Alt_Audio/Prog_Index.m3u8"
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="g2",LANGUAGE="deu",NAME="Second",DEFAULT=NO,AUTOSELECT=NO,URI="Alt_Audio/Prog_Index.m3u8"
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=263851,CODECS="avc1.4d400d,mp4a.40.2",RESOLUTION=416x234,AUDIO="g1"
gear1/prog_index.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=577610,CODECS="avc1.4d401e,mp4a.40.2",RESOLUTION=640x360,AUDIO="g2"
gear2/prog_index.m3u8

Both renditions are added, so one audio playlist becomes two audio adaptation
sets. Asking for the second audio track returns deu; before this PR it returns
eng, because there is only one. The three new tests all use lowercase uris, so
they pass either way.

Dropping the ToLower, or applying it at the three lookups as well, fixes it.

Two smaller things, neither a bug:

Variants and renditions now share one collectedUris, where the variant check
used to be variant-against-variant only. A variant whose uri matches an audio or
subtitle rendition's is now skipped, and since the audio loop runs first the
variant is the one dropped. For an audio-only variant that duplicates an
EXT-X-MEDIA playlist that is probably the intent, but it is a change beyond the
orphan fix, so worth a deliberate look rather than finding it later.

Rendition::m_variant is a raw pointer into pl.m_variants. Fine as it stands,
since nothing appends to that vector after the parse loop, but it would dangle
silently if anything ever did.

I have closed #2115 in favour of this one.

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i made fixes on new commit
1)removed toLower that i forgot it while developing
2)to be sure collectedUris is now reset before each different use case
In general FWIK a URI should not be identical across different Rendition or Variant types, so this should not cause problems
3) avoid add empty uri to collectedUris to avoid skip renditions with empty uri, as mentioned by AI (only renditions has no meaning for variants)

if for you its ok i will prepare for merge

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src/test/TestHLSTree.cpp (1)

458-474: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Make the test expose missed matches for mixed-case URIs.

The fixture uses lowercase URIs, so lowercasing only the inserted key still matches. Also, SetKodiProps(false) skips an unmatched orphan. Use a mixed-case path, enable orphan inclusion, and count audio representations so this regression can fail the test.

Suggested fix
diff --git a/src/test/TestHLSTree.cpp b/src/test/TestHLSTree.cpp
--- a/src/test/TestHLSTree.cpp
+++ b/src/test/TestHLSTree.cpp
@@
-  // The orphaned group is listed first and shares its uri with the referenced one,
-  // the orphaned group should be skipped and the referenced one should be used.
-  SetKodiProps(false); // explicit hls_add_orphans_renditions to false, to ensure the test is not affected by the default value
+  // The orphaned group is listed first. The shared URI should produce one rendition.
+  SetKodiProps(true); // Include the orphan so a missed URI match is observable.
   OpenTestFileMaster("hls/1a1v_master_orphan_shared_uri.m3u8");
 
-  size_t audioAdpSets = 0;
+  size_t audioRenditions = 0;
   for (const auto& adpSet : tree->m_periods[0]->GetAdaptationSets())
   {
     if (adpSet->GetStreamType() == PLAYLIST::StreamType::AUDIO)
-      audioAdpSets++;
+      audioRenditions += adpSet->GetRepresentations().size();
   }
 
-  EXPECT_EQ(audioAdpSets, 1);
+  EXPECT_EQ(audioRenditions, 1);
diff --git a/src/test/manifests/hls/1a1v_master_orphan_shared_uri.m3u8 b/src/test/manifests/hls/1a1v_master_orphan_shared_uri.m3u8
--- a/src/test/manifests/hls/1a1v_master_orphan_shared_uri.m3u8
+++ b/src/test/manifests/hls/1a1v_master_orphan_shared_uri.m3u8
@@
-#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="group_aud_orphan",NAME="audio_0",DEFAULT=YES,URI="stream_0/out.m3u8"
-#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="group_aud_low",NAME="audio_0",DEFAULT=YES,URI="stream_0/out.m3u8"
+#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="group_aud_orphan",NAME="audio_0",DEFAULT=YES,URI="stream_0/Out.m3u8"
+#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="group_aud_low",NAME="audio_0",DEFAULT=YES,URI="stream_0/Out.m3u8"
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Review comment at @src/test/TestHLSTree.cpp around lines 458 - 474:
Update ReferencedRenditionSharedUriWithOrphanGroup to include orphan renditions
and count audio representations rather than adaptation sets, so a missed URI
match causes the test to fail. Use a mixed-case shared URI in its manifest
fixture to verify matching is case-insensitive.

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Review comments at @src/test/TestHLSTree.cpp:
- Around line 458-474: Update ReferencedRenditionSharedUriWithOrphanGroup to
include orphan renditions and count audio representations rather than adaptation
sets, so a missed URI match causes the test to fail. Use a mixed-case shared URI
in its manifest fixture to verify matching is case-insensitive.

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CastagnaIT merged commit e164525 into xbmc:Piers Oct 10, 2026
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