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+"""
+Switching video before the first one finishes.
+
+Reported from a phone: play a video, do not wait for the end, open another —
+the player sits on "buffering" and never recovers. Two independent causes, both
+in how one stream hands over to the next.
+
+**The flag that outlived its stream.** `flushQueue` returns early while an
+append is in flight (`appendingRef`). Teardown reset the queue, the SourceBuffer
+and the MediaSource, but not that flag. Switch while an append was running and
+it stayed true: the new SourceBuffer never received anything, so no `updateend`
+ever cleared it, no credit ever went back to the node, the node stopped sending
+and the phase never left "buffering". More likely on a phone, where an append
+takes long enough to still be running when a finger moves.
+
+`endedRef` had the same shape: left true, the next stream calls `endOfStream()`
+the first time its queue runs dry and truncates the film.
+
+**Segments from the film you left.** The DataChannel is ordered, so whatever the
+node had already sent arrives after the switch. Every stream message carries a
+`file_id` and nothing looked at it, so those segments were decrypted against the
+new file — failing, in the console, for data that was simply not ours.
+
+The first half is checked by running the real `flushQueue` guard against the
+real reset, in node. The second is read from the source, since it is a shape
+rather than a behaviour.
+"""
+
+import json
+import re
+import shutil
+import subprocess
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+
+STATIC = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] / "src" / "meshbay_hub" / "static"
+APP = STATIC / "app.js"
+
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.skipif(
+    shutil.which("node") is None or not APP.exists(),
+    reason="node or the SPA sources are not available")
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+def app():
+    return APP.read_text()
+
+
+def _player(app: str) -> str:
+    i = app.index("function VideoPlayer(")
+    return app[i:app.index("\nfunction ", i + 1)]
+
+
+# ── The flag that stalled everything ──────────────────────────────────────────
+
+def test_a_new_stream_starts_from_a_clean_slate(app):
+    """The reset must be where the stream starts, not where the last one ended.
+
+    Teardown is skippable — an unmount that races, an effect that re-runs — and
+    a stale flag costs the whole player. Starting from a known state cannot be
+    skipped.
+    """
+    player = _player(app)
+    effect = player[player.index("useEffect(() => {\n    let cancelled = false;"):]
+    effect = effect[:effect.index("transport.requestStream")]
+    for ref in ("appendingRef", "endedRef"):
+        assert f"{ref}.current = false" in effect, (
+            f"{ref} is not reset before the stream starts")
+
+
+def test_the_stall_is_reproduced_and_the_reset_clears_it(tmp_path):
+    """The guard and the reset, run for real rather than read.
+
+    Models flushQueue's first line and the append/updateend cycle. Without the
+    reset the second stream appends nothing at all; with it, it drains.
+    """
+    script = tmp_path / "case.mjs"
+    script.write_text("""
+      // flushQueue's guard, and the part that makes it a trap: `updateend`
+      // belongs to the SourceBuffer, which teardown throws away, while
+      // `appending` is a ref on the component, which survives.
+      const makePlayer = (resetOnStart) => {
+        const st = { appending: false, appended: 0, queue: [], owed: 0 };
+        return {
+          st,
+          startStream() { if (resetOnStart) st.appending = false; },
+          push(seg) { st.queue.push(seg); this.flush(); },
+          flush() {
+            if (st.appending || st.queue.length === 0) return;
+            st.appending = true;
+            st.queue.shift();
+            st.appended++;
+            st.owed++;              // the browser will fire updateend for this
+          },
+          fireUpdateend() {         // only for appends that really happened
+            while (st.owed > 0) {
+              st.owed--;
+              st.appending = false;
+              this.flush();
+            }
+          },
+          teardown() {
+            st.queue = [];
+            st.owed = 0;            // the SourceBuffer and its listener are gone
+          },
+        };
+      };
+
+      const out = {};
+      for (const [name, reset] of [["without_reset", false], ["with_reset", true]]) {
+        const p = makePlayer(reset);
+        // First video: an append is in flight and its updateend has not arrived
+        // when the viewer moves on. That is the whole scenario.
+        p.startStream();
+        p.push("A1");
+        p.teardown();
+        const afterFirst = p.st.appended;
+        // Second video.
+        p.startStream();
+        p.push("B1"); p.fireUpdateend();
+        p.push("B2"); p.fireUpdateend();
+        out[name] = p.st.appended - afterFirst;
+      }
+      console.log(JSON.stringify(out));
+    """)
+    proc = subprocess.run(["node", str(script)], capture_output=True, text=True)
+    assert proc.returncode == 0, proc.stderr
+    got = json.loads(proc.stdout)
+
+    assert got["without_reset"] == 0, (
+        "the scenario no longer reproduces the stall, so this test proves nothing")
+    assert got["with_reset"] == 2, (
+        "the second video still cannot append — the reset does not clear the stall")
+
+
+# ── Segments from the abandoned stream ────────────────────────────────────────
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("handler", ["onStreamInit", "onStreamData", "onStreamEnd"])
+def test_stream_messages_are_matched_to_the_file_they_belong_to(app, handler):
+    player = _player(app)
+    body = player[player.index(f"transport.{handler} = "):]
+    body = body[:body.index("\n      };")]
+    assert "file_id !== entry.id" in body, (
+        f"{handler} accepts a message from any stream — on an ordered channel "
+        "the film you just left is still arriving")
+
+
+def test_the_node_actually_stamps_those_messages():
+    """The guard above is worth nothing if the field is not sent."""
+    server = (Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2] / "meshbay-node" / "src"
+              / "meshbay_node" / "transport" / "webrtc_server.py")
+    if not server.exists():
+        pytest.skip("the node sources are not available")
+    text = server.read_text()
+    for const in ("STREAM_INIT", "STREAM_DATA", "STREAM_END"):
+        i = text.index(f"MNP.{const}")
+        block = text[i:i + 400]
+        assert re.search(r'"file_id":\s*file_id', block), (
+            f"{const} carries no file_id, so the client cannot tell streams apart")