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* #2798: contain Symphonia audio decoder panics

Guard decoder creation, packet conversion and standalone imports. Keep
panicked decoders disabled across reset and reject partial imports while
preserving ordinary corrupt-packet recovery. Add synthetic regression
and hostile-header tests plus crate documentation.

Refs #2798; H.264/HEVC worker containment remains separate.

Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

* #2798: document panic strategy limits of audio guards

Clarify that decoder panics become CodecError::Decode only with panic=unwind. Document the default wasm32 abort behavior and retain the process-abort and allocation-failure caveats.

Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

* codecs README: drop the PR's local test log

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Co-authored-by: Brandon Thomas <echelon@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# filmcraft-codecs
The L2 container and codec hub connects media sources to FilmCraft's software and registered
hardware decoders. It provides container openers, GOP-aware video seeking, packet audio decoding
and standalone audio imports. See the crate-level API documentation in `src/lib.rs` and
[`docs/architecture.md`](../../docs/architecture.md) for the source and decoder interfaces.
## Symphonia audio failure handling (#2798)
Symphonia remains an unmodified MPL-2.0 dependency. Its decoder construction, packet decoding,
sample conversion and reset calls are guarded against unwinding. On targets built with
`panic = "unwind"`, a panic becomes a `CodecError::Decode` asking the caller to reopen the media.
A packet decoder that panicked is quarantined: later decode calls fail, and reset never calls
into its potentially damaged state.
Because `PacketDecoder::reset` has no error return, a panic during reset is logged and reported
by the next decode. A newly constructed decoder can be used to retry.
Standalone imports guard the whole attempt, including format probing, packet reading and
decoder construction. A decoder panic aborts the import even if earlier packets decoded;
partially decoded samples are not returned as a successful source. Ordinary returned errors
retain the existing behavior: packet decoding returns an error without quarantining the
decoder, and standalone imports skip corrupt packets. This change does not change that
pre-existing damaged-file policy or harden the separate H.264/HEVC worker paths in #2798.
The default `wasm32-unknown-unknown` target uses `panic = "abort"`, so decoder panics cannot be
caught or converted to `CodecError::Decode` there. The guard handles Rust unwinding; it cannot
recover from a process abort or an allocation failure that aborts. It does not replace input
validation or repair bugs inside a dependency.
## Tests
`src/audio_panic_tests.rs` wraps a real PCM decoder through Symphonia's public `Decoder` API
with per-instance synthetic decode/reset failures. No dependency implementation is copied.
The tests check errors after a successful packet, no reuse after panic (including reset),
fresh-decoder recovery, ordinary-error recovery, constructor failure, and rejection of partial
standalone imports. WAV truncations and header mutations run under `catch_unwind`; all fixtures
are generated in memory. Existing MP3, AIFF, FLAC and Vorbis tests cover the normal
audio paths with FFmpeg used only as an external fixture generator/oracle.
```sh
cargo test -p filmcraft-codecs --lib audio::panic_tests
FILMCRAFT_REQUIRE_ORACLES=1 cargo test -p filmcraft-codecs
cargo xtask ci
```