fix(ffi)!: carry the rendition's broadcast reference across the FFI

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Closes #2931.

Summary

• Root cause: hang::catalog::{VideoConfig,AudioConfig} carry broadcast: Option<PathRelativeOwned>, a path relative to the catalog's own broadcast that names where the rendition's track actually lives (e.g. a transcode output at live/hd describing a track in live/source). Neither FFI surface modelled it. moq-ffi's convert_catalog dropped it, and both decode_audio/decode_video opened the named track on self.inner(); libmoq's moq_consume_video/moq_consume_audio did the same with consume.broadcast. A cross-broadcast rendition therefore yields NotFound, or silently decodes a same-named local track with mismatched metadata.
• Resolution needs an origin (only an origin can fetch a sibling broadcast) and the catalog broadcast's own path, which is what moq_mux::Source already bundles. Both crates now keep the origin cursor that named the broadcast alongside the consumer and resolve through Source::resolve, so the catalog and every rendition share one upstream subscription and an escaping reference still fails as EscapingBroadcast.
• The origin has to be the cursor that named the broadcast: the path is stamped per cursor, and a reference resolves against that path, so a differently-rooted origin would read a legal reference as escaping or land on the wrong broadcast. announced(prefix) therefore stores its rooted cursor, announced_broadcast/request_broadcast the unrooted one.
• A broadcast consumed straight from a local producer has no origin, so a rendition naming a sibling names nothing. That is a new explicit error rather than a silent fallback to the catalog's own broadcast.
• decode_video/decode_audio reject an unsupported codec before resolving. Resolving reaches the origin, which can invoke a dynamic handler and open an upstream subscription, so the cheap local check goes first — the same reason fetch_media_group parses its container before fetching.
• libmoq's C ABI is unchanged: moq_consume_video/moq_consume_audio take a catalog snapshot and a rendition index, so they follow the reference with nothing extra from the caller. moq_video_config/moq_audio_config gain no field (that would change their size); a C publisher still cannot author a cross-broadcast rendition, which is pre-existing and out of scope here.

Public API changes

rs/moq-ffi (breaking, hence dev):

• MoqVideo and MoqAudio gain broadcast: Option<String> (defaulted None). Breaking for a binding that builds the record positionally.
• MoqBroadcastConsumer::resolve(reference: Option<String>) -> MoqBroadcastConsumer is new. It is the composable primitive for the paths that take a track name rather than a rendition (subscribe_media, subscribe_track, fetch_group, fetch_media_group), which are otherwise broken the same way; decode_video/decode_audio call it internally. The resolved consumer keeps the origin, so its own catalog's references resolve too. The reference is normalized before use, so an empty or all-slashes one names this broadcast and needs no origin.
• MoqError::UnresolvableBroadcast(String) is new. Additive in Rust (#[non_exhaustive]), breaking for a binding that switches exhaustively over the generated error enum.

rs/libmoq: no ABI change. New error code -41 for the same unresolvable-reference case; Consume::start (crate-internal) takes the origin.

Wrappers: resolve passthroughs added to py/moq-rs, go/wrapper, and swift; kt gets it from the generated bindings via Aliases.kt.

Wire behavior changes

None. This changes which broadcast a subscriber opens a track on, per what the catalog already said; no encoding, message, or default moved.

Worth knowing for callers: resolution goes through origin::Consumer::request_broadcast, which reports a sibling that exists but is not announced yet as unroutable rather than waiting for it. That is inherited from moq_mux::Source and matches every other exporter; the new docs now say so.

Cross-Package Sync

Walked the rs/moq-ffi row: rs/libmoq fixed in the same PR, {py,swift,kt}/ and go/wrapper/moq/*.go updated, doc/lib/{py,swift,kt,go,c} documented. js/ needs nothing: js/hang already resolves rendition references (#2918).

Test plan

• just check and just fix clean; just test green.
• cargo clippy -p moq-ffi -p libmoq --all-targets -- -D warnings clean. Neither crate is compiled by just check, so both were built and tested explicitly (70 + 72 tests).
• just go check (vet/build/test against regenerated bindings), just py check + just py test (52 passed), just swift check (10 passed).
• New regression tests, each verified to fail without its fix:
  • moq-ffi: decode_audio_follows_a_sibling_broadcast_reference (catalog broadcast serves no audio track; only ./source does) fails with Audio(Net(NotFound)) before the fix.
  • libmoq: consume_audio_follows_a_sibling_broadcast_reference (end-to-end, a frame published on the sibling) returns -2 before the fix.
  • Plus catalog_exposes_rendition_broadcast_references, resolve_rejects_a_reference_without_an_origin (including the all-slashes case), resolve_returns_a_broadcast_that_resolves_further_references, and announced_broadcasts_resolve_siblings_under_the_prefix (covers the rooted-cursor case).
  • Every test that resolves a reference now awaits the referenced broadcast's announcement, not just the one it starts from: request_broadcast fails fast on an unannounced path, so awaiting only the catalog broadcast left a latent race. 350 stress runs across the cross-broadcast tests, no failures.

Review

CodeRabbit reviewed the diff and raised two documentation findings; both are addressed and it confirmed the fix. The Codex adversarial pass could not run (usage limit), so a Claude /code-review at high effort stood in at the user's direction. It found five issues, all fixed here: the two decode-path ordering bugs above, the reference-normalization gap, the latent test race, and the missing request_broadcast fail-fast note in the docs.

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Walkthrough

The change adds optional broadcast references to audio and video catalog renditions. Origin-routed broadcast consumers retain the context required to resolve sibling broadcasts. Catalog snapshots propagate this context, and media subscriptions resolve rendition references before subscribing. Go, Python, and Swift expose broadcast resolution APIs. New errors cover unresolved references. Tests cover sibling paths, origin prefixes, local-producer failures, chained resolution, and decoded media. Documentation describes automatic and explicit resolution.

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Inline comments:
In `@doc/lib/c/index.md`:
- Around line 248-253: Qualify the Cross-broadcast renditions wording in
doc/lib/c/index.md: an absent or empty reference remains on the current
broadcast, including for local producers; only a non-empty cross-broadcast
reference requires an origin-backed broadcast. The sibling sites in
doc/lib/go/moq.md:311-324, doc/lib/kt/moq.md:118-126,
doc/lib/py/moq-rs.md:183-200, and doc/lib/swift/moq.md:131-145 already contain
the required qualification and need no direct changes.

In `@doc/lib/swift/moq.md`:
- Around line 131-145: Update the Swift documentation to cover broadcast
resolution in fetchMediaGroup: resolve rendition.broadcast first when it names a
sibling, then invoke fetchMediaGroup on the resolved broadcast using only the
track name, sequence, container, and options. Correct the resolve(nil)
description so nil and empty references return a local broadcast, while only
non-empty sibling references require an origin.

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