forked from unom/punktfunk
250/250 frames bit-identical to libavcodec on NVIDIA 610.57.04, and all four other parity legs (H.264, H.265, Main 10, both four-byte-prefix twins) still green. session_av1 built the sequence header, handed pStdSequenceHeader to vkCreateVideoSessionParametersKHR, and dropped the backing the instant the call returned — on the documented assumption that Vulkan copies parameter data before returning. NVIDIA does not. It keeps the pointer and dereferences pColorConfig when a decode is RECORDED. The freed block became our own next allocation, whose bytes read back as mono_chrome = 1, and a monochrome frame skips exactly loop_filter_level[2..3] (AV1 7.14). That is the whole fingerprint two earlier rounds chased: luma bit-exact, chroma off by small amounts, and rewriting the chroma levels in the bitstream changing nothing — the driver read them correctly and then discarded them, because it believed the stream had no chroma. StoredParamsAv1 now holds the parameters object and its Std backing in one value, so an object whose backing is gone is unrepresentable. The road there is worth recording, because two well-evidenced conclusions were wrong before this one was right. A software oracle reproduced the divergence exactly by disabling chroma deblocking, and a GPU probe showed chroma levels [8,12] and [63,63] producing byte-identical output — which looked conclusive and was not. libavcodec's own Vulkan AV1 hwaccel is bit-exact on this same driver, which proved the hardware fine and the defect ours. ffmpeg never hits it: with VK_KHR_video_maintenance2 it uses inline session parameters and never creates a parameters object at all. The proof is direct rather than inferred: a throwaway Vulkan capture layer dumped both submissions and every byte of our AV1 picture info already matched libavcodec's, including the loop filter block; only the session parameters layer differed. Watching the block's address showed correct bytes at create and our next allocation at decode. Ruled out on hardware, so nobody re-tests them: filmGrainSupport, maxCodedExtent, maxDpbSlots/maxActiveReferences, VkVideoDecodeUsageInfoKHR, the tile-start sentinel, the setup slot's SavedOrderHints, a NULL pTimingInfo, and heap luck. Two earlier fixes are confirmed against libavcodec's captured wire bytes and kept: CDEF secondary strengths carry the coded value rather than the spec's in-place fixup, and LoopRestorationSize is log2-based. The refuted driver-ignores-chroma-levels claim is corrected everywhere it was written down, and that probe test now passes and points at the lifetime of everything a submission points at before blaming a vendor. ⚠ Adjacent and NOT fixed: session.rs and session_h265.rs drop their Std backings the same way, and those sets carry embedded pointers too. Both are measured bit-exact on four drivers, so nothing is known to be wrong — but the contract now rests on a driver behaviour measured FALSE for AV1 on a shipping driver. The SAFETY comments asserting it have been corrected; the structure is deliberately untouched pending its own pass. Gates: macOS fmt/clippy/336 tests, container clippy -D warnings, all green; 8/8 gpu_parity and 3/3 gpu_smoke legs verified on the RTX 5070 Ti.