monorepo: one repository for the decoders, the port and the corpus

Merges the Godot port into the reverse-engineering repository, preserving both
histories -- 1019 commits of corpus plus the port's 31, brought in by subtree
merge and then moved into place so git can follow each file across the rename.

The reason is not tidiness. The two-repo split forced the exporter to depend on
the decoders by pinned revision, and that created a whole class of failure that
now disappears: a sha reachable only from a topic branch, orphaned by a
squash-merge, breaking a fresh checkout silently at build time. It also forced a
live read-only mount of one agent's working tree into another's container, which
is why a contract file could move mid-iteration. With a path dependency, a
decoder change and the exporter change it requires land in the same commit or
not at all.

Canary stays separate: it is a fork tracking upstream.

New structure for the long term:

  docs/game/     how the game is NAVIGATED -- menus, modals, prompts, alerts,
                 and in-game flight. Written so nobody rediscovers it. Mostly
                 open questions on purpose; the in-game tutorials are the
                 resource for the flight half.
  docs/port/MODDING.md
                 modding as a constraint on the exporter TODAY, not a later
                 feature: one logical asset in one file (the disc splits nearly
                 everything, and resolving that is the exporter's job), names a
                 person recognises, PNG/OGG/OGV/JSON only, base-and-overrides so
                 re-exporting is always safe, provenance in every file.
  data/base + data/mods
                 generated tree and drop-in overrides, both gitignored
  exchange/      transient inter-agent files, deliberately outside history
  docs/agents/   the team protocol

Both the README and the navigation doc lead with the correction that cost the
most: the oracle is the real game under Xenia Canary. Reborn's renderer is a
hypothesis under test, it has been wrong, and treating it as ground truth
propagated into three documents and both agents before a human caught it.

Scripted modding stays possible without being built: no screen name is hardcoded
in GDScript and there is no native code in port/, which is what Godot Mod Loader
needs to be able to substitute behaviour later.
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# Verifying audio without an audio device
Neither container has a sound card, so "does it actually play?" cannot be
answered by listening. It can be answered by measurement, and the two things
usually meant by that question need different measurements.
**Separate them before reaching for a tool:**
| question | needs Godot? | needs a device? |
|---|---|---|
| Is the transcoded file faithful to the source? | no | no |
| Does Godot actually route it to an output? | yes | no |
| What does the *game* play on a menu move? | no (Canary) | a virtual one |
## 1. Transcode fidelity — file against file
This is the question P4 actually raised, and it needs neither an engine nor a
device. Decode both, subtract, and measure what is left.
```bash
# Source, for a reference level
ffmpeg -hide_banner -t 25 -i ADV.wmv \
-af "aformat=channel_layouts=stereo,astats=measure_perchannel=none" -f null - 2>&1 \
| grep "RMS level"
# The difference signal: source minus transcode
ffmpeg -hide_banner -t 25 -i ADV.wmv -t 25 -i ADV.ogv -filter_complex \
"[0:a]aformat=channel_layouts=stereo[a];\
[1:a]aformat=channel_layouts=stereo,volume=-1[b];\
[a][b]amix=inputs=2:normalize=0,astats=measure_perchannel=none" -f null - 2>&1 \
| grep "RMS level"
```
A faithful transcode puts the difference **40 dB or more below** the source.
### Three ways this measurement lies
Run it wrong and it reports a disaster that is not there. All three of these
were hit on the first attempt:
* **Alignment.** A one-sample offset makes the difference nearly as loud as the
source. Cross-correlate and compensate *before* subtracting, or the number is
meaningless. A first run gave source 25.3 dB against difference 34.2 dB —
only 9 dB down, which looks catastrophic and proves nothing.
* **Channel layout.** The source and the transcode do not have the same channel
count. You are not comparing like with like unless both sides are downmixed
the same way, and `astats` will give you a confident number regardless. See
[`movie-audio-channels`][mac] for which profile a given movie is in — that is
a disc fact and lives in the RE corpus, not here.
* **A file still being written.** `ffprobe` reported the `.ogv` as 33 s against
the source's 137 s — apparent catastrophic truncation, actually a transcode in
progress. Check `mtime` and packet count before believing a duration, and
write to a temp name and rename on completion so a reader cannot see a partial
file at all.
⚠️ **The downmix is an unrecorded decision, and it is not ours to make quietly.**
Nothing in the manifest says a fold happened or on what weighting; it is whatever
ffmpeg defaulted to, and that default can change between versions. Centre-channel
dialogue folds into L/R, so this changes how speech sits against music — an
aesthetic judgement, not a container detail. Pin it explicitly and record it,
exactly as MISSION §6 requires of the transcode command itself.
[mac]: https://git.mc02.dev/fabi/Syplheed-Reborn/src/branch/main/docs/re/structures/movie-audio-channels.md
## 2. Engine routing — Godot writes a WAV instead of a device
Godot does not need a sound card to produce audio you can inspect. Put an
`AudioEffectRecord` on the **Master** bus and it captures the mixed output from
inside a headless run:
```gdscript
var bus := AudioServer.get_bus_index("Master")
var rec := AudioEffectRecord.new()
AudioServer.add_bus_effect(bus, rec)
rec.set_recording_active(true)
# ... play the scene ...
rec.set_recording_active(false)
rec.get_recording().save_to_wav("user://master.wav")
```
Then feed that WAV through §1 against the source. That closes the loop: it
proves the asset is right **and** that the engine reached it, which no amount of
file comparison can show on its own.
Confirm the dummy driver is what is actually in use rather than assuming it —
`AudioServer.get_driver_name()` — and say so in the write-up, because "recorded
under a dummy driver" is a weaker claim than "heard", and the difference matters.
## 3. A virtual device, when something insists on a real one
For anything that opens a device rather than a bus — the emulator, most
obviously — a PulseAudio **null sink** is a real device that records to a file:
```bash
pactl load-module module-null-sink sink_name=cap sink_properties=device.description=cap
PULSE_SINK=cap <the application>
parec -d cap.monitor --file-format=wav /tmp/captured.wav
```
This is the route to capturing what the *game* plays — the menu move and confirm
cues behind HANDOFF Q8 — rather than what we think it should play. It needs
`pulseaudio-utils` in the image, so it is a rebuild, not something to reach for
mid-iteration.
## What none of this establishes
That it *sounds right*. Every method here shows correspondence to a source, not
that the source is the audio the game plays at that moment, and not that levels
are sane in a mix. A ten-second human listen still answers something no
measurement above does — so when a result rests on one of these, say which one.