Fix time-sync median: sort clock offsets numerically#165
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TimeProvider.setDiff computes the median client/server clock offset to drive audio/video synchronization, but sorted the offset buffer with a bare Array.prototype.sort(). With no comparator, sort() coerces elements to strings and orders them lexicographically, so the "median" was taken from a wrongly ordered array (e.g. [2, 10, -5, 100] -> [-5, 10, 100, 2]). The resulting offset is unstable and frequently wrong, corrupting every serverTime() calculation and causing playback drift and "Chunk too old, dropping" stalls. Sort numerically with an explicit comparator. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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TimeProvider.setDiff computes the median client/server clock offset to drive audio/video synchronization, but sorted the offset buffer with a bare Array.prototype.sort(). With no comparator, sort() coerces elements to strings and orders them lexicographically, so the "median" was taken from a wrongly ordered array (e.g. [2, 10, -5, 100] -> [-5, 10, 100, 2]).
The resulting offset is unstable and frequently wrong, corrupting every serverTime() calculation and causing playback drift and "Chunk too old, dropping" stalls.
Sort numerically with an explicit comparator.