diff --git a/services/discord-gateway/src/goLive/BaseMediaConnection.ts b/services/discord-gateway/src/goLive/BaseMediaConnection.ts
index fc1b80c..6f9bdf5 100644
--- a/services/discord-gateway/src/goLive/BaseMediaConnection.ts
+++ b/services/discord-gateway/src/goLive/BaseMediaConnection.ts
@@ -168,6 +168,9 @@ export class BaseMediaConnection extends EventEmitter {
   }): void {
     // we hardcoded STREAMS_SIMULCAST, which will always be array of 1
     const stream = d.streams[0];
+    console.log(
+      `[goLive:${this.constructor.name}] READY ssrc=${d.ssrc} ip=${d.ip} port=${d.port} streams=${JSON.stringify(d.streams)}`,
+    );
     this._webRtcParams = {
       address: d.ip,
       port: d.port,
@@ -183,6 +186,10 @@ export class BaseMediaConnection extends EventEmitter {
     dave_protocol_version?: number;
   }): Promise<void> {
     if (!("sdp" in d)) throw new Error("Only WebRTC connections are allowed");
+    // DEBUG: dump Discord's real answer SDP — which payload types did it select?
+    console.log(
+      `[goLive:${this.constructor.name}] DISCORD_ANSWER_SDP ${JSON.stringify(d.sdp ?? "").slice(0, 900)}`,
+    );
     this._daveProtocolVersion = d.dave_protocol_version ?? 0;
     this.initDave();
     // Discord's SDP is garbage — generate our own from its pieces
@@ -258,12 +265,10 @@ a=ice-lite
         `a=rtcp-fb:${el.payload_type} transport-cc`,
       ])
       .join("\n");
-    this._webRtcWrapper.webRtcConn?.setRemoteDescription(
-      [audioSection, videoSection, videoRtpMap].join("\n"),
-      "answer",
-    );
+    const builtAnswer = [audioSection, videoSection, videoRtpMap].join("\n");
+    this._webRtcWrapper.webRtcConn?.setRemoteDescription(builtAnswer, "answer");
     console.log(
-      `[goLive:${this.constructor.name}] SELECT_PROTOCOL_ACK processed — remote answer set (${[audioSection, videoSection].join("\n").length}B)`,
+      `[goLive:${this.constructor.name}] SELECT_PROTOCOL_ACK processed — remote answer set (${builtAnswer.length}B) video_mline=${videoPayloadTypes.join(" ")}`,
     );
     this.emit("select_protocol_ack");
   }
diff --git a/services/discord-gateway/src/goLive/Demuxer.ts b/services/discord-gateway/src/goLive/Demuxer.ts
index 1ae1fe2..d83ac03 100644
--- a/services/discord-gateway/src/goLive/Demuxer.ts
+++ b/services/discord-gateway/src/goLive/Demuxer.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
 import { existsSync, readdirSync } from "node:fs";
 import { join } from "node:path";
 import { PassThrough } from "node:stream";
+import type { GoLiveFrame } from "./BaseMediaStream.js";
 
 /** 4-byte AnnexB start code (00 00 00 01) used when building access units. */
 const startCode4 = Buffer.from([0, 0, 0, 1]);
@@ -158,28 +159,46 @@ export async function demux(
   const aPipe = new PassThrough({ objectMode: true, highWaterMark: 128 });
 
   const isStream = typeof input !== "string";
+  // NUT/matroska input (prepareStream with includeAudio) carries audio; the
+  // h264 path is video-only raw AnnexB. Video always goes to stdout (pipe:1);
+  // audio goes to fd3 (pipe:3) so stderr stays free for metadata parsing.
+  const containerFormat =
+    isStream && opts.format !== "h264" ? opts.format : null;
+  const withAudio = isStream && containerFormat !== null;
   const args: string[] = [
     "-hide_banner",
     // info level: stream init lines ("Stream #0:0: Video: h264...") go to
     // stderr and are parsed for dimensions/fps.
     "-loglevel",
     "info",
-    // Input format hint: prepareStream always emits raw AnnexB H264 on
-    // pipe:0. Raw H264 has NO magic header, so ffmpeg's auto-detection
-    // fails with "Invalid data found when processing input" whenever the
-    // first bytes arrive late/buffered. Pin the demuxer input format.
-    ...(isStream ? ["-f", "h264"] : []),
+    // Input format hint: raw H264 has NO magic header, so ffmpeg's
+    // auto-detection fails with "Invalid data found when processing input"
+    // whenever the first bytes arrive late/buffered. Pin the demuxer input
+    // format for streams (NUT for the audio-capable path).
+    ...(withAudio
+      ? ["-f", containerFormat as string]
+      : isStream
+        ? ["-f", "h264"]
+        : []),
     "-i",
     isStream ? "pipe:0" : input,
+    "-map",
+    "0:v:0",
     "-c:v",
     "copy",
-    "-an", // no audio in this minimal demuxer
     "-f",
     "h264",
     "pipe:1",
+    ...(withAudio
+      ? ["-map", "0:a:0?", "-c:a", "copy", "-f", "opus", "pipe:3"]
+      : ["-an"]),
   ];
   const proc = spawn(FFMPEG, args, {
-    stdio: isStream ? ["pipe", "pipe", "pipe"] : ["ignore", "pipe", "pipe"],
+    stdio: isStream
+      ? withAudio
+        ? ["pipe", "pipe", "pipe", "pipe"]
+        : ["pipe", "pipe", "pipe"]
+      : ["ignore", "pipe", "pipe"],
   });
   console.log(
     `[goLive:Demuxer] spawn ffmpeg pid=${proc.pid} input=${isStream ? "stream" : input} args=${args.join(" ")}`,
@@ -191,8 +210,25 @@ export async function demux(
     input.on("error", () => proc.stdin?.destroy());
   }
 
+  // Audio: ffmpeg writes Ogg Opus on fd3 (pipe:3). Parse OGG pages into
+  // opus packets and emit them as GoLiveFrames (20ms, 48kHz) on aPipe.
+  if (withAudio && proc.stdio[3]) {
+    createOggOpusDemux(
+      proc.stdio[3] as unknown as NodeJS.ReadableStream,
+      aPipe,
+    );
+    console.log("[goLive:Demuxer] audio pipe wired (fd3 → Ogg Opus → aPipe)");
+  }
+
   // Set true once stderr metadata has been parsed (see handler below).
   let parsedMeta = false;
+  // Track which stream kinds we've seen. We must NOT stop parsing on the
+  // first stream found: ffmpeg can print the video line and audio line in
+  // separate stderr chunks (input arrives slowly), and the old
+  // early-return (`if (parsedMeta) return`) dropped the audio line forever
+  // → aInfo undefined → no audio RTP → static GoLive tile.
+  let seenVideo = false;
+  let seenAudio = false;
 
   // Parse stream metadata from ffmpeg stderr as it arrives (first chunk has
   // the init lines). Fall back to H264 defaults if parsing fails.
@@ -218,7 +254,6 @@ export async function demux(
           `[goLive:Demuxer] ffmpeg stderr: ${text.trim().split("\n").slice(0, 4).join(" | ")}`,
         );
       }
-      if (parsedMeta) return;
       const streamRe = /Stream #0:(\d+): (Video|Audio): ([^,]+)/g;
       let m: RegExpExecArray | null;
       const found: Array<{ kind: string; codecRaw: string }> = [];
@@ -226,11 +261,15 @@ export async function demux(
       while ((m = streamRe.exec(stderrBuf)) !== null) {
         found.push({ kind: m[2], codecRaw: m[3] });
       }
+      if (process.env.GMW_DEMUX_DEBUG) {
+        console.log(
+          `[goLive:Demuxer] DEBUG stderrBuf=${JSON.stringify(stderrBuf.slice(0, 300))} found=${JSON.stringify(found)}`,
+        );
+      }
       const v = found.find((s) => s.kind === "Video");
       const a = found.find((s) => s.kind === "Audio");
-      if (!v && !a) return;
-      parsedMeta = true;
       if (v) {
+        seenVideo = true;
         const codecName = v.codecRaw.split(" ")[0].toLowerCase();
         const dim = /(\d{2,5})x(\d{2,5})/.exec(stderrBuf);
         const fps = /(\d+(?:\.\d+)?) fps/.exec(stderrBuf);
@@ -250,6 +289,7 @@ export async function demux(
         };
       }
       if (a) {
+        seenAudio = true;
         const codecName = a.codecRaw.split(" ")[0].toLowerCase();
         const sr = /(\d+) Hz/.exec(stderrBuf);
         aInfo = {
@@ -267,6 +307,9 @@ export async function demux(
           stream: aPipe,
         };
       }
+      // Resolve the metadata wait once at least one stream kind is seen;
+      // keep parsing further chunks so a late audio line still lands.
+      if (seenVideo || seenAudio) parsedMeta = true;
     });
   }
 
@@ -434,3 +477,97 @@ export async function demux(
 
   return { video: vInfo, audio: aInfo, close };
 }
+
+/**
+ * Parse an Ogg Opus byte stream (as written by ffmpeg's `-f opus` muxer)
+ * into individual opus packets and push them onto `out` as GoLiveFrames
+ * (duration 960 @ 48kHz = 20ms, matching the OpusRtpPacketizer clock).
+ *
+ * OGG page structure:
+ *   "OggS" | ver(1) | header_type(1) | granule(8 LE) | serial(4) | seq(4) |
+ *   crc(4) | page_segments(1) | segment_table[n] | payload
+ * Lacing: a value < 255 ends a packet; 255 continues it (0.5KB chunk).
+ * The first packet is OpusHead (19B) — skipped, as is OpusTags.
+ */
+function createOggOpusDemux(
+  input: NodeJS.ReadableStream,
+  out: PassThrough,
+): void {
+  let buf = Buffer.alloc(0);
+  // Packets assembled from lacing; packetParts accumulates across pages
+  // when a packet spans a page boundary (continued flag / 255 lacing).
+  let packetParts: Buffer[] = [];
+  let headerDone = false;
+  let frameIndex = 0;
+
+  const emitPacket = (packet: Buffer) => {
+    if (!headerDone) {
+      // First packet = OpusHead ("OpusHead"), second = OpusTags. Skip both.
+      const magic = packet.toString("latin1", 0, 8);
+      if (magic === "OpusHead" || magic === "OpusTags") return;
+      headerDone = true;
+    }
+    out.write({
+      data: packet,
+      pts: frameIndex * 960,
+      duration: 960,
+      timeBase: { num: 1, den: 48000 },
+      free: () => {},
+    } satisfies GoLiveFrame);
+    frameIndex++;
+  };
+
+  const processPages = () => {
+    while (true) {
+      // Sync to "OggS"
+      const sync = buf.indexOf("OggS", 0, "latin1");
+      if (sync === -1) {
+        // Keep the tail (partial sync pattern) for the next chunk
+        buf = buf.length > 3 ? buf.subarray(buf.length - 3) : buf;
+        return;
+      }
+      if (sync > 0) buf = buf.subarray(sync);
+      if (buf.length < 27) return; // need full page header
+      const numSeg = buf[26];
+      if (buf.length < 27 + numSeg) return; // need segment table
+      let payloadLen = 0;
+      for (let i = 0; i < numSeg; i++) payloadLen += buf[27 + i];
+      if (buf.length < 27 + numSeg + payloadLen) return; // need payload
+
+      const headerType = buf[5];
+      // Extract packets from the payload using lacing values
+      let off = 27 + numSeg;
+      for (let i = 0; i < numSeg; i++) {
+        const lace = buf[27 + i];
+        const part = buf.subarray(off, off + lace);
+        off += lace;
+        packetParts.push(Buffer.from(part));
+        if (lace < 255) {
+          const packet = Buffer.concat(packetParts);
+          packetParts = [];
+          if ((headerType & 0x01) === 0) {
+            // Not a continuation page → packet starts here
+            emitPacket(packet);
+          } else if (headerDone) {
+            // Continued page — packet body, emit directly
+            emitPacket(packet);
+          }
+          // (header packets on continuation pages are dropped)
+        }
+      }
+      buf = buf.subarray(off);
+      if (buf.length === 0) return;
+    }
+  };
+
+  input.on("data", (chunk: Buffer) => {
+    buf = Buffer.concat([buf, chunk]);
+    processPages();
+  });
+  input.on("end", () => {
+    out.end();
+  });
+  input.on("error", () => {
+    out.end();
+  });
+}
diff --git a/services/discord-gateway/src/goLive/Encoders.ts b/services/discord-gateway/src/goLive/Encoders.ts
index 8879cd1..8a516ad 100644
--- a/services/discord-gateway/src/goLive/Encoders.ts
+++ b/services/discord-gateway/src/goLive/Encoders.ts
@@ -41,6 +41,13 @@ export function software(
       options: [
         "-forced-idr 1",
         "-profile:v baseline",
+        // repeat-headers: SPS/PPS inline BEFORE EVERY IDR, not just the
+        // first. Required for the NUT container path (NUT stores extradata
+        // in the header and `-c:v copy` remux loses it → decoder sees
+        // "non-existing PPS 0 referenced" → no picture) and lets Discord's
+        // decoder recover after any PLI/keyframe request mid-stream.
+        "-x264-params",
+        "repeat-headers=1",
         `-tune ${x264Tune}`,
         `-preset ${x264Preset}`,
       ],
diff --git a/services/discord-gateway/src/goLive/WebRtcWrapper.ts b/services/discord-gateway/src/goLive/WebRtcWrapper.ts
index aa49540..ca36107 100644
--- a/services/discord-gateway/src/goLive/WebRtcWrapper.ts
+++ b/services/discord-gateway/src/goLive/WebRtcWrapper.ts
@@ -179,6 +179,9 @@ export class WebRtcConnWrapper {
       throw new Error("WebRTC connection not ready");
     }
     const { audioSsrc, videoSsrc } = this.mediaConnection.webRtcParams;
+    console.log(
+      `[goLive:WebRtc] setPacketizer(${videoCodec}) audioSsrc=${audioSsrc} videoSsrc=${videoSsrc} rtxSsrc=${this.mediaConnection.webRtcParams.rtxSsrc}`,
+    );
     this._videoCodec = normalizeVideoCodec(videoCodec);
     // Audio packetizer: opus 120 @ 48kHz, playout delay ext id 5 (like @dank074)
     this._audioTrack?.setPacketizer(
diff --git a/services/discord-gateway/src/goLive/prepareStream.ts b/services/discord-gateway/src/goLive/prepareStream.ts
index b446745..4b82bea 100644
--- a/services/discord-gateway/src/goLive/prepareStream.ts
+++ b/services/discord-gateway/src/goLive/prepareStream.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import { type ChildProcess, spawn } from "node:child_process";
 import { existsSync, readdirSync } from "node:fs";
 import { join } from "node:path";
 import { PassThrough, type Readable } from "node:stream";
+import { AudioStream } from "./AudioStream.js";
 import { demux } from "./Demuxer.js";
 import { type EncoderSettings, Encoders } from "./Encoders.js";
 import { VideoStream } from "./VideoStream.js";
@@ -27,6 +28,8 @@ export interface PrepareStreamResult {
   height: number;
   frameRate?: number;
   includeAudio: boolean;
+  /** Container the encoder muxes to: "nut" (audio-capable) or "h264" (raw). */
+  format: "nut" | "h264";
 }
 
 function isFiniteNonZero(n: unknown): n is number {
@@ -198,7 +201,11 @@ export function prepareStream(
   }
 
   args.push(...mergedOptions.customFfmpegFlags);
-  args.push("-f", "h264", "pipe:1");
+  // NUT muxer carries video+audio; the raw h264 muxer cannot ("h264 muxer
+  // does not support any stream of type audio" → header write fails →
+  // empty stdout → black tile). Audio delivery requires NUT.
+  const outFormat = mergedOptions.includeAudio ? "nut" : "h264";
+  args.push("-f", outFormat, "pipe:1");
 
   const isUrl = typeof input === "string";
   const proc: ChildProcess = isUrl
@@ -248,6 +255,7 @@ export function prepareStream(
     height: mergedOptions.height,
     frameRate: mergedOptions.frameRate,
     includeAudio: !!mergedOptions.includeAudio,
+    format: outFormat,
   };
 }
 
@@ -274,13 +282,17 @@ export async function playStream(
   const conn = await streamer.createStream();
   console.log("[goLive:playStream] createStream resolved");
 
-  const { video, close: demuxClose } = await demux(prepared.output, {
-    format: options.format ?? "nut",
+  const {
+    video,
+    audio,
+    close: demuxClose,
+  } = await demux(prepared.output, {
+    format: options.format ?? prepared.format ?? "nut",
     frameRate:
       typeof options.frameRate === "number" ? options.frameRate : undefined,
   });
   console.log(
-    `[goLive:playStream] demux done codec=${video?.codecName ?? "?"} ${video?.width ?? 0}x${video?.height ?? 0} fps=${video ? video.framerate_num / video.framerate_den || 30 : 30}`,
+    `[goLive:playStream] demux done codec=${video?.codecName ?? "?"} ${video?.width ?? 0}x${video?.height ?? 0} fps=${video ? video.framerate_num / video.framerate_den || 30 : 30} audio=${audio?.codecName ?? "none"}`,
   );
 
   if (!video) throw new Error("No video stream in media");
@@ -314,6 +326,19 @@ export async function playStream(
   const vStream = new VideoStream(conn);
   video.stream.pipe(vStream);
 
+  // Audio: Discord's GoLive pipeline expects RTP on the audio SSRC too —
+  // a video-only stream (zero audio packets) shows a static tile/thumbnail
+  // instead of live video. Pipe opus frames from the demuxer (silence is
+  // injected at the encoder when the source has no audio track).
+  let aStream: AudioStream | undefined;
+  if (audio) {
+    aStream = new AudioStream(conn);
+    audio.stream.pipe(aStream);
+    console.log(
+      `[goLive:playStream] audio stream attached (${audio.codecName})`,
+    );
+  }
+
   const cleanup = () => {
     try {
       prepared.command.kill("SIGTERM");
diff --git a/services/discord-gateway/src/modules/voice-recording/screenShareController.ts b/services/discord-gateway/src/modules/voice-recording/screenShareController.ts
index 2a03524..f12de4e 100644
--- a/services/discord-gateway/src/modules/voice-recording/screenShareController.ts
+++ b/services/discord-gateway/src/modules/voice-recording/screenShareController.ts
@@ -207,11 +207,13 @@ export class ScreenShareController {
         frameRate: 30,
         bitrateVideo: 2500,
         bitrateVideoMax: 4000,
-        // Video-only GoLive: the -f h264 output muxer cannot carry audio
-        // ("h264 muxer does not support any stream of type audio" → header
-        // write fails → empty stdout → demux 'Invalid data' → black tile).
-        // Audio is not delivered by the GoLive demux path anyway.
-        includeAudio: false,
+        // GoLive with audio: the encoder muxes to NUT (video h264 + opus
+        // audio) so the audio SSRC carries RTP too. Discord's GoLive
+        // pipeline expects audio — a video-only stream shows a static
+        // tile/thumbnail instead of live video. When the source has no
+        // audio track, the encoder's `-map 0:a:0?` yields no audio stream
+        // and the demuxer simply reports none (video still flows).
+        includeAudio: true,
         videoCodec: normalizeVideoCodec("H264"),
       });
       const { command } = prepared;
diff --git a/services/discord-gateway/tests/demuxerNut.test.ts b/services/discord-gateway/tests/demuxerNut.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0fa0aa7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/discord-gateway/tests/demuxerNut.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,187 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { existsSync, mkdtempSync, readdirSync, rmSync } from "node:fs";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+import { PassThrough } from "node:stream";
+import { demux } from "../src/goLive/Demuxer.js";
+
+/** Same resolution as Demuxer.resolveBin: env override → Nix store scan. */
+function resolveFfmpeg(): string | null {
+  const override = process.env.FFMPEG_PATH;
+  if (override && existsSync(override)) return override;
+  const store = "/nix/store";
+  if (existsSync(store)) {
+    for (const entry of readdirSync(store)) {
+      if (!entry.includes("ffmpeg-headless-")) continue;
+      const candidate = join(store, entry, "bin", "ffmpeg");
+      if (existsSync(candidate)) return candidate;
+    }
+  }
+  return existsSync("/usr/bin/ffmpeg") ? "/usr/bin/ffmpeg" : null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Ogg Opus byte stream built by hand: OpusHead (19B) + a few 20ms opus
+ * frames, wrapped in valid Ogg pages (CRC 0 — the parser ignores CRC).
+ */
+function buildOggOpusBytes(frames: number): Buffer {
+  const opusHead = Buffer.from([
+    0x4f, 0x70, 0x75, 0x73, 0x48, 0x65, 0x61, 0x64, // "OpusHead"
+    0x01, 0x02, 0x38, 0x01, 0x80, 0xbb, 0x00, 0x00,
+    0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // version 1, 2ch, 48000
+  ]);
+  // A minimal valid opus data packet: TOC 0xFC (48kHz stereo 20ms) + payload
+  const dataPacket = Buffer.alloc(20, 0);
+  dataPacket[0] = 0xfc;
+  const makePage = (
+    seq: number,
+    headerType: number,
+    serial: number,
+    packets: Buffer[],
+  ): Buffer => {
+    const segmentTable: number[] = [];
+    const payloadParts: Buffer[] = [];
+    for (const p of packets) {
+      let remaining = p.length;
+      let off = 0;
+      do {
+        const chunk = Math.min(255, remaining);
+        segmentTable.push(chunk);
+        payloadParts.push(p.subarray(off, off + chunk));
+        off += chunk;
+        remaining -= chunk;
+      } while (remaining > 0);
+    }
+    const payload = Buffer.concat(payloadParts);
+    const header = Buffer.alloc(27 + segmentTable.length);
+    header.write("OggS", 0, "latin1");
+    header[4] = 0; // version
+    header[5] = headerType;
+    header.writeUInt32LE(0, 6); // granule (unused)
+    header.writeUInt32LE(0, 10);
+    header.writeUInt32LE(serial, 14);
+    header.writeUInt32LE(seq, 18);
+    header.writeUInt32LE(0, 22); // crc (ignored)
+    header[26] = segmentTable.length;
+    for (let i = 0; i < segmentTable.length; i++) header[27 + i] = segmentTable[i];
+    return Buffer.concat([header, payload]);
+  };
+  const pages: Buffer[] = [];
+  const serial = 0x1234;
+  let seq = 0;
+  // Page 0: BOS + OpusHead (19 bytes, single lacing)
+  pages.push(makePage(seq++, 0x02, serial, [opusHead]));
+  // Pages 1+: data packets, a few per page
+  const perPage = 3;
+  for (let i = 0; i < frames; i += perPage) {
+    const pkts = [];
+    for (let j = 0; j < perPage && i + j < frames; j++) pkts.push(dataPacket);
+    pages.push(makePage(seq++, 0x00, serial, pkts));
+  }
+  return Buffer.concat(pages);
+}
+
+describe("Demuxer NUT path with audio", () => {
+  it("emits video access units AND parsed opus audio frames", async () => {
+    // Real NUT file (video h264 + opus) produced by ffmpeg — generated once
+    // in this test via ffmpeg, skipped if ffmpeg is unavailable.
+    const ffmpeg = resolveFfmpeg();
+    if (!ffmpeg) {
+      console.warn("ffmpeg not found — skipping NUT integration case");
+      return;
+    }
+    const dir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "gmw-nut-test-"));
+    const inWebm = join(dir, "in.webm");
+    const inNut = join(dir, "in.nut");
+    try {
+      // Build a tiny webm (vpx + opus) then remux to NUT h264+opus — mirrors
+      // prepareStream(includeAudio) output.
+      const { spawnSync } = await import("node:child_process");
+      const gen = spawnSync(
+        ffmpeg,
+        [
+          "-hide_banner", "-loglevel", "error",
+          "-f", "lavfi", "-i", "testsrc2=size=160x120:rate=10:duration=3",
+          "-f", "lavfi", "-i", "sine=frequency=440:duration=3",
+          "-c:v", "libvpx-vp9", "-b:v", "100k", "-pix_fmt", "yuv420p",
+          "-c:a", "libopus", "-b:a", "48k", "-f", "webm", "-y", inWebm,
+        ],
+        { timeout: 20000 },
+      );
+      if (gen.status !== 0) {
+        console.warn("ffmpeg webm gen failed — skipping", gen.stderr?.toString().slice(0, 200));
+        return;
+      }
+      const enc = spawnSync(
+        ffmpeg,
+        [
+          "-hide_banner", "-loglevel", "error", "-i", inWebm,
+          "-map", "0:v:0", "-c:v", "libx264", "-profile:v", "baseline",
+          "-x264-params", "repeat-headers=1", "-preset", "superfast",
+          "-pix_fmt", "yuv420p", "-g", "10", "-forced-idr", "1",
+          "-map", "0:a:0?", "-c:a", "libopus", "-b:a", "48k", "-ar", "48000", "-ac", "2",
+          "-f", "nut", "-y", inNut,
+        ],
+        { timeout: 20000 },
+      );
+      if (enc.status !== 0) {
+        console.warn("ffmpeg nut gen failed — skipping", enc.stderr?.toString().slice(0, 200));
+        return;
+      }
+      const { readFileSync } = await import("node:fs");
+      // demux() takes string | PassThrough — wrap the file read. Drip the
+      // bytes in quickly (well within demux's 1.5s metadata window) so ffmpeg
+      // prints both stream lines before demux() resolves.
+      const input = new PassThrough();
+      const nutBytes = readFileSync(inNut);
+      const CHUNK = Math.max(1024, Math.floor(nutBytes.length / 20));
+      let off = 0;
+      const drip = setInterval(() => {
+        if (off >= nutBytes.length) {
+          clearInterval(drip);
+          input.end();
+          return;
+        }
+        input.write(nutBytes.subarray(off, off + CHUNK));
+        off += CHUNK;
+      }, 10);
+      const { video, audio, close } = await demux(input, {
+        format: "nut",
+        frameRate: 10,
+      });
+      const vFrames: number[] = [];
+      const aFrames: number[] = [];
+      video?.stream.on("data", (f: { data: Buffer | null; flags: number }) => {
+        if (f.data) vFrames.push(f.data.length);
+      });
+      audio?.stream.on("data", (f: { data: Buffer | null; duration: number }) => {
+        if (f.data) aFrames.push(f.duration);
+      });
+      await new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+        video?.stream.on("end", resolve);
+        setTimeout(resolve, 6000);
+      });
+      close();
+      expect(vFrames.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+      // ~10fps × 1s of video → at least 5 access units
+      expect(vFrames.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(5);
+      // ~50 opus frames/sec of audio
+      expect(aFrames.length).toBeGreaterThan(10);
+      // opus frames are 20ms (duration 960 @ 48kHz)
+      expect(aFrames[0]).toBe(960);
+    } finally {
+      rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    }
+  }, 30000);
+
+  it("parses a hand-built Ogg Opus stream into frames", async () => {
+    // Feed the OGG bytes via the demux's audio path is not directly
+    // exposed — instead verify the parser contract through the NUT path is
+    // covered above; here we sanity-check the byte layout our parser reads.
+    const bytes = buildOggOpusBytes(7);
+    expect(bytes.subarray(0, 4).toString("latin1")).toBe("OggS");
+    // 7 frames + header across pages
+    expect(bytes.includes(Buffer.from("OpusHead"))).toBe(true);
+    expect(bytes.subarray(28, 36).toString("latin1")).toBe("OpusHead");
+  });
+});