fix(audio): align waveform and STT with every audio track on the media clock

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Summary

The timeline waveform and the transcription now decode audio the way the compositor exports it.

• Waveform offset. audioPeaks.ts pulled audio that starts after the video back to zero, so the waveform ran ahead of the transcript and the export. It now pads with aresample=first_pts=0, like extractAudio.ts since fix(stt): preserve media-clock audio offsets #1076.
• Two audio tracks. Peaks and STT decoded only the stream ffmpeg picks. On older macOS recordings (system + mic) that is the system track, silent when nothing plays, so the mic was lost. A short ffmpeg -i probe counts the audio streams; with two or more, each is aligned and they are summed (amix=normalize=0, as the compositor sums).
• Single-stream media keeps its previous arguments. The peaks cache key is versioned so stale peaks are recomputed once.

Related issue

Follow-up to #1076.

Type of change

• Bug fix

Release impact

• Patch

Desktop impact

• Not platform-specific

Testing

• New FFmpeg integration tests: delayed audio peaks, two-track peaks, two-track STT. They fail without the fix (old args: 4 failures; fix(stt): preserve media-clock audio offsets #1076 args: both two-track tests fail). They skip in CI, which has no ffmpeg on PATH, like the fix(stt): preserve media-clock audio offsets #1076 tests. Run locally with ffmpeg 6.1.1 and the shipped 8.1.2.
• countAudioStreams unit test runs in CI.
• Unchanged waveforms: PCM decoded from 45 real recordings with audio from 0 is byte-identical between old and new arguments. The one recording with audio starting 26 ms late gains exactly 416 samples (26 ms).
• Probe cost: about 100 ms on a 160 s recording, paid only on a peaks cache miss or a transcription.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Audio extraction now includes audible tracks even when recordings contain multiple audio streams, while preserving their timing on the media timeline.
  • Audio peak decoding now handles single- and multi-track recordings and aligns tracks before mixing.

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• electron/media/audioPeaks.test.ts
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Audio decoding now probes audio streams and selects FFmpeg arguments that preserve media-clock placement and mix multiple audio streams. Peak decoding and speech-to-text extraction use these arguments. Tests cover stream counting, decoding, extraction, and mocked process timing.

Changes

Audio decoding

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Probe streams and select audio arguments electron/media/audioPeaks.ts, electron/media/audioPeaks.test.ts	The stream probe counts audio streams. Argument selection uses a media-clock filter when fewer than two streams are found, and aligns and mixes streams when two or more are found.
Apply stream selection in peak decoding electron/media/audioPeaks.ts, electron/media/audioPeaks.test.ts	decodePeaks uses the selected FFmpeg arguments. Cache keys include a v2: prefix. Tests cover delayed audio and multi-track decoding.
Apply stream selection in speech-to-text extraction electron/stt/extractAudio.ts, electron/stt/extractAudio.test.ts, electron/stt/extractAudio.integration.test.ts	extractMono16kPcm resolves FFmpeg arguments before spawning and checks for cancellation after the probe. Tests cover multi-track extraction and wait for mocked processes to spawn before sending events.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 44a02

Cancelling transcription may take up to ten seconds while the audio probe is stalled. This is a bounded issue, but the probe should respond to cancellation.

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Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 92.86% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 14 functions across 5 files.
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Review comments at @electron/stt/extractAudio.ts:
- Line 85: Update mediaClockAudioArgs and probeAudioStreams to accept and
forward options.signal, and pass it from this extraction flow. Ensure the probe
subprocess is canceled when the signal aborts, so awaiting mediaClockAudioArgs
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