On a gap the RTP munger gives the missing sequence numbers outgoing slots.
If a late packet then arrives and is dropped, nothing is ever sent in its
slot, and a subscriber that finds frame references by sequence number
stalls until a key frame. The forwarder now flags such drops, and the
downtrack sends a one byte padding only packet in the slot.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>