diff --git a/packages/spf/src/media/presentation-anchor.ts b/packages/spf/src/media/presentation-anchor.ts
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+import { isUndefined } from '@videojs/utils/predicate';
+import { getMediaPlaylistMetadata, type Track } from './types';
+
+/**
+ * The presentation's live timeline anchor: the wall-clock (PDT, epoch seconds)
+ * that corresponds to **media-time 0**. One such value is shared across every
+ * track — establish it from one track and any other track positions itself by
+ * its own per-segment PDT. See
+ * [live-presentation-anchor](../../../internal/decisions/live-presentation-anchor.md).
+ *
+ * It is exactly the `Track.startDate` concept (wall clock at the timeline
+ * origin), promoted from per-track to presentation-level.
+ */
+export type PresentationAnchor = number;
+
+/**
+ * Derive the presentation anchor from a buffer pin — the authoritative source.
+ * Given a segment present in the track and where it *actually* landed in the
+ * SourceBuffer (`actualStart`, native PTS), the wall clock at media-time 0 is
+ * `segment.startDate − actualStart` (both along the linear timeline). `undefined`
+ * when the segment isn't present or carries no PDT.
+ */
+export function presentationAnchorFromBuffer(
+  track: Track,
+  segmentId: string,
+  actualStart: number
+): PresentationAnchor | undefined {
+  const segment = track.segments.find((s) => s.id === segmentId);
+  if (!segment || isUndefined(segment.startDate)) return undefined;
+  return segment.startDate - actualStart;
+}
+
+export interface PresentationAnchorEstimateOptions {
+  /**
+   * Sequence number assumed to be the stream's origin (time 0). Defaults to 0.
+   * See {@link presentationAnchorEstimate}.
+   */
+  presumedStartSequence?: number;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Estimate the presentation anchor from the manifest alone — the pre-buffer
+ * bootstrap, superseded by {@link presentationAnchorFromBuffer} once ground
+ * truth exists. A mid-join live playlist omits earlier segments, so the unseen
+ * origin's distance is estimated from the observed segments' **average**
+ * duration (more reliable than the target duration, a spec ceiling). The wall
+ * clock at media-time 0 is the anchor segment's PDT minus its estimated
+ * stream-origin offset, `(sequence − presumedStartSequence) × averageDuration`.
+ *
+ * ROUGH and provisional — assumes roughly-uniform durations and no
+ * discontinuities in the unseen past; error grows with the sequence gap.
+ * `undefined` when no segment carries PDT.
+ *
+ * TODO: the `mediaSequence` read is the remaining HLS coupling (a segment's
+ * ordinal-from-origin); neutralize it behind a format-neutral segment-position
+ * abstraction so DASH can supply its own (tracked separately).
+ */
+export function presentationAnchorEstimate(
+  track: Track,
+  { presumedStartSequence = 0 }: PresentationAnchorEstimateOptions = {}
+): PresentationAnchor | undefined {
+  const { segments } = track;
+  const anchorIndex = segments.findIndex((segment) => !isUndefined(segment.startDate));
+  const anchor = segments[anchorIndex];
+  if (!anchor || isUndefined(anchor.startDate)) return undefined;
+
+  const mediaSequence = getMediaPlaylistMetadata(track)?.mediaSequence ?? 0;
+  const anchorSequence = mediaSequence + anchorIndex;
+  const averageDuration = segments.reduce((sum, segment) => sum + segment.duration, 0) / segments.length;
+  const originOffset = (anchorSequence - presumedStartSequence) * averageDuration;
+  return anchor.startDate - originOffset;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Re-origin a track's timeline so media-time 0 coincides with the shared
+ * presentation `anchor` (PDT at the origin). The track shifts by
+ * `track.startDate − anchor` — its own per-segment PDT carries it onto the
+ * shared timeline, so one anchor positions every track without a second buffer
+ * read. (Under the no-inter-track-skew assumption all tracks share the PTS
+ * clock; see the decision doc.)
+ *
+ * Segment `startDate` (intrinsic PDT) stays put; only timeline positions move.
+ * No-op when the track has no PDT origin (`startDate` undefined) or is already
+ * on the anchor — so callers can apply it unconditionally.
+ */
+export function positionTrackToAnchor<Tracks extends Track>(track: Tracks, anchor: PresentationAnchor): Tracks {
+  if (isUndefined(track.startDate)) return track;
+
+  const shift = track.startDate - anchor;
+  if (shift === 0) return track;
+
+  return {
+    ...track,
+    startTime: track.startTime + shift,
+    startDate: anchor,
+    segments: track.segments.map((segment) => ({ ...segment, startTime: segment.startTime + shift })),
+  };
+}
diff --git a/packages/spf/src/media/tests/presentation-anchor.test.ts b/packages/spf/src/media/tests/presentation-anchor.test.ts
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+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import { anchorTrackToBufferedSegment } from '../anchor-track-to-buffered-segment';
+import {
+  positionTrackToAnchor,
+  presentationAnchorEstimate,
+  presentationAnchorFromBuffer,
+} from '../presentation-anchor';
+import { MEDIA_PLAYLIST_METADATA_KEY, type Track } from '../types';
+
+/** Minimal live track: a window starting at `startTime`, 2s segments, PDT from `startDate`. */
+function track(
+  opts: {
+    startTime?: number;
+    startDate?: number | undefined;
+    mediaSequence?: number;
+    segmentStartDates?: (number | undefined)[];
+  } = {}
+): Track {
+  const startTime = opts.startTime ?? 100;
+  const startDate = 'startDate' in opts ? opts.startDate : 1000;
+  return {
+    type: 'video',
+    id: 'v-1',
+    startTime,
+    startDate,
+    segments: [0, 2, 4, 6, 8].map((offset, i) => ({
+      id: `segment-${(opts.mediaSequence ?? 50) + i}`,
+      url: `${(opts.mediaSequence ?? 50) + i}.m4s`,
+      duration: 2,
+      startTime: startTime + offset,
+      // Each segment's PDT = the track origin (startDate) + the segment's own
+      // media-time (startTime + offset), so track.startDate stays the PDT at time 0.
+      startDate: opts.segmentStartDates
+        ? opts.segmentStartDates[i]
+        : startDate === undefined
+          ? undefined
+          : startDate + startTime + offset,
+    })),
+    metadata: {
+      [MEDIA_PLAYLIST_METADATA_KEY]: { mediaSequence: opts.mediaSequence ?? 50, targetDuration: 2, endList: false },
+    },
+  } as unknown as Track;
+}
+
+describe('presentationAnchorFromBuffer', () => {
+  it('is the pinned segment PDT minus where it actually landed (PDT at media-time 0)', () => {
+    // segment-50 has PDT 1100 and actually landed at native PTS 480 → anchor 620.
+    expect(presentationAnchorFromBuffer(track(), 'segment-50', 480)).toBe(620);
+  });
+
+  it('is undefined when the segment is absent or carries no PDT', () => {
+    expect(presentationAnchorFromBuffer(track(), 'missing', 480)).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(
+      presentationAnchorFromBuffer(track({ segmentStartDates: [undefined, 1, 2, 3, 4] }), 'segment-50', 480)
+    ).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('presentationAnchorEstimate', () => {
+  it('estimates PDT at media-time 0 from sequence × average duration', () => {
+    // anchor segment-50 PDT 1100; originOffset = (50 − 0) × 2 = 100 → anchor 1000.
+    expect(presentationAnchorEstimate(track())).toBe(1000);
+  });
+
+  it('honors presumedStartSequence', () => {
+    // originOffset = (50 − 10) × 2 = 80 → 1100 − 80 = 1020.
+    expect(presentationAnchorEstimate(track(), { presumedStartSequence: 10 })).toBe(1020);
+  });
+
+  it('is undefined when no segment carries PDT', () => {
+    expect(presentationAnchorEstimate(track({ startDate: undefined }))).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('positionTrackToAnchor', () => {
+  it('shifts the track so startDate coincides with the anchor', () => {
+    // track.startDate 1000, anchor 900 → shift +100 (startTime 100 → 200).
+    const positioned = positionTrackToAnchor(track(), 900);
+    expect(positioned.startDate).toBe(900);
+    expect(positioned.startTime).toBe(200);
+    expect(positioned.segments.map((s) => s.startTime)).toEqual([200, 202, 204, 206, 208]);
+    // Segment PDTs are intrinsic — they don't move.
+    expect(positioned.segments.map((s) => s.startDate)).toEqual([1100, 1102, 1104, 1106, 1108]);
+  });
+
+  it('is a no-op when already on the anchor or the track has no PDT origin', () => {
+    const t = track();
+    expect(positionTrackToAnchor(t, 1000)).toBe(t); // startDate already 1000
+    const noPdt = track({ startDate: undefined });
+    expect(positionTrackToAnchor(noPdt, 900)).toBe(noPdt);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('generalizes anchorTrackToBufferedSegment', () => {
+  it('positioning to the buffer-derived anchor equals the per-track buffer pin', () => {
+    const t = track();
+    const anchor = presentationAnchorFromBuffer(t, 'segment-50', 480)!;
+    const viaAnchor = positionTrackToAnchor(t, anchor);
+    const viaPin = anchorTrackToBufferedSegment(t, 'segment-50', 480);
+    expect(viaAnchor.startTime).toBe(viaPin.startTime);
+    expect(viaAnchor.startDate).toBe(viaPin.startDate);
+    expect(viaAnchor.segments.map((s) => s.startTime)).toEqual(viaPin.segments.map((s) => s.startTime));
+  });
+});