feat(rakvoice): let the application choose the voice ordering channels

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The bug

RakVoice hardcodes ordering channel 0 for everything it sends: audio frames (UnreliableSequenced, or plain Unreliable on the relay host) and the channel open/close control messages (ReliableOrdered). An application that also uses channel 0 for its own traffic gets two failure modes it cannot fix from outside the plugin:

• A voice frame that overtakes one of the application's own sequenced messages makes the receiver discard that message as stale, because a sequenced stream is per channel, not per sender or per purpose. In the Framework that message is a player's pose.
• A lost open/close control message holds back every later sequenced message on channel 0 until it is retransmitted, so every remote player freezes for a retransmission timeout whenever someone joins or leaves voice on a lossy link.

Changes

RakVoice::SetOrderingChannels(char frameChannel, char controlChannel), with both members defaulting to 0 so existing callers keep the old behaviour. Every send site reads the matching member: relayed frames and encoded frames use the frame channel, open/close/close-all and the open-channel reply use the control channel. The wire format is unchanged; ordering channels are a sender-side choice and any receiver decodes them.

Testing

Built as the pinned dependency of MafiaHub/Framework on Windows x64 and x86 with the application setting frames and control to two dedicated channels. The Framework's own suite passes unchanged. No new RakVoice test: the plugin has no hermetic harness, and the change is a stored value threaded into existing calls.

Documentation

The hosted docs never explained what an ordering channel protects against, and two of their examples put a position stream on the same channel as reliable events. basics/reliability-types.rst now states the two rules (a lost ReliableOrdered message holds back every later sequenced message on its channel; a sequenced stream discards by channel, not by object), gives the resulting layout, and tables where each plugin's channel is set, since every plugin defaults to 0. The sending and concepts examples are corrected, and RakVoice, RPC4, ReplicaManager3, FileListTransfer and DirectoryDeltaTransfer each get an ordering-channel section. Built locally with Sphinx; the pages and the ordering-channels cross-references render.

Not in this PR

Per-speaker sequencing of relayed frames stays as it is; the relay host already sends them plain Unreliable for that reason, and the relay header's per-speaker sequence number drives packet-loss concealment a layer up.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added configurable ordering channels for voice frame transmission and voice channel control messages.
  • Applications can independently select the ordering channel used for outgoing audio frames and channel open/close operations.
  • Existing behavior is preserved by default, with both message types continuing to use channel 0 unless reconfigured.

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Walkthrough

RakVoice adds configurable ordering channels for audio frames and channel-control messages. Both channels default to 0. All relevant send paths use the configured values.

Changes

RakVoice ordering channels

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Ordering-channel configuration Source/include/mafianet/RakVoice.h, Source/src/RakVoice.cpp	Adds SetOrderingChannels, stores separate frame and control channels, and initializes both channels to 0.
Configured send paths Source/src/RakVoice.cpp	Uses the configured frame channel for audio sends and the configured control channel for channel open and close messages.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to bc633

Configurable voice channels preserve channel 0 by default, but invalid configuration can assert or silently fall back, and the frame-channel API promises behavior that some send paths do not provide. These issues should be corrected before merge.

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In `@Source/src/RakVoice.cpp`:
- Around line 165-169: Update RakVoice::SetOrderingChannels to validate
frameChannel and controlChannel are within the supported 0–31 range before
assigning them to frameOrderingChannel and controlOrderingChannel; reject
invalid inputs without storing them.
- Line 290: Update the SetOrderingChannels documentation near the relay send to
state that frameOrderingChannel applies only to UnreliableSequenced transport
sends; clarify that RelayFrame’s Unreliable send intentionally does not use
orderingChannel, while DecodeIntoChannel handles per-speaker ordering and PLC.
Leave all unsequenced send behavior unchanged.

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