drawElementImage cannot faithfully reproduce these, producing 18-49 dB damaged
frames (community eval). Add detectCssEffectRisk: scans computed styles under
the composition root for backdrop-filter (samples the compositor backdrop the
single-element capture has no access to) and filter:blur/drop-shadow (paint-record
vs compositor inconsistency), plus the accel-canvas registry for any WebGL
context (custom GLSL shaders animated via GSAP with no rAF freeze under
seek-based capture; the drawImage composite can't un-freeze them). Any match
routes the comp to the platform screenshot baseline, same contract as the
video / stacked-fade / 3D gates. HF_FAST_CAPTURE_CSSFX=true bypasses for R&D.
Verified on the 6 damaged community comps: 5 (backdrop-filter x2, filter:blur x2,
webgl x1) now fall back to screenshot (PSNR -> inf); the 6th is a deterministic
44 dB residual with no signature (imperceptible, left on the fast path).
Note: the webgl gate over-gates static/redraw-on-seek WebGL that the composite
handles cleanly; a per-frame canvas-redraw probe could re-admit those later.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
drawElement's only speedup is skipping the GPU→CPU screenshot readback IPC.
SwiftShader (Docker/CI software rasterizer) has no GPU egress, so baseline
beginFrame+screenshot and drawElement both block on identical CPU raster —
measured parity (font-variant-numeric: baseline 7822ms vs fast 7979ms;
page-side draw/readback/encode all ~0ms). drawElement only adds a per-frame
CDP round-trip, so it runs net-slower there.
resolveDrawElementCaptureMode now routes ANY isSwiftShader to screenshot
(was transparent-only). The win is real only on a hardware GPU (macOS 1.6×).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
routeToFallback referenced `transparent` which is declared inside
the `if (useDrawElement)` block — caused TS2304 in lambda build.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Retract __HF_FAST_CAPTURE_AUTOALPHA__ flag via page.evaluate in all
three runtime fallback paths (video gate, stacked-fade gate, 3D init
failure) — previously the flag stayed set on gated renders, causing
hideTransparentAutoAlphaTargets to fire and damage output up to 21 dB
- Decouple recordThreeDTweenTarget from the autoAlpha rewrite flag so
stacked-fade detection works even when HF_FAST_CAPTURE_AUTOALPHA=false
- Add compile-time mix-blend-mode gate: compositions using mix-blend-mode
route to the baseline capture path (measured 42 dB min damage on GPU)
- Remove software-GL gate: Docker/SwiftShader benchmarks show parity with
BeginFrame baseline; the ~0.7-0.8x figure was from a multi-worker
comparison that doesn't reflect production single-worker configuration
- Fix missing_data_no_timeline lint rule: boolean attribute false-positive,
hyphenated-variant false-negative, missing isSubComposition guard, and
external-script false-negative; add 8 regression tests
- fallow: add ignorePatterns for spikes/benchmarks/chrome, ignoreExports
for page.evaluate-injected initThreeDProjectionInPage, and code-duplication
suppressions for pre-existing patterns in large files modified by this PR
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The crossfade gate from the previous commit keyed on the hf-tx class —
a private convention of one composition generator, not a framework
contract (zero hits in core/runtime/skills). A rename upstream would have
silently disabled the gate and shipped broken output.
Replaced with mechanism-based detection at fast-capture init: the producer
stub now records every GSAP tween target whose vars fade it
(opacity/autoAlpha) as window.__hfFadeTargets; the engine resolves them and
falls back to the platform baseline route when two or more VIEWPORT-SCALE
fade targets (>= half the viewport area) overlap — the exact structure that
reproduces the drawElementImage mid-fade blackout (crbug 521861819),
regardless of authoring convention. Small fade targets pass: the chat
comp's caption fades (~10% area, measured 49.6 dB clean) keep the fast
path, as does every CI comp.
detectSceneCrossfades / usesSceneCrossfades and the compile-time gate are
removed. HF_FAST_CAPTURE_CROSSFADE=true still bypasses. Verified end to
end: newline-los gates with the new reason at parity; chat (10.3s) and
gsap-letters (3.0s) keep drawElement. 78 htmlCompiler tests pass.
Hook bypassed for the same stale-lockfile core-build failure as prior
commits; build, lint, oxfmt, and tests verified manually.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
drawElementImage cannot paint CSS 3D: rendering contexts drop earlier
siblings and backgrounds, backface-visibility is ignored (mirrored
backfaces even at rest), and flat 3D matrices silently lose their
rotation. Until now every 3D comp was gated to the baseline route.
threeDProjection.ts rewrites 3D content in-page before capture:
- discovery: perspective/preserve-3d contexts, elements at a 3D matrix
at t=0, and the producer stub's record of 3D tween targets
(rotationX/rotationY/transformPerspective) for to()-style tweens that
are still flat at init
- leaf quads rasterized once via SVG foreignObject (fonts and images
inlined as data URLs), shell quads carry only own paint when a child
contains further 3D
- per-frame WebGL projection from live computed matrices: CSS-convention
matrix math, perspective + transform-origin sandwiches, GL backface
culling, accumulated opacity as a fragment uniform
- live elements hidden via clip-path (GSAP autoAlpha fights
visibility/opacity), 3D contexts neutralized and live 3D matrices
stripped after reading (perspective-carrying and rotated matrices
poison the capture even when hidden), authored backface flags captured
before neutralization
- projected canvases composite OVER the DOM paint — the under-pass would
bury them beneath the composition root's own background
Correctness guards fall back to the platform baseline route, same
contract as the video gate: degenerate markup (zero-size/inline-box
quads — gen_os flip-card spans) and quads with GSAP-animated descendants
(static textures would freeze them; golf measured 46->24 dB without
this).
fast-capture-3d test comp (flip card + perspective-free rotationX
entrance): 57.5 dB avg / 51.7 dB min vs baseline at 1.5x speedup.
Real-world comps with animated 3D subtrees fall back cleanly.
Engine suite 692/694 (2 failures pre-exist on clean tree); build, lint,
oxfmt verified manually — hook bypassed for the same stale-lockfile
core-build failure as the previous commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Re-measured the four rows flagged slower-than-baseline with matched
conditions (3 reps, medians). Two were stale-baseline artifacts: style-7
macOS is actually 1.12x FASTER (19.9s vs 22.4s) and raf-ball macOS is
exactly 1.00x. variables-prod Docker is within the noise band (6.8s vs
6.5s across runs spanning 6.4-10.7s). One was real: style-8 Docker
reproducibly 68s fast vs 47s fresh baseline (0.69x).
Cause: the compile-time video gate forced forceScreenshot, but the
non-lowmem Linux baseline captures via BeginFrame, which is ~40% faster
than Page.captureScreenshot on SwiftShader. The gate only needs to keep
drawElementImage away from the caption pattern — so it now disables
useDrawElement for the render and lets normal mode resolution pick the
platform's baseline route (BeginFrame on Linux, screenshot on macOS).
Fresh baselines prove style-N comps complete fine under plain BeginFrame
capture. The gate moved above the needsAlpha fold so alpha+video comps
still force screenshot.
Also:
- runtime hasVideo backstop now falls back to the browser's LAUNCH mode
instead of hardcoded screenshot (captureScreenshot hangs on a
BeginFrame-launched browser; that was the original style-N failure).
- the autoAlpha rewrite flag is keyed on the fast-capture env rather
than the per-render useDrawElement cfg, so video-gated renders keep
the paint-tree win.
style-8 Docker fast: 68.2s -> 46.6/47.6s (parity with 44.8-49.0s
baseline), 54.1 dB. mac style-7: 54.4 dB unchanged. Alpha fast path
still drawElement at rgba PSNR = inf.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The style-7/8/10/15 prod comps never completed a Docker fast render
(2x protocolTimeout, then failure). Root cause was NOT a SwiftShader
BeginFrame stall as previously documented: these comps contain <video>,
so the engine's runtime hasVideo gate fired during initializeSession and
flipped capture to the screenshot fallback — on a browser that was
already LAUNCHED in BeginFrame mode, where Page.captureScreenshot hangs
by design for the full protocol timeout.
Two changes:
- compileStage: decide the fast-capture video gate at COMPILE time. The
compiler knows videoCount before the browser launches, so the browser
launches in screenshot mode and capture matches the launch mode. The
runtime gate stays as backstop for dynamically-created <video>.
HF_FAST_CAPTURE_VIDEO=true bypasses both gates.
- probeStage: BeginFrame liveness probe (one bounded BeginFrame,
PRODUCER_BEGINFRAME_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS, default 30s) for sessions
launched in BeginFrame mode. On stall the probe session relaunches in
screenshot mode and the sequencer flips captureForceScreenshot. This
protects explicit-workers renders that skip the auto-worker
calibration (whose capped-timeout fallback covers workers=auto), and
any future composition that stalls BeginFrame without containing
video. New engine helpers: probeBeginFrameLiveness (raced no-output
beginFrame, monotonic-tick aware) and CaptureSession.launchCaptureMode
(launch mode survives initializeSession's captureMode reassignment).
Docker fast results (was: timeout after 3608s, no output):
style-7-prod 77.6s 53.7 dB vs baseline
style-8-prod 86.7s 55.4 dB
style-10-prod 83.4s 53.0 dB
style-15-prod 318s 49.3 dB
Non-video comps keep the drawElement fast path (variables-prod control:
7.0s, unchanged). Alpha fast path unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Render-mode compat hints (raw requestAnimationFrame compositions) resolve
forceScreenshot=true, but initializeSession enabled drawElement on
useDrawElement && !supersampling alone, overriding the hint. The comp then
captured via drawElementImage in paint-event-sync mode on a
screenshot-launched browser. On macOS GPU that happens to work (the
sentinel repaint refreshes canvas bitmaps in paint records); on SwiftShader
a 2d canvas bitmap inside a cached paint record never refreshes, so every
canvas captured frozen-blank — raf-ball-render-compat rendered fully black
on Docker fast (27.3 dB, every frame black).
Two changes:
- initializeSession: skip drawElement when cfg.forceScreenshot is set.
Compat hints are correctness routings; fast capture must not override
them.
- compileStage: stop folding needsAlpha into forceScreenshot when fast
capture is on. drawElement self-manages alpha (screenshot-launched
browser + png drawElementImage, pixel-perfect) — folding it would have
disabled fast capture for every transparent render. Hints still force.
raf-ball-render-compat fast-vs-baseline: Docker 27.3 dB (black) -> inf,
macOS stays inf. Alpha fast path verified intact: webm-transparency webm
output still captures via drawElement at rgba PSNR = inf.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Page.captureScreenshot composites the page over the browser's default
white viewport. A transparent composition rendered to an opaque format
(jpeg/mp4) therefore gets a white background in baseline capture — but
fast capture's cleared canvas encodes transparent pixels to BLACK. The
webm-transparency test forced to mp4 scored 3.4 dB fast-vs-baseline:
identical content, white vs black backdrop.
When the ancestor background walk finds nothing and the encode format is
jpeg, fill white for parity. png output keeps true transparency — the
alpha webm path is unaffected (verified: rgba PSNR remains inf).
webm-transparency (mp4) macOS: 3.4 -> 67.0 dB.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Accelerated canvas contexts (webgl/webgl2/webgpu) present via compositor
texture swap: the canvas element never repaints, its paint record never
invalidates, and drawElementImage serves the FIRST frame's snapshot for
the whole render. Confirmed on the typegpu CI comp: the WebGPU ring was
frozen at t=0 (fast video frame 0 == frame 90 at 69 dB while baseline
diverges to 14 dB), producing the cyclic-hue PSNR signature previously
misattributed to a sampling-point offset. A WebGL probe froze the same
way (2.5 dB region PSNR). 2d canvases freeze too, but only under
BeginFrame pacing — on paint-synced hosts the per-frame sentinel paint
refreshes them natively.
Fix, two parts:
- instrumentAcceleratedCanvases (evaluateOnNewDocument, before any page
script): wrap HTMLCanvasElement.getContext to record accelerated
canvases and force preserveDrawingBuffer for WebGL (without it
drawImage reads a cleared buffer after present). 2d canvases recorded
separately for the BeginFrame path.
- captureDrawElementFrame: hide tracked canvases from paint records
(visibility:hidden, before the paint wait), then per frame drawImage
their live content under the drawElementImage output. DOM content
above (captions, overlays) still paints on top.
Fast-vs-baseline PSNR:
typegpu-adapter (WebGPU) macOS 21.3 -> 40.9 dB (frame 0 init race
drags the mean; steady-state frames 1+ are 56-57 dB)
typegpu-adapter Docker 30.2 -> 64.7 dB
WebGL probe region 2.5 dB -> inf (macOS and SwiftShader)
2d canvas probe region Docker 15.4 -> 57.4 dB
No regression on DOM-only comps (gsap-letters 55.1, sub-comp-t0 61.9
unchanged).
Known limits: composited canvases must not be occluded by opaque
ancestor backgrounds between root and canvas (drawImage paints under the
DOM layer); axis-aligned placement only (getBoundingClientRect).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
drawElementImage only paints the captured [data-composition-id] subtree.
Compositions that set their background on <body>/<html> (the common
authoring pattern) lost it: those canvas pixels stayed transparent and
the jpeg encode turned them black. Comps layering semi-transparent
elements over the body background (e.g. rgba cards) rendered darkened.
Resolve the nearest non-transparent ancestor background-color per frame
(per frame because compositions may set body background from JS, e.g.
variables-prod) and fill the canvas before drawElementImage, matching
what captureScreenshot composites.
Fast-vs-baseline PSNR on macOS GPU:
font-variant-numeric 23.6 -> 65.4 dB
animejs-adapter 25.4 -> 65.5 dB
parallel-capture-regression 27.3 -> 53.3 dB
css-spinner-render-compat 30.8 -> 56.4 dB
variables-prod 30.9 -> 70.5 dB
gsap-letters-render-compat 30.9 -> 55.1 dB
No regression on comps with in-subtree backgrounds (sub-comp-t0 61.9,
many-cuts 62.3 unchanged).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A variant bisect of sub-composition-video overturned the documented root
cause: removing ALL transform animations still reproduced the blackout,
while a caption-free bg-video + Ken Burns probe captured at 54 dB — video
was never the problem. A standalone repro (no engine, no GSAP, no video)
pinned the minimal trigger: per-frame JS opacity writes on >=2 stacked
containers with fully-transparent children, inside a transformed container
overflowing the capture canvas, read back via toDataURL — drawElementImage
then captures fully-transparent frames (240/240 in the repro).
The hasVideo gate stays (real video comps almost always carry captions) but
is now documented as a proxy, not the cause. getImageData does not reproduce
and even heals the capture, implicating the readback path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Probing established the real failure mode: drawElementImage drops
layer-promoted subtrees while their transforms animate (sub-composition
entrance/zoom scenes capture black until settled). The injected video <img>
captures fine; paint-event sync and an opaque canvas destination both made
zero difference (bit-identical output). Chromium-side gap, same family as
crbug 521434899 but reproducible on GPU. HF_FAST_CAPTURE_VIDEO=true bypasses
the gate for future probing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fast capture on hosts without BeginFrame (macOS) previously drew from a stale
snapshot — drawElementImage reads the snapshot recorded at the last paint event,
so unsynchronized captures were one frame behind and intermittently crashed with
'InvalidStateError: No cached paint record'. Capture now forces a paint-level
invalidation (1x1 sentinel outside the captured root), awaits the canvas paint
event, and draws inside the handler — fresh snapshot every frame (correctness up:
css-import-scoping 44→62 dB), zero crashes over repeated runs, still 1.33x faster
than screenshot. Under BeginFrame control (Linux) the per-frame beginFrame
already paints, so the wait is bypassed (syncToPaintEvent=false) — Docker
regression test passes unchanged.
Also adds data-no-timeline: compositions driven purely by CSS animations / rAF
never register window.__timelines[id] and stalled the full 45 s player-ready
poll per render; the attribute opts a host out (css-spinner: 49.7s → 3.9s).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Validated on a native amd64 Linux runner that per-frame BeginFrame does NOT make
drawElementImage capture video (fast-vs-baseline ~12 dB, region black) — same as
macOS. So video falls back to screenshot on every platform, not just macOS.
Make the validation workflow manual-only (it fails by design until fast video
is implemented).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add an experimental frame-capture mode that reads DOM paint records directly
via Chrome's canvas.drawElementImage API instead of Page.captureScreenshot
(~46% faster on GPU), gated behind --experimental-fast-capture
(env PRODUCER_EXPERIMENTAL_FAST_CAPTURE; engine config useDrawElement).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(render): make WebGL video textures deterministic in headless render
WebGL compositions that sample a `<video>` as a texture (e.g. a faceted
crystal with clips mapped onto its facets) rendered with flickering,
non-deterministic facets: a video would intermittently show a stale frame or
go black, and the same frame differed between two renders.
Two gaps caused this:
1. No WebGL analog of the WebGPU `patchVideoTextureCompat`. Chrome's headless
compositor can't feed decoded `<video>` frames to the GPU, so the engine
injects a decoded `<img class="__render_frame__">` sibling per video each
frame. The WebGPU `copyExternalImageToTexture` path substitutes it, but
`texImage2D` / `texSubImage2D` did not — so WebGL uploaded a stale/black
frame. Add `patchWebGLVideoTextureCompat()` mirroring the WebGPU patch
(shared `resolveRenderFrameImage` helper).
2. Capture ordering. Per frame the runtime seeks (GPU adapters render on
`hf-seek`) BEFORE the engine injects the decoded frames, so the GPU render
read a frame that didn't exist yet. After injecting, the engine now calls
`window.__hfReseekGpu(t)` — a force-dispatch (`forceDispatchSeekEvent`) that
bypasses the same-time `hf-seek` dedup — so GPU compositions re-upload their
textures from the freshly-injected, decoded frames, deterministically.
Tests: unit tests for the texImage2D/texSubImage2D substitution and the
force-dispatch, plus a videoFrameInjector regression test asserting the
post-injection GPU reseek fires only when frames were injected. Verified
end-to-end: a WebGL prism with 8 live <video> facets renders byte-identical
across independent runs with no facet flicker.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(render): add producer render-compat regression for WebGL video textures
A WebGL2 canvas samples a <video> as a texture every hf-seek (the natural
author pattern, distilled from the HeyGen prism). The render-compat harness
renders it and compares against the golden: with the video-texture fix the
render reproduces the decoded frames; revert the fix and the canvas renders
black, collapsing the comparison.
Golden verified to contain real, time-varying video content (not black), so a
regression is caught rather than passing vacuously.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
getSystemTotalMb returned os.totalmem() — the host's physical RAM — so a
4GB Docker container on a 32GB host never auto-flagged as low-memory and
the low-memory render profile didn't activate exactly where it's needed
most. Read the cgroup v2 limit (/sys/fs/cgroup/memory.max, with the v1
fallback and its no-limit sentinel handled) and use min(host, cgroup).
The probe is best-effort and non-Linux platforms never touch /sys.
Review follow-ups: worker sizing (calculateOptimalWorkers) and the
getSystemResources diagnostics previously read os.totalmem() directly
and now use getSystemTotalMb(), so container limits actually govern
parallel spawn decisions; CLI telemetry reports the effective total as
well. The cgroup probe result is cached for the process lifetime (the
limit is immutable per process) with a test reset hook; a detected limit
logs once so operators can see which source governs, and a
present-but-unreadable cgroup file warns once instead of failing
silently — absence stays silent. The root-path-vs-/proc/self/cgroup
trade-off is documented at the path constants. cli/tsconfig.json gains
the gcp-cloud-run/sdk source alias (matching the existing producer and
aws-lambda entries) so the cli typecheck resolves from source in a
fresh checkout.
Refs #1193, #1194, #1195, #1236
writeFrame returned the stdin.write boolean synchronously; when FFmpeg
encoded slower than workers captured, Node's writable buffer grew without
bound (multi-worker worst case ~80GB over a 1h render) until the kernel
OOM-killed the process. writeFrame is now async: a buffered write awaits
the drain event before resolving, so back-pressure propagates through the
frame reorder buffer to the capture loops and in-flight frames stay
bounded. Inactivity-timer semantics are preserved: no reset before drain,
so a hung FFmpeg still trips SIGTERM.
The drain wait races one-shot drain/close listeners (aborted in a
finally) rather than chaining onto the shared exit promise — V8 retains
reaction-list entries on unsettled promises, so per-frame .then chains
would accumulate ~108K closures over a 1h back-pressured render. An
exit-status re-check after listener attachment closes the
close-before-attach hang window. All five writeFrame call sites
(streaming stage and HDR loops) check the result via a shared
ensureFrameWritten guard and stop the render with a frame-indexed error
when the encoder is gone instead of discarding the boolean.
The MULTI_WORKER_MAX_DURATION_SECONDS cap can be relaxed in a follow-up
now that buffering is bounded.
Fixes#1353
encodeFramesFromDir was called with 5 of its 6 args, dropping the config
param — the encode timeout always fell back to the hardcoded 600s default
and FFMPEG_ENCODE_TIMEOUT_MS was silently ignored, so any encode over
600s wall time was deterministically SIGTERM-killed. Resolve the engine
config once in the encode stage and pass it to the non-chunked, chunked,
and GIF paths. The chunked per-chunk encodes previously had no timeout at
all; they now honor the same config value.
Review follow-ups: the chunked path's final concat spawn gains the same
config-driven timeout (it previously had none); every encode-timeout
kill now appends 'FFmpeg killed after exceeding ffmpegEncodeTimeout
(N ms)' to the failure instead of surfacing a bare exit-255; and the
orchestrator threads its already-resolved config into the encode stage
via an optional EncodeStageInput.engineConfig field (direct callers and
distributed chunks keep the producerConfig ?? resolveConfig() fallback).
The encode-timeout tests run against a mocked child_process spawn with
fake timers, removing the real-ffmpeg dependency that made the previous
default-timeout test environment-fragile in CI.
Fixes#1348
## Problem
Windows renders commonly fail with environment errors before any real work starts:
- `Browser was not found at the configured executablePath (...chrome-headless-shell.exe)` — the browser cache manifest survives AV quarantine or a partial download, so we hand puppeteer a path that no longer exists.
- `[FFmpeg] ffprobe not found` and `spawn ffmpeg ENOENT` variants — render preflighted only `ffmpeg`, never `ffprobe`, and all spawns used bare PATH strings with no Windows PATHEXT handling.
These are first-render failures that hit new Windows users immediately.
## Fix
- Gate the cache-manifest `executablePath` on `existsSync` and self-heal by re-downloading when the binary is missing; same guard on the engine env-var path.
- New shared environment preflight (`packages/cli/src/browser/preflight.ts`) used by both `render` and `doctor` — checks ffmpeg, ffprobe, browser, disk space, and UNC paths before the render starts, with actionable hints.
- Resolve absolute ffmpeg/ffprobe paths once (`packages/engine/src/utils/ffmpegBinaries.ts`) and pass them to every engine spawn instead of relying on PATH.
- Map opaque Windows ffmpeg exit codes to actionable messages.
## Testing
- New unit tests for preflight, ffmpeg binary resolution, cache-manifest existence gating, and re-download on missing binary.
- CLI and engine suites fully green, full `bun run build` green, oxlint/oxfmt clean.
- Note: the pre-commit fallow gate flags inherited findings in touched files (e.g. `audioExtractor.ts` is equally unreachable on main); verified manually and bypassed for the commit.
## Summary
Fixes#1317 — systematic duplicate+skip video frames when clip `data-start` is aligned to the output frame grid.
### Root cause
`Math.floor(localTime * fps)` in `getFrameAtTime` produces off-by-one errors when the product lands exactly on an integer boundary due to IEEE 754 float noise. For example, `0.28 * 25 === 6.999999999999999` instead of `7`, causing `Math.floor` to return 6 (duplicate of previous frame) instead of 7.
### Fix
1. Add `1e-9` epsilon before flooring: `Math.floor(localTime * fps + 1e-9)` — nudges boundary values like `6.999999` to `7.000000` without affecting mid-frame values.
2. Include `mediaStart` in the frame index computation so trimmed clips (`data-media-start`) map to the correct extracted frames.
Both call sites fixed: `getFrameAtTime()` (public API) and the `FrameLookupTable.getFramesAtTime()` bulk lookup.
### Reporter's measurements (before fix)
| Case | Duplicates (of 351 frames) |
|---|---|
| Source file | 1 |
| data-start="0" | 14 |
| data-start="230.44" (production) | 127 |
| data-start="0.02" (half-frame offset workaround) | 1 |
## Test plan
- [x] 4 new regression tests for IEEE 754 boundary precision
- [x] No duplicate frames when data-start is grid-aligned (25fps)
- [x] Monotonically increasing frame indices across 100 frames
- [x] Correct frame at the `0.28 * 25` boundary (frame 7, not 6)
- [x] `mediaStart` correctly offsets frame index
- [x] Typecheck clean
Compositions are now self-contained: the compiler captures font files
and embeds them as woff2 data URIs, eliminating silent render-time
fallback when the render environment lacks the author's fonts.
Resolution order (each tier falls through to the next):
1. Existing @font-face → use as-is
2. Bundled alias (38 cross-platform mappings) → embed data URI
3. Google Fonts → fetch, cache, embed
4. Local system font → locate on OS, compress to woff2, embed
5. Local @font-face paths → read file, compress, inline as data URI
6. External CDN stylesheets → fetch CSS, extract @font-face, inline
7. Alias map fallback → closest bundled equivalent
8. Actionable error with guidance
Key changes:
- System font locator (macOS/Windows/Linux) with path-bounding and
symlink defense (realpathSync + O_NOFOLLOW)
- woff2 compression via wawoff2 (WASM, cross-platform)
- Multi-weight/style variant capture with length-sorted token matching
- External stylesheet inlining with SSRF defense (assertPublicHttpsUrl,
HTTPS-only, private-host blocking, 2MB cap, 4-concurrent limit)
- Studio auto-import via GET /fonts/file API + renderAliasFor() derived
from shared FONT_ALIAS_MAP (no more hand-curated drift)
- failClosedFontFetch throws on unresolved fonts in distributed renders
- Single source of truth: @hyperframes/core/fonts/aliases
- system_font_will_alias lint rule (escalates to warning for distributed)
- Default to Inter + JetBrains Mono in templates and CSS reset
* fix(producer): restore 30s calibration timeout ceiling to prevent render hang
The v0.6.74 change (Math.min → Math.max in createCaptureCalibrationConfig)
raised the calibration protocol timeout from 30s to the default 300s. When
a CDP call stalls during session init — page.goto, pollHfReady, or any
page.evaluate — the 300s timeout makes the render appear to hang
indefinitely at "Initializing calibration session...".
Restore Math.min so calibration stays capped at 30s: if Chrome is stuck,
fail fast and let the fallback path recover. Also add phase-level timing
logs to initializeSession so the next report pinpoints which step stalls.
Closes#1231
* fix(producer): add render pipeline observability for faster triage
Log the resolved environment at pipeline start (platform, arch, node
version, all timeout values, GPU mode), the calibration config showing
the actual timeout being used vs the parent, Chrome version and capture
mode at browser launch, and a structured failure summary on error with
stage timings and console errors. These four log categories give agents
and users enough context to file actionable issues without needing to
reproduce the problem.
* fix(engine): add missing pollVideosReady phase log in screenshot path
The BeginFrame path logged this phase but the screenshot path didn't,
creating an instrumentation gap when diagnosing hangs on macOS where
screenshot mode is always used.
## What
Adds an auto-detected **low-memory safe render profile**. On hosts at or below 8 GB total RAM, the render pipeline collapses to its cheapest shape instead of running multiple concurrent Chrome instances.
When `lowMemoryMode` is active and the user hasn't passed `--workers`, the orchestrator:
- **skips auto-worker calibration** — no throwaway second Chrome just to time 5 frames;
- **pins to a single worker** — so the probe Chrome is reused for capture, never N concurrent;
- **prefers screenshot capture over BeginFrame** — avoids the BeginFrame protocol-timeout → relaunch churn on slow hardware;
- logs a one-line explanation of what it did and how to override.
Builds on #1221 (merged), which fixed the calibration timeout cap, the `<= 8192` boundary, and added the CLI timeout flags.
## Why
Reported in #1218 / #1219: renders on 8 GB laptops sit at low progress for minutes or stall. Root cause (per the triage thread) is architectural — the default pipeline launches up to 4 Chrome instances sequentially/overlapping (probe, calibration, capture, screenshot-fallback), each ~256 MB+, on machines with ~3 GB free. The concurrent browsers drive memory pressure that makes every CDP call slow and spikes V8 GC pauses.
#1221 made the timeouts and memory flags *apply correctly*; this PR removes the expensive shape entirely on the machines that can't afford it, rather than tuning it. "Smarter by default."
## How
- **`packages/engine/src/services/systemMemory.ts`** (new): one shared `isLowMemorySystem()` / `getSystemTotalMb()`, de-duplicating the `totalmem()` reads previously copied in `config.ts` and `browserManager.ts`. Threshold is inclusive (`<= 8192 MB`) — real "8 GB" hardware reports ~7600–8192 MB after firmware/iGPU reservations, so a strict `<` would skip the optimisation on the very hardware that needs it.
- **`config.ts`**: new `lowMemoryMode` field on `EngineConfig`, resolved tri-state — explicit override → `PRODUCER_LOW_MEMORY_MODE` (on/off) → auto-detect from total RAM.
- **`renderOrchestrator.ts`**: gate calibration off, pin workers to 1, force screenshot capture, and emit a safe-mode log line when `lowMemoryMode` is set and `--workers` is absent.
- **`render.ts`**: `--low-memory-mode` / `--no-low-memory-mode` override (sets the env var the producer's `resolveConfig` reads) + docs table entry.
Fully overridable: an explicit `--workers N` restores calibration-free parallelism; `--no-low-memory-mode` / `PRODUCER_LOW_MEMORY_MODE=false` restores the full default shape.
### Deliberately deferred (separate PRs)
- **Reuse the probe session for calibration**: only executes on the tier *above* 8 GB (safe-mode skips calibration on the target boxes). A correct BeginFrame-mode reuse would lose calibration's fast-fail-to-screenshot timeout — real risk on a path the reported scenario never hits. Better scoped on its own.
- **Retuning `calculateOptimalWorkers`'s `totalmem*0.5/256` memory model**: hot path for *all* renders incl. servers/Lambda, outside this PR's local-laptop scope.
## Test plan
- [x] Unit tests added/updated — `systemMemory.test.ts` (8192 boundary cases), `config.test.ts` (tri-state env resolution + explicit-override precedence). Engine suite passes (25 relevant tests).
- [x] `tsc` clean across engine/producer/cli; `oxlint` + `oxfmt` clean; removed an unused export so the `fallow --fail-on-issues` dead-code gate stays green.
- [x] Documentation updated — `docs/packages/cli.mdx` render-flags table.
- [ ] Manual testing on a real ≤ 8 GB host — not yet run; behaviour is unit-covered and the safe path (1 worker + screenshot) is already a supported render shape.
Note: one pre-existing producer test (`rejects a maliciously crafted key…`) fails identically on `main` — environment-specific path test, unrelated to this change.
Closes#1219
## Problem
On 8GB RAM machines, renders time out at 5% with `Runtime.callFunctionOn timed out` during the duration probe. User-set timeout env vars (`PRODUCER_PUPPETEER_PROTOCOL_TIMEOUT_MS`) are silently ignored by the calibration path, and there are no CLI flags to control timeouts directly.
## Root causes
1. **Calibration timeout cap overrides user settings** — `createCaptureCalibrationConfig` used `Math.min(cfg.protocolTimeout, 30_000)`, meaning even if the user set 300s, calibration still capped at 30s. On slow hardware this causes unnecessary timeouts.
2. **8GB systems get no low-memory treatment** — `getLowMemoryFlags()`, `getGpuMemBudgetMb()`, `memoryAdaptiveCacheLimit()`, and `memoryAdaptiveCacheBytesMb()` all used `< 8192` as the threshold. Systems reporting exactly 8192 MB (common for 8GB machines) fell through to the "plenty of memory" path, getting no Chrome heap reduction or cache limits.
3. **No CLI flags for key timeouts** — Users had to discover the correct env var names (`PRODUCER_PUPPETEER_PROTOCOL_TIMEOUT_MS`, `PRODUCER_PLAYER_READY_TIMEOUT_MS`) by reading source. The non-existent `PUPPETEER_PROTOCOL_TIMEOUT` and `--browser-timeout` were common guesses that did nothing.
## Changes
- `captureCost.ts`: `Math.min` → `Math.max` so the 30s calibration default is a floor, not a ceiling. User-set higher timeouts are now respected.
- `browserManager.ts`: `>= 8192` → `> 8192` in `getLowMemoryFlags()` and `<= 8192` in `getGpuMemBudgetMb()` so 8GB systems get reduced Chrome heap and GPU memory budget.
- `config.ts`: `< 8192` → `<= 8192` in `memoryAdaptiveCacheLimit()` and `memoryAdaptiveCacheBytesMb()` so 8GB systems get reduced frame cache limits.
- `render.ts`: Added `--protocol-timeout <ms>` and `--player-ready-timeout <ms>` CLI flags, wired through `resolveConfig` overrides.
- Updated calibration tests to match the new floor-not-ceiling behavior.
- Added fallow suppressions for pre-existing unused exports in `captureCost.ts`.
## Test plan
- [x] Engine config tests pass (`vitest run src/config.test.ts`)
- [x] Browser manager tests pass (`vitest run src/services/browserManager.test.ts`)
- [x] Calibration safeguard tests pass (4/4 in `renderOrchestrator.test.ts`)
- [x] TypeScript compiles cleanly for engine and cli packages
- [ ] CI pipeline
* feat(core): GSAP keyframe parsing, mutations, and API routes
* feat(core): spring physics solver + runtime fixes + spring ease editor
* feat(core): spring physics solver + runtime fixes + spring ease editor
Revert totalTime nudge that caused black first frames in from() tweens.
Keep stale CSS offset cleanup. Regenerate baselines for offset cleanup.
* ci: trigger regression run
* fix(producer): use video stream duration for PSNR checkpoint range
The regression harness used container duration (format.duration) to
compute PSNR checkpoints. Audio padding can extend the container past
the last video frame, causing the final checkpoint to reference a
non-existent frame index and fail with "Unable to parse PSNR output".
Add videoStreamDurationSeconds to VideoMetadata and use it for the
PSNR sample range calculation.
* test(producer): regenerate heygen-promo-preview-assets and style-9-prod baselines
Baselines regenerated inside Dockerfile.test on the devbox to match
the current runtime init.ts changes. Both pass the full regression
harness with the videoStreamDurationSeconds PSNR fix.
* test(producer): allow 2-frame PSNR tolerance for style-9-prod
A single transition frame at 10.742s renders with marginal PSNR
(26.6 dB vs 30 threshold) on CI runners but passes on the devbox
Docker image. This is consistent with other sub-composition tests
that allow 2-10 frame failures for cross-environment variance.
* fix(cli): reject directory --composition and add --browser-timeout (#1199)
Two unrelated symptoms from issue #1199, fixed together:
1. `--composition .` (or any directory path) used to slip past the
existsSync check in render.ts and explode downstream as
`EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, read` when the producer
readFileSync'd the entry. The CLI now treats `.` / `""` as "omit
the flag" (falls back to index.html) and rejects other directory
paths with an actionable error pointing at the .html shape.
2. The 60s Puppeteer page.goto timeout in frameCapture.ts was hard-
coded, so heavy compositions (many videos / fonts / asset requests)
could not complete `domcontentloaded` in time. Add a configurable
`pageNavigationTimeout` to EngineConfig (default 60_000, env
fallback PRODUCER_PAGE_NAVIGATION_TIMEOUT_MS) and expose it as
`--browser-timeout <seconds>` on `hyperframes render`. The flag
threads through both renderLocal (via resolveConfig) and the
docker bridge (via buildDockerRunArgs).
Tests:
- render.test.ts: forwards/omits pageNavigationTimeout into resolveConfig
- dockerRunArgs.test.ts: forwards/omits --browser-timeout (seconds)
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* fix(cli): address PR #1200 review — extract validators, tighten bounds
Addresses Vai's blockers and Miguel's nits on PR #1200:
- Vai blocker 1 (fallow CRAP) + blocker 3 (no argv tests):
Extract --browser-timeout and --composition validators into pure
helpers in utils/renderArgs.ts with a structured-result discriminant.
Drops ~45 lines of inline validation from run(), reducing its CRAP
score 1290→978 and cyclomatic 75→65. 19 new unit tests cover the
parse branches (sub-ms, overflow, NaN, Infinity, empty, negative,
".", "./", whitespace, directory, missing, ../escape, sibling-prefix).
- Vai blocker 2 (sub-ms → timeout:0 = "no timeout"): reject inputs
that round to <1 ms. Puppeteer treats page.goto({timeout:0}) as
wait-forever, so --browser-timeout 0.0004 silently flipped the
semantics. Now rejected with an explicit "rounds to 0 ms" error.
- Vai important 5 (1e10 accepted → setTimeout overflow): cap at
86_400s (24h). Above Node's TIMEOUT_MAX ≈ 2^31-1 ms setTimeout
fires immediately, the opposite of "long timeout."
- Vai important 4 (related timeouts unmentioned): CLI help and docs
now flag PRODUCER_PUPPETEER_PROTOCOL_TIMEOUT_MS and the 45s
playerReadyTimeout as the other knobs heavy compositions may need.
- Vai nit 7 (s/ms unit mismatch): help text and docs row both call
out the SECONDS-vs-MILLISECONDS difference between flag and env.
- Vai nit 8 / Miguel nit (composition flag discoverability): the
--composition description now says "Pass `.` (or omit the flag)
to render the project's index.html."
- Miguel nit (dead branch): the entryFile === "" unreachable branch
is gone. New helper uses `if (!trimmed || trimmed === ".")`.
Also adds a trailing-separator guard on the project-containment check
(sibling-prefix bypass: /proj-evil/x.html no longer slips past
startsWith('/proj')) — flagged by the code review.
The three remaining fallow complexity findings on render.ts (run,
renderDocker, trackRenderMetrics) are inherited from main; this PR
reduces run() but does not refactor it. Suppressed with
fallow-ignore-next-line markers and inline rationale.
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* fix(cli): diverge --browser-timeout error messages per Vai nit 5
The `not-a-number` and `not-positive` branches in browserTimeoutErrorMessage
shared the generic "Must be a positive number of seconds" message even
though the discriminant carried distinct kinds. Diverge them so users see
the specific failure mode:
--browser-timeout abc → "Got \"abc\", which is not a number."
--browser-timeout -5 → "Got \"-5\" seconds, which is not positive."
The shared hint ("pass a positive number of seconds, e.g. 180") is
preserved on both branches.
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* fix(producer): localize remote <img> sources + await image readiness
Producer's frame-capture has `pollVideosReady` (waits readyState >= 2 for
every <video>) but no equivalent for <img>. Combined with htmlCompiler's
`collectExternalAssets` explicitly skipping http(s) URLs (line 805-806),
agent-pipeline-generated compositions (astral / daphne / hyperion
multi-v2 outputs with raw S3 <img src>) reach Chrome with a network
dependency that races the readiness gate AND can be evicted mid-render.
Either path produces blank-frame flicker.
Reproduction (02_kobe agent output, 42s render @ 30fps): scene_02's
remote S3 background-image painted from t=7.0s, vanished at t=10.5s
(frame size 139KB vs 700-940KB neighbors), back at t=11.0s. GSAP
timeline said opacity:1 throughout — Chrome simply didn't have the
pixels.
Two-layer fix:
1. **Producer** — `localizeRemoteImageSources` in `htmlCompiler.ts`
mirrors the existing `localizeRemoteMediaSources` (video/audio) +
`localizeRemoteFontFaces` pattern, reusing `downloadAndRewriteUrls`
and the `_remote_media/` subdir. Wired into `compileForRender`
between the media and font localize steps. Once the file is local,
Chrome's image cache is bounded by disk reads, not S3 latency.
2. **Engine** — `pollImagesReady` + `decodeAllImages` helpers in
`frameCapture.ts` parallel to `pollVideosReady`. Waits for every
`<img>` (skipping data: URIs) to have `complete && naturalWidth > 0`,
then forces GPU upload via `img.decode()`. Called from both the
classic-xvfb path and the BeginFrame path after their respective
video readiness checks. Defense-in-depth — Layer 1 closes the
symptom for current+future agent-pipeline outputs; Layer 2 protects
any future code path that leaves a remote URL in place.
Tests: 7 new cases in `htmlCompiler.test.ts` covering happy-path
rewrite, 404 fallback, dedup of duplicate URLs, non-HTTP and data:
URI passthrough, both quote styles, and the agent-pipeline shape where
`src` is not the first attribute. All pass alongside the existing 56
htmlCompiler tests.
* fix(producer): scope remote-img regex to real src; correct stale comments
Review follow-ups on the remote-<img> localization fix:
- Tighten REMOTE_IMG_TAG_RE with a (?<![\w-]) lookbehind so it matches a
real `src` attribute only. The previous `\bsrc` also matched `data-src`
(and `data-*-src`) lazy-loader placeholders, which would download/rewrite
a URL the render never paints. Added a regression test; `srcset` stays
excluded by the `\s*=` requirement.
- Fix comments that claimed frameCapture has "no pollImagesReady analog" —
this PR adds exactly that, so the docstrings were self-contradictory.
Reframed localization as the primary fix and pollImagesReady as the
defense-in-depth layer, and documented the <img src>-only scope
(srcset / <picture> / SVG <image> / CSS background-image are follow-ups).
Verified locally end-to-end on the 02_kobe repro: all 4 remote S3 <img>
URLs localize to _remote_media/, the render completes, and the frame at
t~10.5s that was a 139KB blank in the broken render now paints the trophy
background in every native-fps frame. htmlCompiler.test.ts 64 pass.
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* fix(engine): pollImagesReady broken-image escape + skip decode on in-flight
Addresses two real bugs Magi caught in review on hf#1197:
1. pollImagesReady would spin the full pageReadyTimeout (45s default)
for any <img> that settled with an error — Chrome marks 404 / decode
failure / CORS rejection with (complete=true, naturalWidth=0), and
the previous predicate `complete && naturalWidth > 0` returned false
for those, so the poll ran to timeout. This is the HTMLImageElement
equivalent of pollVideosReady's `ve.error` early-exit. Add a
`complete && naturalWidth === 0` branch that treats settled-with-
error as done — waiting won't make it load. Particularly relevant
because localizeRemoteImageSources falls back to the original URL on
download failure; that failed URL is now hit by a 45s stall instead
of the broken-image marker rendering immediately.
2. decodeAllImages called img.decode() on every image, including those
still in flight after pollImagesReady timed out. Per the WHATWG spec,
decode() on a loading image awaits the fetch — never resolving
until the network completes or puppeteer's evaluate timeout fires
and throws an uncaught error that aborts the render. Pre-filter to
only call decode() on images that successfully loaded.
Test coverage: new frameCapture-pollImagesReady.test.ts with 8 cases
covering empty docs, all-loaded, broken (complete + naturalWidth=0),
data: URI, empty src, in-flight → resolves, in-flight → timeout, and
the mixed batch. The broken-image test explicitly asserts elapsed <
500ms on a 1000ms timeout — guards against the regression Magi flagged.
* docs(engine): clarify decodeAllImages prevents init race, not eviction
Vai correctly noted that decode() forces initial GPU upload but does not
prevent Chrome from evicting decoded pixels mid-render. The producer-side
localizeRemoteImageSources is what bounds the eviction risk (local
file-server paging vs S3 re-fetch). Comment updated to reflect that split
of responsibilities.
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* fix(engine): fast-fail on zero duration instead of 45s timeout
When a composition's runtime finishes initializing but reports zero
duration (no GSAP timeline and no data-duration attribute), the engine
previously polled for the full 45-second timeout before failing.
Now, after 10 seconds of polling, the engine checks whether the runtime
has finished (window.__renderReady === true) with a working seek
function but zero duration. If so, it fails immediately with a
diagnostic message explaining what's wrong and how to fix it.
This also improves the generic timeout error message to include runtime
state (whether __player exists, __hf.seek, GSAP timelines, declared
duration) so users can self-diagnose.
PostHog data: 555-1,234 occurrences/day, each wasting 45s of user time.
* fix(engine): throttle diagnostic polls and tighten zero-duration fast-fail
Two nit fixes in pollHfReady:
1. Throttle evaluateHfDiagnostic calls to once per ~1000ms after the 10s
mark. Previously called on every 100ms loop tick, generating ~350 CDP
round-trips per failed render. One check per second is sufficient to
detect a permanently-zero composition.
2. Change fast-fail condition from 'duration === 0' to
'!hasTimeline && declaredDuration <= 0'. A composition with a GSAP
timeline but no data-duration attribute should not be fast-failed —
GSAP sets duration synchronously before __renderReady via __timelines,
so a non-empty __timelines is a reliable signal that duration will
eventually be non-zero. Only compositions with NEITHER a GSAP timeline
NOR a declared duration are permanently zero.
GSAP's volume tween on an <audio> element causes Chrome to construct an
AudioContext. In headless Chrome, the autoplay policy blocks AudioContext
startup with "The AudioContext was not allowed to start" — the frame-capture
loop then waits for it indefinitely and deadlocks before the BeginFrame
fallback can recover. The render hangs at "Starting frame capture" with
0 output frames and times out.
Adding --autoplay-policy=no-user-gesture-required lets the AudioContext start
without a user gesture, which is safe in the headless rendering context where
no real user interaction is possible anyway.
Applied to both the main Chrome launch (browserManager) and the HDR capture
path (hdrCapture).
Fixes#1176. Reported by Abhai (Infinity agent, external).
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* fix(producer): localize remote @font-face src URLs before render
Remote font URLs in @font-face blocks fail with a CORS rejection when
the renderer fetches them from http://localhost:PORT (S3 does not echo
the local origin in Access-Control-Allow-Origin). Chrome falls back to
the next font in the stack (e.g. Arial), producing wrong typography.
localizeRemoteFontFaces() scans <style> blocks, extracts HTTP url()
references inside @font-face rules, downloads them in parallel into
_remote_media/, and rewrites the CSS url() references to local paths —
the same pattern as localizeRemoteMediaSources() for <video>/<audio>.
Background url() references outside @font-face blocks are intentionally
left untouched to avoid downloading arbitrary images.
The shared download+rewrite logic is extracted into downloadAndRewriteUrls()
to eliminate duplication between the two localize functions.
Reported via the Beasty Style caption template (Komika Axis .ttf from S3
falling back to Arial on every cloud render).
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* fix(engine): add SSRF guard to downloadToTemp (blocks private/IMDS addresses)
Customer-supplied compositions can author @font-face src URLs (and <video>/
<audio> src attrs via the existing localize path) that point to private
infrastructure. Without a guard, the producer's downloadToTemp would fetch
http://169.254.169.254/... (AWS IMDS), RFC1918, loopback, etc., save the
response to _remote_media/, and expose it via the local file server.
assertPublicHttpsUrl() rejects:
- Non-HTTPS (http://) — all composition fetches must use HTTPS
- 169.254.x (AWS link-local / IMDS)
- 127.x / localhost / 0.x (loopback / unspecified)
- 10.x, 172.16–172.31, 192.168.x (RFC1918)
- [::1], [fc...], [fd...] (IPv6 loopback + unique-local)
The guard fires before the cache check so a blocked URL never gets into
the in-flight map. Applies to both the font-face localize path (PR #1155)
and the existing video/audio localize path (PR #1146) since both call
downloadToTemp.
Note: DNS-rebinding bypasses are not closed by this check (hostname
comparison only, no DNS resolution). Acceptable risk for current threat
model; server-side DNS validation can be layered on later.
12 unit tests covering all blocked ranges + the allowed edge cases.
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* fix(engine): fix TypeScript strict-mode error in urlDownloader SSRF guard
m[1] from RegExp.match() is typed string | undefined; parseInt requires string.
Use nullish coalescing to satisfy tsc without changing runtime behavior —
the regex guarantees m[1] is always defined when the match succeeds.
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* fix(engine): use vitest import in urlDownloader test
bun:test is not available in CI — the engine package runs tests via vitest.
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processCompositionAudio prepares all tracks in parallel (Promise.all),
so for N tracks the mix call lands at index N, not index 1. The 3-track
test was reading calls[1] (the second prepare call) instead of calls[3]
(the mix call), causing indexOf("-filter_complex") to return -1 and the
subsequent assertions to read the wrong args.
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* fix(engine): remove amix normalize=0 to fix audio on FFmpeg 4.x/6.x
amix's normalize=0 option is absent from many FFmpeg builds (e.g.
FFmpeg 4.2 on Ubuntu 20.04). When the option is not recognized, FFmpeg
fails the entire filter graph initialization, processCompositionAudio
returns success:false, and the assembled video has no audio stream.
Replace normalize=0 + weights='1...' with the amix default behavior
(normalize=true, divides by track count) and multiply the master output
gain by the track count to restore the original per-track volumes.
The net volume is identical across all FFmpeg versions.
Fixes #1136-adjacent: reported as 'audio doesn't play' in rendered MP4.
* fix(producer): strip img crossorigin + fix audioExtractor normalize=0
Two follow-up fixes:
1. htmlCompiler: strip crossorigin attribute from <img> elements during
compilation. External images (e.g. S3) with crossorigin='anonymous'
force CORS-mode requests against the renderer's localhost file server,
which S3 rejects → images render blank. Matches the existing video
strip at line 261.
2. audioExtractor: same amix normalize=0 bug as audioMixer.ts. The
audioExtractor path is used for <video data-has-audio='true'> mixing
in the CLI's local render pipeline; on FFmpeg 4.x it would also drop
audio silently. Fix: remove normalize=0, compensate with volume=N.
* test(engine,producer): pin amix normalize contract + img crossorigin strip
- audioMixer.test.ts: assert filter has no normalize=/weights=; add
3-track test confirming compensatedGain = masterGain × N = 3
- htmlCompiler.test.ts: parallel tests for img and video crossorigin
strip (covers both elements, not just video)
Two perf fixes caught in #1118 review:
1. Cache guard: probeAndCacheVolumeKeyframes now short-circuits when
the element is already in volumeKeyframeCache. Without the guard
every bindMediaMetadataListeners call (every 30 RAF ticks) re-probed
all bound elements — N elements × full-composition timeline seeks at
60 Hz regardless of whether keyframes were already known.
bindRootTimelineIfAvailable still clears the cache on a new timeline
capture so keyframes stay fresh when the composition is rebound.
2. PCM cursor: audioVolumeEnvelope.ts had the incremental segment
cursor (O(N+M) overall) before #1118 extracted the interpolation into
interpolateVolumeGain. The shared function restarts from segment=0 on
each call — fine for the preview path (one call per RAF tick) but
O(N×M) for the PCM path (one call per sample: 48 kHz × duration).
Napkin math: a 10-min render went from ~30M to ~460M ops. Restored
the inline incremental scan in the engine bake loop; engine now only
imports normaliseEnvelope from core.
Preview audio with GSAP volume fades (e.g. data-volume="0" with a
gsap.to("#bgm", {volume:0.25, ...})) played ~1s then silenced. Root
cause: syncRuntimeMedia used fallbackAuthorVolume (data-volume) on the
first tick after a clip became active, clobbering the GSAP-seeked value.
The single-clock transport seeks GSAP before syncRuntimeMedia runs, so
el.volume already holds the animated value — we just need to trust it.
Fix — three layers, matching the renderer's approach (PR #1117):
1. First-tick tracking: on the first tick a clip is active
(previousRuntimeVolume===undefined), use currentElementVolume (GSAP's
seeked value) instead of fallbackAuthorVolume. In production the
transport always seeks GSAP before syncRuntimeMedia, so el.volume is
already at the correct animated position.
2. Probed keyframes: new probeElementVolumeKeyframes() runs the same
offline probe the renderer uses (discoverAudioVolumeAutomationFromTimeline)
directly in the browser. init.ts calls probeAndCacheElementVolume() when
an element is bound and a timeline is available. When keyframes are present,
syncRuntimeMedia drives volume from the interpolated envelope — no
GSAP-change tracking needed, no first-tick edge case, same data source
as the renderer.
3. Shared utilities: normaliseEnvelope(), interpolateVolumeGain(), and
probeAndCacheElementVolume() extracted to mediaVolumeEnvelope.ts and
exported from @hyperframes/core/media-volume-envelope. The engine's
audioVolumeEnvelope.ts imports from there — no duplicate logic between
the renderer and the new preview path.
Fallow audit exits non-zero on inherited complexity/duplication in init.ts
functions that shifted line numbers (applyClipLayout, transportTick, etc.),
unchanged by this PR — same known false-positive pattern noted in #1117.
Lint, format, typecheck, and unit tests all pass.
53 core/media tests pass (3 updated to pre-set el.volume to match the
runtime's bindMediaMetadataListeners — corrects a missing setup step).
audioVolumeEnvelope tests (6) still pass.
Animated media volume (GSAP/JS fades) dropped the audio track entirely for dense
fades. The 60 Hz timeline probe emits 100-300 keyframes for a multi-second fade,
which were folded into an FFmpeg `volume` expression nesting one `if(lt(t,...))`
per keyframe. Past ~95 nested levels (build-dependent, lower on some Linux ffmpeg
builds) the expression overflows FFmpeg's evaluator, fails filter-graph init,
fails the whole mix, and the muxer omits audio — so a `data-volume="0"` fade-in
rendered with no audio at all (follow-up to #1066; this is why #1064's own
scenario regressed once the fade was dense enough).
Apply volume automation as sample-accurate gain, layered so audio is never lost:
1. Primary: bake the envelope into the prepared PCM samples in-process
(audioVolumeEnvelope.ts). The track WAV is always pcm_s16le/48k/stereo;
multiply its samples by the interpolated envelope and atomically rename the
result into place, then mix at unity. No expression, no keyframe ceiling,
exact at every sample, and the downstream ffmpeg amix/AAC encode is untouched
so golden baselines only change where a fade is applied. The RIFF parser
scans chunks order-independently and accepts only 16-bit PCM, falling back
otherwise. The output is written to a random-named sibling and renamed, so a
crash can't leave a truncated WAV and there's no predictable-path write.
2. Fallback: RDP-bounded ffmpeg `volume` expression (0.5% tolerance, capped at
32 segments) for the rare case a WAV is not 16-bit PCM. 0.5% keeps the
rendered envelope within ~0.2 dB of the source curve.
3. Backstop: if an automated mix still fails, retry once at base volume and
surface the degradation rather than dropping the track.
This mirrors how OSS NLEs render automation (sample-level gain): MoviePy,
Kdenlive/Shotcut (MLT), Remotion.
Verified end-to-end: a 297-keyframe fade that rendered with no audio now bakes
all 297 keyframes sample-accurately. Adds unit tests for sample-accurate gain,
track-start offset, base/tail holds, thousands of keyframes, order-independent
chunk parsing, and format rejection, plus mixer regression tests for bounded
nesting and the base-volume backstop.
* fix(engine): use captureBeyondViewport on all CDP screenshot paths
Chrome's compositor rounds the viewport boundary inward under multi-tab
load, clipping the bottom/right edge of tall portrait compositions
(1080x1920). The explicit clip rect already constrains output to exact
composition dimensions, making the viewport-boundary pre-clip from
captureBeyondViewport:false both redundant and unreliable.
Set captureBeyondViewport:true on all three CDP screenshot call sites:
pageScreenshotCapture, captureScreenshotWithAlpha, and captureAlphaPng.
Add portrait-edge-bleed regression test: 1080x1920 grid with bright
magenta bottom rows, rendered with 4 workers. Any compositor clipping
at the bottom edge drops PSNR sharply against the golden baseline.
Closes#1009
* fix(engine): address review feedback on captureBeyondViewport
- Add backref comments on captureScreenshotWithAlpha and captureAlphaPng
pointing to pageScreenshotCapture for the rationale, so the next reader
doesn't treat the flag as unintentional copy-paste
- Note in test meta.json that the static grid fixture covers the
capture-side clipping path but not the video-element compositor surface
timing that produces the t≈37s self-healing in #1009
* test(producer): use video element in portrait-edge-bleed regression test
Replace the static CSS grid with a 1080x1920 portrait video element —
matches the original bug report shape where the compositor surface
allocation timing causes the bottom-edge clipping. The video has a dark
top region and bright magenta bottom 480px, so any viewport clipping at
the bottom edge drops PSNR sharply. Baseline regenerated in Docker with
4 workers.
* fix(engine): disable browser pool for parallel capture in BeginFrame mode
BeginFrame's compositor is process-global — when multiple pages in the
same Chrome instance drive HeadlessExperimental.beginFrame concurrently,
they race the compositor and crash with "Protocol error: Target closed".
Only disable the pool when BeginFrame mode would actually be active
(Linux + headless-shell + not forceScreenshot). Screenshot mode
(macOS/Windows) is unaffected and keeps the pool for memory efficiency.
Also extracts the frame capture loop into captureFrameRange to reduce
function complexity in executeWorkerTask.
* fix(engine): include supersampling in BeginFrame-mode predicate
Match the full capture-mode predicate from createCaptureSession:
DPR > 1 (supersampling) forces screenshot mode, which is pool-safe.
Without this check, supersampled parallel renders on Linux would
unnecessarily launch separate browsers.
Two follow-ups to the ancestor-visibility skip in `injectVideoFramesBatch`
and `syncVideoFrameVisibility`.
1. **Mask defence.** Both ancestor-hidden branches previously wrote a plain
`img.style.visibility = "hidden"`. `applyDomLayerMask` writes the
stylesheet rule `#${showId} *{visibility:visible !important}`, and CSS
cascade puts important stylesheet author above non-important inline
author — so a sub-comp host landing in the active layer's `show` set
would revive a stale `__render_frame__` and let it bleed onto the
layer composite. Write the hide via
`style.setProperty("visibility", "hidden", "important")` instead;
important inline beats important stylesheet.
2. **Caller cache hygiene.** `createVideoFrameInjector` unconditionally
wrote `lastInjectedFrameByVideo.set(id, frameIndex)` after calling
`injectVideoFramesBatch`, even for videos the page silently skipped due
to a hidden visual ancestor. On the next call at the same frameIndex —
common with source-fps < output-fps, paused source frames, or
non-frame-aligned host starts — the cache short-circuited the second
inject and the host's first visible frame painted blank because the
replacement `<img>` was never created.
Make `injectVideoFramesBatch` return `string[]` (the subset of ids it
actually painted) and have the caller cache only those. The cli-side
`snapshot.ts` consumer is unaffected: its local `InjectFn` types the
return as `Promise<void>`, which is structurally compatible with
`Promise<string[]>` under TS void-return assignment rules.
Tests: linkedom doesn't preserve `!important` in cssText, so the two new
mask-defence cases spy on the live `<img>`'s `style.setProperty` and assert
the 3-arg call shape. The cache-hygiene case stubs the page-side primitives
via `vi.mock`, drives the hook twice at the same frameIndex with a stubbed
"injected nothing" first response, and verifies the second call still
issues an inject. A counter-test pins the happy-path cache hit so a future
refactor can't trade the skip bug for a never-cache regression.
`isVisualAncestorHidden` was treating any `visibility: hidden` ancestor as a
signal to skip injecting the replacement frame. That's too broad — for plain
`[data-start]` containers, the replacement `<img>`'s explicit
`visibility: visible` correctly overrides the ancestor per CSS spec, and
consumers rely on that to hold the final GSAP-driven frame when an authored
`data-duration` outlives the composition's GSAP timeline (e.g.
`style-9-prod`, where the runtime truncates the host to `visibility: hidden`
after the timeline ends and the replacement frame must paint through).
Restrict the `visibility: hidden` skip to ancestors that carry
`data-composition-src` or `data-composition-file` — the actual sub-composition
hosts this guard was added for. `display: none` keeps the broad behavior:
it takes the whole subtree out of layout and a child override cannot escape.
Update the existing regression suite to mark the host as a sub-composition,
and add two new cases pinning the plain-`[data-start]` behavior: both
`injectVideoFramesBatch` and `syncVideoFrameVisibility` must still produce a
visible replacement `<img>` when the host is `visibility: hidden` but does
not carry a sub-composition attribute.
The screenshotService.test.ts regression-suite comment pointed at the
author's fork branch as backstory. Strip the line so upstream code
doesn't carry a fork-relative reference; the surrounding paragraph
already explains the bug end-to-end without it.
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`injectVideoFramesBatch` and `syncVideoFrameVisibility` iterate every
`video[data-start]` whose raw time window covers the current seek.
Inner `<video>` elements inside `[data-composition-src]`
sub-compositions get `data-start="0"` auto-injected by
`compileTimingAttrs` and probed-duration cover the entire timeline,
so they look "active" even when their host has not yet started.
When the runtime then hides the host with `visibility: hidden` (its
out-of-window lifecycle), the inner video inherits hidden via the CSS
cascade — but our injector responded by painting a replacement
`<img class="__render_frame__" style="visibility: visible">` next to
the video. `visibility: visible` on the descendant defeats the parent
`visibility: hidden` cascade, and because the host has not been
morphed by GSAP yet the video's bounding box is its CSS default
(usually full-bleed). The result is one full-bleed frame per inactive
sub-comp painted over whichever moment is *actually* visible — the
overlay symptom the upstream agentic-finecut project saw.
Walk ancestors in both functions; if any has `display: none` or
`visibility: hidden`, skip the inject and hide any stale
`__render_frame__` sibling. The render is now correctly empty for
hidden hosts, which is what the surrounding CSS cascade already
intends.
Tests:
- `screenshotService.test.ts`: cover the new guard for both
visibility:hidden and display:none hosts, both for the fresh-img and
the stale-img paths, plus `syncVideoFrameVisibility` for the case
where the time window calls a video "active" but a hidden ancestor
still requires its frame to stay hidden. Each test fails against
pre-fix `screenshotService.ts`.
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- Replace require("child_process") with static import (same ESM fix
as config.ts — require is undefined in native ESM)
- Unify cap: both VRAM probe and heuristic paths now cap at 16GB
- Add comment noting the one-time blocking execSync is cached
On NVIDIA systems, spawns nvidia-smi once (cached) to read actual GPU
memory. Uses real VRAM for the Chrome GPU budget instead of guessing
from total system RAM. Falls back to total/2 on non-NVIDIA systems or
when nvidia-smi is unavailable.
No other headless Chrome renderer probes GPU memory — Remotion, Puppeteer,
and Playwright all ignore --force-gpu-mem-available-mb entirely.
Scale GPU budget to half of total RAM (capped at 16GB) instead of
hardcoding 4096MB. A 32GB machine now gets 16GB GPU budget; a 64GB
machine gets 16GB (Chrome's practical limit). Low-memory tiers unchanged.
