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James 2a284a8e3a fix(gcp): enforce effective BeginFrame capture 2026-07-27 00:02:37 +00:00
Miguel Ángel f0aee28551 fix(engine): reuse HyperFrames browser cache (#2459) 
* fix(engine): reuse HyperFrames browser cache

* test(engine): isolate browser cache home on Windows
 2026-07-16 18:20:21 -04:00
James 9b23c00237 refactor(engine): add fingerprinted browser leases 2026-07-16 12:58:10 -04:00
Miguel Ángel 54a3ef2000 fix(renderer): prevent stale SwiftShader layers 2026-07-16 04:56:36 +00:00
Miguel Ángel fc0f8c3151 fix(render): avoid empty WAAPI scans and llvmpipe auto GPU (#1775) 
Avoid the screenshot-path #1715 regression by skipping empty WAAPI/CSS animation scans per seek and classifying known software WebGL renderers correctly in browserGpuMode=auto.\n\nAddresses #1715.
 2026-06-28 10:42:14 -04:00
Miguel Ángel e5346afdd8 fix(engine): Linux GPU path uses deprecated EGL + NVENC probe fails on data-center GPUs (#1504) 
* fix(engine): use ANGLE-EGL for Linux GPU path, bump NVENC probe size

Chrome 131+ rejects --use-gl=egl in headless shell; the GPU process
exits and the renderer silently falls back to SwiftShader. Switch to
(gl=angle, angle=gl-egl) which is on the headless-shell allowlist,
and add --ignore-gpu-blocklist + --disable-software-rasterizer so
data-center GPUs (L4/T4/A10) are not blocked.

Also bump the NVENC probe frame from 16×16 to 320×240 — NVIDIA
data-center cards require ≥257 on each dimension and reject the
smaller size with "Frame Dimension less than the minimum supported
value", causing the encoder probe to silently fall back to libx264.

Closes #1493

* fix(engine): address review feedback — probe test, observability, comments

- Export getProbeArgs and add test pinning 320×240 probe dimensions
  across all 5 GPU encoder backends (nvenc/videotoolbox/vaapi/qsv/amf)
- Add driver/SKU rationale comment on the probe size constant with
  context about NVIDIA data-center card behavior vs documented minimums
- Add rationale comment on --ignore-gpu-blocklist (operator opted into
  hardware mode explicitly)
- Log resolved GL flags at browser launch for GPU fallback observability
 2026-06-16 12:07:04 -04:00
Miguel Ángel cee6fd02d6 fix(cli): verify browser/ffmpeg binaries exist before render starts (#1365) 
## 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.
 2026-06-12 01:36:28 -04:00
Miguel Ángel d97935b336 fix(engine): scope WebGPU flag to hardware mode 2026-05-24 01:53:24 -04:00
Miguel Ángel 1e05d78378 fix(engine): enable browser pool and deduplicate concurrent Chrome launches (#889) 
## Summary

- **Enable browser pool by default** (`enableBrowserPool: true`) — parallel capture workers now share a single Chrome process via reference-counted pool instead of each spawning their own (~256MB each). A 6-worker render drops from 7+ browser parent processes to 1 shared pool.
- **Add launch-promise deduplication** in `acquireBrowser` — when multiple workers race into the pool simultaneously (via `Promise.all`), they await the same launch Promise instead of each triggering a separate Chrome spawn. Same pattern as the existing `_autoBrowserGpuModeCache` for GPU probes.
- **Add `connected` health check** on pool hit — if Chrome crashes mid-render, subsequent acquires detect the dead browser and launch fresh instead of returning a stale reference.
- **Add `drainBrowserPool()`** for explicit cleanup between independent render jobs.
- **CLI studio server** now uses the shared pool instead of its own redundant `enableBrowserPool: false` singleton, so thumbnail generation shares Chrome with render workers.

## Problem

The engine had a reference-counted browser pool (`browserManager.ts:73-75`) but it was **disabled by default** (`enableBrowserPool: false`). This meant:

1. **Every parallel worker spawned its own Chrome** — a `--workers 6` render launched 7+ independent Chrome processes (1 probe + 6 workers), each ~256MB.
2. **The pool had a race condition** — even if manually enabled, concurrent workers calling `acquireBrowser()` via `Promise.all` could all see `pooledBrowser === null` before the first launch completed, spawning N Chromes instead of 1.
3. **No crash recovery** — if Chrome died, the pool still held the dead reference. Subsequent acquires got a disconnected browser.
4. **CLI studio server ran its own singleton** — `studioServer.ts` explicitly set `enableBrowserPool: false` and managed a separate browser, so thumbnails and renders could never share.

Over time, orphaned Chrome processes accumulated across renders and previews. We observed **344 headless Chrome processes** consuming **569% CPU and 20% memory** on a dev machine.

## Before / After (6-worker parallel render)

| Metric | Before (pool off) | After (pool on) |
|--------|-------------------|-----------------|
| Browser parent processes | 7+ (1 probe + 6 workers) | **2** (1 GPU probe + 1 shared) |
| Total Chrome processes (with helpers) | 40-50+ | **14** |
| Memory during capture | ~20%+ | **4.6%** |
| Render time (1200 frames, 30fps) | ~64s | **53s** (~17% faster) |
| Post-render orphans | Accumulated over time | **0** |

## Changes

| File | Change |
|------|--------|
| `engine/src/config.ts` | `enableBrowserPool` default `false` → `true` |
| `engine/src/services/browserManager.ts` | Extract `launchBrowser()`, add `_pooledBrowserLaunchPromise` dedup, add `connected` check on pool hit, add `drainBrowserPool()` and `_resetBrowserPoolForTests()` |
| `engine/src/index.ts` | Export `drainBrowserPool` |
| `engine/src/services/browserManager.test.ts` | Pool dedup and drain tests |
| `cli/src/server/studioServer.ts` | Remove `enableBrowserPool: false` override — thumbnails now share the pool |
| `producer/src/services/browserManager.ts` | Re-export `drainBrowserPool` |

## Backward compatibility

- `PRODUCER_ENABLE_BROWSER_POOL=false` env var disables pooling (same as before).
- Callers passing `{ enableBrowserPool: false }` explicitly still get isolated browsers.
- Tests that set `enableBrowserPool: false` in their config fixtures continue to work.

## Test plan

- [x] Engine tests pass (597/597)
- [x] Producer tests pass (406/407, 1 pre-existing flaky test in `pngDecodeBlitWorkerPool`)
- [x] Build passes (lint, format, typecheck all green via lefthook pre-commit)
- [x] Manual render: `shortform-financial` with `--workers 6` → 1200 frames in 53s, 0 orphaned Chrome processes after completion
- [x] Process monitoring during render confirmed 2 browser parents (1 GPU probe + 1 shared pool) instead of 7+
 2026-05-16 08:17:29 +02:00
James f635deb86a feat(engine): cache probe Promise + log resolved mode + sync docs 
Three follow-ups from Vai's staff-eng review:

1. Concurrent-probe race (real bug): the parallel coordinator runs N
   workers via Promise.all, so `--workers 4` on a no-GPU host fired 4
   simultaneous probe Chromes — each paying the same 240 ms launch cost.
   Cache the *Promise* (not the resolved value): first caller assigns
   the in-flight Promise, every other concurrent caller awaits the same
   one. Verified with a new test asserting all concurrent callers get
   the identical Promise reference.

2. Stale rendering.md (lines 23, 29): user-visible contract said
   "browser GPU enabled by default", which was wrong post-auto. Now
   describes the auto / hardware / software trichotomy explicitly.

3. Silent fallback: auto-mode produced no output, so a regression to
   "always falls back to software even with GPU present" would have
   been invisible in production logs. Added a single stderr line per
   process when the probe resolves: `[hyperframes] browserGpuMode auto
   → <mode> (<reason>)`. Cache hits don't re-log.

Verification:
- Engine 536/536 (incl. new concurrent-dedup test asserting Promise
  reference equality across simultaneous callers)
- CLI 256/256
- Format / lint / typecheck clean
 2026-05-06 17:33:55 +00:00
James 67bb56c703 feat(engine): browserGpuMode "auto" — probe WebGL once, fall back to software 
When the host doesn't have a usable GPU (CI containers, eval rigs without
GPU passthrough, dev VMs), Chrome's hardware-mode WebGL flags
(`--use-gl=egl/metal/d3d11`) silently leave WebGL unavailable —
`getContext("webgl")` returns null, three.js' WebGLRenderer dies, the
canvas stays black. Surfaced today by Abhay's c2v-eval failing on a
docker render of an hf bundle that uses three.js + a custom fragment
shader.

The fix that's been there: `--use-gl=angle --use-angle=swiftshader` (CPU
software WebGL, ~5-50× slower but pixel-identical). The engine already
exposed `browserGpuMode: "software"` for this. The gap was discovery —
users had to know to pass `--no-browser-gpu` on no-GPU hosts.

This change adds `browserGpuMode: "auto"` (now the CLI default for local
renders): on first launch in the process, probe Chrome with hardware
args, check `canvas.getContext("webgl") !== null`, cache the result.
~1-2 s on first render, free on every subsequent render in the same
worker. Hardware GPUs keep their fast path; no-GPU hosts get SwiftShader
without ceremony.

Behaviour matrix:
- No flag, no env, local       → "auto" (NEW default)
- `--browser-gpu`              → "hardware" (force; errors if no GPU)
- `--no-browser-gpu`           → "software" (force SwiftShader)
- `PRODUCER_BROWSER_GPU_MODE`  → "hardware" / "software" / "auto" / unset
- Docker mode                  → forced "software" (unchanged)

Engine-config default stays "software" (conservative for embedders); the
"auto" default lives in the CLI's `resolveBrowserGpuForCli` so producer
embedders aren't surprised by a probe-on-launch.

Also adds `--enable-unsafe-swiftshader` to the software flag set —
Chrome 120+ deprecated implicit SwiftShader fallback and emits a
deprecation warning unless the flag is set explicitly. Despite the
"unsafe" name this is exactly the pre-deprecation behaviour; the rename
is about Chrome's threat model on the open web, not about the rendering
itself.

Verification:
- Engine 535/535 + CLI 256/256 (incl. new probe tests + tri-state CLI test)
- Empirical: probe on this no-GPU devbox returns "software" in 240 ms,
  cached 0 ms on subsequent calls
- Format / lint / typecheck clean across all packages

Refs the Abhay/Slack thread on c2v-eval rendering without a GPU node.
 2026-05-06 17:33:55 +00:00
Miguel Ángel 6d2bfe7aaa feat(engine): enable CanvasDrawElement in renderer Chrome args 
Cherry-picked from feat/html-in-canvas-launch (PR #611):

- Enable --enable-features=CanvasDrawElement in Chrome browser args
  so HTML-in-canvas compositions render correctly
- Add native drawElementImage() capture path for shader transitions
  with existing fallback preserved
- Reuse renderer Chrome args in hyperframes validate for consistent
  WebGL/CanvasDrawElement environment
- Add capture.test.ts for the new shader transition capture path
 2026-05-06 00:40:24 -07:00
Miguel Ángel 2a897d351c fix: address PR #596 review issues (#597) 
## Summary

Fixes three issues identified in the [post-merge review](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/596#pullrequestreview-4214283515) of PR #596:

- **P1 (cache bypass):** When `extractCacheDir` is set, extracted frames live outside `compiledDir`, so `createCompiledFrameSrcResolver` rejects them and every frame falls back to base64 data URIs. Fix: symlink cached frame directories into `compiledDir/__hyperframes_video_frames/` after extraction and remap `framePaths` so the served-frame fast path works.

- **P2 (pooled browser stale state):** `closeCaptureSession` force-killed the Chrome process on timeout via raw `SIGKILL` without clearing `pooledBrowser` / `pooledBrowserRefCount`, leaving other sessions with a dead browser reference. Fix: add `forceReleaseBrowser()` in `browserManager` that atomically clears pool state before killing the process.

- **P3 (reserved chars in URLs):** `createCompiledFrameSrcResolver` encodes path segments with `encodeURIComponent`, but the file server used `c.req.path` (which only applies `decodeURI`) to look up files on disk. Video IDs containing `#`, `?`, or `%` produced 404s. Fix: apply `decodeURIComponent` per path segment in the file server's catch-all route.

## Test plan

- [x] `createCompiledFrameSrcResolver` tests: symlinked cache paths resolve to served URLs; cache-external paths return null; reserved characters encode correctly
- [x] `forceReleaseBrowser` tests: kills process + disconnects; tolerates already-killed process
- [x] `createFileServer` test: `video%231/frame.jpg` serves file from `video#1/frame.jpg` on disk
- [x] Typecheck: engine + producer pass
- [x] Lint + format: 0 warnings, 0 errors
 2026-05-02 06:30:12 +02:00
Miguel Ángel 395fb9c084 feat: add browser GPU render mode (#571) 
## Problem

HyperFrames already had `--gpu`, but that flag only controlled FFmpeg hardware encoding. The browser capture path still forced Chrome/WebGL through SwiftShader software GL via `--use-angle=swiftshader`, so WebGL-heavy local renders could leave the biggest bottleneck on the CPU path.

That made the existing flag naming easy to misread: `--gpu` sounded like it accelerated the whole render, but it did not change the browser frame-capture backend.

## What this fixes

- Enables host browser GPU acceleration automatically for local CLI renders.
- Adds `--no-browser-gpu` as the local opt-out for software Chrome/WebGL capture.
- Keeps `--browser-gpu` as an explicit local browser-GPU request.
- Adds `browserGpuMode: "software" | "hardware"` to engine config, with `PRODUCER_BROWSER_GPU_MODE` env support for lower-level producer users.
- Keeps Docker browser capture on the deterministic software path.
- Maps hardware browser GPU mode to platform-native Chrome backends:
  - macOS: Metal-backed ANGLE
  - Windows: D3D11-backed ANGLE
  - Linux: EGL
- Blocks explicit `--browser-gpu --docker` with a clear error because Docker browser GPU passthrough is not cross-platform.
- Clarifies docs so `--gpu` means FFmpeg encoder GPU and browser GPU means Chrome/WebGL capture GPU.
- Keeps encoder backend selection auto-detected from FFmpeg capabilities:
  - NVIDIA: NVENC
  - macOS: VideoToolbox
  - Linux: VAAPI
  - Intel: QSV

## Why two flags

There are two separate GPU surfaces in the render pipeline:

1. Browser GPU controls Chrome frame capture.
   - Affects WebGL, canvas, CSS rendering, compositing, and screenshot capture inside the browser.
   - This is enabled automatically for local CLI renders.
   - Use `--no-browser-gpu` when you want the software browser baseline.

2. `--gpu` controls FFmpeg video encoding.
   - Affects the final encode step after frames have already been captured.
   - The concrete encoder is auto-detected from the host FFmpeg build and hardware.
   - It can be faster for some machines/codecs, but it is not equivalent to browser rendering acceleration.

The controls stay independent because users may want:

- `hyperframes render` for the fast local default with browser GPU capture.
- `hyperframes render --no-browser-gpu` for the software-browser local baseline.
- `hyperframes render --gpu` for browser GPU capture plus hardware FFmpeg encoding.
- `hyperframes render --no-browser-gpu --gpu` for software browser capture plus hardware FFmpeg encoding.
- `hyperframes render --docker` for deterministic browser capture.

## Why `--gpu` does not imply browser GPU

Keeping `--gpu` scoped to FFmpeg encoding avoids a semantic break and keeps the risk profile explicit:

- `--gpu` already means encoder acceleration. Expanding it to also change Chrome capture would silently alter behavior for users who only wanted hardware encoding.
- Browser GPU and encoder GPU have different portability. Encoder GPU can work in Docker when the host exposes the right devices; browser GPU passthrough is not cross-platform, so this PR intentionally blocks explicit `--browser-gpu --docker`.
- The Apple presentation benchmark shows why the controls should stay separate: browser GPU capture was the useful improvement, while macOS VideoToolbox via `--gpu` was slower and produced larger output for this `standard` H.264 run.

If HyperFrames later wants a single umbrella acceleration control, it should be explicit, for example `--acceleration browser|encoder|all` or `--gpu=browser|encoder|all`, rather than changing the meaning of the existing boolean `--gpu`.

## Root cause

`buildChromeArgs()` always injected `--use-gl=angle --use-angle=swiftshader`. `disableGpu` only appended `--disable-gpu`; it did not provide a hardware-GPU mode. That made the public `--gpu` flag look broader than it was, because render capture stayed software-backed even when encoder GPU was requested.

## Verification

### Local checks

- `bun install`
- `bun run build:hyperframes-runtime`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/engine test src/config.test.ts src/services/browserManager.test.ts`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/cli test src/utils/dockerRunArgs.test.ts src/commands/render.test.ts`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/cli typecheck`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/engine typecheck`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/producer typecheck`
- `cd packages/producer && bunx vitest run src/services/renderOrchestrator.test.ts`
- `bunx oxlint packages/cli/src/commands/render.ts packages/cli/src/commands/render.test.ts packages/cli/src/utils/dockerRunArgs.ts packages/cli/src/utils/dockerRunArgs.test.ts packages/engine/src/config.ts packages/engine/src/config.test.ts packages/engine/src/services/browserManager.ts packages/engine/src/services/browserManager.test.ts packages/producer/src/services/renderOrchestrator.test.ts`
- `bunx oxfmt --check ...` on changed source/docs files
- `git diff --check`
- `bun packages/cli/src/cli.ts render --help | rg -n "browser-gpu|no-browser-gpu|GPU"`
- `bun packages/cli/src/cli.ts render packages/producer/tests/css-spinner-render-compat/src --output /tmp/hf-auto-browser-gpu-smoke.mp4 --workers 1 --quality draft --fps 24 --strict`
  - Render plan prints `GPU: browser GPU (auto)`.
- `bun packages/cli/src/cli.ts render packages/producer/tests/css-spinner-render-compat/src --no-browser-gpu --output /tmp/hf-software-browser-gpu-smoke.mp4 --workers 1 --quality draft --fps 24 --strict`
  - Render plan does not print browser GPU.
- `bun packages/cli/src/cli.ts render packages/producer/tests/css-spinner-render-compat/src --docker --browser-gpu --output /tmp/should-not-render.mp4`
  - Exits 1 with `Browser GPU is local-only`.
- `buildDockerRunArgs()` regression coverage asserts Docker container args include `--no-browser-gpu`, preventing nested container renders from re-enabling browser GPU through the local CLI default.
- `resolveBrowserGpuForCli()` regression coverage asserts `PRODUCER_BROWSER_GPU_MODE=software` opts out when no CLI browser-GPU flag is supplied, while explicit `--browser-gpu` / `--no-browser-gpu` still win.
- `ffmpeg -v error -i /tmp/hf-auto-browser-gpu-smoke.mp4 -f null -`
- `ffmpeg -v error -i /tmp/hf-software-browser-gpu-smoke.mp4 -f null -`
- `ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration:stream=codec_name,width,height,r_frame_rate -of json /tmp/hf-browser-gpu-smoke.mp4` -> H.264, 1920x1080, 24fps, 5.0s

### Apple presentation benchmark

Rendered `/Users/miguel07code/Downloads/apple-presentation.zip` as supplied after extracting to `/tmp/hf-apple-profile/apple-presentation`.

Fixed settings:

- 1920x1080
- 30fps
- `standard` quality
- 4240 frames
- 141.32s duration
- 8-worker cap; render auto-calibration used 6 capture workers
- macOS host detected FFmpeg GPU encoder: `videotoolbox`

| Mode | Equivalent flags after this PR | Wall time | vs software-browser baseline | Speed | Capture | Encode | Output |
| --- | --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| Software browser + CPU encode | `--no-browser-gpu` | 120.77s | baseline | 1.17x | 97.87s | 10.04s | 8.38MB |
| Browser GPU + CPU encode | default local render | 70.10s | 42.0% faster | 2.02x | 50.72s | 9.91s | 8.39MB |
| Software browser + encoder GPU | `--no-browser-gpu --gpu` | 133.16s | 10.3% slower | 1.06x | 103.58s | 18.31s | 25.43MB |
| Browser GPU + encoder GPU | `--gpu` | 74.12s | 38.6% faster | 1.91x | 46.69s | 17.93s | 25.45MB |

Result: browser GPU capture is the meaningful improvement for this WebGL/browser-capture-heavy presentation. VideoToolbox encoding was slower and produced larger files for this current `standard` H.264 path, so `--gpu` should stay separate and opt-in.

Why `--gpu` plus browser GPU was slower than browser GPU alone: the combined run captured about 4.0s faster than browser GPU alone, but VideoToolbox encoding was about 8.0s slower than CPU x264 encoding, so the encode loss outweighed the capture gain.

### VideoToolbox flag check

I also isolated the encode stage against the already-captured Apple frames to check whether macOS GPU encoding only needed special flags.

`ffmpeg -h encoder=h264_videotoolbox` does not expose a CRF/CQ-style quality option like x264. It exposes bitrate-oriented and VideoToolbox-specific options such as `-b:v`, `-realtime`, `-profile`, `-coder`, `-prio_speed`, `-power_efficient`, and `-allow_sw`. That means our current `-q:v` mapping is not equivalent to x264 CRF and can produce very different bitrate/size behavior.

Measured full-frame encode variants on this host:

| VideoToolbox variant | Encode wall time | Output size | Bitrate |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| Current `-q:v 64 -allow_sw 1` | 18.76s | 25.31MB | 1.43 Mbps |
| Current without `-allow_sw 1` | 18.21s | 25.31MB | 1.43 Mbps |
| `-b:v 500k -maxrate 750k -bufsize 1000k -profile high -coder cabac -realtime 1 -prio_speed 1 -power_efficient 0` | 20.58s | 7.42MB | 0.42 Mbps |
| Same with `-b:v 1500k` | 20.84s | 16.70MB | 0.95 Mbps |
| `-b:v 500k -profile baseline -coder cavlc -realtime 1 -prio_speed 1 -power_efficient 0` | 18.11s | 8.94MB | 0.51 Mbps |

Conclusion: VideoToolbox can be made size/bitrate-predictable with explicit `--video-bitrate`, but the tested speed-oriented flags did not make it faster than CPU x264 wall time for this render. That reinforces keeping `--gpu` encoder acceleration explicit and separate from browser GPU capture.

Artifacts from the local benchmark:

- `/tmp/hf-apple-profile/results/cpu.mp4`
- `/tmp/hf-apple-profile/results/browser-gpu.mp4`
- `/tmp/hf-apple-profile/results/encoder-gpu.mp4`
- `/tmp/hf-apple-profile/results/full-gpu.mp4`
- `/tmp/hf-apple-profile/results/summary.json`

All four benchmark MP4s completed `ffprobe` and full `ffmpeg -f null` decode checks.

### Pixel comparison

Compared decoded MP4 output between software-browser and browser-GPU renders:

- Apple presentation:
  - 4240 frames compared
  - 636 exact matching decoded frame hashes
  - 3604 different decoded frame hashes
  - Average PSNR: 57.79 dB
- `css-spinner-render-compat` clean fixture:
  - 120 frames compared
  - 0 exact matching decoded frame hashes
  - Average PSNR: 61.57 dB

Interpretation: browser GPU output is not strict hash/pixel-identical to the software-browser path after lossy H.264 encode, but the measured deltas are visually tiny. Above 50 dB PSNR is typically visually indistinguishable for normal video review. Use `--no-browser-gpu` or Docker when strict cross-run/cross-machine reproducibility matters more than local speed.

### Browser verification

- Started HyperFrames Studio preview for `packages/producer/tests/css-spinner-render-compat/src`.
- Used `agent-browser` to open `http://localhost:5191#project/src` and verify the composition loaded in Studio.
- Screenshots:
  - `/tmp/hf-gpu-browser-proof/preview-loaded.png`
  - `/tmp/hf-gpu-browser-proof/preview-playing.png`
  - `/tmp/hf-gpu-browser-proof/preview-frame-60.png`
- Agent-browser recordings:
  - `/tmp/hf-gpu-browser-proof/preview-playback.webm`
  - `/tmp/hf-gpu-browser-proof/preview-seek.webm`

## Notes

- Browser GPU is enabled automatically for local CLI renders and disabled in Docker.
- `--no-browser-gpu` is the opt-out for software Chrome/WebGL capture.
- `--gpu` remains encoder-only and opt-in.
- The Apple presentation zip has existing lint errors around unmanaged nested videos and imperative media `play()` calls. The benchmark still compares the same supplied source across modes, but it should not be treated as a clean deterministic-composition fixture.
 2026-04-30 06:46:14 +02:00