Aimed at `npx hyperframes` users (standalone and inside monorepos), where the
native modules `sharp` and `onnxruntime-node` can't install or load.
## Native modules are now optional, and never abort the CLI
`sharp` and `onnxruntime-node` are native modules: their platform binaries ship
as optional sub-dependencies that can fail to land on end-user installs
(--omit=optional, musl/glibc, monorepo hoisting, cross-platform lockfiles,
broken npx cache). Both powered only optional commands, yet both were wired as
hard `dependencies`, so on any platform where a binary can't install the whole
CLI failed to install. Moved both to `optionalDependencies` (alongside
@google/genai) so the core CLI always installs; the native-accelerated paths
light up only when present.
Runtime handling so a missing/unloadable binary degrades instead of crashing:
- `capture` (`contentExtractor.ts`): sharp was a static top-level
`import sharp from "sharp"`, so a load failure threw on module import —
before the inner try/catch — aborting the whole command. Now a guarded lazy
`await import("sharp")` that skips SVG captioning with an actionable warning.
Marked `external` in tsup so esbuild never bundles the native module.
- `remove-background` (`inference.ts`): both `onnxruntime-node` and `sharp`
are loaded here and genuinely required. The dynamic imports are now guarded
to throw an actionable "install / reinstall with optional deps" error
(surfaced cleanly by the command's existing try/catch) instead of a raw
"Cannot find module". New tests assert createSession rejects with that
guidance — before touching the model download — when either module is
unavailable.
`contactSheet.ts` also uses sharp but is already behind a dynamic-import
boundary wrapped in try/catch, so it was never a hard-fatal path.
## inspect: content-overlap as a warning, not a blocking error
The `content_overlap` layout-audit check shipped as `severity: "error"`, and
the audit exits non-zero when `errorCount > 0`, so `inspect` failed for
compositions that intentionally layer text. Downgraded to `severity: "warning"`
so it still reports (and prints the `data-layout-allow-overlap` opt-out hint)
without breaking exit codes. Reversible.
## 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.
Run `fallow fix --auto-fixable` to remove `export` keywords from symbols
fallow's reachability analysis identifies as unused. Keeps only the cases
where the symbol is still referenced internally in its own file (so
removing `export` doesn't surface a new oxlint `no-unused-vars` error).
Result: fallow dead-code findings drop from 276 → 208 (68 fewer unused
exports), with no behavior change — each symbol is still defined and used
exactly the same way within its file.
Reverted ~20 files where fallow's auto-fix would have created cascading
"declared but never used" lint errors — those are cases where the symbol
isn't used at all, and properly cleaning them up means deleting the
declaration, not just dropping `export`. Better to land that as a
separate, narrower PR rather than mixing it into a mechanical de-export.
Also reverted four false positives where fallow missed real consumers:
- `captureCost.ts` (renderOrchestrator has two separate import blocks
from the same module; fallow only saw the first)
- `propertyPanelHelpers.ts`, `domEditingLayers.ts` (real internal uses
fallow's reachability missed)
- `render.ts` (functions imported via `await import()` dynamic import,
which fallow's static analysis doesn't follow)
Test plan: bun run --filter '*' typecheck (clean), oxlint + oxfmt clean,
cli/core/studio/engine vitest suites pass (335 + 917 + 576 + 605 tests).
- Extract applyMask helper from postprocess and add 5 unit tests pinning
the contract this PR is selling: fg.alpha + bg.alpha === 255 per pixel,
RGB triples byte-identical between fg and bg, and bg=null path leaves
the bg buffer untouched. Without these, a future postprocess change
(mask threshold, premultiplied alpha, gamma) could silently break the
inverse-alpha relationship and the existing plumbing tests would all
still pass.
- Add stdin 'error' listener inside spawnFfmpeg. If either encoder dies
mid-render, Node emits an unhandled error on the dead writable on the
next .write() and crashes the CLI before waitForExit's reject path
can surface the encoder's stderr tail. Doubled encoder count = doubled
failure surface, so this is worth pinning down.
- Tighten stdio param to a 3-tuple so an accidental 1-element array fails
at type-check.
- Sharpen backpressure comment: write→true means "highWaterMark not
exceeded," not "libuv flushed." Reuse-without-corruption is safe only
because session.process is slow enough that libuv drains in between.
Addresses review on PR #637.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Emit an inverse-alpha background plate alongside the cutout in a single
inference pass. Same source RGB, alpha = 255 − mask. Dual-encoder pipeline
runs in parallel; both outputs share the same --quality preset.
This is a hole-cut plate (subject region transparent), not an inpainted
clean plate — composite something opaque under it to fill the hole.
Docs and skill cover when each is the right tool.
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- engine/chunkEncoder, engine/streamingEncoder: extend `-bf 0` to GPU h264
paths (nvenc, qsv, vaapi) and `-b_strategy 0` for qsv so GPU-encoded
outputs avoid negative-DTS freezes too — not just SW libx264.
- engine/videoFrameExtractor: detect mid-path traversal (e.g.
`assets/../../foo.mp4`) by normalizing first and re-anchoring at the
project root. Adds a regression test.
- engine/videoFrameExtractor: dedupe stderr "src not resolvable" warnings
by `video.src` so a comp with N broken sources logs once, not N times.
- engine/videoFrameExtractor.test: drop dynamic `require("node:fs")`,
use ES `import { writeFileSync } from "node:fs"`.
- engine/ffprobe: extract `readTagCI` helper for case-insensitive ffprobe
tag reads (will recur for other libavformat-versioned sidecar tags).
- cli/background-removal/pipeline: collapse Quality / QUALITIES /
QUALITY_CRF / DEFAULT_QUALITY / isQuality surface using
`Quality = keyof typeof QUALITY_CRF`.
- producer/renderOrchestrator: replace `v.src.startsWith("/")` with
`isAbsolute(v.src)` in the HDR probe path so Windows absolute paths
(`C:\...`) aren't treated as relative — matches the audioMixer guard.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- inference.ts: force `.toColourspace("b-w")` on the resized mask. Sharp upcasts
the 1-channel raw input to RGB-interleaved during resize, so `fullMask[i]`
was reading R,G,B,R,G,B... of pixels 0..691199 instead of the alpha for all
2,073,600 pixels. Visible symptom: horizontal scanline alpha artifact in
every transparent webm — the avatar appeared semi-transparent throughout.
- pipeline.ts: add BT.709 + limited-range colorspace tags so Chrome's YUV→RGB
matches the source mp4 (without these, ffmpeg's default RGB→YUV is BT.601
and skin tones drift visibly when the cutout is overlaid on its source).
- pipeline.ts: add Quality preset type ("fast"/"balanced"/"best" → CRF 30/18/12).
Default raised from CRF 30 → 18 ("balanced") so the most common pattern
(text-behind-subject) works out of the box without visible doubling.
- remove-background.ts: wire `--quality` flag with validation, +2 examples.
- Tests: BT.709 tags present, quality preset → CRF mapping, default is balanced.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Address Miguel's review on #612.
- Normalization std was (1, 1, 1) — that's the base u2net session, not
u2net_human_seg. Switch to ImageNet (0.229, 0.224, 0.225) to match
rembg's U2netHumanSegSession reference. Add a parity test pinning the
exact MEAN/STD values.
- waitForExit treated `code === null` as success, but per Node child_process
docs that's the signal-killed case — a SIGTERM'd ffmpeg encoder was
reporting success with a partial output. Switch to (code, signal) and
reject with the signal in the error message. Add four signal-handling
tests (clean exit, signal-killed, non-zero code, SIGKILL).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds `hyperframes remove-background` — a local-AI subcommand that mattes a
video or image with the u2net_human_seg ONNX model and emits a transparent
WebM (VP9-alpha), ProRes 4444 .mov, or RGBA PNG. Drops directly into any
composition's <video> tag — no green screen, no API keys, no upload.
Auto-picks the fastest available execution provider via onnxruntime-node:
CoreML on Apple Silicon, CUDA when HYPERFRAMES_CUDA=1, CPU otherwise.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Miguel Ángel