* feat(render): auto-detect HDR from media probes, add --sdr flag
Replace the --hdr opt-in model with automatic detection. When no flags
are passed, the renderer probes all video/image sources and enables HDR
output if any HDR color space is detected. Existing --hdr flag becomes
a force override. New --sdr flag forces SDR output.
Behavior matrix:
(no flags) + HDR content → HDR output
(no flags) + SDR content → SDR output
--hdr → force HDR (defaults to HLG if no HDR sources)
--sdr → force SDR (skips probing)
--hdr --sdr → error
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: align HDR auto-detect docs and tests
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per Miguel's review: the previous fixture had no body / root background, so it
passed against both the buggy and fixed code. The fix this PR makes (the
initTransparentBackground stylesheet injection in initializeSession) only
matters when a composition paints over the CDP default-background-color
override — exactly what we tell users not to do, but exactly what a
regression test must do.
Reproduced locally:
- base SHA (2935be6): pixel (10,10) decodes as rgba [16,16,16,255]
(opaque #111 body bg leaks through the pre-navigation override that
Chrome resets on goto)
- this head: pixel (10,10) decodes as rgba [0,0,0,0]
(initTransparentBackground injects [data-composition-id]{background:transparent !important}
AFTER navigation, force-overriding the body bg)
The pixel-level assertions in transparency-test.ts are unchanged — they
already require alpha=0 at (10,10). With the body bg painted, that
assertion now fails on any code path that doesn't actually preserve alpha
end-to-end.
Extends RenderConfig.format with "png-sequence" and patches two correctness
gaps so the existing "webm" / "mov" values actually preserve the alpha
channel end-to-end.
Engine fixes:
- screenshotService.pageScreenshotCapture: drop optimizeForSpeed for PNG
captures. The fast path uses an alpha-unaware codec that crushes real
alpha values; kept for opaque jpeg captures where it is harmless.
- frameCapture: replace the inline setDefaultBackgroundColorOverride
block (which fired pre-navigation and was reset by page.goto) with a
proper initTransparentBackground() call inside initializeSession,
after the window.__hf readiness poll. This also injects the
html/body/[data-composition-id]{background:transparent !important}
stylesheet so compositions with custom body / #root backgrounds do not
defeat the override. Wired into both screenshot-mode and beginframe-mode
branches.
Producer:
- RenderConfig.format extended to "mp4" | "webm" | "mov" | "png-sequence"
with full JSDoc.
- Streaming encode is bypassed for png-sequence (frames go straight to
disk). FORMAT_EXT extended.
- New Stage-5 png-sequence branch: mkdir outputPath, copy captured PNGs as
frame_NNNNNN.png, copy audio.aac sidecar when audio is present.
- Stage-6 mux/faststart and the debug copy are wrapped in !isPngSequence.
- README.md: new "Transparent Video Output" section.
Tests:
- New fixture tests/transparency-regression/ tagged "transparency".
- New tsx script src/transparency-test.ts asserts pixel-level alpha for
webm + png-sequence outputs. Wired as "test:transparency".
- Default "test" / "test:update" scripts pass --exclude-tags transparency
so the golden-MP4 harness ignores the new fixture.
Verified locally on macOS arm64: typecheck clean across engine + producer,
producer renderOrchestrator vitest 10/10, transparency-test passes for
both webm and png-sequence with end-to-end pixel assertions.
## Summary
- preserve alpha for render-injected video frames by detecting alpha streams with ffprobe and extracting alpha video frames as PNG
- keep `<video loop>` semantics through static parsing, compiler duration resolution, browser media discovery, and render frame lookup
- fail embedded preview startup before opening a broken browser page when the Studio bundle is missing
- align snapshot frame injection with looped media timing and VP9 alpha extraction
## Why
The Studio preview and rendered MP4 could disagree for timed transparent looped videos. The Comfy funding composition exposed two separate parity bugs: render-injected frames needed alpha-preserving PNG extraction, and the compiler was clamping a looped `data-duration="4"` video down to the 3.125s source duration. After the first source cycle, render lookup treated the video as inactive, hid the native video, and produced the blank polygon/glow the user saw around the rounded `0:03` mark.
`hyperframes lint` and `hyperframes validate` did not catch this because they check syntax/load/console/accessibility, not preview-vs-render visual parity. This PR adds regression coverage for the compiler loop-duration path and frame lookup path.
## Verification
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/core test -- src/compiler/timingCompiler.test.ts src/compiler/htmlCompiler.test.ts`
- `bun test packages/producer/src/services/htmlCompiler.test.ts`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/engine test -- videoFrameExtractor ffprobe`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/core typecheck`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/engine typecheck`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/producer typecheck`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/cli typecheck`
- `bun run lint`
- `bun run format:check ...` on touched files
- Comfy project: `node packages/cli/dist/cli.js validate` -> no console errors, 44 text elements pass WCAG AA
- Comfy project patched render from source: `/tmp/comfy-render-compare/fixed6-comfy.mp4`, 1920x1080, 30fps, 21.8s, 654 frames
- 3.00s-3.97s render contact sheet: `/tmp/comfy-render-compare/fixed6-window-contact.png`
- targeted fixed render capture at 3.733s: `/tmp/comfy-render-compare/probe-capture-fixed/captured/frame_000112.jpg`
- agent-browser Studio proof screenshot at 3.7s: `/tmp/comfy-render-compare/agent-browser-studio-3_7-fixed.png`
- agent-browser-driven recording of 3s seek pass: `/tmp/comfy-render-compare/agent-browser-wysiwyg-3s-fixed.webm`
Note: `bun run --filter @hyperframes/cli dev -- validate` is blocked in source mode by the existing `contrast-audit.browser.js` default-export loader issue; packaged `node packages/cli/dist/cli.js validate` passes for this project.
## Problem
Template-wrapped sub-compositions could still lose correct parent timing during render in more than one place.
In the validated repros, a host sub-composition starting after the intro (and in one follow-up repro, starting at `20s` after earlier compositions) contained scene-local media inside it. On the broken paths:
- template-wrapped media could be missed during compile and scheduled at raw scene-local time
- already-correct first-pass offsets could be clobbered during `recompileWithResolutions()`
- even after those two fixes, the browser-metadata reconcile step in `executeRenderJob()` could still overwrite a compiled global `end` with a scene-local `data-end` from the inlined DOM, clipping the tail off late-start sub-composition media
## What this fixes
### Template-wrapped media discovery
- `parseVideoElements`, `parseImageElements`, and `parseAudioElements` now unwrap a single top-level `<template>` wrapper before scraping media
- the unwrap helper is DOM-based, not regex-based, so it avoids the CodeQL backtracking warning and only unwraps the exact single-wrapper shape we want
- multiple sibling templates or other top-level content are left untouched instead of being rewritten heuristically
### Offset preservation after duration resolution
- `recompileWithResolutions()` now preserves the first-pass sub-composition media arrays when the already-inlined HTML no longer contains `[data-composition-src]` hosts
- that prevents correctly offset media metadata from being overwritten by scene-local media parsed from the merged DOM
### Browser metadata reconciliation in the compiled time origin
- browser-discovered media can still report scene-local `data-start` / `data-end` from the merged DOM after inlining
- the producer now reprojects browser `end` values into the compiled element's time origin before reconciling them back into `composition.videos` / `composition.audios`
- this prevents late-start sub-composition media from getting truncated back to a scene-local end during the probe phase
### Regression coverage
- adds focused engine tests for the template unwrap helper
- adds producer regression coverage for both the initial compile path and the post-inline `recompileWithResolutions()` path
- adds producer regression coverage for late-start host compositions (`t≈20`) with scene-local media inside them
- adds producer unit coverage for the browser-end reprojection helper used by the reconcile path
## Root cause
There were three distinct renderer failures behind the bug:
### 1. Template contents were invisible to the media scrapers
`parseSubCompositions()` reads raw sub-composition HTML and applies the host offset to discovered media. But the engine media helpers were querying the parsed document directly, and linkedom follows browser semantics here: top-level `<template>` contents live in a `DocumentFragment`, so `querySelectorAll()` never saw those `<video>` / `<audio>` / `<img>` nodes.
That meant template-wrapped sub-compositions could silently produce zero discovered media during the first pass.
### 2. The duration-resolution recompile could clobber already-correct offsets
After the browser resolves composition durations, `recompileWithResolutions()` reparses the already-inlined HTML. By that point the original `[data-composition-src]` hosts are gone, so `parseSubCompositions()` legitimately returns no nested media.
The old code still rebuilt the deduped media arrays from the merged DOM, which let scene-local media parsed from the inlined HTML overwrite the correctly offset first-pass metadata.
### 3. The browser probe reconcile path mixed two timing coordinate systems
`discoverMediaFromBrowser()` reads `data-start` / `data-end` directly from the live DOM after sub-compositions are already inlined. For nested media, those attributes can still be scene-local even though the compiled metadata has already been offset into the parent host timeline.
The old reconcile path compared those values directly and overwrote `existing.end` whenever the numbers differed. For a late-start sub-composition, that could replace a correct global end like `25.5` with a scene-local end like `5.5`, cutting the clip off during render.
## Verification
### Local checks
- `bun test packages/engine/src/utils/htmlTemplate.test.ts`
- `bun test packages/producer/src/services/htmlCompiler.test.ts`
- `bunx vitest run packages/producer/src/services/renderOrchestrator.test.ts`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/engine test`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/engine typecheck`
- `bun run --filter @hyperframes/producer typecheck`
- `bunx oxlint packages/engine/src/utils/htmlTemplate.ts packages/engine/src/utils/htmlTemplate.test.ts packages/producer/src/services/renderOrchestrator.ts packages/producer/src/services/renderOrchestrator.test.ts packages/producer/src/services/htmlCompiler.test.ts`
- `bunx oxfmt --check packages/engine/src/utils/htmlTemplate.ts packages/engine/src/utils/htmlTemplate.test.ts`
- `bun run build:producer`
### Render / browser verification
Verified against two local repros:
1. **Early offset repro**
- host starts at `2s`
- child media is scene-local `0-4s`
- compiled render summary keeps the child video/audio at `start: 2`
- browser verification via `agent-browser` confirmed the `2.2s` frame still shows the child clip active in the host timeline
2. **Late offset repro**
- earlier compositions run first, then the target host starts at `20s`
- child media starts scene-local at `1.5s` and should remain visible through `24.5s`
- compiled render summary keeps the child video/audio at `start: 21.5`, `end: 25.5`
- browser verification via `agent-browser` confirmed the `24.5s` frame still shows the late clip visible, which is the exact tail-clipping case the old reconcile path could break
## Notes
- the `/tmp/hf-pr475-repro` and `/tmp/hf-pr476-late-offset-repro` projects plus their browser-proof artifacts are verification-only and are not part of this PR
- this PR stays narrowly scoped to sub-composition media timing across compile, recompile, and browser probe reconciliation; it does not broaden into general sub-composition HTML normalization beyond the single-wrapper case
## Summary
Add `HdrImageTransferCache` — a per-render-job bounded LRU keyed by `(imageId, targetTransfer)` — so static HDR image layers whose source transfer differs from the render's effective transfer (PQ↔HLG) are converted **once per job** instead of **once per composited frame**.
## Why
`Chunk 8B` of `plans/hdr-followups.md`. `blitHdrImageLayer` was running `Buffer.from` + `convertTransfer` on every composited frame, even though the converted buffer is identical for the entire job. For a multi-second comp at 30 fps this is hundreds of redundant transfer conversions on the hot path.
## What changed
- New `packages/producer/src/services/hdrImageTransferCache.ts` — bounded LRU keyed by `(imageId, targetTransfer)` that owns the converted HDR rgb48 buffer for static HDR image layers:
- Same-transfer requests return the source buffer untouched (zero copy).
- Cross-transfer requests pay one `Buffer.from` + `convertTransfer` on first miss, reuse the cached copy on every subsequent frame.
- Wired into `renderOrchestrator.ts` via `HdrCompositeContext.hdrImageTransferCache`, instantiated once per render job, and consumed by `blitHdrImageLayer` on both the main composite path and the transition path.
## Test plan
- [x] `packages/producer/src/services/hdrImageTransferCache.test.ts` — 12 tests:
- hit/miss semantics
- distinct keys per image and per target transfer
- LRU eviction + promotion
- `maxEntries=0` passthrough
- source-buffer immutability for cached entries
- invalid options
- [x] Re-ran the Chunk 8A HDR benchmark — for the `hdr-regression` fixture (which has cross-transfer image layers) the cache hits 100% after the first frame; for HDR fixtures without cross-transfer images the same-transfer passthrough is a no-op.
## Stack
Chunk 8B of `plans/hdr-followups.md`. Sits on top of Chunk 8C (logger gating) and Chunk 8A (benchmark harness) so the win is measurable.
## What
Adds a content-addressed cache for extracted video frames, keyed on the tuple `(path, mtime, size, mediaStart, duration, fps, format)`. Repeat renders of the same composition (studio edit → re-render, preview → final) skip the ffmpeg extraction entirely.
## Why
Video frame extraction is the dominant non-capture phase for video-heavy compositions. Studio iteration workflows extract the same frames over and over — each render burns ffmpeg time that adds no value.
Validated on `/tmp/hf-fixtures/cfr-sdr-cache`:
```
Cold (miss): extractMs=69, videoExtractMs=70, totalElapsedMs=2052
Warm (hit): extractMs=1, videoExtractMs=2, totalElapsedMs=1964
cacheHits: 0→1, cacheMisses: 1→0
```
The fixture is tiny (3s CFR SDR @ 30fps), so the wall-clock delta is small; the extraction-time delta (69→1ms, 98%) scales linearly with source length. For heavy-iteration workflows (a user rendering the same composition while tuning encoding params), extraction time goes to zero on every repeat render.
Depends on #444 (instrumentation surface) and #445 (segment-scope HDR preflight — otherwise cache keys would be unstable across renders on mixed-HDR compositions).
## How
- New `packages/engine/src/services/extractionCache.ts`:
- SHA-256 key over a stable JSON encoding of `(path, mtime_ms, size, mediaStart, duration, fps, format)`. Infinity duration is normalized to `-1` so unresolved natural-duration sources still produce stable keys.
- Truncates to 16 hex chars in the entry directory name — 64 bits of entropy is plenty at cache scale and keeps `ls` output short.
- `hfcache-v2-` schema prefix — bumping it invalidates old entries (callers own gc policy; the cache owns keys).
- `.hf-complete` dotfile sentinel. An entry dir without the sentinel is treated as a miss (covers crash-mid-extract and abandoned writes); the next render re-extracts over the partial frames with `-y`.
- `FRAME_FILENAME_PREFIX = "frame_"` shared with the extractor — future refactors only need to touch one place to rename frames.
- `EngineConfig.extractCacheDir` (env: `HYPERFRAMES_EXTRACT_CACHE_DIR`) gates the feature. Undefined disables caching — extraction runs into the render's workDir and cleanup removes it on render end, preserving the prior behaviour exactly. No default root is chosen by the engine; the caller (CLI, app, studio) owns the location policy.
- `ExtractedFrames.ownedByLookup` flag prevents `FrameLookupTable.cleanup` from rm'ing a shared cache dir at render end. Set to `true` on both hits and misses (misses own the directory they wrote into, but hand it over to the cache rather than deleting it).
- Phase 3 extractor flow:
1. Snapshot `(videoPath, mediaStart, start, end)` per resolved video BEFORE Phase 2a/2b preflight mutates them — so cache keys are stable across renders that use workDir-local normalized files (those files have fresh mtimes every render).
2. Compute key, `lookupCacheEntry`.
3. On hit: rebuild `ExtractedFrames` from the cache dir plus the Phase 2-probed `VideoMetadata` — no re-ffprobe.
4. On miss: `ensureCacheEntryDir`, extract with `extractVideoFramesRange(..., outputDirOverride)`, then `markCacheEntryComplete` (the sentinel write is the last step so a crash leaves the dir un-sentineled).
- `extractVideoFramesRange` gains an `outputDirOverride` parameter so cache-miss writes land directly in the keyed dir (no `join(outputDir, videoId)` wrapping).
## Test plan
- [x] 19 unit tests in `extractionCache.test.ts` covering key determinism, mtime/size invalidation, format/fps/mediaStart/duration invalidation, Infinity normalization, sentinel semantics, missing-file tolerance
- [x] 2 integration tests in `videoFrameExtractor.test.ts`:
- "reuses extracted frames on a warm cache hit" — asserts `cacheHits=1`, `extractMs<50ms` on second call against a CFR SDR fixture
- "invalidates the cache when fps changes" — different fps on second call forces a new miss
- [x] End-to-end validation with `HYPERFRAMES_EXTRACT_CACHE_DIR` set, two runs of the same fixture
- [x] Lint + format (oxlint + oxfmt)
- [x] Typecheck (engine + producer)
## What
Adds per-phase timings and counters to `extractAllVideoFrames` and surfaces them on the producer's `RenderPerfSummary` as `videoExtractBreakdown` alongside a new `tmpPeakBytes` workDir size sample.
## Why
Phase 2 video extraction has five distinct sub-phases (resolve, HDR probe, HDR preflight, VFR probe, VFR preflight, per-video extract) and today they collapse into a single `videoExtractMs` stage timing. That makes every subsequent perf PR in this stack immeasurable — you can't tell whether a win came from cache hits, preflight scope reduction, or pure extraction speed.
This PR is foundational for PR #445 (segment-scope HDR preflight) and PR #446 (content-addressed extraction cache).
## How
- New `ExtractionPhaseBreakdown` type with `resolveMs`, `hdrProbeMs`, `hdrPreflightMs/Count`, `vfrProbeMs`, `vfrPreflightMs/Count`, `extractMs`, `cacheHits`, `cacheMisses`. Populated inline with `Date.now()` wrappers — overhead is sub-millisecond on every phase.
- Returned on `ExtractionResult.phaseBreakdown`.
- Producer extends `RenderPerfSummary` with `videoExtractBreakdown?: ExtractionPhaseBreakdown` and `tmpPeakBytes?: number`. `tmpPeakBytes` is sampled from the workDir right before cleanup via a new recursive-size helper that swallows errors (purely observational — a missing workDir must never fail the render).
No changes to the capture-lifecycle resource tracking — earlier versions of this instrumentation plumbed injector LRU stats through `RenderOrchestrator`, which conflicted hard with upstream #371 (`buildHdrCaptureOptions` refactor). Dropped that piece for a marginal observability loss.
## Test plan
Validation on `packages/producer/tests/vfr-screen-recording`:
```json
"videoExtractBreakdown": {
"resolveMs": 0, "hdrProbeMs": 0, "hdrPreflightMs": 0, "hdrPreflightCount": 0,
"vfrProbeMs": 0, "vfrPreflightMs": 166, "vfrPreflightCount": 1,
"extractMs": 97, "cacheHits": 0, "cacheMisses": 0
},
"tmpPeakBytes": 4578598
```
Total elapsed within noise of pre-PR baseline (2665 → 2673 → 3228ms across hosts).
- [x] Unit test: phase-breakdown assertion added to `videoFrameExtractor.test.ts`
- [x] Lint + format (oxlint + oxfmt)
- [x] Typecheck (engine + producer)
- [x] Manual perf validation against VFR fixture
## Summary
Add an optional `isLevelEnabled(level)` method to `ProducerLogger` and use it to short-circuit per-frame HDR composite metadata construction in `renderOrchestrator` when the log level is above debug.
Closes Chunks 8C and 8D from `plans/hdr-followups.md`.
## Why
`Chunk 8C` of `plans/hdr-followups.md`. The per-frame HDR composite snapshot (every 30 frames) was building an `Array.find` + `toFixed` + struct allocation unconditionally and handing it to a debug logger that immediately discarded it at `level="info"`. On long renders, this is allocation pressure and CPU time wasted on log meta nobody reads.
`Chunk 8D` was investigated in the same pass and found to already be guarded — see below.
## What changed
- New optional `isLevelEnabled(level: ProducerLogLevel): boolean` on `ProducerLogger`.
- `createConsoleLogger` implements it.
- `renderOrchestrator.ts` per-frame HDR composite snapshot is now gated on `i % 30 === 0 && (log.isLevelEnabled?.("debug") ?? true)` — production runs at `level="info"` skip the meta-object construction entirely; custom loggers without the new method keep their existing behavior thanks to the `?? true` fallback.
- New `packages/producer/src/logger.test.ts` (17 tests) covering level filtering, meta formatting, the `isLevelEnabled` path, a hot-loop call-site simulation that asserts zero builder invocations at info level, and the `?? true` fallback for loggers that omit the method.
- `docs/packages/producer.mdx` gains a new "Logging" section documenting `ProducerLogger`, `createConsoleLogger`, `defaultLogger`, and the `isLevelEnabled` gating pattern.
**8D resolution (no code change).** `countNonZeroAlpha` / `countNonZeroRgb48` calls live behind `shouldLog = debugDumpEnabled && debugFrameIndex >= 0`, where `debugDumpEnabled` is itself driven by `KEEP_TEMP=1`. The pixel iteration is fully skipped on production runs already, so 8D needed no fix — verified during the 8C work.
## Test plan
- [x] `bun test` in producer — 17/17 logger tests pass; existing service tests unchanged.
- [x] Hot-loop call-site simulation asserts the meta builder is invoked **zero times** at `level="info"`.
- [x] `?? true` fallback preserves prior behavior for custom logger implementations that don't define the method.
- [x] Re-ran the HDR benchmark from Chunk 8A — no regression on wall-clock, peak heap unchanged at info level.
## Stack
Chunks 8C + 8D of `plans/hdr-followups.md`. Sits on top of the benchmark harness PR (Chunk 8A) so the optimization is measurable.
## Summary
Make the existing benchmark harness genuinely useful for HDR perf work: positive `--tags` filter, peak heap/RSS sampling, a `bench:hdr` script, and a perf README documenting the captured April-2026 baseline. Lands first in the Chunk 8 sub-stack so subsequent perf PRs can be measured against a known starting point.
## Why
`Chunk 8A` of `plans/hdr-followups.md`. Wall-clock timing alone can't catch slow memory regressions like an unbounded image cache — peak RSS does. And the existing harness only had `--exclude-tags`, so HDR runs had to wait for unrelated SDR fixtures.
## What changed
**1. Positive `--tags` filter** in `benchmark.ts`. Adds `--tags hdr` so HDR runs don't have to wait for unrelated fixtures. Filters compose: a fixture must match `--tags` (if provided) AND must not match `--exclude-tags`.
**2. Peak heap + RSS tracking** in `executeRenderJob`. A 250 ms periodic `process.memoryUsage()` sampler runs alongside every render and reports `peakRssMb` / `peakHeapUsedMb` in `RenderPerfSummary`. Sampler is `unref`'d and always cleared in `finally` so it never keeps the event loop alive or leaks across jobs. Both fields are optional on the interface for back-compat with serialized older summaries.
**3. `bench:hdr` convenience script** plus a perf README at `tests/perf/README.md` documenting the harness, the new flags, and the captured April-2026 HDR baseline (PQ regression: 34.5 s / 272 MiB RSS, HLG regression: 11.5 s / 227 MiB RSS, both 1080p / 1 worker / 1 run).
The benchmark output table is widened and gains `PeakRSS` / `PeakHeap` columns. A new `avgOrNull` helper preserves `null` in the JSON when no run reported memory (avoids silently coercing missing data to 0 in older snapshots).
No behavior change for non-benchmark renders — the sampler runs in every `executeRenderJob` but its overhead is a single `process.memoryUsage()` call every 250 ms, well below noise.
## Test plan
- [x] `bunx tsc --noEmit -p packages/producer` — clean.
- [x] `bunx oxlint` / `bunx oxfmt --check` on changed files — clean.
- [x] `bun test src/services/` — 60/60 pass (frameDirCache, orchestrator, etc.).
- [x] `bunx tsx src/benchmark.ts --tags hdr --runs 1` — both HDR fixtures render successfully, summary table prints `PeakRSS`/`PeakHeap` columns, per-run output shows new memory line.
- [x] `bunx tsx src/benchmark.ts --tags nonexistent` — exits 1 with a helpful message naming the active filters.
## Stack
Chunk 8A of `plans/hdr-followups.md`. First PR in the Chunk 8 perf sub-stack; subsequent PRs (image cache, logger gating) measured against this baseline.
## Summary
Extract the `frameDirMaxIndexCache` from a private module-scoped Map inside `renderOrchestrator.ts` into its own `frameDirCache.ts` module, then add a 11-test bun:test suite that pins the cross-job isolation contract added in Chunk 5B.
## Why
`Chunk 9E` of `plans/hdr-followups.md`. The cache lived as a private Map inside `renderOrchestrator.ts`, which made the cross-job isolation contract from Chunk 5B impossible to unit-test directly. Extracting it both makes the contract testable and reduces orchestrator complexity slightly.
## What changed
- New `packages/producer/src/services/frameDirCache.ts` exposes `getMaxFrameIndex` / `clearMaxFrameIndex` / `getMaxFrameIndexCacheSize` (plus a test-only `__resetMaxFrameIndexCacheForTests` helper). Behavior is unchanged: callers still get the same module-scoped sharing inside a job, and `renderOrchestrator`'s outer `finally` still clears every entry it registered so the cache cannot grow monotonically across renders.
- `renderOrchestrator.ts`: imports the new helpers, drops the unused `readdirSync` import, updates inline comments, and replaces two `frameDirMaxIndexCache.delete` sites with `clearMaxFrameIndex`.
- New `frameDirCache.test.ts` (bun:test, 11 tests) covering:
- Reading the max index from a populated directory.
- Ignoring filenames that don't match `frame_NNNN.png` (wrong ext, wrong prefix, wrong case, double extension, empty index group, same-named subdirectory).
- Empty- and missing-directory paths returning `0` and being cached.
- Intra-job invariant: subsequent readdir mutations not observed once cached.
- `clearMaxFrameIndex` forcing a re-read; returns `false` for paths that were never cached.
- Per-directory isolation when multiple directories are registered.
- The cross-job contract from Chunk 5B: cache empty between well-behaved jobs, doesn't grow monotonically across 20 simulated renders with 3 HDR videos each (steady-state cache size stays at 3), and a buggy job that forgets to clear leaks exactly its own entries rather than affecting unrelated jobs.
## Test plan
- [x] `frameDirCache.test.ts` 11/11 pass.
- [x] Existing producer tests unchanged.
- [x] Behavior preserved: same module-scoped sharing inside a job, same outer-`finally` eviction.
## Stack
Chunk 9E of `plans/hdr-followups.md`. Test-driven extraction; complements Chunk 5B.
Guard buildHyperframesRuntimeScript() against missing entry.ts so it
returns null instead of crashing with esbuild stderr output. Add
getHyperframeRuntimeScript() that returns the pre-built IIFE as a
baked-in string constant — no esbuild, no file I/O, no import.meta.url.
Consolidate CLI runtime source resolution into a single module with
a clear priority chain: esbuild from source (dev) → inlined constant
(production) → pre-built artifact file (fallback).
Add CI smoke test that npm-packs the CLI, installs globally, runs
hyperframes preview, and asserts no stderr errors + runtime endpoint
returns JS.
Bump version to 0.4.16.
## Summary
Track `tests/*/src/*.png` via Git LFS to mirror the existing policy for golden videos and `.mp4` fixtures.
## Why
`Chunk 11C` of `plans/hdr-followups.md`. Without this rule, regression suites that grow PNG fixtures over time would bloat the working-tree history and slow shallow clones.
## What changed
- `.gitattributes`: add `tests/*/src/*.png` to the LFS-tracked patterns.
- Migrates the six existing PNG fixtures (1.6 MB combined: `hdr-photo-pq.png` plus `heygen-promo-preview-assets/` screenshots) onto LFS in the same commit so the rule applies retroactively.
## Test plan
- [x] `git lfs ls-files` includes the HDR PNG fixtures after commit.
- [x] Working tree size for these files goes from 1.6 MB to 6 × ~130 B LFS pointers.
## Stack
Chunk 11C of `plans/hdr-followups.md`. Independent of all code changes.
## Summary
Tighten `hdr-regression` Window F `maxFrameFailures` from 5 → 0 now that Chunk 4 (matrix3d support + scene initial-state) has landed.
## Why
Window F (transform + scale + border-radius on the video itself) was the remaining known-fail in the `hdr-regression` suite, baked into the golden so the suite stayed green while Chunk 4 was outstanding.
After Chunk 4 fixed `parseTransformMatrix` (matrix3d support) and the shader-transitions initial-state, re-running the suite shows **0 failed frames** against the existing golden — the encoder is byte-deterministic, and Window F's GSAP rotation/scale happens to emit 2D `matrix()` rather than `matrix3d()`, so the same golden is still correct after the fix. Tightening the budget catches any drift in the layered HDR compositor immediately.
## What changed
- `tests/hdr-regression/meta.json`: `maxFrameFailures` 5 → 0 (matches `hdr-hlg-regression`).
- `tests/hdr-regression/README.md`: Window F row + Fix history section updated to reflect the new state.
## Test plan
- [x] `bun run test --filter hdr-regression` — passes with 0 failed frames at the new budget.
## Stack
Follow-up to Chunk 4 (transform & clipping). Reviewable separately so the budget tightening is decoupled from the code fix.
## Summary
Two correctness fixes in the HDR transform & clipping pipeline: `parseTransformMatrix` now handles `matrix3d(...)` (GSAP's default `force3D: true`), and shader-transitions sets every non-first scene to `opacity: 0` at `t=0` so the engine doesn't over-composite at the start.
## Why
`Chunk 4` of `plans/hdr-followups.md`. Transform extraction and border-radius computation existed but were dead — an HDR video with `rotation: 45` rendered un-rotated, and 3-scene compositions ghosted at `t=0` because every scene defaulted to CSS `opacity: 1` and contributed to the first frame.
## What changed
**Matrix3d support in `parseTransformMatrix`.** `DOMMatrix.toString()` emits `matrix3d` whenever any ancestor in the chain has used a 3D transform — most importantly GSAP's default `force3D: true`, which converts `translate(...)` into `translate3d(..., 0)`. Without this, every GSAP-driven transform was silently dropped during HDR compositing because `videoFrameInjector.getViewportMatrix()` would return `matrix3d(...)` and the blit path would parse it as `null` and fall back to identity. The 16-value column-major form is converted to its 2D affine projection (indices 0, 1, 4, 5, 12, 13 → m11, m12, m21, m22, m41, m42); Z, perspective, and out-of-plane rotation components are dropped.
**Initial-state opacity in `initEngineMode`.** The browser preview branch uses a GL canvas overlay during transitions, so scene opacity at `t=0` doesn't matter visually. The engine branch reads scene opacity directly via `queryElementStacking()` to decide which layers to composite. Without an explicit initial-state tween, every scene defaulted to CSS `opacity: 1` and contributed to the very first frame, causing ghosting/overlap until the first transition fired. `tl.set()` at position 0 anchors the initial state in the timeline graph so reverse seeks from inside a later transition restore it correctly.
These two fixes together make `el.transform` and `el.borderRadius` (already wired in Chunk 7A's `compositeHdrFrame`) actually flow through the GSAP-animated case, and keep the engine's per-frame compositing aligned with what the user sees in browser preview.
## Test plan
- [x] 6 new `alphaBlit.test.ts` cases (identity matrix3d, translate3d, scale + translate3d, rotateZ, malformed arg count, non-finite values).
- [x] Existing `hdr-regression` Window H already CSS-sets `#scene-b { opacity: 0 }` as a fallback; the new `tl.set` is redundant for that case but harmless and removes the need for compositions to remember the CSS workaround.
- [x] Manual: rotated HDR video (`rotation: 45`) appears rotated; `border-radius: 50%` clips to circle; 3-scene composition has no overlap at `t=0`.
## Stack
Chunk 4 of `plans/hdr-followups.md`. Window F of the regression suite documents the bug; the next PR in the stack tightens the `maxFrameFailures` budget to 0.
## Summary
Four behavior-preserving refactors that reduce complexity in `renderOrchestrator.ts` and clarify the engine ffprobe utility surface. Lands after the correctness fixes (Chunks 1–5) so the refactored code is already correct.
## Why
`Chunk 7` of `plans/hdr-followups.md`. The HDR composite block had grown a ~200 LOC inline closure with 14 captured deps, a repeated capture-options spread, a `extractVideoMetadata` name that now also handles still images, and per-frame re-creation of debug helpers.
## What changed
**7A — Hoist `compositeToBuffer` into a module-scoped helper.** Extract the inline HDR closure into a top-level `compositeHdrFrame()` that takes an `HdrCompositeContext` struct. Construct the context once at the top of the HDR render block and pass it through. Removes a deeply-nested closure from the middle of the orchestrator.
**7B — `buildHdrCaptureOptions()` helper.** Factor the repeated `{ ...captureOptions, skipReadinessVideoIds: ... }` spread into a named helper at the call site.
**7C — Rename `extractVideoMetadata` → `extractMediaMetadata`.** Reflects that the helper handles still images (PNG/JPEG/WebP) in addition to video. Update all callers in engine + producer (`videoFrameExtractor`, `htmlCompiler`, regression-harness, producer ffprobe re-export, tests). Re-export the old name as a deprecated alias from `@hyperframes/engine` for backward compatibility, plus the producer re-export shim.
**7D — Hoist debug counters to module scope.** `countNonZeroAlpha` and `countNonZeroRgb48` are now module-scoped so they aren't re-created per frame and so the closure has fewer captures.
Also touches the `hdr-regression` and `hdr-hlg-regression` README + `meta.json` files reviewed during this refactor.
## Test plan
- [x] `bunx tsc --noEmit -p packages/producer && bunx tsc --noEmit -p packages/engine` clean.
- [x] Engine tests: 313 pass, 0 fail (1218 expect calls).
- [x] `bunx oxlint` + `bunx oxfmt --check` clean on 8 changed source files.
- [x] Diff is structural only — no behavioral changes.
## Stack
Chunk 7 of `plans/hdr-followups.md`. Lands after the correctness fixes (Chunks 1–5) per the suggested merge order.
## Summary
Re-wire the `--crf` and `--video-bitrate` CLI flags through the three encoder spawn sites in `renderOrchestrator.ts`. They were defined and parsed in the CLI but silently dropped before reaching ffmpeg.
## Why
`Chunk 10` of `plans/hdr-followups.md`. PR #292 originally wired these through with a `baseEncoderOpts` object using `effectiveQuality`/`effectiveBitrate`; PR #268 rewrote the encode paths and reverted to `preset.quality` only, accidentally dropping the override. This is a user-facing regression — `hyperframes render --crf 18` was being silently ignored.
## What changed
- At the three encoder spawn sites (HDR streaming, SDR streaming, disk-based encode), `quality` defaults to `preset.quality` but is overridden by `job.config.crf` when set, and `bitrate` is set from `job.config.videoBitrate`. Mutual exclusivity is enforced upstream in the CLI, so we don't re-check it here.
- Fix the contradictory note in `docs/packages/cli.mdx` that claimed CRF/bitrate were now driven only by `--quality`. The flags table now lists `--crf` and `--video-bitrate` consistent with `docs/guides/rendering.mdx`.
## Test plan
- [x] `hyperframes render --crf 18 ...` now respects the CRF override (verified via ffprobe of the encoded output).
- [x] `hyperframes render --hdr ...` still works (no behavior change at the default path).
- [x] `hyperframes render --help` shows all flags consistent with the docs.
## Stack
Chunk 10 of `plans/hdr-followups.md`. Independent of all other chunks.
## Summary
Five resource-management fixes in `renderOrchestrator.ts` and `fileServer.ts`: HDR encoder cleanup on non-abort errors, `frameDirMaxIndexCache` eviction, mid-transition abort responsiveness, pre-allocated transition buffers, and a path-traversal guard for the local file server.
## Why
`Chunk 5` of `plans/hdr-followups.md`. These are independent leaks/hangs/security issues that had each been called out in prior PR reviews and never landed.
## What changed
**5A — HDR encoder + `domSession` cleanup.** The HDR streaming encoder and `domSession` were spawned outside any outer `try/finally`, so a non-abort error between encoder spawn and the inner cleanup leaked the FFmpeg process and held the browser page open. Wrapped the entire HDR (and SDR streaming) capture path in a `try/finally` with explicit `*Closed` flags, and defensively close both in the outer `finally` if they haven't been closed already. `StreamingEncoder.close()` and `closeCaptureSession()` are both idempotent, so double-close is safe.
**5B — `frameDirMaxIndexCache` + `hdrFrameDirs` eviction.** `frameDirMaxIndexCache` is module-scoped and grew monotonically: every render added entries that were never removed. Lifted `hdrFrameDirs` to the outer scope, drop the matching cache entry in the per-video `rmSync` block, and sweep any survivors in the outer `finally`. The on-disk frames themselves were already torn down with `workDir`; this just stops the in-process Map from leaking entries across renders.
**5C — Abort signal between scene A and scene B.** During a shader transition the orchestrator captures scene A and scene B back-to-back inside a single outer frame iteration. An abort that arrived while scene A was capturing wouldn't be noticed until the next outer frame — after scene B had already been fully composited and discarded. Added `assertNotAborted()` at the top of the inner `[transBufferA, transBufferB]` loop so abort is observed before the second scene's DOM seek + screenshot.
**5D — Pre-allocated transition buffers (already addressed).** The transition buffers (`transBufferA`, `transBufferB`, `transOutput`, `normalCanvas`) are pre-allocated outside the per-frame loop. The remaining `Buffer.from` copies sit in HDR transfer conversion (Chunk 8B territory) and image preload, neither of which is the per-frame hot path.
**5E — `fileServer` path-traversal guard.** `fileServer.ts` joined `compiledDir` / `projectDir` with the request path and only checked `existsSync` + `isFile`. `path.join` normalizes `..` segments, so `GET /../etc/passwd` would resolve to `/etc/passwd` and be served straight off disk if the file existed. Added an `isPathInside(child, parent)` helper that resolves both sides and compares prefixes with the platform separator appended (so `/foo` doesn't match `/foobar`), and rejects any candidate that lands outside its intended root.
## Test plan
- [x] `bun run --filter @hyperframes/producer typecheck` passes.
- [x] `fileServer.test.ts` 13/13 pass (4 existing + 9 new `isPathInside` cases covering same-path, nested, prefix-only siblings, escaping traversal, traversal that resolves back inside, trailing-slash handling, and relative-path resolution).
- [x] Manual: kill a render mid-flight with a non-abort error; no orphaned `ffmpeg` processes (5A).
- [x] Manual: two render jobs back-to-back; cache cleared between jobs (5B).
- [x] Manual: abort during a transition frame; stops promptly, not after scene B (5C).
- [x] Manual: `GET /../../../etc/passwd` against the local file server returns 403/404 (5E).
## Stack
Chunk 5 of `plans/hdr-followups.md`.
## Summary
Three independent fixes that share a common thread: HDR config flowing correctly from `EngineConfig` down through every encoder. The headline fix: disk-based HDR encodes via `chunkEncoder` were silently producing BT.709-tagged output despite `options.hdr` being set.
## Why
`Chunk 3` of `plans/hdr-followups.md`. The streaming encoder was correct but `chunkEncoder.buildEncoderArgs` hard-coded BT.709 color tags and the `bt709` VUI block in `-x265-params`, even when callers passed an HDR `EncoderOptions`. Today this is harmless because `renderOrchestrator` routes native-HDR content to `streamingEncoder` and only feeds `chunkEncoder` sRGB Chrome screenshots — but the contract was a lie, and any future caller that wired HDR through `chunkEncoder` would silently get SDR output.
## What changed
**3A — `chunkEncoder` respects `options.hdr` (BT.2020 + mastering metadata).** When `options.hdr` is set, the libx265 software path emits `bt2020nc` plus the matching transfer (`smpte2084` for PQ, `arib-std-b67` for HLG) at the codec level *and* embeds master-display + max-cll SEI in `-x265-params` via `getHdrEncoderColorParams`. libx264 still tags BT.709 inside `-x264-params` (libx264 has no HDR support) but the codec-level color flags flip so the container describes pixels truthfully. GPU H.265 (nvenc/videotoolbox/qsv/vaapi) gets the BT.2020 tags but no `-x265-params` block, so static mastering metadata is omitted — acceptable for previews, not HDR-aware delivery.
**3B — `convertSdrToHdr` accepts a target transfer.** `videoFrameExtractor.convertSdrToHdr` was hard-coded to `transfer=arib-std-b67` (HLG) regardless of the surrounding composition's dominant transfer. `extractAllVideoFrames` now calls `analyzeCompositionHdr` first, then passes the dominant transfer (`"pq"` or `"hlg"`) into `convertSdrToHdr` so an SDR clip mixed into a PQ timeline gets converted with `smpte2084`, not `arib-std-b67`.
**3C — `EngineConfig.hdr` type matches its declared shape.** The IIFE for the `hdr` field returned `undefined` when `PRODUCER_HDR_TRANSFER` wasn't `"hlg"` or `"pq"`, but the field is typed as `{ transfer: HdrTransfer } | false`. Returning `false` matches the type and avoids a downstream `undefined` check.
## Test plan
- [x] `chunkEncoder.test.ts`: replaced the previous "HDR options ignored" assertions with 8 new specs covering BT.2020 + transfer tagging, master-display/max-cll embedding, libx264 fallback behavior, GPU H.265 + HDR (tags but no x265-params), and range conversion for both SDR and HDR CPU paths.
- [x] All 313 engine unit tests pass (5 new HDR specs).
- [x] `ffprobe` an HDR composition rendered through the chunk encoder path: shows `bt2020nc` color matrix, `smpte2084` transfer, and mastering display metadata.
## Stack
Chunk 3 of `plans/hdr-followups.md`. Independent of Chunks 1/4 (touches separate code paths).
## Summary
Tighten `hdr-regression` Window C `maxFrameFailures` from 30 → 5 now that Chunk 1 (opacity pipeline) has landed.
## Why
Window C (direct `<video>` opacity tween) was previously listed as a known failure with a `maxFrameFailures` budget of 30 to absorb expected drift until Chunk 1 landed. After the Chunk 1 fix, the regression test passes against the existing golden with **0 failed frames**. Tightening the budget catches any future drift in the opacity path immediately rather than letting up to 30 broken frames slip through.
## What changed
- `tests/hdr-regression/meta.json`: `maxFrameFailures` 30 → 5 (small budget remains for HEVC encoder noise).
- `tests/hdr-regression/README.md`: updated to mark Window C as fixed and note the tightened budget.
The HEVC encoder is byte-deterministic and the opacity fix doesn't perturb pixels at the PSNR ≥ 28 checkpoint threshold, so regenerating the golden produces byte-identical output. The golden is therefore unchanged. Window F (transform + border-radius) remains pending Chunk 4; its broken state is currently baked into the golden, so the suite is green and Chunk 4's regen will catch any drift.
## Test plan
- [x] `bun run test --filter hdr-regression` — passes with 0 failed frames at the new budget.
## Stack
Follow-up to Chunk 1 (opacity pipeline). Reviewable separately so the golden churn (none in this case) is decoupled from the code fix.
## Summary
Fix four interrelated bugs in the opacity pipeline. The headline fix: the HDR compositor was effectively ignoring direct-on-`<video>` opacity animation because the engine itself was clobbering inline opacity with `opacity: 0 !important` — switching to `visibility: hidden` resolves the bug at the root.
## Why
`Chunk 1` of `plans/hdr-followups.md`. This was the most user-visible bug in the entire follow-ups list: a GSAP-controlled opacity tween directly on a `<video>` element under HDR rendered at full brightness instead of fading.
## What changed
**1A — Stop clobbering native `<video>` opacity.** `screenshotService.injectVideoFramesBatch` and `syncVideoFrameVisibility` were applying `opacity: 0 !important` to native `<video>` elements to hide them under the injected `<img>`. That stomp clobbered any GSAP-controlled inline opacity, so the next seek read 0 from computed style and the comp went black. Switched to `visibility: hidden !important` only. Visibility hides the element from rendering without changing its opacity, so subsequent reads (and `queryElementStacking`) see the real GSAP value on every frame. The `parseFloat(...) || 1` recovery hack at `injectVideoFramesBatch` was specifically there to compensate for this stomp; it's now replaced with a `Number.isNaN` guard that defaults to 1 only when parsing actually fails.
**1B — `Number.isNaN` guards in `queryVideoElementBounds`.** `parseFloat(style.opacity) || 1` silently coerced a real opacity of 0 into 1. Switched to explicit `Number.isNaN` checks so opacity 0 stays 0. Same fix for `parseFloat(style.zIndex)`.
**1C — `instanceof HTMLElement` instead of cast.** `resolveRadius` cast `el as HTMLElement` to read `offsetWidth`/`Height`. SVG and other non-HTML elements would have crashed at runtime. Replaced the cast with an `instanceof HTMLElement` guard, and made the numeric fallback `Number.isNaN`-safe.
**1D — Opacity walk starts from the element itself.** The walk in `queryVideoElementBounds` started from `el.parentElement` for HDR videos to skip past the engine's forced `opacity: 0` on the element itself. Now that the engine never sets opacity, the special case is unnecessary — always walk from `el`. Kept the `isHdrEl` lookup because transform/border-radius logic further down still branches on it.
## Test plan
- [x] `bun run --filter @hyperframes/engine typecheck` clean.
- [x] `bun run --filter @hyperframes/engine test` — 308/308 passing.
- [x] `bun run --filter @hyperframes/producer typecheck` clean.
- [x] `oxlint` + `oxfmt --check` on both touched files.
- [x] `hdr-regression` Window C (the direct-opacity window) now passes against the regenerated golden — see follow-up PR in this stack which tightens the budget.
## Stack
Chunk 1 of `plans/hdr-followups.md`. Window C of the regression suite documents the bug; the next PR in the stack regenerates the golden and tightens its `maxFrameFailures` budget.
## Summary
Four small, mechanical type-safety cleanups across `engine`, `producer`, and `shader-transitions`. Zero behavior change — pure pre-cleanup so the rest of the stack ships against a tighter baseline.
## Why
`Chunk 6` of `plans/hdr-followups.md`. Several non-null assertions and a duplicate interface had accumulated as rebase artifacts and leftover work-in-progress; lands first because it touches files later chunks edit and removes friction during review.
## What changed
- `renderOrchestrator.ts`: replace `layers[layerIdx]!` with a `for (const [layerIdx, layer] of layers.entries())` so both index and element come from the iterator.
- `engine/types.ts`: drop the duplicate `HfTransitionMeta` interface (rebase artifact); the original definition above it is the documented one. The orphaned doc comment now precedes `HfProtocol`.
- `shader-transitions/hyper-shader.ts`: keep the local `HfTransitionMeta` declaration (the package ships as a standalone CDN bundle and must not depend on `@hyperframes/engine`), but add a sync comment pointing at the source of truth in `engine/src/types.ts`.
- `alphaBlit.ts` + `engine/index.ts`: drop `export` from `getSrgbToHdrLut` and remove its re-export. It was only ever called by the internal `blitRgba8OverRgb48le`; the public surface was dead code.
## Test plan
- [x] `bun run --filter @hyperframes/engine typecheck`
- [x] `bun run --filter @hyperframes/producer typecheck`
- [x] `bun run --filter @hyperframes/shader-transitions typecheck`
- [x] `bun run --filter @hyperframes/engine test` — 308/308 pass (no test changes; assertions removed in code only).
## Stack
Chunk 6 of `plans/hdr-followups.md`. Mechanical cleanup landed early per the suggested merge order.
Miguel Ángel