The producer's probe stage launches Chromium when Plan has to resolve
browser-only data: root duration unknown, unresolved sub-compositions, or
data-hf-auto-start media. Only handleRenderChunk was setting
PRODUCER_HEADLESS_SHELL_PATH, so a cold Plan invocation launched
puppeteer-core with no executablePath and failed before writing plan.tar.gz.
Mirror the renderChunk env-var guard inside handlePlan so the bundled
Sparticuz binary gets resolved on the first Plan invocation and reused on
warm starts. The skipChromeResolution dep stays honored for SAM-local RIE
smokes.
A warm Lambda environment can mask this only if it previously served a
renderChunk from another execution and left the env var sticky. Within a
single Step Functions execution, Plan still runs before RenderChunks.
A new dispatch test exercises the guard path by pre-seeding
PRODUCER_HEADLESS_SHELL_PATH and asserting Plan does not overwrite it.
`ffmpeg-static` materializes a single platform-selected binary at install
time. By default that follows the install host, so a default macOS/arm64
or linux/arm64 install can stage a binary that Lambda's x86-64 runtime
cannot execute.
Verify the ELF header (ELFCLASS64, EM_X86_64) before copying the binary
into `bin/ffmpeg`. When the check fails, surface the canonical workarounds:
run the build inside a linux/amd64 container, or pre-install with
`npm_config_platform=linux npm_config_arch=x64`.
In the distributed pipeline this mismatch can fail as early as Plan's
`ffmpeg -version` probe after browser probing and before chunks are
scheduled. Later encode/assemble spawns would fail for the same reason.
ffprobe already goes through the platform-segmented
`ffprobe-static/bin/linux/x64` path, so that side doesn't need the same
check.
The cfr re-encode pass hardcodes `-c:v libx264`. Pairing it with
`codec: "h265"` would silently transcode the h265 chunks to h264.
Detect the encoder discriminant in `meta/encoder.json` and throw a
typed error parallel to the existing non-mp4 format guard, so callers
surface the conflict instead of producing a wrong-codec deliverable.
— Rames Jusso
Distributed-render output today uses -c:v copy through concat → mux →
faststart, which means PTS timestamps from each chunk pass through
unchanged. Container r_frame_rate is exact (#1040 + this PR's parent),
but stream-level avg_frame_rate stays PTS-derived and can land on
fractional rationals like 27648000/921677 over a 60s render. Same for
sub-ms duration drift.
This is the achievable bar within -c copy stream-copy concat. For most
consumers (browser playback, YouTube, etc.) the difference is invisible.
For downstream tools that strict-check avg_frame_rate or
ms-precision duration (broadcast workflows, frame-accurate compositors,
some third-party transcoders), it matters.
Adds an opt-in cfr config flag (default false). When true, the
assemble step's final pass re-encodes with -fps_mode cfr -r <fps>
instead of -c copy, producing exact CFR output. Trade-off: ~2-5x the
stitch time for a 60s 1080p clip; second-generation H.264 quality loss
is negligible at -crf 18 but is non-zero.
The v0.6.39 fix added -r <fps> to the multi-chunk concat ffmpeg
invocation but didn't reach the single-chunk pass-through path,
which is taken when totalFrames * fpsDen / fpsNum fits in one
chunk. Result: 1-chunk renders shipped with fractional
r_frame_rate (e.g. 359/12) while multi-chunk renders shipped
with exact 30/1.
Single-chunk path now goes through the same -r <fps> + -c copy
ffmpeg invocation as the concat path, ensuring uniform exact
r_frame_rate metadata across all chunk-count configurations.
Adds a regression test exercising the 1-chunk path and asserting
r_frame_rate === "<fpsNum>/<fpsDen>" exact.
Adds WebGPU support to the Chrome launch args alongside the existing
CanvasDrawElement flag. Use PRODUCER_HEADLESS_SHELL_PATH to point to
Brave for full WebGPU + drawElementImage support.
Also fixes flicker in liquid glass blocks by removing onpaint/requestPaint
callbacks that conflicted with GSAP's deterministic onUpdate rendering.
Adds macos-tahoe-liquid-glass block (WIP).
Replaces the phone screen content in vfx-iphone-device with an iOS 26
home screen: glass app icons (Weather, Stocks, ChatGPT, Slack, X, etc.),
status bar with battery/signal, search pill, dock with badges. All on a
real GLTF iPhone model with camera choreography.
- Always log when html-in-canvas pins to 1 worker, not just on
explicit --workers override (Vance, James)
- Assert recommendScreenshot is true for htmlInCanvas detection —
pins the load-bearing coupling with the screenshot paint-force
protocol (Vance, Magi)
- Skip capture calibration for htmlInCanvas auto-sized renders to
avoid wasting 600ms–3s on an estimate that gets thrown away (Vance)
- Add TODO documenting Chrome's two root-cause mechanisms: paint
cache race and SwiftShader contention (James, Magi)
Chrome's drawElementImage API does not support concurrent usage across
multiple browser instances — running >1 capture worker causes flickering
artifacts. Detect the layoutsubtree canvas attribute during compilation
and unconditionally pin workers to 1, overriding both auto-sizing and
explicit --workers flags.
Complete rewrite of all 4 liquid glass registry blocks using
jeantimex/liquid-glass-html-in-canvas for real WebGPU glass rendering.
Architecture: Three.js aurora shader (z:0) + empty glass panels in
layoutsubtree canvas (z:1) + CSS text overlay (z:2). Text is crisp
and never passes through the glass shader.
- Renders via Brave with WebGPU + drawElementImage flags
- Continuous motion throughout — panels sweep across the screen
- liquid-glass.iife.js bundle (25KB) replaces liquid-dom (88KB)
Catch the three plugin manifests up to the current release version so
/plugin update is unfrozen immediately, rather than waiting for the next
release to sync them via the fixed-versioning script.
scripts/set-version.ts only bumped the npm package.json files, so the
Claude Code / Codex / Cursor plugin manifests stayed at 0.1.0 across every
release. Claude Code gates /plugin update on plugin.json's version, so users
never received accumulated changes (closes#1048).
Add a PLUGINS list and a parallel loop that rewrites each manifest's version,
and include the manifests in the clean-tree guard and the staged file set.
The loop replaces only the version string (not a JSON round-trip) to preserve
each file's exact formatting, since oxfmt keeps their short arrays inline and
JSON.stringify would expand them and fail the pre-commit format check.
The prepareFlattenedInnerRoot function creates a wrapper div when
inlining sub-compositions. This wrapper had no width/height, which
broke CSS height:100% chains — any sub-composition using percentage
heights with flexbox centering would collapse to 0px and render
content at the top instead of centered.
Read data-width/data-height from the inner root and set matching
pixel dimensions on the wrapper's inline style. Applied in both the
compiler (server-side bundling) and the runtime (browser-side
composition loader).
Adds a producer regression test with a centered card sub-composition
that fails without this fix.
import.meta.env is undefined in Next.js Turbopack/Webpack, causing
"Cannot read properties of undefined" when the studio telemetry client
loads. Wrap accesses in try-catch so they gracefully fall back.
Also hardcode the PostHog API key and host — they're public write-only
values with no reason to be overridable via env.
When the distributed render path stitches chunks with `-c copy`,
ffmpeg averages the container framerate from PTS rather than
carrying the source's exact rational rate, producing values like
`360000/12001` instead of `30/1` and ~5ms duration drift over
60s.
This is a known ffmpeg behavior at the concat-demuxer-copy
boundary. The industry-standard fix is `-r <fps>` as an input
flag on the concat step plus an output flag on the subsequent
mux step — both with `-c copy` retained, no re-encode required.
Three sites updated:
- `assemble.ts` concat step: `-r <fps>` input flag.
- `chunkEncoder.muxVideoWithAudio`: `-r <fps>` output flag.
- `chunkEncoder.applyFaststart`: same, threaded from caller.
Adds `r_frame_rate` + duration-equivalence assertions to
`assemble.test.ts` to close the regression hole.
Remaining review follow-ups:
- killProcessTree now escalates to SIGKILL after 500ms if SIGTERM
doesn't kill the process (same pattern as killTrackedProcesses).
Covers orphan cleanup and dev/local mode tree kill.
- Added unit tests for both new modules:
- processTracker.test.ts (6 tests): track/remove on exit/error,
kill running processes, SIGKILL escalation for SIGTERM-resistant
processes, idempotency.
- orphanCleanup.test.ts (5 tests): tree kill with children,
SIGKILL escalation, non-existent PID handling, orphan detection
returns 0 when clean.
- Blocker: arm 3s force-exit timer BEFORE awaiting cleanup, not
inside .finally(). Prevents hang if drainBrowserPool() blocks on
dead Chrome.
- Reorder cleanup: killTrackedProcesses() (sync, fast) runs first,
then async browser drain. Ffmpeg dies immediately instead of
surviving if the hard timer fires early.
- SIGKILL escalation: processTracker now SIGTERMs all tracked
processes, then SIGKILLs survivors after 500ms grace period.
- Scope pgrep to current user (pgrep -u $(id -u)) so orphan
detection doesn't touch other users' Chrome on shared machines.
- Add process.on('exit') handler for crash paths (unhandled
exceptions/rejections that bypass signal handlers).
- Document Windows no-op behavior on killProcessTree handlers.
FFmpeg's VFR-to-CFR normalization produces slightly different frame
counts across versions due to timestamp rounding in the fps filter.
The ±1 tolerance was too tight for Linux FFmpeg builds. Widen to ±3
frames — still catches the 25% shortfall regression these tests
guard against.
The preview command's shutdown handler only closed the HTTP server,
leaving Chrome (browser pool) and ffmpeg processes alive. This caused
silent resource leaks — orphaned processes consuming CPU and RAM with
no parent.
Root cause: preview.ts never called drainBrowserPool() or killed
tracked ffmpeg processes. The thumbnail browser in studioServer.ts
registered its own competing signal handlers that raced with
preview's shutdown.
Fix:
- Add a central process tracker (processTracker.ts) that registers
every spawned ffmpeg across engine and producer packages
- Centralize thumbnail browser cleanup via exported
closeThumbnailBrowser() instead of scattered signal handlers
- Wire preview shutdown to call closeThumbnailBrowser(),
drainBrowserPool(), and killTrackedProcesses() before closing the
HTTP server (embedded mode)
- Add killProcessTree() for dev/local modes where Chrome runs in a
child process tree
- Add startup orphan detection that finds and kills orphaned
chrome-headless-shell/Puppeteer Chrome processes (PPID=1) from
previously crashed sessions
Closes#1038
Miguel Ángel