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hyperframes/packages/engine
Miguel Ángel bdecae066a feat(engine): render speed ramps with the same source-time mapping as the preview (#4143)
* feat(engine): render speed ramps with the same source-time mapping as the preview

The frame extractor, frame lookup table, coverage check, compile-time duration and audio mixer
read a clip's rate lane through sourceTimeAt, so a rendered frame at t shows the source frame
the preview shows. Audio bakes a ramp as consecutive source slices stretched by their mean
rate, keeping pitch. The compile-time attribute reader now handles single-quoted and
entity-encoded JSON attributes. Adds a speed-ramp regression fixture.

* test(producer): regenerate the speed-ramp golden audio with the current engine

The stored baseline predates the per-slice audio fix, so its audio drifted 1 to 3 percent in
pitch from the expected source-time track and the CI render correlated at 0.61. Rendered in the
CI test image, the new baseline tracks the expected pitch to 0.1 percent median, and the compare
now reports visual 0 failed frames and audio correlation 1.000.

* refactor(core): drop data-preserve-pitch, pitch is preserved by construction

The engine always time-stretches audio with atempo, so an opt-out read only by
the preview made preview and render disagree. Remove the attribute and its
reader so both paths keep pitch.
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@hyperframes/engine

Seekable web-page-to-video rendering engine built on Puppeteer and FFmpeg.

Framework-agnostic: works with GSAP, Lottie, Three.js, CSS animations, or any web content that implements the window.__hf seek protocol.

Install

npm install @hyperframes/engine

Requirements: Node.js >= 22, Chrome/Chromium (auto-downloaded by Puppeteer), FFmpeg

What it does

The engine opens your HTML composition in a headless Chrome instance, seeks frame-by-frame using Chrome's HeadlessExperimental.beginFrame API, captures screenshots, and encodes them into video with FFmpeg.

Key services

Service Description
browserManager Launches and pools headless Chrome instances (chrome-headless-shell)
frameCapture Manages capture sessions — seek, screenshot, buffer lifecycle
screenshotService BeginFrame-based capture with CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol)
chunkEncoder FFmpeg encoding with chunked concat, GPU detection, faststart
streamingEncoder Pipe frames to FFmpeg in real time (no intermediate PNGs on disk)
audioMixer Parse <audio> elements and mix audio tracks via FFmpeg
videoFrameExtractor Extract frames from <video> elements for compositing
parallelCoordinator Split frame ranges across worker processes
fileServer Serve local HTML files to the browser via Hono

Usage

import {
  acquireBrowser,
  createCaptureSession,
  initializeSession,
  captureFrame,
  closeCaptureSession,
} from "@hyperframes/engine";

// 1. Launch browser
const browserLease = await acquireBrowser({ captureMode: "beginFrame" });

// 2. Open a capture session
const session = createCaptureSession({
  browser: browserLease.browser,
  url: "http://localhost:3000/my-composition.html",
  width: 1920,
  height: 1080,
  fps: 30,
});
await initializeSession(session);

// 3. Capture frames
for (let i = 0; i < totalFrames; i++) {
  await captureFrame(session, i, `/tmp/frames/frame-${i}.png`);
}

// 4. Clean up
await closeCaptureSession(session);
await browserLease.release();

Most users should use @hyperframes/producer or the hyperframes CLI instead of calling the engine directly.

Documentation

Full documentation: hyperframes.heygen.com/packages/engine