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hyperframes/packages/engine
Vance IngallsandClaude Sonnet 5.5 38f6e01c2b feat(core,engine): report why blur is off, and what each render session did (#5991)
Tooling and logs need more than "off". Give the runtime's report a reason
code for every way blur can be off (renderer-off, unsupported-browser, each
html-in-canvas defect, capture-failures), and two calls for tooling:
probe() runs the same scan a render would, without painting, and suspend()
stops all painting for the rest of a session without changing the reported
decision.

The engine prints one line per session from what the page reports:
`[motion-blur] on reasonCode=null movers=N failedFrames=K`. The first-frame
line cannot know about later failures, so the session end prints the same
line with "(session end)" when any frame fell back to plain DOM; a clean
session stays quiet. A render where every capture failed no longer reads as
"on" with nothing else.

Add the first test that reads blurred pixels: real Chrome with
html-in-canvas, the engine's frame order (seek, wait, composite, screenshot).
It checks the trail along the motion line, that what does not move matches
the sharp frame, that a box centered with translate is blurred where it
really is, and that a flipped backface card renders the plain frame. It
skips when Chrome or html-in-canvas is missing.

Folded review fixes: R13 (runtime half), R17 (engine half), T1 (the guards
that need reason codes), T3 (log-line and pixel tests).

Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-21 15:06:36 -07:00
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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