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Two failures on #3021's Test job, both about the environment rather than the code under test. **Bare `ffmpeg` is not on PATH in CI.** The 16-bit fixture shelled out to `execFileSync("ffmpeg", ...)` and died with ENOENT. The job does provide ffmpeg, through `prepare-ffmpeg-bin`, which is what `getFfmpegBinary()` resolves — every other ffmpeg-dependent suite in this package already goes through it. Now this one does too, and the case is `skipIf(!HAS_FFMPEG)` so a contributor without ffmpeg skips rather than fails. **The browser guard trusted the wrong thing.** It asked `resolveHeadlessShellPath()` and treated a returned path as "a browser is here". CI's cache holds a chrome-headless-shell that resolves and then fails to spawn — a partial download is indistinguishable from a working one by `existsSync`, which is all that resolver checks. So the three browser cases ran anyway and failed on the launch. It now runs `--version` and requires exit 0, which is the same probe the ffmpeg suites use: ask the binary, do not infer from the filesystem. Checked both directions rather than just the green one. With a working browser all 11 cases run and pass; with `HYPERFRAMES_BROWSER_PATH` pointed at a binary that exits non-zero — CI's exact situation — exactly 3 skip and the other 8 still run. A guard that quietly skipped everything would have looked identical on the CI summary.
@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
Related packages
@hyperframes/core— types, parsers, frame adapters@hyperframes/producer— high-level render pipeline built on this enginehyperframes— CLI