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hyperframes/packages/engine
Lirian SuandClaude Opus 4.7 3700cc2a16 fix(engine): skip video frame injection when a visual ancestor is hidden
`injectVideoFramesBatch` and `syncVideoFrameVisibility` iterate every
`video[data-start]` whose raw time window covers the current seek.
Inner `<video>` elements inside `[data-composition-src]`
sub-compositions get `data-start="0"` auto-injected by
`compileTimingAttrs` and probed-duration cover the entire timeline,
so they look "active" even when their host has not yet started.

When the runtime then hides the host with `visibility: hidden` (its
out-of-window lifecycle), the inner video inherits hidden via the CSS
cascade — but our injector responded by painting a replacement
`<img class="__render_frame__" style="visibility: visible">` next to
the video. `visibility: visible` on the descendant defeats the parent
`visibility: hidden` cascade, and because the host has not been
morphed by GSAP yet the video's bounding box is its CSS default
(usually full-bleed). The result is one full-bleed frame per inactive
sub-comp painted over whichever moment is *actually* visible — the
overlay symptom the upstream agentic-finecut project saw.

Walk ancestors in both functions; if any has `display: none` or
`visibility: hidden`, skip the inject and hide any stale
`__render_frame__` sibling. The render is now correctly empty for
hidden hosts, which is what the surrounding CSS cascade already
intends.

Tests:
- `screenshotService.test.ts`: cover the new guard for both
  visibility:hidden and display:none hosts, both for the fresh-img and
  the stale-img paths, plus `syncVideoFrameVisibility` for the case
  where the time window calls a video "active" but a hidden ancestor
  still requires its frame to stay hidden. Each test fails against
  pre-fix `screenshotService.ts`.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-26 00:37:13 -04:00
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2026-05-25 23:49:33 +00:00

@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,
  releaseBrowser,
  createCaptureSession,
  initializeSession,
  captureFrame,
  closeCaptureSession,
} from "@hyperframes/engine";

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

// 2. Open a capture session
const session = createCaptureSession({
  browser: browser.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 releaseBrowser(browser);

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

Documentation

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