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Vance IngallsandClaude Sonnet 5 a355fb2f6b fix(producer,engine,cli): oom wrapping, cancellation, fallback-reason gaps
Three defects found by max-effort code review of this branch:

1. The Bun OOM exact-match regex was defeated by this codebase's own
   parallel-worker error wrapping. executeParallelCapture/formatWorkerFailure
   (parallelCoordinator.ts) always wrap a worker's error as
   "Worker N: <message>", optionally suffixed and joined with other workers'
   segments, all prefixed "[Parallel] Capture failed: ". That wrapping
   defeated the exact-message check for exactly the cohort (deParallelRouter
   routed, N separate Chrome processes) the OOM-drops-to-1 fix targets — a
   real OOM there would retry at the SAME worker count instead of dropping
   to 1. Added a second pattern that recovers the signal by requiring
   "out of memory" appear as the WHOLE content of a "Worker N: ..." segment
   (bounded by end-of-string/"; "), preserving the same exact-match property
   (no bare substring match) while surviving the wrapping. Verified against
   the real wrapping logic, not a hand-typed guess at its shape.

2. shouldRetryViaPinnedFallback didn't exclude cancellation, so aborting a
   render mid-capture on the pinned router/inversion cohort would detour
   through spawning a fresh encoder/capture session before the outer catch's
   RenderCancelledError branch ended the render — delaying "stop" with a
   pointless resource spin-up/tear-down. Added an isCancellation param
   (checked first, before isVerifyError) using the same
   `err instanceof RenderCancelledError || abortSignal?.aborted` check the
   outer catch already uses.

3. deFallbackReason (this PR's new "oom"/"capture_error" values) was set
   locally but never mirrored into RenderCaptureObservability alongside
   deSelfVerifyFallback, so a render that fails AFTER a fallback attempt
   (perfSummary never built) was indistinguishable in render_error telemetry
   from one that never attempted any fallback — undercutting the "how often
   does the OOM retry fire on a render that still ultimately fails"
   question this branch exists to answer. Threaded through
   RenderCaptureObservability → RenderObservabilityTelemetryPayload →
   renderObservabilityTelemetryPayload, mirroring the existing
   deSelfVerifyFallback plumbing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-09 20:31:24 -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,
  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