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Three follow-ups from Vai's staff-eng review: 1. Concurrent-probe race (real bug): the parallel coordinator runs N workers via Promise.all, so `--workers 4` on a no-GPU host fired 4 simultaneous probe Chromes — each paying the same 240 ms launch cost. Cache the *Promise* (not the resolved value): first caller assigns the in-flight Promise, every other concurrent caller awaits the same one. Verified with a new test asserting all concurrent callers get the identical Promise reference. 2. Stale rendering.md (lines 23, 29): user-visible contract said "browser GPU enabled by default", which was wrong post-auto. Now describes the auto / hardware / software trichotomy explicitly. 3. Silent fallback: auto-mode produced no output, so a regression to "always falls back to software even with GPU present" would have been invisible in production logs. Added a single stderr line per process when the probe resolves: `[hyperframes] browserGpuMode auto → <mode> (<reason>)`. Cache hits don't re-log. Verification: - Engine 536/536 (incl. new concurrent-dedup test asserting Promise reference equality across simultaneous callers) - CLI 256/256 - Format / lint / typecheck clean
@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
Related packages
@hyperframes/core— types, parsers, frame adapters@hyperframes/producer— high-level render pipeline built on this enginehyperframes— CLI