Cathryn Lavery
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The WAAPI and CSS adapters wrote currentTime and then called pause(). On a running animation pause() is pending until the next animation frame, and Chromium then sets the hold time to the time at that frame, 16.7 ms past the sought time. Pause first: writing currentTime while a pause is pending completes it with the sought time. An animation created after the runtime's discover seek is still running when a render worker makes its first seek, so the first frame of each worker chunk after the first was drawn 16.7 ms late.
@hyperframes/core
Types, parsers, generators, compiler, linter, runtime, and frame adapters for the Hyperframes video framework.
Install
npm install @hyperframes/core
Most users don't need to install core directly — the CLI, producer, and studio packages depend on it internally.
What's inside
| Module | Description |
|---|---|
| Types | TimelineElement, CompositionSpec, Asset, canvas dimensions, defaults |
| Parsers | parseHtml — extract timeline elements from HTML; parseGsapScript — parse GSAP animations |
| Generators | generateHyperframesHtml — produce valid Hyperframes HTML from a composition spec |
| Compiler | compileTimingAttrs — resolve data-start / data-duration into absolute times |
| Linter | lintHyperframeHtml — validate Hyperframes HTML (missing attributes, overlapping tracks, etc.) |
| Runtime | IIFE script injected into the browser — manages seek, media playback, and the window.__hf protocol |
| Frame Adapters | Pluggable animation drivers (GSAP, Lottie, CSS, or custom) |
Generated composition trust
Composition generators require trusted authors for code-bearing inputs. styles and
generateHyperframesStyles preserve authored CSS, which can load external resources.
animations may contain __raw: values that are emitted as JavaScript;
includeScripts: true includes executable timeline code. serializeGsapAnimations
also accepts raw preamble, postamble, and a code-bearing timelineVar. Never fill
these inputs with untrusted data. Attribute encoding and closing-tag containment
are not a sandbox; render untrusted compositions in an appropriately isolated
execution environment and never serve them on a privileged origin.
Text content retains the supported inline-formatting sanitizer contract. The clip parser intentionally flattens inner formatting to text, so parse/generate is not a lossless replacement for editing the source HTML.
Frame Adapters
A frame adapter tells the engine how to seek your animation to a specific frame:
import { createGSAPFrameAdapter } from "@hyperframes/core";
const adapter = createGSAPFrameAdapter({
getTimeline: () => gsap.timeline(),
compositionId: "my-video",
});
Implement FrameAdapter for custom animation runtimes:
import type { FrameAdapter } from "@hyperframes/core";
const myAdapter: FrameAdapter = {
id: "my-adapter",
getDurationFrames: () => 300,
seekFrame: (frame) => {
/* seek your animation */
},
};
Parsing and generating HTML
import { parseHtml, generateHyperframesHtml } from "@hyperframes/core";
const { elements, metadata } = parseHtml(htmlString);
const html = generateHyperframesHtml(spec);
Linting
import { lintHyperframeHtml } from "@hyperframes/core/lint";
const result = lintHyperframeHtml(htmlString);
// result.findings: { severity, message, elementId }[]
Documentation
Full documentation: hyperframes.heygen.com/packages/core
Related packages
@hyperframes/engine— rendering engine that drives the browser@hyperframes/producer— full render pipeline (capture + encode)hyperframes— CLI