* fix(engine): bound drawElement frames so a wedged renderer falls back instead of failing A single drawElement frame could kill an entire render. On one comp (caption-editorial-emphasis) drawElementImage returns normally and the renderer then stops draining its task queue: the setTimeout(…, 0) that schedules toDataURL never fires, the capture page.evaluate never settles, and 60s later the stage watchdog fails the whole render. Deterministic on 152.0.7977.30, always the same frame. Root-cause detail in PRINFRA-488. Two gaps, both closed here. 1. Nothing below the 60s stage watchdog bounded a frame. Adds a per-frame deadline (HF_DE_FRAME_TIMEOUT_MS, default 15000, 0 disables) around the WHOLE frame operation, not just the drawElementImage call — the stall surfaces at whichever page round-trip comes next, and was observed at both the capture and the seek's background-image decode. Bounding one call missed it. Deliberately NO per-frame screenshot fallback for this error: once the renderer stops scheduling it is wedged for every subsequent round-trip on that page. Measured — the screenshot fallback blew the same deadline. The frame fails fast instead, so the recovery that actually works can run. 2. That recovery was ineligible. shouldRetryViaPinnedFallback only retried a generic capture failure when the worker count was PINNED by the inversion or the router; a comp that engaged drawElement on the ordinary single-worker path had no whole-render fallback at all. A renderer stall is now retryable on any routing — the failure is a property of drawElement itself, and the retry re-renders on a fresh page via screenshot. Reported as de_fallback_reason "de_renderer_stall" so it is distinguishable from capture_error in telemetry, and counted per-session as deFrameTimeouts. Verified end to end on the repro: previously exit 1 with "stalled: no frame progress for 60000ms"; now the deadline fires, the render retries via screenshot, and RENDER_OK with a valid 1920x1080 / 240-frame / 8.0s MP4. Tests cover the predicate both ways plus the cross-package error match. Engine 1,481 and producer 587 green (audioPadTrim.integration flakes only under full-suite parallel load — passes in isolation, and on clean HEAD it is green too, so it is not from this change). Refs PRINFRA-488 * fix(engine,producer,cli): count drawElement frame timeouts where they happen `session.deFrameTimeouts` was incremented inside `captureFrameCore`'s catch, but the deadline races that function from OUTSIDE it — `withFrameDeadline` is applied by `captureFrameToBuffer`, and `DeFrameTimeoutError` is constructed nowhere else. So the branch was unreachable: on a wedged renderer the counter stayed 0, the engine-side stall log never printed, and `CapturePerfSummary.deFrameTimeouts` reported 0 on every affected render. The end-to-end recovery worked throughout — `isDeRendererStallError` matches by name at the producer — only the observability was dead. Moved the increment and the log into an `onTimeout` hook that fires from the deadline itself, deleted the unreachable branch and the now-unused `isDeFrameTimeoutError`, and threaded the count out to `render_completed.de_frame_timeouts` so the rate is graphable apart from the other `capture_error` fallbacks. A stall always costs a whole-render re-run, which is why it deserves its own series. Also corrected the `fallbackReason` docstring, which still listed only `psnr | blank | oom | capture_error` after this branch added `de_renderer_stall`. `withFrameDeadline` is exported for a two-case fake-timer test: the deadline fires and calls `onTimeout` once, and a resolving inner promise passes its value through with no late timer. The first case fails if the counter moves back inside the work promise.
hyperframes
CLI for creating, previewing, and rendering HTML video compositions.
Install
npm install -g hyperframes
Or use directly with npx:
npx hyperframes <command>
Requirements: Node.js >= 22, FFmpeg
Commands
init
Scaffold a new Hyperframes project from a template:
npx hyperframes init my-video
cd my-video
preview
Start the live preview studio in your browser:
npx hyperframes preview
# Studio running at http://localhost:3002
npx hyperframes preview --port 4567
render
Render a composition to MP4. Run from the project directory; the positional
argument is the project directory (not a file), so render the project's
index.html directly, or point at a specific composition file with -c:
npx hyperframes render -o output.mp4
npx hyperframes render -c ./my-composition.html -o output.mp4
lint
Validate your Hyperframes HTML:
npx hyperframes lint ./my-composition
npx hyperframes lint ./my-composition --json # JSON output for CI/tooling
npx hyperframes lint ./my-composition --verbose # Include info-level findings
By default only errors and warnings are shown. Use --verbose to also display informational findings (e.g., external script dependency notices). Use --json for machine-readable output with errorCount, warningCount, infoCount, and a findings array.
compositions
List compositions found in the current project:
npx hyperframes compositions
benchmark
Run rendering benchmarks:
npx hyperframes benchmark ./my-composition.html
doctor
Check your environment for required dependencies (Chrome, FFmpeg, Node.js):
npx hyperframes doctor
browser
Manage the bundled Chrome/Chromium installation:
npx hyperframes browser
info
Print version and environment info:
npx hyperframes info
docs
Open the documentation in your browser:
npx hyperframes docs
upgrade
Check for updates and show upgrade instructions:
npx hyperframes upgrade
npx hyperframes upgrade --check --json # machine-readable for agents
Documentation
Full documentation: hyperframes.heygen.com/packages/cli
Related packages
@hyperframes/core— types, parsers, frame adapters@hyperframes/engine— rendering engine@hyperframes/producer— render pipeline@hyperframes/studio— composition editor UI