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Miguel Ángel 663b02297d feat(cli): add hyperframes clean to find and remove what HyperFrames left on disk (#4701)
* feat(cli): add hyperframes clean to find and remove what HyperFrames left on disk

`hyperframes clean` lists leftover render work dirs, debug renders, the history of projects
that no longer exist, idle video proxies and extracted video frames, with sizes, and removes
them. `--dry-run` removes nothing, `--json` is for agents, `--snapshots` also removes
snapshot folders (otherwise listed as reclaimable). It never touches outputs, sources or
anything a running render or preview still owns.

* docs(cli): say that clean does not search a project's subfolders

* fix(cli): clean test compares folder names on Windows and the skills manifest is regenerated

* fix(studio-server): the proxy cache sweep removes only files the transcoder named

It removed any idle .mp4 or .webm in .transcode-cache, so a user file placed there, or reached through
a symlinked cache folder, could go. Proxies are always <sha256>.<ext> and their temp files
.tmp-<uuid>-<proxy name>; nothing else is swept.

* style(producer): keep a renderDirOwner doc comment within 120 columns
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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,
  createCaptureSession,
  initializeSession,
  captureFrame,
  closeCaptureSession,
} from "@hyperframes/engine";

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

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

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

Documentation

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