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hyperframes/packages/engine
Miguel Ángel 70fbe32f8d perf(cloud): assemble chunk output with a single faststart index (#5812)
* perf(producer): assemble chunks that carry audio under one faststart index

Reads each chunk's moov, merges the sample tables into one moov at the front, and writes
the chunks' mdat payloads after it unchanged: the same bytes storage can copy into place.
The assembler no longer needs the plan audio for such plans.

* perf(aws-lambda): build the final mp4 inside S3 with its index up front

The Lambda plan asks chunks to carry their audio. Assemble writes the faststart header as
part 1 of a multipart upload and copies each chunk's mdat payload with UploadPartCopy, so
the video bytes never pass through the function; any failure aborts the upload.

* fix(engine): a chunk's first frame shows its own time, not the composition's opening frame

* fix(producer): stitch silent AAC tails and clean failed outputs

* fix(producer): open stitched chunks read-only with an explicit mode

* chore(aws-lambda): raise the package size budget for S3-side MP4 assembly

handler.js and index.js each bundle the new S3 stitch code (+5,550 bytes apiece) and s3Stitch.d.ts adds 970: +3,479 packed and +12,070 unpacked over main, measured with the CI pack. The budget rises by exactly that delta.

* fix(aws-lambda): v1 plans give chunks their audio too, so both protocols match

* perf(producer): plans whose chunks carry audio encode it once, at the frames' exact length

* test(producer): terminate the plan audio ffprobe argv like every other probe
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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