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Vance IngallsandClaude Opus 4.8 7310223b66 feat(engine): static-frame dedup default-on + render telemetry (#1549)
* feat(engine): static-frame dedup for screenshot capture (opt-in)

Skip re-seeking + re-screenshotting frames byte-identical to their predecessor. A
frame is dedupable iff no GSAP tween or clip cut is active in it or its predecessor
(predicted from window.__timelines + clip schedule) AND an empirical anchor-compare
confirms it. Opt-in HF_STATIC_DEDUP=true, default off.

Correctness (designed for the multi-worker / distributed render paths):
- Reuse is keyed by the ABSOLUTE composition frame (derived from the frame's time),
  NOT the captureFrameCore frameIndex arg — chunked/parallel callers pass a chunk-
  relative index. Validated lossless (PSNR=inf) on both single- and multi-worker
  renders of a static-hold comp.
- verifyStaticFramesSafe checks EVERY run (no longest-first budget truncation that
  left runs armed-but-unverified), and samples each run's FIRST reused frame, its END,
  and interior points at a stride; a hard cap disables dedup rather than trust an
  unverified set.
- Conservative arming: skipped when capture mode != screenshot (BeginFrame tick
  semantics + the verifier's screenshot path wouldn't transfer), when a before-capture
  hook is set (per-frame video injection), when page-side compositing is active (shader
  / drawElement composite the plain verification screenshot can't reproduce), and when
  any data-start is a non-numeric reference expression the clip-boundary parser can't
  protect, or duration is unknown/zero.
- Session reuse (prepareCaptureSessionForReuse) resets lastFrameBuffer + dedup counter
  so a probe/prior-render buffer can't bleed into the first static frame; the armed set
  is kept (same-composition reuse). Cost calibration bypasses dedup for its sparse,
  non-contiguous sample sweep, then restores the armed set.
- HF_STATIC_DEDUP_SAMPLES is NaN-guarded.

Disqualifies on signals the GSAP predictor can't see: video, canvas/webgl, zero
tweens, running CSS/WAAPI animation. Pays on static-hold content (title cards,
slideshow/kiosk loops, data-viz pauses); no-op on continuously-animated comps.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(engine): static-frame dedup default-on + render telemetry

Flip dedup from opt-in (HF_STATIC_DEDUP=true) to default-on (opt-out
HF_STATIC_DEDUP=false). Verification (verifyStaticFramesSafe) is the
safety net that keeps reuse sound at scale.

Add end-to-end dedup observability. The capture session records
enabled / armed / skipReason / predicted; these surface via
CapturePerfSummary -> a dedupPerfs accumulator (disk sequential +
parallel AND streaming sequential + parallel) -> aggregated into
RenderPerfSummary.staticDedup (OR armed, SUM frames across workers) ->
render_complete props static_dedup_{enabled,armed,skip_reason,
predicted_frames,reused_frames}. skip_reason is a low-cardinality code:
capture_mode | video_injection | page_composite | ineligible |
verification_failed.

Distributed chunks run on Linux/beginframe where dedup never arms, so
they pass a throwaway dedupPerfs sink (no per-chunk reporting).

Tests: aggregation logic (OR/SUM/skip-reason) + opt-out passthrough.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(engine): address review on dedup default-on + telemetry

Review feedback (miga-heygen) + self-review fixes:

- Retry double-count: executeDiskCaptureWithAdaptiveRetry pushed worker
  dedup perf inside the retry loop, so an adaptive retry counted frames
  twice (reused/predicted could exceed totalFrames). Reset dedupPerfs at
  the start of each attempt — retry now REPLACES rather than accumulates;
  common no-retry path is unchanged.
- Opt-out parsing: HF_STATIC_DEDUP now disables on {false,0,off}
  case/space-insensitive (was strict !== "false", so `False`/`0` silently
  kept dedup on — the kill-switch could no-op).
- Verification budget vs drift: verifyStaticFramesSafe returns
  {badFrame, budgetExhausted}; armStaticDedup reports a distinct
  `verification_budget` skip reason so a telemetry spike means "raise
  HF_STATIC_DEDUP_SAMPLES", not "compositions are non-static".
- Index idiom: captureFrameCore now uses Math.floor(time*fps + 1e-9)
  (matches quantizeTimeToFrame) so the dedup lookup agrees with the frame
  the seek lands on even for non-exact times.
- Stale "opt-in HF_STATIC_DEDUP=true" comments -> "opt-out
  HF_STATIC_DEDUP=false" across frameCapture.ts + types.ts.
- Extract pushWorkerDedupPerfs helper (perfSummary.ts), used by the disk
  and streaming parallel paths — removes the duplicated push loop and
  drops captureStreamingStage back under the complexity threshold.
- dedupPerfs is now required (not optional) on
  executeDiskCaptureWithAdaptiveRetry — a missing arg silently dropped
  telemetry.
- Test: captureStreamingStage createInput() now provides the required
  dedupPerfs field.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(engine): address deferred dedup-review items

- Derivable state: drop session.staticDedupArmed/staticDedupPredicted;
  derive both from session.staticFrames in getCapturePerfSummary
  (armed ⟺ non-empty set, predicted === size) so they can't desync.
- Config altitude: HF_STATIC_DEDUP now resolves into
  EngineConfig.staticFrameDedup (resolveConfig, opt-out on {false,0,off}),
  alongside forceScreenshot/browserGpuMode — armStaticDedup reads config
  instead of process.env. Default-on preserved (missing config → enabled).
- Lossy aggregation: aggregateDedup now reports DISTINCT skip reasons
  (sorted, `|`-joined) across diverging unarmed workers instead of just
  the first.
- discardWarmupCapture: also snapshot/restore staticDedupCount and
  lastFrameBuffer so a warmup capture can't leak a phantom reuse or a
  stale buffer anchor into the real summary.
- Convention: perfSummary-dedup.test builds its job via createRenderJob
  instead of `as unknown as RenderJob`.
- Docs: verification_budget added to skip-reason lists.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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,
  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