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hyperframes/packages/engine
Miguel ÁngelandClaude Opus 4.6 7d0d903417 fix: alpha preview e2e fixes — exports, init templates, EPIPE crash
Three bugs found via automated e2e testing of the v0.6.0-alpha preview:

1. core: add missing package.json export specifiers for
   studio-api/manual-edits-render-script and
   studio-api/studio-motion-render-script — the alpha.3 npm publish
   failed because the studio build could not resolve these sub-paths.

2. cli: fix init --example creating empty projects — tsup leaves empty
   template directories in dist/ during the build, causing
   existsSync(templateDir) to return true and skip the remote fetch
   fallback. Now checks for index.html inside the dir instead.

3. engine: fix unhandled EPIPE crash in streaming encoder — ffmpeg
   stdin/stdout had no error handlers, so a write after the ffmpeg
   process exits throws an uncaught error that crashes the process.

Verified with 8 consecutive e2e iterations (424 test runs, 0 flaky).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-09 07:21:06 +00:00
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2026-05-09 02:56:37 +00:00
2026-03-21 22:43:56 -07:00

@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