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Miguel Ángel 4a36655b2b fix(engine): resolve relative data-start references in video-frame extraction
* fix(engine): resolve relative data-start references in video-frame extraction

<video data-start="intro"> (a relative reference to another clip's end) is
resolved by the browser runtime but parseVideoElements/parseImageElements did a
raw parseFloat, yielding NaN start/end. The FrameLookupTable active-window
checks (start <= t <= end) are then always false, so the clip is never injected
and composites BLANK in the final render — while lint/validate/inspect/snapshot
and the live preview all look fine. The docs' Relative Timing section teaches
exactly this pattern on <video>.

Share the pure reference-syntax parser (parseStartExpression) out of the runtime
resolver into @hyperframes/core, and resolve references in the extractor against
the linkedom document it already holds: a reference resolves to the target
clip's resolved start + its duration (data-duration or data-end) + offset,
mirroring the runtime. Cycle-guarded; an unknown target or unknown duration
falls back to the target's start / 0 (never NaN), matching runtime semantics.
Natural-media-duration-only targets aren't known at parse time (same limit as
the runtime's fallback). parseImageElements gets the same fix.

Runtime resolver behavior is unchanged (its 25-case suite still passes).

* chore: re-trigger CI to refresh a stuck CodeQL aggregate check
2026-07-07 18:11:21 -04:00
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2026-07-07 20:30:24 +00:00
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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