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Vance Ingalls e04f6dda37 feat(engine,cli): drawElement fast-capture config + CLI flag (#1916)
## drawElement fast-capture — config + CLI flag (stack 1/6)

Foundation layer for the drawElement fast-capture feature: the config surface and CLI/Docker plumbing that the rest of the stack builds on.

### What this adds
- **`packages/engine/src/config.ts`** — new config fields for fast capture: `useDrawElement` / `enableDrawElementWorkerEncode` (macOS-GPU `drawElementImage` capture + worker-offloaded JPEG encode), resolved from env in `resolveConfig` (env `HF_DE_WORKER_ENCODE`). Wired alongside main's existing `staticFrameDedup` (unified downstream in 4/6).
- **`packages/cli/src/commands/render.ts`** — `--experimental-fast-capture` flag → sets `experimentalFastCapture`; `--debug` passthrough.
- **`packages/cli/src/utils/dockerRunArgs.ts`** — pass the fast-capture env through to the container.
- **`.github/workflows/fast-video-validation.yml`** — CI job validating fast-capture renders.
- `.oxlintrc.json` / `.fallowrc.jsonc` — ignore-pattern housekeeping for the new paths.

### Notes
- Config-only + entrypoint; no capture behavior yet (that's 2/6–4/6).
- Tests: `config.test.ts`, `dockerRunArgs.test.ts` added.

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**Stack (drawElement fast-capture, rebased onto current `main`, supersedes #1295 + #1444):**
1. **#1916 config + CLI** ← you are here
2. #1917 drawElementImage capture service
3. #1918 3D projection + compositor-effect risk gate
4. #1919 frame-capture core (routing, worker-encode, static-dedup unification)
5. #1920 producer render stages + remote bg-image localizer
6. #1921 lint rule + player media sync

⚠️ Intermediate PRs (1–5) are split by package boundary for review and **do not each compile independently** (cross-file deps); the complete feature is green at the stack tip (#1921) — tsc-clean on engine + producer, 231 tests pass.

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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