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James RussoandClaude Opus 4.8 d580f2a1d8 fix(render): make WebGL video textures deterministic in headless render (#1403)
* fix(render): make WebGL video textures deterministic in headless render

WebGL compositions that sample a `<video>` as a texture (e.g. a faceted
crystal with clips mapped onto its facets) rendered with flickering,
non-deterministic facets: a video would intermittently show a stale frame or
go black, and the same frame differed between two renders.

Two gaps caused this:

1. No WebGL analog of the WebGPU `patchVideoTextureCompat`. Chrome's headless
   compositor can't feed decoded `<video>` frames to the GPU, so the engine
   injects a decoded `<img class="__render_frame__">` sibling per video each
   frame. The WebGPU `copyExternalImageToTexture` path substitutes it, but
   `texImage2D` / `texSubImage2D` did not — so WebGL uploaded a stale/black
   frame. Add `patchWebGLVideoTextureCompat()` mirroring the WebGPU patch
   (shared `resolveRenderFrameImage` helper).

2. Capture ordering. Per frame the runtime seeks (GPU adapters render on
   `hf-seek`) BEFORE the engine injects the decoded frames, so the GPU render
   read a frame that didn't exist yet. After injecting, the engine now calls
   `window.__hfReseekGpu(t)` — a force-dispatch (`forceDispatchSeekEvent`) that
   bypasses the same-time `hf-seek` dedup — so GPU compositions re-upload their
   textures from the freshly-injected, decoded frames, deterministically.

Tests: unit tests for the texImage2D/texSubImage2D substitution and the
force-dispatch, plus a videoFrameInjector regression test asserting the
post-injection GPU reseek fires only when frames were injected. Verified
end-to-end: a WebGL prism with 8 live <video> facets renders byte-identical
across independent runs with no facet flicker.

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

* test(render): add producer render-compat regression for WebGL video textures

A WebGL2 canvas samples a <video> as a texture every hf-seek (the natural
author pattern, distilled from the HeyGen prism). The render-compat harness
renders it and compares against the golden: with the video-texture fix the
render reproduces the decoded frames; revert the fix and the canvas renders
black, collapsing the comparison.

Golden verified to contain real, time-varying video content (not black), so a
regression is caught rather than passing vacuously.

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