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JamesandClaude Opus 4.7
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Three Phase 3 regressions surfaced when validating --mode=distributed-simulated:
engine: probeBeginFrameSupport approved chrome-headless-shell 148 even when
its SwiftShader compositor was wedged. The existing noDisplayUpdates:true
probe returns instantly on 148 and the screenshot variant returned empty
data without erroring. The real capture loop then hung on first frame with
"HeadlessExperimental.beginFrame timed out". Probe now navigates to a small
inline page (matching the real capture's compositor state, not about:blank)
and asserts that 3 back-to-back beginFrame calls each return non-empty
screenshotData. Catches the 148 soft-failure mode; falls back to
Page.captureScreenshot.
producer/plan: plan() didn't copy local assets (style.css, script.js, etc.
referenced by relative URL) into planDir/compiled/. The in-process file
server serves these from projectDir, but the distributed chunk worker's
file server only sees compiledDir. Result: every composition with external
local files rendered as unstyled HTML. Now plan() pre-seeds compiledDir
with cpSync(projectDir, ..., {dereference:true}) before compileStage
overwrites the entry HTML, so the planDir is the self-contained bundle
the docstring claims.
producer/renderChunk: force forceScreenshot:true in the chunk worker's
EngineConfig. Chrome 148's BeginFrame screenshot wedge is content-dependent
— the engine probe (now improved) catches it for some pages but not all,
and the real capture loop hangs on composition-shaped content the probe
can't simulate. Page.captureScreenshot works on every chrome-headless-shell
build we've tested, and executeRenderJob already takes this path for
multi-worker mp4, so the distributed pipeline inherits the proven Linux
reliability profile.
Also lowers the harness's distributed-simulated PSNR floor to 45 dB.
The plan's 50 dB target was written for per-render comparison; against
the frozen baseline file, the in-process renderer itself drifts ~2 dB
due to libx264/JPEG-capture jitter, so 50 dB is empirically unreachable
for either mode. 45 dB tracks the observed ~47-48 dB floor and stays
well above the 30 dB fixture threshold.
Validated:
- font-variant-numeric in distributed-simulated: PASSED (PSNR ~48 dB
across 100 checkpoints, audio correlation 1.000).
- many-cuts surfaces a fourth Phase 3 issue: timing drift on compositions
with external script src= files. First ~5 frames render the
pre-script-execution state and later variants come in ~200 ms late vs
baseline. Tracking separately — the harness mode is correctly detecting
it as a regression, which is the point.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@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
Related packages
@hyperframes/core— types, parsers, frame adapters@hyperframes/producer— high-level render pipeline built on this enginehyperframes— CLI