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miga-heygenandMiguel Ángel 71b274bbfd chore: release v0.8.42 (#3988)
* chore: release v0.8.42

- Studio preview works for projects whose path has non-Latin-1 characters (#3982)
- Studio render downloads use RFC 6266 headers for non-Latin-1 filenames (#3984)
- check --json reports HDR auto-promotion; render prints one warning (#3985)
- Forced --sdr renders tone-map HDR sources before extraction (#3981)
- Render/preview workers no longer survive as orphans after Ctrl-C or parent exit;
  cancellation reaches final artifact promotion; HYPERFRAMES_RENDER_DETACHED=1 for
  intentionally detached renders (#3974)
- HDR preflight test coverage for held tails (#3963)

Co-Authored-By: Miguel Ángel <miguel.sierra@heygen.com>

* chore: release v0.8.42 notes — name the #3982 symptom and scope

- #3982 entry: a Studio preview server crash for compositions whose file path
  has non-Latin-1 characters (the project directory is not involved)

Co-Authored-By: Miguel Ángel <miguel.sierra@heygen.com>

* chore: release v0.8.42 notes — name the #3982 symptom

- #3982 entry: the uncaught ETag TypeError took the preview server down, so
  call it a Studio preview server crash rather than a preview failure

Co-Authored-By: Miguel Ángel <miguel.sierra@heygen.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,
  createCaptureSession,
  initializeSession,
  captureFrame,
  closeCaptureSession,
} from "@hyperframes/engine";

// 1. Launch browser
const browserLease = await acquireBrowser({ captureMode: "beginFrame" });

// 2. Open a capture session
const session = createCaptureSession({
  browser: browserLease.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 browserLease.release();

Most users should use @hyperframes/producer or the hyperframes CLI instead of calling the engine directly.

Documentation

Full documentation: hyperframes.heygen.com/packages/engine