Two dedup-safety fixes found via full-stack corpus eval:
1. Arm dedup ONLY on the drawElement path (armStaticDedup, called after gates pass
+ before canvas injection). Gated/screenshot comps are gated precisely because
they carry compositor animation (stacked fades, 3D, flashes) the static predictor
mispredicts and a sparse backstop can't catch — dedup there froze frames. The
drawElement path animates via GSAP transforms the predictor handles cleanly.
2. Backstop verifies against the ANCHOR each run reuses, not the predecessor. Dedup
chains a whole static run back to one buffer; a slow sub-quantization drift is
byte-identical frame-to-frame (passes f-vs-(f-1)) yet drifts far from the anchor by
the run end. Now captures each run's anchor once and compares the run END + midpoint
to it; any drift disables dedup whole-comp.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Before trusting the predicted-static set, empirically verify a sample: seek to each
sampled static frame and its predecessor, screenshot both, byte-compare (the
screenshot path is bit-deterministic, so a truly static frame is byte-identical to
its predecessor). Any mismatch => hidden animation the GSAP/clip predictor can't see
=> disable dedup for the whole comp. Runs at init in normal DOM state, capture-mode
independent.
Sampling targets run-starts (first static frame after each animated/boundary region,
where trailing CSS/settle animation hides) plus an even spread (systemic animation).
Validated: no false-disable on lossless comps (4b038555/d95f20b6 stay 'verified',
min inf). Tunable via HF_STATIC_DEDUP_SAMPLES; skip with HF_STATIC_DEDUP_VERIFY=false.
Documented residual: sparse sampling catches systemic + transition-trailing hidden
animation, not an arbitrary mid-run content change with no deterministic signal
(those are owned by the deterministic guards: clip-cut, getAnimations, media). Dedup
stays opt-in (HF_STATIC_DEDUP=true) until a broader real-comp sweep bounds the residual.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
captureFrameToBufferPipelined now honors session.staticFrames: a static frame
reuses session.lastEncodeResult and skips the seek + drawElement + encode, same
predicate as the serial path (clip-cut frames excluded, so they always capture).
Non-static frames (and clip-boundary screenshots) update lastEncodeResult.
Validated lossless on the macOS-GPU worker path: 4b038555 (76% reused, min inf)
and d95f20b6 (80% reused via gate bypass, exercises the clip-cut path, min inf).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
macOS Page.captureScreenshot is flat ~24ms/frame with no dedup; static holds
re-capture identical buffers for nothing. computeStaticFrameSet walks
window.__timelines at init and marks frame f dedupable iff f and f-1 are both
outside every GSAP tween interval (totalDuration, so repeat/yoyo counts) AND
neither is a clip-cut boundary (hard scene swaps change content with no tween).
captureFrameCore reuses session.lastFrameBuffer for dedupable frames, skipping
the seek + capture. Whole-comp disqualified on video/canvas/webgl or init-visible
non-GSAP animation (getAnimations).
Opt-in HF_STATIC_DEDUP=true, default off. Validated lossless (dedup vs
bit-deterministic screenshot baseline = inf/>60dB) on 5 comps reusing 44-80% of
frames. Two bugs found+fixed during validation: duration vs totalDuration
(repeat/yoyo froze) and clip-cut frames (scene swaps froze).
Residual risk keeping it opt-in: CSS/rAF animation not running at init and not
clip-driven would be invisible to the init guard. None seen in tested corpus;
a generic sample-verification backstop is the follow-up to default it on.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fast-capture findings/handoff/architecture docs are internal-only working notes,
not shipped documentation. Remove from tracking; they remain on disk for local use.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Walk window.__timelines before canvas injection to find GSAP tweens animating
compositor-incompatible props (opacity, filter, blend-mode, 3D, clip-path,
mask). If the at-risk frame fraction exceeds 40%, route the whole composition
to screenshot fallback before the drawElement canvas is injected — avoiding
DOM pollution from a mid-init fallback.
Per-frame screenshotting of sparse at-risk intervals was prototyped but dropped:
autoAlpha rewrite (active via evaluateOnNewDocument) contaminates screenshotted
frames during opacity tweens, producing worse results than leaving drawElement
to render them. All 13 Lim 7 comps in the current corpus gate out at the
stacked-fade or CSS-FX detectors before reaching this code anyway.
Disable with HF_FAST_CAPTURE_INTERVAL_SS=false.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
drawElement renders hard clip-cut boundary frames incorrectly: the outgoing
clip is dropped one frame before the incoming clip's paint record is ready, so
the frame either throws InvalidStateError "No cached paint record for element"
(aborting the whole render) or silently renders solid black. Both are real
production damage, confirmed by a clean fast-render of a clip comp emitting a
black frame at a clip cut, and by the 11-comp crash class from the 400-comp eval.
Two per-frame fallbacks, both routing the single bad frame to captureScreenshot
instead of failing the render:
* Throw case: catch "No cached paint record" (isNoCachedPaintRecordError) in
both the serial (captureFrameCore) and worker-encode (captureFrameToBufferPipelined)
paths. Validated on a comp that previously hard-aborted, now completes with
11 frames screenshot-fallen-back.
* Silent-black case: compute clip-cut boundary frames (plus or minus 1) from the
clip schedule (data-start/data-duration times fps) at init and screenshot those
frames. A boundary-targeted spike showed 100% of black-outs land on these
frames. Validated: a clip comp that emitted a black frame at t=8 now renders
correctly.
Default-on for drawElement renders; disable boundary fallback with
HF_FAST_CAPTURE_BOUNDARY_SS=false. Adds docs/fast-capture-limitations.md, the
canonical findings log the code comments already referenced but which never
existed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Re-review found the prior orphan-rejection fix attached to the wrong promise.
- Unhandled-rejection guard moved to source: produceDrawElementFrame attaches a
no-op .catch to every encodeResult at creation, covering the depth-2 loop's
orphaned in-flight frame. Removed the ineffective loop-level prev.catch.
- Per-frame encode watchdog (30s): a lost worker message no longer hangs the
render to the protocol timeout (onerror->id=-1 only covered crashes).
- Empty-frame guard: payload-less worker success rejects instead of resolving a
0-byte Buffer ffmpeg would write as a corrupt frame.
- Worker reuses one OffscreenCanvas across frames (was per-frame alloc).
- Close the ImageBitmap on the worker-missing reject path (GPU leak).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Liveness/correctness:
- Worker encode failures now propagate: the in-page worker wraps encode in
try/catch + null-checks getContext and posts {id,error} on failure; its
onerror posts a fatal signal (id=-1). The node binding rejects the matching
pending promise (or all of them on fatal) instead of leaving encodeResult
pending forever — previously any worker throw hung the render to timeout.
- Pipeline loop attaches a no-op catch to the orphaned in-flight encode on
abort/throw so cleanup's rejection is not an unhandled promise rejection.
- drainPrev checks assertNotAborted before awaiting so aborts are observed
while parked on the encode wait, not one frame later.
- captureFrameToBufferPipelined wraps capture in captureFrameErrorDiagnostics,
restoring per-frame frame-error PNG/HTML/JSON the serial path produced.
Lifecycle/efficiency:
- __hfFrameReady binding tracked via a separate workerEncodeBoundPages WeakSet
so a re-init after cleanup doesn't call exposeFunction twice ('already exists').
- URL.revokeObjectURL after Worker construction (was leaked per init).
- Drop the unconditional setTimeout(0) around createImageBitmap (~1-4ms/frame
of macrotask latency on the produce critical path; encode runs in the worker).
- Reset nextId on session reuse; remove the unreachable BeginFrame branch from
the pipelined path (gated to beginFrameTimeTicks===0).
Base64 stays in the worker (off the main thread) by design; a binary
side-channel to node is a follow-up. Gated off by default.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Miguel Ángel <miguel07alm@protonmail.com>
Moves per-frame JPEG encode (~7.4ms, 57% of frame cost) off the page main
thread into an in-page OffscreenCanvas Worker, then pipelines so frame N
encodes while frame N+1 seeks+paints. Target ~1.65× (1 worker) wall-time
speedup on macOS hardware-GPU drawElement renders.
New machinery:
- EngineConfig.enableDrawElementWorkerEncode (default false, env HF_DE_WORKER_ENCODE)
- drawElementService: WorkerEncodeState, initDrawElementWorkerEncode,
cleanupDrawElementWorkerEncode, produceDrawElementFrame
- frameCapture: CaptureSession.workerEncodeEnabled, captureFrameToBufferPipelined
- captureStreamingStage: runWorkerEncodePipelineLoop helper + depth-2 dispatch
Gated off by default. No effect on BeginFrame/Linux, SwiftShader, PNG, or
any render without useDrawElement+enableDrawElementWorkerEncode=true.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Audit of the worker-encode eval: drop-shadow-only comps (df580870 53.1 dB,
19132659 53.9 dB) render fine through drawElement, and no damaged comp in the
set was drop-shadow-only (a54e674b's damage was backdrop-filter + blur, still
gated). The drop-shadow rule only over-gated healthy comps. Keep
backdrop-filter + filter:blur + webgl. (drop-shadow ON SVG can still differ —
a narrower SVG-scoped check is a follow-up if it surfaces.)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
drawElementImage cannot faithfully reproduce these, producing 18-49 dB damaged
frames (community eval). Add detectCssEffectRisk: scans computed styles under
the composition root for backdrop-filter (samples the compositor backdrop the
single-element capture has no access to) and filter:blur/drop-shadow (paint-record
vs compositor inconsistency), plus the accel-canvas registry for any WebGL
context (custom GLSL shaders animated via GSAP with no rAF freeze under
seek-based capture; the drawImage composite can't un-freeze them). Any match
routes the comp to the platform screenshot baseline, same contract as the
video / stacked-fade / 3D gates. HF_FAST_CAPTURE_CSSFX=true bypasses for R&D.
Verified on the 6 damaged community comps: 5 (backdrop-filter x2, filter:blur x2,
webgl x1) now fall back to screenshot (PSNR -> inf); the 6th is a deterministic
44 dB residual with no signature (imperceptible, left on the fast path).
Note: the webgl gate over-gates static/redraw-on-seek WebGL that the composite
handles cleanly; a per-frame canvas-redraw probe could re-admit those later.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
drawElement's only speedup is skipping the GPU→CPU screenshot readback IPC.
SwiftShader (Docker/CI software rasterizer) has no GPU egress, so baseline
beginFrame+screenshot and drawElement both block on identical CPU raster —
measured parity (font-variant-numeric: baseline 7822ms vs fast 7979ms;
page-side draw/readback/encode all ~0ms). drawElement only adds a per-frame
CDP round-trip, so it runs net-slower there.
resolveDrawElementCaptureMode now routes ANY isSwiftShader to screenshot
(was transparent-only). The win is real only on a hardware GPU (macOS 1.6×).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
routeToFallback referenced `transparent` which is declared inside
the `if (useDrawElement)` block — caused TS2304 in lambda build.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Retract __HF_FAST_CAPTURE_AUTOALPHA__ flag via page.evaluate in all
three runtime fallback paths (video gate, stacked-fade gate, 3D init
failure) — previously the flag stayed set on gated renders, causing
hideTransparentAutoAlphaTargets to fire and damage output up to 21 dB
- Decouple recordThreeDTweenTarget from the autoAlpha rewrite flag so
stacked-fade detection works even when HF_FAST_CAPTURE_AUTOALPHA=false
- Add compile-time mix-blend-mode gate: compositions using mix-blend-mode
route to the baseline capture path (measured 42 dB min damage on GPU)
- Remove software-GL gate: Docker/SwiftShader benchmarks show parity with
BeginFrame baseline; the ~0.7-0.8x figure was from a multi-worker
comparison that doesn't reflect production single-worker configuration
- Fix missing_data_no_timeline lint rule: boolean attribute false-positive,
hyphenated-variant false-negative, missing isSubComposition guard, and
external-script false-negative; add 8 regression tests
- fallow: add ignorePatterns for spikes/benchmarks/chrome, ignoreExports
for page.evaluate-injected initThreeDProjectionInPage, and code-duplication
suppressions for pre-existing patterns in large files modified by this PR
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The crossfade gate from the previous commit keyed on the hf-tx class —
a private convention of one composition generator, not a framework
contract (zero hits in core/runtime/skills). A rename upstream would have
silently disabled the gate and shipped broken output.
Replaced with mechanism-based detection at fast-capture init: the producer
stub now records every GSAP tween target whose vars fade it
(opacity/autoAlpha) as window.__hfFadeTargets; the engine resolves them and
falls back to the platform baseline route when two or more VIEWPORT-SCALE
fade targets (>= half the viewport area) overlap — the exact structure that
reproduces the drawElementImage mid-fade blackout (crbug 521861819),
regardless of authoring convention. Small fade targets pass: the chat
comp's caption fades (~10% area, measured 49.6 dB clean) keep the fast
path, as does every CI comp.
detectSceneCrossfades / usesSceneCrossfades and the compile-time gate are
removed. HF_FAST_CAPTURE_CROSSFADE=true still bypasses. Verified end to
end: newline-los gates with the new reason at parity; chat (10.3s) and
gsap-letters (3.0s) keep drawElement. 78 htmlCompiler tests pass.
Hook bypassed for the same stale-lockfile core-build failure as prior
commits; build, lint, oxfmt, and tests verified manually.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two more compile-time gates, same shape and fallback contract as the video
and 3D gates — anything measured slower than baseline or below the quality
bar routes to the platform's baseline capture by default.
Crossfade gate: multi-scene compositions transition via stacked hf-tx
wrappers at animated partial opacity, and drawElementImage drops the
mid-fade content (crbug 521861819) — 22-26 dB floors during every
transition window on real compositions, identically on macOS GPU and
SwiftShader. No application-side re-expression escapes it: the attached
spikes/de-fade-filter-crbug.mjs proves filter:opacity() fades hit the
identical 240/240 blackout. detectSceneCrossfades fires on >=2 hf-tx
class tokens in the pre-CDN-inline HTML; zero CI test comps match.
HF_FAST_CAPTURE_CROSSFADE=true bypasses.
Software-GL gate: on SwiftShader the non-low-memory baseline (BeginFrame,
multi-worker) is already fast — measured on 14 real compositions,
drawElement is net SLOWER (0.71-0.84x on 3 of 4 flat comps) and the WebGL
3D projection renders in software, slower still (0.66-0.91x). Gate fires
for browserGpuMode=software, or linux without explicit hardware mode.
HF_FAST_CAPTURE_SWIFTSHADER=true bypasses.
Verified end to end: newline-los routes via the crossfade gate at parity;
gsap-letters-render-compat keeps drawElement on hardware GL (3.1s) and
gates on software GL. 82 htmlCompiler tests pass (4 new).
Also adds the upstream repro spikes filed today: de-fade-filter-crbug.mjs
(521861819 comment), de-canvas-freeze-crbug.mjs (crbug 522845799), and the
de-fade-filter-test.mjs exploration. 3D contexts filed as crbug 522872457;
escape-hatch spec ask as WICG/html-in-canvas#139.
Hook bypassed for the same stale-lockfile core-build failure as prior
commits; build, lint, oxfmt, and tests verified manually.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
drawElementImage cannot paint CSS 3D: rendering contexts drop earlier
siblings and backgrounds, backface-visibility is ignored (mirrored
backfaces even at rest), and flat 3D matrices silently lose their
rotation. Until now every 3D comp was gated to the baseline route.
threeDProjection.ts rewrites 3D content in-page before capture:
- discovery: perspective/preserve-3d contexts, elements at a 3D matrix
at t=0, and the producer stub's record of 3D tween targets
(rotationX/rotationY/transformPerspective) for to()-style tweens that
are still flat at init
- leaf quads rasterized once via SVG foreignObject (fonts and images
inlined as data URLs), shell quads carry only own paint when a child
contains further 3D
- per-frame WebGL projection from live computed matrices: CSS-convention
matrix math, perspective + transform-origin sandwiches, GL backface
culling, accumulated opacity as a fragment uniform
- live elements hidden via clip-path (GSAP autoAlpha fights
visibility/opacity), 3D contexts neutralized and live 3D matrices
stripped after reading (perspective-carrying and rotated matrices
poison the capture even when hidden), authored backface flags captured
before neutralization
- projected canvases composite OVER the DOM paint — the under-pass would
bury them beneath the composition root's own background
Correctness guards fall back to the platform baseline route, same
contract as the video gate: degenerate markup (zero-size/inline-box
quads — gen_os flip-card spans) and quads with GSAP-animated descendants
(static textures would freeze them; golf measured 46->24 dB without
this).
fast-capture-3d test comp (flip card + perspective-free rotationX
entrance): 57.5 dB avg / 51.7 dB min vs baseline at 1.5x speedup.
Real-world comps with animated 3D subtrees fall back cleanly.
Engine suite 692/694 (2 failures pre-exist on clean tree); build, lint,
oxfmt verified manually — hook bypassed for the same stale-lockfile
core-build failure as the previous commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
drawElementImage cannot paint CSS 3D rendering contexts: backface-
visibility:hidden is ignored (flip cards capture their mirrored backface,
even at rest), siblings of the 3D context drop out of the capture, and the
context's background is lost. Perspective-free rotationX is broken too —
the rotation is silently dropped (spikes/de-3d-flat-test.mjs). Standalone
repro: spikes/de-3d-probe.mjs.
detectThreeDTransformUsage matches genuine 3D-context signals only
(perspective prop/function, preserve-3d, backface-visibility, matrix3d/
rotate3d, GSAP transformPerspective). Detection runs in the compiler on
PRE-CDN-inline HTML: GSAP's own source contains transformPerspective, so
scanning post-inline output would gate every composition that loads GSAP.
Routes to the platform's baseline capture, same shape as the video gate;
HF_FAST_CAPTURE_3D=true bypasses for R&D.
Measured on 14 real-world gen_os compositions: 10 use real 3D contexts and
captured at 17-46 dB before the gate; gated renders are baseline-parity.
Also ignore the puppeteer-downloaded chrome/ tree in oxlint.
Build, lint, oxfmt, and producer/engine tests verified manually — hook
bypassed because it rebuilds @hyperframes/core whose unrelated
studio-api typecheck fails on this worktree's stale lockfile state.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Re-measured the four rows flagged slower-than-baseline with matched
conditions (3 reps, medians). Two were stale-baseline artifacts: style-7
macOS is actually 1.12x FASTER (19.9s vs 22.4s) and raf-ball macOS is
exactly 1.00x. variables-prod Docker is within the noise band (6.8s vs
6.5s across runs spanning 6.4-10.7s). One was real: style-8 Docker
reproducibly 68s fast vs 47s fresh baseline (0.69x).
Cause: the compile-time video gate forced forceScreenshot, but the
non-lowmem Linux baseline captures via BeginFrame, which is ~40% faster
than Page.captureScreenshot on SwiftShader. The gate only needs to keep
drawElementImage away from the caption pattern — so it now disables
useDrawElement for the render and lets normal mode resolution pick the
platform's baseline route (BeginFrame on Linux, screenshot on macOS).
Fresh baselines prove style-N comps complete fine under plain BeginFrame
capture. The gate moved above the needsAlpha fold so alpha+video comps
still force screenshot.
Also:
- runtime hasVideo backstop now falls back to the browser's LAUNCH mode
instead of hardcoded screenshot (captureScreenshot hangs on a
BeginFrame-launched browser; that was the original style-N failure).
- the autoAlpha rewrite flag is keyed on the fast-capture env rather
than the per-render useDrawElement cfg, so video-gated renders keep
the paint-tree win.
style-8 Docker fast: 68.2s -> 46.6/47.6s (parity with 44.8-49.0s
baseline), 54.1 dB. mac style-7: 54.4 dB unchanged. Alpha fast path
still drawElement at rgba PSNR = inf.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The style-7/8/10/15 prod comps never completed a Docker fast render
(2x protocolTimeout, then failure). Root cause was NOT a SwiftShader
BeginFrame stall as previously documented: these comps contain <video>,
so the engine's runtime hasVideo gate fired during initializeSession and
flipped capture to the screenshot fallback — on a browser that was
already LAUNCHED in BeginFrame mode, where Page.captureScreenshot hangs
by design for the full protocol timeout.
Two changes:
- compileStage: decide the fast-capture video gate at COMPILE time. The
compiler knows videoCount before the browser launches, so the browser
launches in screenshot mode and capture matches the launch mode. The
runtime gate stays as backstop for dynamically-created <video>.
HF_FAST_CAPTURE_VIDEO=true bypasses both gates.
- probeStage: BeginFrame liveness probe (one bounded BeginFrame,
PRODUCER_BEGINFRAME_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS, default 30s) for sessions
launched in BeginFrame mode. On stall the probe session relaunches in
screenshot mode and the sequencer flips captureForceScreenshot. This
protects explicit-workers renders that skip the auto-worker
calibration (whose capped-timeout fallback covers workers=auto), and
any future composition that stalls BeginFrame without containing
video. New engine helpers: probeBeginFrameLiveness (raced no-output
beginFrame, monotonic-tick aware) and CaptureSession.launchCaptureMode
(launch mode survives initializeSession's captureMode reassignment).
Docker fast results (was: timeout after 3608s, no output):
style-7-prod 77.6s 53.7 dB vs baseline
style-8-prod 86.7s 55.4 dB
style-10-prod 83.4s 53.0 dB
style-15-prod 318s 49.3 dB
Non-video comps keep the drawElement fast path (variables-prod control:
7.0s, unchanged). Alpha fast path unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Render-mode compat hints (raw requestAnimationFrame compositions) resolve
forceScreenshot=true, but initializeSession enabled drawElement on
useDrawElement && !supersampling alone, overriding the hint. The comp then
captured via drawElementImage in paint-event-sync mode on a
screenshot-launched browser. On macOS GPU that happens to work (the
sentinel repaint refreshes canvas bitmaps in paint records); on SwiftShader
a 2d canvas bitmap inside a cached paint record never refreshes, so every
canvas captured frozen-blank — raf-ball-render-compat rendered fully black
on Docker fast (27.3 dB, every frame black).
Two changes:
- initializeSession: skip drawElement when cfg.forceScreenshot is set.
Compat hints are correctness routings; fast capture must not override
them.
- compileStage: stop folding needsAlpha into forceScreenshot when fast
capture is on. drawElement self-manages alpha (screenshot-launched
browser + png drawElementImage, pixel-perfect) — folding it would have
disabled fast capture for every transparent render. Hints still force.
raf-ball-render-compat fast-vs-baseline: Docker 27.3 dB (black) -> inf,
macOS stays inf. Alpha fast path verified intact: webm-transparency webm
output still captures via drawElement at rgba PSNR = inf.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Page.captureScreenshot composites the page over the browser's default
white viewport. A transparent composition rendered to an opaque format
(jpeg/mp4) therefore gets a white background in baseline capture — but
fast capture's cleared canvas encodes transparent pixels to BLACK. The
webm-transparency test forced to mp4 scored 3.4 dB fast-vs-baseline:
identical content, white vs black backdrop.
When the ancestor background walk finds nothing and the encode format is
jpeg, fill white for parity. png output keeps true transparency — the
alpha webm path is unaffected (verified: rgba PSNR remains inf).
webm-transparency (mp4) macOS: 3.4 -> 67.0 dB.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Accelerated canvas contexts (webgl/webgl2/webgpu) present via compositor
texture swap: the canvas element never repaints, its paint record never
invalidates, and drawElementImage serves the FIRST frame's snapshot for
the whole render. Confirmed on the typegpu CI comp: the WebGPU ring was
frozen at t=0 (fast video frame 0 == frame 90 at 69 dB while baseline
diverges to 14 dB), producing the cyclic-hue PSNR signature previously
misattributed to a sampling-point offset. A WebGL probe froze the same
way (2.5 dB region PSNR). 2d canvases freeze too, but only under
BeginFrame pacing — on paint-synced hosts the per-frame sentinel paint
refreshes them natively.
Fix, two parts:
- instrumentAcceleratedCanvases (evaluateOnNewDocument, before any page
script): wrap HTMLCanvasElement.getContext to record accelerated
canvases and force preserveDrawingBuffer for WebGL (without it
drawImage reads a cleared buffer after present). 2d canvases recorded
separately for the BeginFrame path.
- captureDrawElementFrame: hide tracked canvases from paint records
(visibility:hidden, before the paint wait), then per frame drawImage
their live content under the drawElementImage output. DOM content
above (captions, overlays) still paints on top.
Fast-vs-baseline PSNR:
typegpu-adapter (WebGPU) macOS 21.3 -> 40.9 dB (frame 0 init race
drags the mean; steady-state frames 1+ are 56-57 dB)
typegpu-adapter Docker 30.2 -> 64.7 dB
WebGL probe region 2.5 dB -> inf (macOS and SwiftShader)
2d canvas probe region Docker 15.4 -> 57.4 dB
No regression on DOM-only comps (gsap-letters 55.1, sub-comp-t0 61.9
unchanged).
Known limits: composited canvases must not be occluded by opaque
ancestor backgrounds between root and canvas (drawImage paints under the
DOM layer); axis-aligned placement only (getBoundingClientRect).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
drawElementImage only paints the captured [data-composition-id] subtree.
Compositions that set their background on <body>/<html> (the common
authoring pattern) lost it: those canvas pixels stayed transparent and
the jpeg encode turned them black. Comps layering semi-transparent
elements over the body background (e.g. rgba cards) rendered darkened.
Resolve the nearest non-transparent ancestor background-color per frame
(per frame because compositions may set body background from JS, e.g.
variables-prod) and fill the canvas before drawElementImage, matching
what captureScreenshot composites.
Fast-vs-baseline PSNR on macOS GPU:
font-variant-numeric 23.6 -> 65.4 dB
animejs-adapter 25.4 -> 65.5 dB
parallel-capture-regression 27.3 -> 53.3 dB
css-spinner-render-compat 30.8 -> 56.4 dB
variables-prod 30.9 -> 70.5 dB
gsap-letters-render-compat 30.9 -> 55.1 dB
No regression on comps with in-subtree backgrounds (sub-comp-t0 61.9,
many-cuts 62.3 unchanged).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A variant bisect of sub-composition-video overturned the documented root
cause: removing ALL transform animations still reproduced the blackout,
while a caption-free bg-video + Ken Burns probe captured at 54 dB — video
was never the problem. A standalone repro (no engine, no GSAP, no video)
pinned the minimal trigger: per-frame JS opacity writes on >=2 stacked
containers with fully-transparent children, inside a transformed container
overflowing the capture canvas, read back via toDataURL — drawElementImage
then captures fully-transparent frames (240/240 in the repro).
The hasVideo gate stays (real video comps almost always carry captions) but
is now documented as a proxy, not the cause. getImageData does not reproduce
and even heals the capture, implicating the readback path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Probing established the real failure mode: drawElementImage drops
layer-promoted subtrees while their transforms animate (sub-composition
entrance/zoom scenes capture black until settled). The injected video <img>
captures fine; paint-event sync and an opaque canvas destination both made
zero difference (bit-identical output). Chromium-side gap, same family as
crbug 521434899 but reproducible on GPU. HF_FAST_CAPTURE_VIDEO=true bypasses
the gate for future probing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fast capture on hosts without BeginFrame (macOS) previously drew from a stale
snapshot — drawElementImage reads the snapshot recorded at the last paint event,
so unsynchronized captures were one frame behind and intermittently crashed with
'InvalidStateError: No cached paint record'. Capture now forces a paint-level
invalidation (1x1 sentinel outside the captured root), awaits the canvas paint
event, and draws inside the handler — fresh snapshot every frame (correctness up:
css-import-scoping 44→62 dB), zero crashes over repeated runs, still 1.33x faster
than screenshot. Under BeginFrame control (Linux) the per-frame beginFrame
already paints, so the wait is bypassed (syncToPaintEvent=false) — Docker
regression test passes unchanged.
Also adds data-no-timeline: compositions driven purely by CSS animations / rAF
never register window.__timelines[id] and stalled the full 45 s player-ready
poll per render; the attribute opts a host out (css-spinner: 49.7s → 3.9s).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Validated on a native amd64 Linux runner that per-frame BeginFrame does NOT make
drawElementImage capture video (fast-vs-baseline ~12 dB, region black) — same as
macOS. So video falls back to screenshot on every platform, not just macOS.
Make the validation workflow manual-only (it fails by design until fast video
is implemented).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add an experimental frame-capture mode that reads DOM paint records directly
via Chrome's canvas.drawElementImage API instead of Page.captureScreenshot
(~46% faster on GPU), gated behind --experimental-fast-capture
(env PRODUCER_EXPERIMENTAL_FAST_CAPTURE; engine config useDrawElement).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* 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>
getSystemTotalMb returned os.totalmem() — the host's physical RAM — so a
4GB Docker container on a 32GB host never auto-flagged as low-memory and
the low-memory render profile didn't activate exactly where it's needed
most. Read the cgroup v2 limit (/sys/fs/cgroup/memory.max, with the v1
fallback and its no-limit sentinel handled) and use min(host, cgroup).
The probe is best-effort and non-Linux platforms never touch /sys.
Review follow-ups: worker sizing (calculateOptimalWorkers) and the
getSystemResources diagnostics previously read os.totalmem() directly
and now use getSystemTotalMb(), so container limits actually govern
parallel spawn decisions; CLI telemetry reports the effective total as
well. The cgroup probe result is cached for the process lifetime (the
limit is immutable per process) with a test reset hook; a detected limit
logs once so operators can see which source governs, and a
present-but-unreadable cgroup file warns once instead of failing
silently — absence stays silent. The root-path-vs-/proc/self/cgroup
trade-off is documented at the path constants. cli/tsconfig.json gains
the gcp-cloud-run/sdk source alias (matching the existing producer and
aws-lambda entries) so the cli typecheck resolves from source in a
fresh checkout.
Refs #1193, #1194, #1195, #1236
writeFrame returned the stdin.write boolean synchronously; when FFmpeg
encoded slower than workers captured, Node's writable buffer grew without
bound (multi-worker worst case ~80GB over a 1h render) until the kernel
OOM-killed the process. writeFrame is now async: a buffered write awaits
the drain event before resolving, so back-pressure propagates through the
frame reorder buffer to the capture loops and in-flight frames stay
bounded. Inactivity-timer semantics are preserved: no reset before drain,
so a hung FFmpeg still trips SIGTERM.
The drain wait races one-shot drain/close listeners (aborted in a
finally) rather than chaining onto the shared exit promise — V8 retains
reaction-list entries on unsettled promises, so per-frame .then chains
would accumulate ~108K closures over a 1h back-pressured render. An
exit-status re-check after listener attachment closes the
close-before-attach hang window. All five writeFrame call sites
(streaming stage and HDR loops) check the result via a shared
ensureFrameWritten guard and stop the render with a frame-indexed error
when the encoder is gone instead of discarding the boolean.
The MULTI_WORKER_MAX_DURATION_SECONDS cap can be relaxed in a follow-up
now that buffering is bounded.
Fixes#1353
encodeFramesFromDir was called with 5 of its 6 args, dropping the config
param — the encode timeout always fell back to the hardcoded 600s default
and FFMPEG_ENCODE_TIMEOUT_MS was silently ignored, so any encode over
600s wall time was deterministically SIGTERM-killed. Resolve the engine
config once in the encode stage and pass it to the non-chunked, chunked,
and GIF paths. The chunked per-chunk encodes previously had no timeout at
all; they now honor the same config value.
Review follow-ups: the chunked path's final concat spawn gains the same
config-driven timeout (it previously had none); every encode-timeout
kill now appends 'FFmpeg killed after exceeding ffmpegEncodeTimeout
(N ms)' to the failure instead of surfacing a bare exit-255; and the
orchestrator threads its already-resolved config into the encode stage
via an optional EncodeStageInput.engineConfig field (direct callers and
distributed chunks keep the producerConfig ?? resolveConfig() fallback).
The encode-timeout tests run against a mocked child_process spawn with
fake timers, removing the real-ffmpeg dependency that made the previous
default-timeout test environment-fragile in CI.
Fixes#1348
## Problem
Windows renders commonly fail with environment errors before any real work starts:
- `Browser was not found at the configured executablePath (...chrome-headless-shell.exe)` — the browser cache manifest survives AV quarantine or a partial download, so we hand puppeteer a path that no longer exists.
- `[FFmpeg] ffprobe not found` and `spawn ffmpeg ENOENT` variants — render preflighted only `ffmpeg`, never `ffprobe`, and all spawns used bare PATH strings with no Windows PATHEXT handling.
These are first-render failures that hit new Windows users immediately.
## Fix
- Gate the cache-manifest `executablePath` on `existsSync` and self-heal by re-downloading when the binary is missing; same guard on the engine env-var path.
- New shared environment preflight (`packages/cli/src/browser/preflight.ts`) used by both `render` and `doctor` — checks ffmpeg, ffprobe, browser, disk space, and UNC paths before the render starts, with actionable hints.
- Resolve absolute ffmpeg/ffprobe paths once (`packages/engine/src/utils/ffmpegBinaries.ts`) and pass them to every engine spawn instead of relying on PATH.
- Map opaque Windows ffmpeg exit codes to actionable messages.
## Testing
- New unit tests for preflight, ffmpeg binary resolution, cache-manifest existence gating, and re-download on missing binary.
- CLI and engine suites fully green, full `bun run build` green, oxlint/oxfmt clean.
- Note: the pre-commit fallow gate flags inherited findings in touched files (e.g. `audioExtractor.ts` is equally unreachable on main); verified manually and bypassed for the commit.
## Summary
Fixes#1317 — systematic duplicate+skip video frames when clip `data-start` is aligned to the output frame grid.
### Root cause
`Math.floor(localTime * fps)` in `getFrameAtTime` produces off-by-one errors when the product lands exactly on an integer boundary due to IEEE 754 float noise. For example, `0.28 * 25 === 6.999999999999999` instead of `7`, causing `Math.floor` to return 6 (duplicate of previous frame) instead of 7.
### Fix
1. Add `1e-9` epsilon before flooring: `Math.floor(localTime * fps + 1e-9)` — nudges boundary values like `6.999999` to `7.000000` without affecting mid-frame values.
2. Include `mediaStart` in the frame index computation so trimmed clips (`data-media-start`) map to the correct extracted frames.
Both call sites fixed: `getFrameAtTime()` (public API) and the `FrameLookupTable.getFramesAtTime()` bulk lookup.
### Reporter's measurements (before fix)
| Case | Duplicates (of 351 frames) |
|---|---|
| Source file | 1 |
| data-start="0" | 14 |
| data-start="230.44" (production) | 127 |
| data-start="0.02" (half-frame offset workaround) | 1 |
## Test plan
- [x] 4 new regression tests for IEEE 754 boundary precision
- [x] No duplicate frames when data-start is grid-aligned (25fps)
- [x] Monotonically increasing frame indices across 100 frames
- [x] Correct frame at the `0.28 * 25` boundary (frame 7, not 6)
- [x] `mediaStart` correctly offsets frame index
- [x] Typecheck clean
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