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James Russo ad11de698c feat(producer): auto-fallback screenshot capture for raf and iframes (#331)
* fix(core): drive adapter seeks when composition has no GSAP timeline

renderSeek returned early when deps.getTimeline() was null, skipping the
onDeterministicSeek call that drives all frame adapters (CSS, WAAPI,
Lottie, Three.js). That meant compositions using any non-GSAP animation
primitive froze on their initial frame during capture.

Now we still quantize the seek time and fire onDeterministicSeek even
without a timeline, so each adapter gets a chance to advance.

GSAP compositions are unaffected — timeline-driven seek still takes the
same path it did before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(producer): auto-fallback screenshot capture for raf and iframes

Co-Authored-By: Codex <codex@openai.com>

* test(producer): add render compatibility regression fixtures

Co-Authored-By: Codex <codex@openai.com>

* fix(core): scrub CSS animations via WAAPI currentTime

Co-Authored-By: Codex <codex@openai.com>

* test(producer): cover css keyframe renders

Co-Authored-By: Codex <codex@openai.com>

* fix(producer): propagate virtual time into iframe documents

Co-Authored-By: Codex <codex@openai.com>

* test(producer): refresh iframe docker golden

Co-Authored-By: Codex <codex@openai.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Codex <codex@openai.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