Files
miga-heygen 51c75f08e3 fix(producer): retry capture on a CDP Page.captureScreenshot refusal
Chromium's CDP layer can refuse a screenshot capture outright ("Protocol
error (Page.captureScreenshot): Unable to capture screenshot") with no
timeout wording at all. classifyCaptureFailure() didn't recognize the
message, so it fell through to the fatal "authoring" bucket and neither
capture-retry path (the disk-capture retry loop, or the streaming-capture
pinned-fallback retry) ever attempted a retry — including under
--low-memory-mode, whose single-worker plain-screenshot capture never
engages either path's other retry conditions.

Adds the literal error text to classifyCaptureFailure()'s transient_browser
bucket, and threads the resulting classification into
shouldRetryViaPinnedFallback() as a routing-independent retry condition, so
the streaming path recovers on a fresh session the same way the disk path
already does for other transient browser failures.

Co-Authored-By: Miguel Angel <miguel.sierra@heygen.com>
2026-09-12 01:01:20 +00:00
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2026-09-11 14:30:23 -07:00
2026-03-21 22:43:56 -07:00

@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