Files
Vance Ingalls 43337ae224 fix: add media rendering guardrails to prevent silent failures
Lint rules:
- media_missing_id (error): audio/video with data-start but no id
- media_missing_src (error): media with id but no src
- media_preload_none (warning): preload="none" blocks the renderer
- video_nested_in_timed_element upgraded from warning to error

Compiler:
- Strip preload="none" from media during compilation
- Fire-and-forget keyframe interval + VFR detection via ffprobe
- Warn on sparse keyframes (>2s) and variable frame rate videos

CLI:
- Shared lintProject() lints index.html + compositions/*.html
- Shared formatLintFindings() used by lint, render, and dev commands
- Pre-render lint: warns by default, --strict blocks on errors,
  --strict-all blocks on errors + warnings
- Pre-dev lint: prints issues for agents before starting studio
- Render orchestrator hints --workers 1 on parallel capture timeout

Refactor:
- Extract runFfprobe() + parseProbeJson() (~80 lines deduped)
- Extract shouldBlockRender() for testable strict flag logic
- Extract formatLintFindings() (3 consumers unified)
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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