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Vance Ingalls e7bae09cfd fix(producer): warn and prefer crf over videoBitrate when both are set
Programmatic callers can construct RenderConfig directly and bypass the
CLI's mutual-exclusivity guard for --crf vs --video-bitrate. Add an
orchestrator-level check that logs a warning and explicitly nulls out
videoBitrate when crf is also set, so the encoder gets unambiguous
inputs and downstream users aren't confused by a quietly-different
bitrate than they passed in.

Addresses non-blocking review feedback on PR #372.
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@hyperframes/producer

Full HTML-to-video rendering pipeline: capture frames with Chrome's BeginFrame API, encode with FFmpeg, mix audio — all in one call.

Install

npm install @hyperframes/producer

Requirements: Node.js >= 22, Chrome/Chromium (auto-downloaded), FFmpeg

Usage

Render a video

import { createRenderJob, executeRenderJob } from "@hyperframes/producer";

const job = createRenderJob({
  inputPath: "./my-composition.html",
  outputPath: "./output.mp4",
  width: 1920,
  height: 1080,
  fps: 30,
});

const result = await executeRenderJob(job, (progress) => {
  console.log(`${Math.round(progress.percent * 100)}%`);
});

console.log(result.outputPath); // ./output.mp4

Run as an HTTP server

The producer can also run as a render server, accepting render requests over HTTP:

import { startServer } from "@hyperframes/producer";

await startServer({ port: 8080 });
// POST /render with a RenderConfig body

Configuration

RenderConfig controls the render pipeline:

Option Default Description
inputPath — Path to the HTML composition
outputPath — Output video file path
width 1920 Frame width in pixels
height 1080 Frame height in pixels
fps 30 Frames per second (24, 30, or 60)
quality "standard" Encoder preset ("draft", "standard", "high")

How it works

  1. Serve — spins up a local file server for the HTML composition
  2. Capture — opens the page in headless Chrome, seeks frame-by-frame via HeadlessExperimental.beginFrame, captures screenshots
  3. Encode — pipes frames through FFmpeg (with GPU encoder detection and chunked concat)
  4. Mix — extracts <audio> elements and mixes them into the final video
  5. Finalize — applies faststart for streaming-friendly MP4

Documentation

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