diff --git a/packages/producer/src/services/fileServer.test.ts b/packages/producer/src/services/fileServer.test.ts
index 12cbed80e3..979bc268e5 100644
--- a/packages/producer/src/services/fileServer.test.ts
+++ b/packages/producer/src/services/fileServer.test.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import {
   HF_EARLY_STUB,
   injectScriptsAtHeadStart,
   isPathInside,
+  parseRangeHeader,
   VIRTUAL_TIME_SHIM,
 } from "./fileServer.js";
 
@@ -225,6 +226,94 @@ describe("isPathInside", () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe("parseRangeHeader", () => {
+  const SIZE = 1000;
+
+  it("returns absent when there is no Range header", () => {
+    expect(parseRangeHeader(undefined, SIZE)).toEqual({ kind: "absent" });
+    expect(parseRangeHeader(null, SIZE)).toEqual({ kind: "absent" });
+    expect(parseRangeHeader("", SIZE)).toEqual({ kind: "absent" });
+  });
+
+  it("parses a closed range bytes=START-END", () => {
+    expect(parseRangeHeader("bytes=0-99", SIZE)).toEqual({
+      kind: "satisfiable",
+      start: 0,
+      end: 99,
+    });
+    expect(parseRangeHeader("bytes=100-199", SIZE)).toEqual({
+      kind: "satisfiable",
+      start: 100,
+      end: 199,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("parses an open-ended range bytes=START- as start..EOF", () => {
+    expect(parseRangeHeader("bytes=100-", SIZE)).toEqual({
+      kind: "satisfiable",
+      start: 100,
+      end: SIZE - 1,
+    });
+    expect(parseRangeHeader("bytes=0-", SIZE)).toEqual({
+      kind: "satisfiable",
+      start: 0,
+      end: SIZE - 1,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("parses a suffix range bytes=-N as the last N bytes", () => {
+    expect(parseRangeHeader("bytes=-50", SIZE)).toEqual({
+      kind: "satisfiable",
+      start: SIZE - 50,
+      end: SIZE - 1,
+    });
+    // Suffix larger than the file: clamp to the whole file.
+    expect(parseRangeHeader("bytes=-5000", SIZE)).toEqual({
+      kind: "satisfiable",
+      start: 0,
+      end: SIZE - 1,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("clamps the end of a closed range to the last valid byte", () => {
+    // bytes=900-9999 on a 1000-byte file -> serve 900..999.
+    expect(parseRangeHeader("bytes=900-9999", SIZE)).toEqual({
+      kind: "satisfiable",
+      start: 900,
+      end: SIZE - 1,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("returns unsatisfiable when start >= size", () => {
+    expect(parseRangeHeader("bytes=1000-2000", SIZE)).toEqual({ kind: "unsatisfiable" });
+    expect(parseRangeHeader("bytes=2000-", SIZE)).toEqual({ kind: "unsatisfiable" });
+  });
+
+  it("returns unsatisfiable when end < start in a closed range", () => {
+    expect(parseRangeHeader("bytes=200-100", SIZE)).toEqual({ kind: "unsatisfiable" });
+  });
+
+  it("returns unsatisfiable for a suffix request on a zero-byte file", () => {
+    expect(parseRangeHeader("bytes=-10", 0)).toEqual({ kind: "unsatisfiable" });
+  });
+
+  it("returns absent for non-bytes units, multi-range, and malformed inputs", () => {
+    expect(parseRangeHeader("items=0-1", SIZE)).toEqual({ kind: "absent" });
+    expect(parseRangeHeader("bytes=0-99,200-299", SIZE)).toEqual({ kind: "absent" });
+    expect(parseRangeHeader("bytes=abc-def", SIZE)).toEqual({ kind: "absent" });
+    expect(parseRangeHeader("bytes=", SIZE)).toEqual({ kind: "absent" });
+    expect(parseRangeHeader("bytes=-", SIZE)).toEqual({ kind: "absent" });
+  });
+
+  it("tolerates surrounding whitespace and case", () => {
+    expect(parseRangeHeader(" Bytes = 0-99 ", SIZE)).toEqual({
+      kind: "satisfiable",
+      start: 0,
+      end: 99,
+    });
+  });
+});
+
 describe("createFileServer", () => {
   it("serves asset files through project-root symlinked directories", async () => {
     const workspaceDir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "hf-file-server-symlink-assets-"));
@@ -253,6 +342,150 @@ describe("createFileServer", () => {
     }
   });
 
+  it("streams binary file content without buffering through readFileSync", async () => {
+    // Regression test for the video-heavy event-loop block documented at
+    // renderOrchestrator.ts:1277-1306. Pre-fix the file route called
+    // readFileSync on every binary asset, which on 32MB+ videos stalled
+    // the Node event loop long enough to wedge concurrent /health probes.
+    // This test pins three properties of the streaming path:
+    //
+    //   1. Correctness: the served byte sequence matches the file exactly,
+    //      across a chunk boundary (we use a 5 MB synthetic asset, well past
+    //      Node's default 64KB createReadStream highWaterMark).
+    //   2. Content-Length is reported via statSync so range-aware HTTP
+    //      consumers (Chrome's media stack) see the size up front.
+    //   3. Concurrent requests don't serialize behind each other — N
+    //      parallel fetches all return identical content. With readFileSync
+    //      they'd block the event loop in serial; with the stream they
+    //      pipe interleaved chunks.
+    const projectDir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "hf-file-server-stream-"));
+    try {
+      writeEmptyIndex(projectDir);
+      // 5 MB of deterministic bytes — large enough to span many 64KB read
+      // chunks, small enough to keep the test fast.
+      const size = 5 * 1024 * 1024;
+      const buf = Buffer.alloc(size);
+      for (let i = 0; i < size; i++) buf[i] = i & 0xff;
+      writeFileSync(join(projectDir, "big.bin"), buf);
+
+      await withFileServer(projectDir, async (server) => {
+        // Single-request correctness + content-length.
+        const r = await fetch(`${server.url}/big.bin`);
+        expect(r.status).toBe(200);
+        expect(r.headers.get("content-length")).toBe(String(size));
+        const out = Buffer.from(await r.arrayBuffer());
+        expect(out.length).toBe(size);
+        // Spot-check a few sentinel positions (full equality check is O(5MB)
+        // and unnecessary — if any chunk were misaligned we'd see it here).
+        expect(out[0]).toBe(0);
+        expect(out[255]).toBe(255);
+        expect(out[256]).toBe(0);
+        expect(out[size - 1]).toBe((size - 1) & 0xff);
+
+        // Concurrent requests don't corrupt each other.
+        const concurrent = await Promise.all(
+          Array.from({ length: 4 }, () => fetch(`${server.url}/big.bin`)),
+        );
+        for (const resp of concurrent) {
+          expect(resp.status).toBe(200);
+          const body = Buffer.from(await resp.arrayBuffer());
+          expect(body.length).toBe(size);
+          expect(body[0]).toBe(0);
+          expect(body[size - 1]).toBe((size - 1) & 0xff);
+        }
+      });
+    } finally {
+      rmSync(projectDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("serves Range requests with 206 Partial Content + Accept-Ranges", async () => {
+    // Pins the RFC 7233 implementation for the binary path: Chrome's <video>
+    // element issues `Range: bytes=...` when seeking, and the response must
+    // be 206 with `Content-Range` + a sliced body so the player can resume
+    // partial-load without re-pulling the whole file. Also pins that the
+    // server advertises `Accept-Ranges: bytes` on full-body GETs so clients
+    // know future Range requests are supported.
+    const projectDir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "hf-file-server-range-"));
+    try {
+      writeEmptyIndex(projectDir);
+      // Use a 4 KB deterministic asset: small enough to keep the test
+      // fast, large enough that suffix / partial responses exercise the
+      // slicing math meaningfully.
+      const size = 4096;
+      const buf = Buffer.alloc(size);
+      for (let i = 0; i < size; i++) buf[i] = i & 0xff;
+      writeFileSync(join(projectDir, "asset.bin"), buf);
+
+      await withFileServer(projectDir, async (server) => {
+        // 1. Full GET advertises Accept-Ranges: bytes.
+        const full = await fetch(`${server.url}/asset.bin`);
+        expect(full.status).toBe(200);
+        expect(full.headers.get("accept-ranges")).toBe("bytes");
+        expect(full.headers.get("content-length")).toBe(String(size));
+        await full.body?.cancel();
+
+        // 2. Closed range: bytes=0-99 returns the first 100 bytes.
+        const head = await fetch(`${server.url}/asset.bin`, {
+          headers: { Range: "bytes=0-99" },
+        });
+        expect(head.status).toBe(206);
+        expect(head.headers.get("content-range")).toBe(`bytes 0-99/${size}`);
+        expect(head.headers.get("content-length")).toBe("100");
+        expect(head.headers.get("accept-ranges")).toBe("bytes");
+        const headBody = Buffer.from(await head.arrayBuffer());
+        expect(headBody.length).toBe(100);
+        expect(headBody[0]).toBe(0);
+        expect(headBody[99]).toBe(99);
+
+        // 3. Open-ended: bytes=4000- returns the tail.
+        const tail = await fetch(`${server.url}/asset.bin`, {
+          headers: { Range: "bytes=4000-" },
+        });
+        expect(tail.status).toBe(206);
+        expect(tail.headers.get("content-range")).toBe(`bytes 4000-${size - 1}/${size}`);
+        expect(tail.headers.get("content-length")).toBe(String(size - 4000));
+        const tailBody = Buffer.from(await tail.arrayBuffer());
+        expect(tailBody.length).toBe(size - 4000);
+        expect(tailBody[0]).toBe(4000 & 0xff);
+        expect(tailBody[tailBody.length - 1]).toBe((size - 1) & 0xff);
+
+        // 4. Suffix: bytes=-50 returns the last 50 bytes.
+        const suffix = await fetch(`${server.url}/asset.bin`, {
+          headers: { Range: "bytes=-50" },
+        });
+        expect(suffix.status).toBe(206);
+        expect(suffix.headers.get("content-range")).toBe(`bytes ${size - 50}-${size - 1}/${size}`);
+        expect(suffix.headers.get("content-length")).toBe("50");
+        const suffixBody = Buffer.from(await suffix.arrayBuffer());
+        expect(suffixBody.length).toBe(50);
+        expect(suffixBody[0]).toBe((size - 50) & 0xff);
+        expect(suffixBody[49]).toBe((size - 1) & 0xff);
+
+        // 5. Unsatisfiable: bytes=99999-99999 returns 416 with
+        //    Content-Range: bytes */<size> per RFC 7233 §4.4.
+        const bad = await fetch(`${server.url}/asset.bin`, {
+          headers: { Range: "bytes=99999-99999" },
+        });
+        expect(bad.status).toBe(416);
+        expect(bad.headers.get("content-range")).toBe(`bytes */${size}`);
+        expect(bad.headers.get("accept-ranges")).toBe("bytes");
+        await bad.body?.cancel();
+
+        // 6. Multi-range falls back to 200 (we don't reassemble
+        //    multipart/byteranges for the single-asset use case).
+        const multi = await fetch(`${server.url}/asset.bin`, {
+          headers: { Range: "bytes=0-9,20-29" },
+        });
+        expect(multi.status).toBe(200);
+        expect(multi.headers.get("accept-ranges")).toBe("bytes");
+        await multi.body?.cancel();
+      });
+    } finally {
+      rmSync(projectDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    }
+  });
+
   it("decodes percent-encoded reserved characters in URL path segments", async () => {
     const projectDir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "hf-file-server-reserved-chars-"));
 
diff --git a/packages/producer/src/services/fileServer.ts b/packages/producer/src/services/fileServer.ts
index 829e3759c3..5577042237 100644
--- a/packages/producer/src/services/fileServer.ts
+++ b/packages/producer/src/services/fileServer.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@
 import { Hono } from "hono";
 import { serve } from "@hono/node-server";
 import type { IncomingMessage } from "node:http";
-import { readFileSync, existsSync, realpathSync, statSync } from "node:fs";
+import { existsSync, realpathSync, statSync, createReadStream } from "node:fs";
+import { readFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { Readable } from "node:stream";
 import { join, extname, resolve, sep } from "node:path";
 import { injectScriptsAtHeadStart, injectScriptsIntoHtml } from "@hyperframes/core/compiler";
 import { getVerifiedHyperframeRuntimeSource } from "./hyperframeRuntimeLoader.js";
@@ -96,6 +98,86 @@ const MIME_TYPES: Record<string, string> = {
   ".otf": "font/otf",
 };
 
+/**
+ * Result of parsing a `Range:` request header against a known total size.
+ *
+ * - `kind: "satisfiable"`: `start <= end < size`. The response should be 206
+ *   with `Content-Range: bytes start-end/size` and the sliced body.
+ * - `kind: "unsatisfiable"`: the header was syntactically valid (`bytes=...`)
+ *   but the resolved range falls outside `[0, size)` (e.g. `start >= size`,
+ *   `end < start`, or a suffix request on a zero-byte file). Per RFC 7233
+ *   the response should be 416 with `Content-Range: bytes (asterisk)/size`.
+ * - `kind: "absent"`: there is no `Range:` header on the request, or it is
+ *   syntactically malformed, uses a non-`bytes` unit, or requests multiple
+ *   ranges. RFC 7233 allows ignoring such headers and serving the full body
+ *   with a 200, which is what callers should do.
+ */
+export type RangeRequest =
+  | { kind: "satisfiable"; start: number; end: number }
+  | { kind: "unsatisfiable" }
+  | { kind: "absent" };
+
+/**
+ * Parse a single-range `Range:` request header per RFC 7233 §2.1.
+ *
+ * Supports the three forms of `bytes=...`:
+ *   - `bytes=START-END`: closed range, both bounds inclusive.
+ *   - `bytes=START-`: open-ended, serve from START to EOF.
+ *   - `bytes=-SUFFIX`: last SUFFIX bytes.
+ *
+ * Multi-range requests (`bytes=0-99,200-299`) are treated as `absent`. The
+ * caller serves the full body with 200. The hyperframes producer's use case
+ * (Chrome `<video>` seeks, range-aware media stack) only ever issues single
+ * ranges, so we don't take on the multipart-byteranges complexity here.
+ *
+ * Exported for unit tests; not part of the public package surface.
+ */
+export function parseRangeHeader(header: string | null | undefined, size: number): RangeRequest {
+  if (!header) return { kind: "absent" };
+  const match = /^\s*bytes\s*=\s*(.*?)\s*$/i.exec(header);
+  if (!match) return { kind: "absent" };
+  const specList = match[1];
+  if (!specList || specList.includes(",")) {
+    // Multi-range: bail to full-body 200 rather than reassemble
+    // multipart/byteranges. Single-range is the only shape we serve.
+    return { kind: "absent" };
+  }
+  const dashIdx = specList.indexOf("-");
+  if (dashIdx < 0) return { kind: "absent" };
+  const rawStart = specList.slice(0, dashIdx).trim();
+  const rawEnd = specList.slice(dashIdx + 1).trim();
+
+  // Suffix form: `bytes=-N` returns the last N bytes.
+  if (rawStart === "" && rawEnd !== "") {
+    if (!/^\d+$/.test(rawEnd)) return { kind: "absent" };
+    const suffixLen = Number(rawEnd);
+    if (!Number.isFinite(suffixLen)) return { kind: "absent" };
+    if (size === 0 || suffixLen === 0) return { kind: "unsatisfiable" };
+    const start = Math.max(0, size - suffixLen);
+    return { kind: "satisfiable", start, end: size - 1 };
+  }
+
+  if (!/^\d+$/.test(rawStart)) return { kind: "absent" };
+  const start = Number(rawStart);
+  if (!Number.isFinite(start)) return { kind: "absent" };
+
+  // Open-ended form: `bytes=START-` returns from START to EOF.
+  if (rawEnd === "") {
+    if (start >= size) return { kind: "unsatisfiable" };
+    return { kind: "satisfiable", start, end: size - 1 };
+  }
+
+  // Closed form: `bytes=START-END`
+  if (!/^\d+$/.test(rawEnd)) return { kind: "absent" };
+  const requestedEnd = Number(rawEnd);
+  if (!Number.isFinite(requestedEnd)) return { kind: "absent" };
+  if (requestedEnd < start) return { kind: "unsatisfiable" };
+  if (start >= size) return { kind: "unsatisfiable" };
+  // Clamp the end to the last valid byte.
+  const end = Math.min(requestedEnd, size - 1);
+  return { kind: "satisfiable", start, end };
+}
+
 /**
  * Options for {@link buildVirtualTimeShim}.
  */
@@ -609,7 +691,7 @@ export function createFileServer(options: FileServerOptions): Promise<FileServer
 
   const app = new Hono();
 
-  app.get("/*", (c) => {
+  app.get("/*", async (c) => {
     let requestPath = c.req.path;
     if (requestPath === "/") requestPath = "/index.html";
 
@@ -665,7 +747,12 @@ export function createFileServer(options: FileServerOptions): Promise<FileServer
     const contentType = MIME_TYPES[ext] || "application/octet-stream";
 
     if (ext === ".html") {
-      const rawHtml = readFileSync(filePath, "utf-8");
+      // Use the async read here so we don't block the Node event loop while
+      // reading an HTML file (typically small, but a 200KB+ AI-generated
+      // composition during a concurrent render still costs a ms of stall).
+      // The injection step is sync — it's pure string ops on the buffered
+      // HTML — but the read itself is the only step that touches the disk.
+      const rawHtml = await readFile(filePath, "utf-8");
       const isIndex = relativePath === "index.html";
       let html = rawHtml;
       if (preHeadScripts.length > 0) {
@@ -677,10 +764,67 @@ export function createFileServer(options: FileServerOptions): Promise<FileServer
       return c.text(html, 200, { "Content-Type": contentType });
     }
 
-    const content = readFileSync(filePath);
-    return new Response(content, {
+    // Stream binary file content rather than buffering it with readFileSync.
+    // On video-heavy compositions Chrome requests several 32MB video files
+    // back-to-back through this server; each readFileSync(32MB) blocked the
+    // Node event loop long enough to wedge concurrent /health responses (see
+    // renderOrchestrator.ts:1277-1306 documenting the same regression class).
+    // createReadStream() pipes bounded chunks asynchronously, so the event
+    // loop stays responsive even when several large assets are in flight
+    // simultaneously. Chrome reassembles the chunks transparently.
+    //
+    // We also honor `Range:` requests (RFC 7233) so Chrome's <video> element
+    // can seek into and partial-load large media without re-pulling the whole
+    // file. `Accept-Ranges: bytes` is advertised on every response (including
+    // full-body 200s) so the client knows ranges are supported.
+    const stat = statSync(filePath);
+    const totalSize = stat.size;
+    const rangeHeader = c.req.header("range");
+    const rangeRequest = parseRangeHeader(rangeHeader, totalSize);
+
+    if (rangeRequest.kind === "unsatisfiable") {
+      // 416 Range Not Satisfiable. RFC 7233 §4.4 mandates `Content-Range`
+      // carry the total length as `bytes */<size>` so clients know how to
+      // re-issue a valid range.
+      return new Response(null, {
+        status: 416,
+        headers: {
+          "Content-Type": contentType,
+          "Content-Range": `bytes */${totalSize}`,
+          "Accept-Ranges": "bytes",
+        },
+      });
+    }
+
+    if (rangeRequest.kind === "satisfiable") {
+      const { start, end } = rangeRequest;
+      const length = end - start + 1;
+      const stream = createReadStream(filePath, { start, end });
+      const webStream = Readable.toWeb(stream) as unknown as ReadableStream;
+      return new Response(webStream, {
+        status: 206,
+        headers: {
+          "Content-Type": contentType,
+          "Content-Length": String(length),
+          "Content-Range": `bytes ${start}-${end}/${totalSize}`,
+          "Accept-Ranges": "bytes",
+        },
+      });
+    }
+
+    // No Range header (or malformed/multi-range): full-body 200 with
+    // Accept-Ranges advertised so the client knows future Range requests
+    // are supported. Node Readable -> Web ReadableStream so Hono's
+    // Response can consume it. Node 18+ supports Readable.toWeb directly.
+    const stream = createReadStream(filePath);
+    const webStream = Readable.toWeb(stream) as unknown as ReadableStream;
+    return new Response(webStream, {
       status: 200,
-      headers: { "Content-Type": contentType },
+      headers: {
+        "Content-Type": contentType,
+        "Content-Length": String(totalSize),
+        "Accept-Ranges": "bytes",
+      },
     });
   });