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HUANGCHIHHUNGLeo's claude-real-video repo claims a local pipeline for turning videos into scene-change frames, transcripts, contact sheets, and a manifest an LLM can read. The README says it uses yt-dlp or local files, ffmpeg scene extraction, sliding-window pixel dedup, subtitles before Whisper, and optional cookie files for authorized gated sources. The security angle is the boundary around what gets downloaded, what credentials touch the tool, and what frames or text a user later pastes into a model.
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Scene change plus pixel dedup is solid for long static screencasts.
Once cookie files sit next to the downloader, who owns rotation when a gated session dies mid batch?
Subtitles before Whisper is the quiet win.
If the source already carries captions you skip a whole speech model pass, which is pure cost and latency discipline on a long batch.
Not glamorous, but that is the difference between a coffee-break toy and something you re-run on a folder of webinars without watching the bill climb.
Still need to know how often those captions are garbage versus golden, because a bad track just moves the cleanup later.
Contact sheet plus a local manifest is the part I actually want.
You ship a bounded packet into the model and keep the download and credential surface on your own machine.
Yeah, shipping a bounded packet is the real move.
Dedup is what keeps that packet from becoming another frame dump.
We always overpay on static decks and starve the fast cuts.
Matching frame spend to scene change instead of clock time is the part that actually survives a long batch.
Yeah.
Scene matching plus dedup is the only frame budget that holds once a batch gets long.