crv helps Claude inspect videos using selected frames and transcripts
claude-real-video, also called crv, is an tool that prepares videos for Claude. Claude cannot take a video file directly, and a YouTube link usually gives it only the transcript. crv finds the frames where the scene actually changes, instead of grabbing one image every second.
It also turns the audio into text and saves everything in a folder Claude can read. All processing on the user’s computer. Version 0.7.0 adds crv-web, a local web page in English and Chinese where a link can be pasted, analyzed, and viewed without using the terminal.
It can be installed with pip install claude-real-video and is released under the . The GitHub project has passed 1,300 stars and reached the Hacker News front page a few weeks earlier.
Key points
- crv extracts only frames where the scene changes, instead of taking images at a fixed rate.
- It transcribes the audio and packages the result into a folder Claude can read.
- Everything on the user’s own machine.
- crv-web adds a no-terminal local web page for pasting a link, running analysis, and viewing results.
- The tool is open source, , and has more than 1,300 .