claude-real-video

▶ 100-second demo: ChatGPT and Gemini can watch video, Claude can't. Here's what Claude answers once crv turns the video into frames plus a timestamped transcript.

▶ The 60-second pixel film — sound on (mp4 on GitHub) · an AI agent searches "how can an LLM truly understand video?", finds a key, and unlocks vision.

60-second real demo — real install, real run, real viewer.

Let Claude — or any LLM — actually watch a video.

pip install "claude-real-video[whisper]"
npx skills add HUANGCHIHHUNGLeo/claude-real-video   # one command, installs the skill into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Gemini CLI & 50+ agent hosts

Claude Code plugin marketplace (enable auto-update in /plugin → Marketplaces if you want it):

/plugin marketplace add HUANGCHIHHUNGLeo/claude-real-video
/plugin install claude-real-video@claude-real-video

Then paste a video link into your agent and ask about it. (CLI-only use? crv "<url>" works with just the pip install.)

Naming: crv is the short name for claude-real-video (the PyPI package). The paid add-on, crv Pro, is sold on Capafy under the listing name "llm-real-video Pro".

▶ New: the 40-second film — my AI agent learned to watch videos (and stopped working)

Same 58-second clip: fixed 1 fps sampling = 58 frames. crv keeps the 26 that actually differ — and --grid packs them into 3 contact sheets. Fewer tokens, nothing missed.

This free version lets your AI see the video. crv Pro lets it understand it — how it was shot (cut rhythm, camera moves) plus a timestamped timeline of what frames can't show: gestures, expressions, voice pitch shifts, emotion, sound events. One-time price $29 — get it on Capafy or buy with card via Lemon Squeezy.

On Codex CLI? ▶ 36-second demo · Real Video for Codex is a self-contained build for it. You ask Codex about a video, it runs one command, then reads a SUMMARY.md with chapters, a timecoded transcript and the text that was on screen, which this free edition leaves out. So it can quote the config block on the slide at 12:40, not only what the speaker said about it, and it answers you in hh:mm:ss. Download, frames, transcription and text recognition all run on your machine, and the tool itself needs no API key and no account. Ships with the Codex skill and a crv-easy doctor self-check. Python 3.10 to 3.14, macOS or Windows 11 native. One-time $9.90: get it on Capafy or buy with card via Lemon Squeezy.