View Video — Development skill for Claude Code
Extract frames from a video using ffmpeg so Claude can visually analyze the content.
How to install View Video
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/zalogarcia-zalo-claude-code-setup-view-video/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/zalogarcia-zalo-claude-code-setup-view-video && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zalogarcia/zalo-claude-code-setup/HEAD/commands/view-video.md -o ~/.claude/skills/zalogarcia-zalo-claude-code-setup-view-video/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What View Video does
Extract frames from a video using ffmpeg so Claude can visually analyze the content.
Usage
Provide the local video file path and optionally the number of frames:
/view-video /path/to/video.mp4
/view-video /path/to/video.mp4 10
Instructions
- First, get video metadata using ffprobe:
ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_format -show_streams "$VIDEO_PATH"
Report: duration, resolution, codec, fps, and file size.
- Extract frames to a temp directory. Default is 6
Alternatives in Development
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- Video Comparer — Compare video files and content 653 ★
- Post Everywhere — Publish one piece of content — text, image, or video — to every connected platform (or a chosen subset) in a s 212 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
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