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View Video — Development skill for Claude Code

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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

Terminal

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

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