cyberneticlibrary

Index and search video content

videodbskillsetup L30
Sheshiyer/skill-clusters
What it does

Index, search, and edit video with vision+speech understanding

Best for

Find exact moments in long video by spoken content or visual description, then export clips

Inputs
  • · video URL/file path/RTSP feed
  • · search query or clip range
  • · transcode/subtitle spec
Outputs
  • · searchable index
  • · timestamp-keyed clips
  • · subtitles/SRT
  • · transcoded stream URL
Requires
  • · VideoDB API
  • · FFmpeg (transcoding)
  • · Python dotenv
Preconditions

VIDEO_DB_API_KEY set in env or .env file

Failure modes
  • · Search on unindexed video throws InvalidRequestError
  • · Scene extraction requires retry on existing index
Trust signals
  • · API call tracing with try/except pattern
  • · Handles YouTube URLs out-of-box
  • · score_threshold filters noise