[HN Gopher] Show HN: VideoGist - Useful YouTube video summaries
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Show HN: VideoGist - Useful YouTube video summaries
Hi all! I put together a website that summarizes youtube videos.
Enter any YouTube URL, and it will give you an overall summary,
individual chapter summaries, along with key video frames. Here
are a few examples: https://www.videogist.co/videos/tips-for-
technical-startup-f... https://www.videogist.co/videos/openai-
devday-opening-keynot... https://www.videogist.co/videos/cbs-
evening-news-full-episod... https://www.videogist.co/videos/the-
best-easy-miso-salmon-re... I'd love to hear feedback - if it's
useful (or not!), what could be improved, etc. Thanks for taking a
look! p.s. it can take a few seconds for summary content to show
up - I am working to speed it up
Author : nliang86
Score : 41 points
Date : 2023-12-07 12:30 UTC (10 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.videogist.co)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.videogist.co)
| skeptrune wrote:
| Hilarious to see a Legion of Skanks video in the immediate
| history list.
|
| But it was surprisingly useful. The screen grabs throughout the
| summary were especially nice.
|
| I'd like it if I could jump to the specific timestamp a summary
| relates to on YouTube itself from the gen'ed text.
|
| Thinking about it more though I'd almost rather this backfill
| breakpoints in podcasts I listen to and let me jump to them.
|
| I also wouldn't worry about perf too much. I'd be ok with waiting
| on the order of minutes to get a quality improvement.
|
| Final nit, the tone of the LLM being used sucks. Maybe try a
| different one or give the user options with open router?
| Jayakumark wrote:
| The cooking one looks spot-on, is it using GPT4 and transcript or
| with Vision ?
| w-m wrote:
| Picked one from my recent history:
| https://www.videogist.co/videos/10-things-you-didn-t-know-ab...
|
| The text summary is very, very good. Kudos!
|
| (As a nitpick, it has 'Wesan' instead of 'Wunderschon', but David
| himself doesn't pronounce it very clearly, so can't really blame
| the speech recognition there.)
|
| The frame grabs next to the text appear to be sampled at random
| times, and not for their content. In the video, David presents
| screenshots and photos and what not. It happens to work out for
| Chapter 4, 6 and 7. In 5 of the other chapters it shows just the
| talking head. If a human had picked them, I think they'd show the
| most relevant imagery for the particular part of the video, and
| not the talking head.
| freetonik wrote:
| Very cool! Curious about the technical details of the LLM side.
| Can't imagine this is cheap to run.
|
| Tiny suggestion: the timestamp in the generated text block could
| link to the corresponding timestamp in the video.
| evanreichard wrote:
| I have a similar (less polished) side project I threw together
| in a weekend [0][1]. I use ChatGPT's API and it costs ~0.5c /
| article generated. So IMO very reasonable.
|
| [0]
| https://gitea.va.reichard.io/evan/VReader/src/branch/master/...
|
| [1] https://vreader.va.reichard.io/
| klaussilveira wrote:
| It depends. If it is using YouTube's transcript API, it
| shouldn't be that bad. The problem with that is that it tends
| to mess up when there are multiple people in the video.
| __jonas wrote:
| Wouldn't the expensive part of this be the LLM summary, not
| the video transcription? I can do transcription pretty easily
| with my low end graphics card and a fast version of whisper.
|
| I was wondering though, if this uses the YouTube transcript
| if available, and falls back to do the transcription itself
| if not.
| phantomathkg wrote:
| Has it been HN-ed? WheN I tried to summarised a video I got
| "We're sorry, but something went wrong. If you are the
| application owner check the logs for more information."?
| nliang86 wrote:
| Apologies - I didn't anticipate hitting rate limits on a third
| party service so quickly. I was able to get them increased -
| try again?
| yaman12 wrote:
| The summary text is descriptive and accurate (so far, need to
| test more). Thumbnails for each segment could be better--less
| repetitive, eyes open, etc. But overall as good or better than
| what I've seen from commercial video mam vendors over the last 20
| years.
| otterpro wrote:
| This is nice! One thing that bothers me is the web page's Title
| which is "VideoGist". I'd appreciate it if it could be named
| "VideoGist - <youtube video title>" or something like that.
| nliang86 wrote:
| Noted! Will get this out tonight.
| mdrzn wrote:
| There's plenty of websites like this one, but I really like this
| one. Saved in the bookmarks.
|
| Good summary and great breakdown with timestamps, would be even
| better if they were clickable.
| __jonas wrote:
| I got an error with this video:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf-kDNFMCD0
|
| https://www.videogist.co/videos/panasonic-s-rapid-response-t...
|
| Or maybe it's still pending? I don't really understand if I'm
| supposed to refresh the page or if it will update automatically
| when processing has finished, so I hit refresh and got this error
| instead of the loading page: We're sorry, but
| something went wrong. If you are the application owner
| check the logs for more information.
| nliang86 wrote:
| Apologies - I am hitting a rate limit on a third party service.
| Working on it now.
| nliang86 wrote:
| I (think) I was able to get a rate limit increase. Try again?
| lucgagan wrote:
| Very cool. I've been using a similar approach to summarize videos
| on my website https://ray.run/videos/112-playwright-
| installation-2022 Doesn't cost much and getting great feedback
| about it.
| cloudking wrote:
| Kudos for the landing page, this is how AI products should be
| presented.
|
| 1) Direct access to the product
|
| 2) Multiple demo examples
|
| I've seen so many launches here recently that have no demos,
| require sign up and basically gate all the usefulness of the
| product behind walls.
| ggambetta wrote:
| This is great. I asked it to summarize my showreel (which I
| understand is not the kind of video you want to summarize) and
| the results are both surprisingly accurate and hilarious. Well
| done :)
| adocomplete wrote:
| Very cool. We have something similar at https://videotap.com,
| although a bit more focused on repurposing your video content
| into other mediums (written blogs, twitter threads, etc.)
| nliang86 wrote:
| That is an awesome use case!
| HansardExpert wrote:
| First I get an UNKNOWN ISSUER from Firefox as a security warning,
| if I bypass that I get.
|
| Then my corp network reports
|
| FortiGuard Intrusion Prevention - Access Blocked Web Page Blocked
|
| You have tried to access a web page that is in violation of your
| Internet usage policy. Category Newly Observed Domain URL
| https://www.videogist.co/
|
| :/
| nliang86 wrote:
| It might be due to the .co endpoint and your corporate policy?
| AFAICT the SSL cert, etc. is g2g - let me know if there's
| anything I missed though!
| Valk3_ wrote:
| Great work! I got a question though, what's the processing time
| for longer videos? Like lecture videos that usually are somewhere
| around 1h-2h? Can it handle longer vids reasonably fast?
| nliang86 wrote:
| Should be in the ballpark of 30s to 1 minute. You should start
| seeing earlier parts of the summary faster than that though (<
| 10s). I am also working on improving chapter summary quality
| for long videos - sometimes too much content gets rolled into a
| single chapter.
| ElijahLynn wrote:
| Nice!
|
| Feedback - linking to the timestamped sections was the first
| thing I tried to do on your examples.
| nliang86 wrote:
| Do you mean from a video playback perspective, or something
| different?
| ElijahLynn wrote:
| I mean that if I find a summary section useful, I might want
| to watch the video clip around that point in time. So being
| able to click a link to go to YT to watch it at that point in
| time or even better, embed the video with that timestamp
| instead of the image, then I can just click play instead of
| see the image.
|
| Thanks
| ElijahLynn wrote:
| Feedback: Browser Extension would be much more useful in
| practice. I usually end up at a video, and THEN want the summary.
| nliang86 wrote:
| Great feedback - I will look into what it would take to make a
| browser extension client.
| ElijahLynn wrote:
| Thanks!
| mig39 wrote:
| Is the service hugged to death? I've tried it on a couple of
| videos, and it's stuck on "Loading content" ...
| nliang86 wrote:
| Apologies - the app was hitting a rate limit on a third party
| API which I think I just resolved.
| khaitroy wrote:
| I love it. I never tried any summary website but it's phenomenal.
| What technology do you use?
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