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TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information

328 points by pkaeding 2y ago

gus_massa 2y ago
I tried with a few Thunderf00t videos. He has good analysis, but the guys repeats everything too many times. Many are about silly impossible "inventions" / scams, but this is an experiment that he published in Nature Chemistry: https://tldw.tube/?v=LmlAYnFF_s8 https://tldw.tube/?v=LmlAYnFF_s8 "High speed camera reveals why sodium explodes! --> "Coulombic explosion. (Sodium and water reaction)"
- trainsarebetter 2y ago
  I used to enjoy watching his stuff, but he became hyperbolic, and now has too much rage bait for the algorithm.
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- dvh 2y ago
  That was the first thing that came to my mind, all his 20 minutes videos contains at best 2 minutes of information.
ryanmcbride 2y ago
I thought maybe I'd finally be able to through a Wendigoon video with this, since I'm generally interested in the things he talks about but can't stand some of his linguistic tics. Unfortunately looks like most of his videos are too long for this, which I guess is ironic considering the name. TL;DP
- ldenoue 2y ago
  Here’s one video above 1 hour and it works with Scribe https://www.appblit.com/scribe?v=FQUo2r-ow-k https://www.appblit.com/scribe?v=FQUo2r-ow-k
- oceansweep 2y ago
  You could try my app https://github.com/rmusser01/tldw https://github.com/rmusser01/tldw Supports arbitrary length videos and also lets you choose what LLM API to use.
Ancalagon 2y ago
Can’t wait till futurama style streaming-into-my-brain is available
zorgmonkey 2y ago
I tried a couple videos in both this site and Kagi's summarizer, both were decent but each time Kagi did better.
- mtlynch 2y ago
  Whoa, I've been using Kagi for two years and didn't realize the summarizer could do videos!
  - freeAgent 2y ago
    It only works when there’s a transcript. It’s not “watching” the video. That said, it works very well most of the time for me.
rapind 2y ago
This feels like the inevitable outcome of the youtube algorithm favouring longer videos.
- swyx 2y ago
  does it? i get pushed so many shorts and 15 minute video essays
  - graeme 2y ago
    15 minutes actually is longer than what early videos were. The fact that it seems short is a reflection of the algorithmic push for longness. Shorts are a whole different thing. But there's a void of videos from 90 seconds to 7 minutes that just answer a question.
    - kragen 2y ago
      Yeah, for many years it didn't allow uploading videos of over 10'.
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- RockRobotRock 2y ago
  How can anyone make a generalized statement about “the algorithm” when it is by definition personalized? All YouTube cares about is keeping you on the platform as long as possible.
  - greenchair 2y ago
    because there are generalized algorithms in use as well. The 'show ad' logic that is used at specific points along the way.
garbagepatch 2y ago
It would be nice if it also gave the videos better titles. Then make it an extension to replace the titles automatically.
- zonkerdonker 2y ago
  Ask and ye shall receive. Not only titles, but thumbnails as well! https://dearrow.ajay.app/ https://dearrow.ajay.app/
energy123 2y ago
For specific questions I get the transcript from https://tactiq.io/tools/youtube-transcript https://tactiq.io/tools/youtube-transcript then copy paste to a LLM and append my question
asah 2y ago
Haha maybe not. https://tldw.tube/?v=A4kpVO56OBU https://tldw.tube/?v=A4kpVO56OBU
kragen 2y ago
What I'd really like is a service that edits down YouTube videos by removing all the stock footage and talking head crap, then speeding up the audio to fit over the remaining novel information—whether that's new battlefield footage, electron micrographs, demonstrations of machining techniques, or just elephant toothpaste. The talking head filler seems like it would be easy to recognize, but stock footage recognition presumably would have a significant false negative rate, which is okay. This would reduce some videos to just a transcription, which would be the ideal outcome, I think. The less of my limited time on Earth I waste watching some dumbshit reading a script at a camera, the better. Summarizing the transcript further like this site does might be occasionally useful, of course.
- satvikpendem 2y ago
  I use SponsorBlock (be sure to enable all categories of blocking such as filler content, not just sponsors), DeArrow (de-clickbaits thumbnails and titles) and a video speed changer extension to enable much of your stated functionality, though of course not all. I've saved likely years of watching due to this combination.
  - soraminazuki 2y ago
    How did your viewing experience change after using DeArrow? I'm curious because DeArrow has a great reputation, yet my gut feeling tells me that I should avoid watching clickbait videos altogether.
    - satvikpendem 2y ago
      Then you'd be in luck as it makes me less likely to click on those videos. I only watch them if I'm truly interested in the topic as shown by the revised thumbnail and title, which makes my viewing quality much higher on average.
    - eco 2y ago
      I love the DeArrow experience. The problem with clickbait on YouTube is that even good creators are compelled to use it because it works. Whether it's due to the algorithm or just human behaviour I don't know. There's a little blue button next to the video titles to toggle it on and off and it's very interesting to compare the community title and thumbnail with the original. Good original titles are often left largely intact, maybe with some extra context. Betteridge law is no longer relevant. It's nice.
czk 2y ago
Got a chuckle from that recent commit message. I feel you
- ofcrpls 2y ago
  The commit in question https://github.com/stong/tldw/commit/0144a4e930425d308704de07837ccd5224be26fb https://github.com/stong/tldw/commit/0144a4e930425d308704de0...
henry2023 2y ago
What if we summarize all the information in the world into a few hundred volumes of human knowledge, then summarize those into a 10,000 pages book, then that into a 10 long form essays, then those into a 100,000 chars blog post, then that into a pamphlet and finally we summarize one more time into a single tweet.
- userbinator 2y ago
  The answer will be a single number, 42.
  - henry2023 2y ago
    Then summarize it one last time into a single bit. I like to think it'd be '1'.
    - gloosx 2y ago
      Then this super-condensed 1 explodes and there is no information left, just noise
    - TeaVMFan 2y ago
      1 in base 42.
  - xlii 2y ago
    …but who will have the question?
- PaulRobinson 2y ago
  I know you’re making a joke, but more seriously I think most yt videos have atrocious signal/noise ratios so information compression is likely very useful. Less so for many academic papers (although they have some pretty awful filler sometimes).
  - debeloo 2y ago
    This is exactly the problem. There are so many 20 minute videos that should have been 2 minutes. In a way, it's much easier to make the 20 minute video. Just hit record, rant an rave, stop recording and publish. There are indeed justified long videos stuffed full with knowledge, insight and witty comments to make it fun. Then there are "slow" videos but magical. Paul Sellers has a 30 min video on how to make mortise and tenons joint with hand tools. Just you and him in real time. You get a (recorded) private lesson from a master craftsman. It's magic. Every minute of it is knowledge transfer. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aBodzmUGtdw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aBodzmUGtdw
prvc 2y ago
Getting a "Too long video" message in response to a query is frustrating to the user, and, well, redundant information, so contrary to the purpose of increasing information density.
tikotus 2y ago
Something that could be interesting is processing all videos in some subgenre, like say "game development", rank them by popularity, summarize them, and then analyze for patterns. This would be valuable information for anyone wanting to make a video with higher chances of being shown to people.
- gloflo 2y ago
  Or one could not do that and focus on quality instead.
  - tikotus 2y ago
    That was actually my initial thought for what I would test with a tool like this. How much does quality matter? Quality of course has many definitions, but in the light of this tool, the measurable quality could be "how much novel information does this video have?" I'd hope a trend that pops out is that content with more information around a focused topic would perform better. But as it is, I only have my personal preferences and my suggestions list (based on my personal preferences) to go by. I'm not a content creator myself, but if I was, I might find this kind of analysis interesting enough to pay for.
ddoice 2y ago
Cool! I had thought about doing the same but in a Chrome extension that would use Llama 3.2 with WebGPU, but when I tested it, it was very slow and sometimes crashed the browser.
gloosx 2y ago
Idea hackneyed since LLM's appeared. Cool that implementation is open-source, though yt automatic captions are sometimes completely off-point, especially when people talking in the video don't have a diction of a tv show host. I wonder if an idea found it's niche after all? Do you guys summarise you videos to short texts and that leaves you satisfied? For me video is video, I can relax, sit and watch/listen to it. With text it is different, it is a mental exercise to read and process it, so turning video into text feels like an essential downgrade. I would prefer watching at 1.5/2x speed instead of text summary if I want to finish it faster.
- nottorp 2y ago
  2x video speed is still a lot slower than text.
- amenhotep 2y ago
  If I want to watch a video for the sake of watching a video, then no, a text summary would not at all be the same thing. But most of the time I don't want to watch a video, I just want to get information. A text summary then would be strictly superior.
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- downsplat 2y ago
  > For me video is video, I can relax, sit and watch/listen to it. With text it is different, it is a mental exercise to read and process it, so turning video into text feels like an essential downgrade. Exact opposite for me. Reading goes at my pace, in silence. Video is much more invasive, so I avoid it except for the highest quality stuff.
  - gloosx 2y ago
    Interesting, I was always thinking that audio/visual information is naturally much easier to consume. For instance: I can watch a video and count to 10 in my head at the same time – I will still get everything what was in that video – but with text it's a much harder task since the head is fully occupied with "narrating" the text what I'm reading, so reading in the end turns into podcast inside the head before actually get consumed.
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m1keil 2y ago
That's pretty useful. I think yt itself is experimenting with similar feature as I see some videos have AI summaries in the official app.
- andai 2y ago
  Yeah. "Some." I've seen one in the past two months.
nottorp 2y ago
Most videos would do well with a summary of the summary of the generated transcript. Should take 30 seconds to go through.
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someothherguyy 2y ago
I would like to see one of these that produces an outlined summary then has timestamps as citations for the outline's individual entries.
- Timwi 2y ago
  That would be brilliant. I notice that in math/programming videos it will often just say “using a mathematical trick/concept” or “using bit manipulation” when it could just include the actual formula/equation. It would be nice to be able to go to the relevant section in the video to find it.
andai 2y ago
Change the prompt to "in bullet points" to increase the value by about 80%. (And add "by section" to get to 100%!)
crocowhile 2y ago
This is so fun! Could you make it compatible with openrouter please? I see you use the openai binding that allows you to specify a different base_url so that would work out of the box and integrates well with the .env ``` from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI( base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key="<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>", ) ```
Brajeshwar 2y ago
The sweet spot of most YouTube videos was supposedly under 10 minutes. What happened? These days, the typical YouTube videos are almost 30 minutes long. I'm fine with documentaries and the like. Is there a way to bring back the idea that under 10-minute videos work the best?
- bckr 2y ago
  You would have to convince YouTube that 10 minute videos generate more revenue. They’ve been tuning this beast for decades now.
- _Algernon_ 2y ago
  It's just a natural evolution of more people watching on their TVs and Mobile. Long slop and short slop with nothing in between. Must adapt to the TV and phone brain rot zombies.
  - ghaff 2y ago
    Non-fiction text isn't that different. You have 5 to 10 minute blog/article reads and 250 page books from publishers with not a lot in between. (Yes, you can and I have, self-published books of an intermediate length but publishers don't generally want anything under 250 pages or so.)
    - _Algernon_ 2y ago
      You're reading the wrong non-fiction books then. Find books that are closer to academia than whatever you find in the non-fiction shelf of an airport bookstore.
- geerlingguy 2y ago
  8 minutes is the cutoff for "mid-roll" ads (you can insert ad breaks into the middle of your content, not just the beginning and end). But people also realized, especially in the past couple years, YouTube seemed to tweak the algorithm to favor watch time more strongly than in the past, so people started "fluffing up" videos to 20, 30+ minutes. As long as they could get a click with a decent thumbnail and title, and enough people to watch for at least a few minutes, the average watch time would go up, which was a very positive signal. Plus, they could insert like 3+ ad breaks (some big creators insert 6+!) and make more money. However, in the past year it seems like YouTube's tweaked the algorithm again to not favor watch time as strongly over some other metrics, leading to shorter videos being able to get more views sometimes (and not just music videos). (But they're still "less monetizable". I think this is why podcasting (and especially extremely long podcasts) have gotten so popular. A few thousand viewers watching for 2 hours gives a lot more ad revenue (especially if you fill in that space with read ads) than like 1 million views on a 3 minute clip.
thdhhghgbhy 2y ago
Text summarisation already frequently misses things, sometimes gets them completely backwards. Can't convince myself this will be any better.
TNWin 2y ago
I tried it to summarize some lecture videos. And the summary ranged from average to bad. Nothing I couldn't already get from the description. Even ChatGPT 4o spits out far better content. So far my method has been to take the transcript and use an LLM with customized prompt for summary.
computerthings 2y ago
I tried it on music videos, and with most of them I got the distinct impression it's drawing from the description or external info, maybe PR, because it was very generic, the funniest I saw being https://tldw.tube/?v=kxstMJY2Q28 https://tldw.tube/?v=kxstMJY2Q28 I was about to give up because after all, this isn't for music videos, tried something it could not possibly do well with, and I'm impressed, against my will. https://tldw.tube/?v=7X62OJG6Whg https://tldw.tube/?v=7X62OJG6Whg This isn't just an acceptable summary, this is really good, considering how much could be missed (like it did with https://tldw.tube/?v=6k7kk1lUnis https://tldw.tube/?v=6k7kk1lUnis for example).
joshuaturner 2y ago
From some light testing, the results here are pretty lackluster. I've used videosummarizerai.com in the past via ChatGPT and the ability to specify the format of the information you're looking for is a huge plus. Here's the summary of this video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1WkG8WuRcg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1WkG8WuRcg (AoE2 video)] from tldw.tube: > The video discusses the most powerful team combinations in the "10x Shared Civ Bonus" mod for Age of Empires II. It highlights how certain civilizations, when combined strategically, can create overpowering unit types and tactics. The focus is on four-player team compositions that leverage unique benefits: for instance, the combination of Franks or Incas for free castles, Japanese and Tatars for rapid trebuchet fire, and Celts for enhanced onagers. The video also explores various combinations for cavalry and infantry, including the Goths for swift unit production and a range of secondary civilizations to amplify strengths. Commenters contributed ideas for clever combos, emphasizing the limitless potential for exploiting the mod's mechanics to develop broken strategies that can quickly overwhelm opponents by accelerating unit production or enhancing existing attributes, thereby showcasing the humorous and chaotic nature of the mod's gameplay. and here's the summary of the same video from videosummarizerai.com via ChatGPT with the prompt "Give a summary of all civ combos mentioned in order": > Here’s a summary of the civilization combinations mentioned in the video in order: Castle Spam Team: Incas: Free castles and massive villager armor bonuses. Teutons: Adds +30 range to castles. Celts: Castles fire at four times the usual rate. Sicilians or Spanish: Increased castle build speed (castles built in 30 seconds). Ultimate Trebuchet Team: Japanese: Faster fire rate and instant packing/unpacking for trebuchets. Tatars: Adds +20 range to trebuchets. Britons: Adds splash damage and perfect accuracy with Warwolf. Saracens or Celts: Additional attack bonuses or faster firing trebuchets. Best Onager Combo: Celts: Increased fire rate and durability for onagers. Mongols: Super-speed movement for onagers. Koreans: Adds +10 range and removes minimum range. Slavs: Makes onagers free. Scorpion Team: Khmer: Adds range and additional projectiles. Romans: Reduces cost and increases attack rate. Ethiopians: Adds torsion engine tech for better area damage. Chinese: Adds huge damage to projectiles for almost quadrupled effectiveness. [goes on to list remaining 4 team combos]
doright 2y ago
Seems to use gpt-4o under the hood. I wonder if using Deepseek would make any difference in quality. I used to have nice and detailed summaries with this app lasting many paragraphs. It used to be totally free and you could submit as many links as you wanted. However they started forcing you to wait dozens of hours between summaries or pay for credits. I haven't found a YouTube summarizer as high quality since. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emote.youtube_summarizer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emote.yout... I'm thinking one could replicate such a service pretty easily and be able to plug in your Deepseek API token instead. It would be convenient if such services let you "bring your own API key" so to speak, so you'd only have to manage one bank of credits. But it's understandable that lots of people want in on a slice of the AI pie right now.
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jisnsm 2y ago
I tried using it on a 2-hour video and it said that… the video is too long? Kind of like hiring a painter to paint your house and him refusing the job because your house is unpainted.
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- haykuro 2y ago
  great analogy.
CM30 2y ago
Tried it on 3 random videos I watched, and the results were... mostly good, albeit mixed. On the one hand, it got my video about a Mario & Luigi: Brothership glitch dead right, immediately listing where you'd need to die to get an item early and what you'd get out of it. It also did an okay job summarising a Zelda dungeon analysis video by someone I'm subscribed to, with some info on why that dungeon was well-designed that clearly came from the video. Unfortunately, it did a poor job at summarising a video about plagiarism in the YouTube speedrunning essay space, associating the problem with smaller creators rather than the person the video was about and leaving out far too many details to be useful. This seems to confirm my assumptions about how an AI summariser would work in general; if the original media is a straightforward piece about one easily understandable topic, then it'll do fine and work about as well as a human would. If it's a longer piece with multiple points backed by various examples, then it'll struggle to summarise it in a way that makes sense.
- braiamp 2y ago
  > If it's a longer piece with multiple points backed by various examples, then it'll struggle to summarise it in a way that makes sense I've found the same problem with humans too, so it's not like an improvement over humans.
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atommclain 2y ago
Curious how well this compares to the same functionality built into Gemini.
Awtem 2y ago
I like the idea, but I get the message: "Too long video"... So I am wondering about its application if it only works for short videos
hrkname 2y ago
I use YouTube's transcript feature or 2x speed for slow talkers. Especially with political commentary many YouTubers stretch their content or talk slowly for more ad deliveries. It is annoying, because often there is an important five minute section hidden in a one hour video.
tanewishly 2y ago
Interestingly, YouTube also lends itself for this sort of thing for movies. You can watch scenes from movies and get the gist, while only spending ~30min on a movie. It's a great way to watch mediocre movies - they're not so horrible (1), and you do get the entertainment value without being exposed to the shlocky-est parts. (1) Eg, if you skip the beach scene, Terminator Dark Fate is... palatable! But yeah, the reasons for mediocrity typically still shine through a bit.
nashashmi 2y ago
What is really cool about this is that my attention span is kept after reading the summary. Like the following video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JBkAKCJJuFQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JBkAKCJJuFQ I am not getting emotionally invested to the point of losing the end focus of the speaker. Actually now I am looking forward to it.
dankobgd 2y ago
too long even this site cannot "watch" it
wopwops 2y ago
"Too long video" lol
esafak 2y ago
Does it just parse the captions like every other service or does it analyze the audio too?
leovander 2y ago
> An error occurred: tuple indices must be integers or slices, not str
- stong1 2y ago
  This should be fixed!
albert_e 2y ago
Tried Andrej Karpathy's latest video -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI It said "too long video" Exactly, duh ;D
- waskosky 2y ago
  I saw that too. I'm able to use Eightify for longer videos https://eightify.app/ https://eightify.app/
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acrophiliac 2y ago
An error occurred: tuple indices must be integers or slices, not str https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks-_Mh1QhMc&list=PLWDUzz3hCDJL313cxfWSnTh5X0ZtP1oVU&index=3&pp=iAQB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks-_Mh1QhMc&list=PLWDUzz3hCD...
- stong1 2y ago
  This should be fixed now. There was temporary outage due to proxy running out of bandwidth.
stong1 2y ago
Hi HN! I'm the author of this service. Thank you for your support. There may have been some temporary downtime due to residential proxy running out of bandwidth. I have purchased additional bandwidth. (I run this service for free.) There also may be some errors with particular videos because they are not accessible in certain regions. For now all requests to YouTube originate from United States, but open to change in the future to some kind of round-robin or fallback system. I know it's not perfect. I developed the tool originally for my own use. It's open source and I'm open to any patches or pull requests. Enjoy!
- JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2y ago
  > open-source > OPENAI_API_KEY Choose one.
  - SomeoneOnTheWeb 2y ago
    The service itself is open source ; but it relies on a closed source service. Both are not incompatible.
    - sieabahlpark 2y ago
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  - suprjami 2y ago
    > OPENAI_BASE_URL > OPENAI_API_HOST
  - jamesy0ung 2y ago
    If you don't like it, just edit the open-source code to point to a locally hosted open-source llm.
- NewUser76312 2y ago
  Hey this is really cool, I literally had the same idea about a month ago but ultimately decided to not pursue it. Glad someone else did. A few quick Qs - 1) Do you use the available auto-generated transcripts from youtube? Or do you do any audio parsing? I know transcripts aren't always available. 2) Do you have any plans to monetize in some way, do you think it would be possible? It's definitely a neat product but a tad generic and replicable, so I'm curious.
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fullshark 2y ago
So what is everyone doing with all this free time they've now accumulated from not reading, watching, or listening to media?
- righthand 2y ago
  Chatting with AI bots. I agree that this mentality of works being “too long so don’t ingest it”, is not a healthy way to go about life and thinking in general.
  - DennisP 2y ago
    It's not that, it's "too long with low information density so ingest it more efficiently." That way we can spend our time on things that are more productive or enjoyable.
    - righthand 2y ago
      > That way we can spend our time on things that are more productive or enjoyable. That seems like an arms race, how do you know there aren't more productive ways to enjoy your time? Can something less productive be more enjoyable?
      - DennisP 2y ago
        I don't, and yes. I suspect this varies by person.
    - mazambazz 2y ago
      Videos are typically already summarized substitutes for complex topics--topics for which you might need to read text or literature to get the full context of. Now we want to min-max and summarize the video themselves. Then what? If that video summary is too long, we throw it into another LLM to summarize the summary of the summary? To what extent does this end? There's more to learning than just information density. There's visuals, presentations, explanations. And if you want more proof, then a video played a 2x speed is twice the information density, yet we all know that many videos would be extremely hard to retain anything from at that speed.
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renewiltord 2y ago
There's also a funny one like https://tldw.tech/ https://tldw.tech/ which makes everything into a The Verge video.
feelingsonice 2y ago
I tried a video 1:42 hours long and it told me it was too long. Increase the limit?
JoeDaDude 2y ago
This is not the only service of its kind. There is also the Video Gist: https://www.videogist.co/ https://www.videogist.co/ I can't speak to the differences between the two. Once casual observation is that the one posted by the OP seems to be a lot faster..
ggasp 2y ago
I made a shortcut for iPad to do more or less the same thing and promised myself to keep “engineering” the prompt but work pretty well as it is. Link: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/fbb5a315cb354fbf903bcfa4f409ba95 https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/fbb5a315cb354fbf903bcfa4f40... What the shortcut does is taking the transcript of the video and asking your ChatGPT app to extract main ideas, quotes, and facts. The prompt comes originally from fabric CLI tool https://danielmiessler.com/blog/fabric-origin-story https://danielmiessler.com/blog/fabric-origin-story
xivzgrev 2y ago
Pretty cool. The summary at first was helpful, but then delves into repeating itself. I tried it on John wick. Here’s the latter part of the summary. The video calls out the cliché tropes and logical inconsistencies in "John Wick," showing how they detract from the film's emotional impact. The critique outlines the logical flaws in "John Wick," focusing on cliché tropes that undermine the film’s emotional depth. The video critiques the logical inconsistencies and clichés in "John Wick," highlighting how they reduce its emotional impact. The critique points out clichés and logical flaws in "John Wick." The video notes clichés and flaws in "John Wick." The video critiques "John Wick."
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the__alchemist 2y ago
Will I still get to learn about Brilliant?!
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prashp 2y ago
How is this different from using Gemini to summarize a video given a YouTube URL?
TheArcane 2y ago
Bit of a waste to host this locally and still need an openai api key. This would be great with Ollama
jknoepfler 2y ago
I see the value in this, and thank you for posting it. That said, it really makes me wonder at how insanely inefficient information transfer over the internet can become. This is like... doing OCR on screenshots of PDFs to send messages, rather than just passing around text. Nice, searchable, parseable, indexible, extremely compressible, editable, readily versionable text.
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winkeltripel 2y ago
It seems to have some reasonable length limitations. It refused to distill this epic analysis of dungeons across 3 games, since the video approaches 4 hours long: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PajArJbPfpE https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PajArJbPfpE
singlepaynews 2y ago
My struggle with all these tools is that it’s been universally easier to type “summarize this video <link>” into chatGPT than to even keep track of the link to service. I desperately want a openAI-powered business to be viable, but it’s a snake eating its tail
observer987 2y ago
Nicely done! Thanks for open sourcing it as I've been able to run it locally and experiment with the prompt.

328 points by pkaeding 2y ago

I tried with a few Thunderf00t videos. He has good analysis, but the guys repeats everything too many times. Many are about silly impossible "inventions" / scams, but this is an experiment that he published in Nature Chemistry: https://tldw.tube/?v=LmlAYnFF_s8 https://tldw.tube/?v=LmlAYnFF_s8 "High speed camera reveals why sodium explodes! --> "Coulombic explosion. (Sodium and water reaction)"

trainsarebetter 2y ago
I used to enjoy watching his stuff, but he became hyperbolic, and now has too much rage bait for the algorithm.
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dvh 2y ago
That was the first thing that came to my mind, all his 20 minutes videos contains at best 2 minutes of information.

ryanmcbride 2y ago

I thought maybe I'd finally be able to through a Wendigoon video with this, since I'm generally interested in the things he talks about but can't stand some of his linguistic tics. Unfortunately looks like most of his videos are too long for this, which I guess is ironic considering the name. TL;DP

ldenoue 2y ago
Here’s one video above 1 hour and it works with Scribe https://www.appblit.com/scribe?v=FQUo2r-ow-k https://www.appblit.com/scribe?v=FQUo2r-ow-k
oceansweep 2y ago
You could try my app https://github.com/rmusser01/tldw https://github.com/rmusser01/tldw Supports arbitrary length videos and also lets you choose what LLM API to use.

Ancalagon 2y ago

Can’t wait till futurama style streaming-into-my-brain is available

zorgmonkey 2y ago

I tried a couple videos in both this site and Kagi's summarizer, both were decent but each time Kagi did better.

mtlynch 2y ago
Whoa, I've been using Kagi for two years and didn't realize the summarizer could do videos!
- freeAgent 2y ago
  It only works when there’s a transcript. It’s not “watching” the video. That said, it works very well most of the time for me.

rapind 2y ago

This feels like the inevitable outcome of the youtube algorithm favouring longer videos.

swyx 2y ago
does it? i get pushed so many shorts and 15 minute video essays
- graeme 2y ago
  15 minutes actually is longer than what early videos were. The fact that it seems short is a reflection of the algorithmic push for longness. Shorts are a whole different thing. But there's a void of videos from 90 seconds to 7 minutes that just answer a question.
  - kragen 2y ago
    Yeah, for many years it didn't allow uploading videos of over 10'.
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RockRobotRock 2y ago
How can anyone make a generalized statement about “the algorithm” when it is by definition personalized? All YouTube cares about is keeping you on the platform as long as possible.
- greenchair 2y ago
  because there are generalized algorithms in use as well. The 'show ad' logic that is used at specific points along the way.

garbagepatch 2y ago

It would be nice if it also gave the videos better titles. Then make it an extension to replace the titles automatically.

zonkerdonker 2y ago
Ask and ye shall receive. Not only titles, but thumbnails as well! https://dearrow.ajay.app/ https://dearrow.ajay.app/

energy123 2y ago

For specific questions I get the transcript from https://tactiq.io/tools/youtube-transcript https://tactiq.io/tools/youtube-transcript then copy paste to a LLM and append my question

asah 2y ago

Haha maybe not. https://tldw.tube/?v=A4kpVO56OBU https://tldw.tube/?v=A4kpVO56OBU

kragen 2y ago

What I'd really like is a service that edits down YouTube videos by removing all the stock footage and talking head crap, then speeding up the audio to fit over the remaining novel information—whether that's new battlefield footage, electron micrographs, demonstrations of machining techniques, or just elephant toothpaste. The talking head filler seems like it would be easy to recognize, but stock footage recognition presumably would have a significant false negative rate, which is okay. This would reduce some videos to just a transcription, which would be the ideal outcome, I think. The less of my limited time on Earth I waste watching some dumbshit reading a script at a camera, the better. Summarizing the transcript further like this site does might be occasionally useful, of course.

satvikpendem 2y ago
I use SponsorBlock (be sure to enable all categories of blocking such as filler content, not just sponsors), DeArrow (de-clickbaits thumbnails and titles) and a video speed changer extension to enable much of your stated functionality, though of course not all. I've saved likely years of watching due to this combination.
- soraminazuki 2y ago
  How did your viewing experience change after using DeArrow? I'm curious because DeArrow has a great reputation, yet my gut feeling tells me that I should avoid watching clickbait videos altogether.
  - satvikpendem 2y ago
    Then you'd be in luck as it makes me less likely to click on those videos. I only watch them if I'm truly interested in the topic as shown by the revised thumbnail and title, which makes my viewing quality much higher on average.
  - eco 2y ago
    I love the DeArrow experience. The problem with clickbait on YouTube is that even good creators are compelled to use it because it works. Whether it's due to the algorithm or just human behaviour I don't know. There's a little blue button next to the video titles to toggle it on and off and it's very interesting to compare the community title and thumbnail with the original. Good original titles are often left largely intact, maybe with some extra context. Betteridge law is no longer relevant. It's nice.

czk 2y ago

Got a chuckle from that recent commit message. I feel you

ofcrpls 2y ago
The commit in question https://github.com/stong/tldw/commit/0144a4e930425d308704de07837ccd5224be26fb https://github.com/stong/tldw/commit/0144a4e930425d308704de0...

henry2023 2y ago

What if we summarize all the information in the world into a few hundred volumes of human knowledge, then summarize those into a 10,000 pages book, then that into a 10 long form essays, then those into a 100,000 chars blog post, then that into a pamphlet and finally we summarize one more time into a single tweet.

userbinator 2y ago
The answer will be a single number, 42.
- henry2023 2y ago
  Then summarize it one last time into a single bit. I like to think it'd be '1'.
  - gloosx 2y ago
    Then this super-condensed 1 explodes and there is no information left, just noise
  - TeaVMFan 2y ago
    1 in base 42.
- xlii 2y ago
  …but who will have the question?
PaulRobinson 2y ago
I know you’re making a joke, but more seriously I think most yt videos have atrocious signal/noise ratios so information compression is likely very useful. Less so for many academic papers (although they have some pretty awful filler sometimes).
- debeloo 2y ago
  This is exactly the problem. There are so many 20 minute videos that should have been 2 minutes. In a way, it's much easier to make the 20 minute video. Just hit record, rant an rave, stop recording and publish. There are indeed justified long videos stuffed full with knowledge, insight and witty comments to make it fun. Then there are "slow" videos but magical. Paul Sellers has a 30 min video on how to make mortise and tenons joint with hand tools. Just you and him in real time. You get a (recorded) private lesson from a master craftsman. It's magic. Every minute of it is knowledge transfer. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aBodzmUGtdw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aBodzmUGtdw

prvc 2y ago

Getting a "Too long video" message in response to a query is frustrating to the user, and, well, redundant information, so contrary to the purpose of increasing information density.

tikotus 2y ago

Something that could be interesting is processing all videos in some subgenre, like say "game development", rank them by popularity, summarize them, and then analyze for patterns. This would be valuable information for anyone wanting to make a video with higher chances of being shown to people.

gloflo 2y ago
Or one could not do that and focus on quality instead.
- tikotus 2y ago
  That was actually my initial thought for what I would test with a tool like this. How much does quality matter? Quality of course has many definitions, but in the light of this tool, the measurable quality could be "how much novel information does this video have?" I'd hope a trend that pops out is that content with more information around a focused topic would perform better. But as it is, I only have my personal preferences and my suggestions list (based on my personal preferences) to go by. I'm not a content creator myself, but if I was, I might find this kind of analysis interesting enough to pay for.

ddoice 2y ago

Cool! I had thought about doing the same but in a Chrome extension that would use Llama 3.2 with WebGPU, but when I tested it, it was very slow and sometimes crashed the browser.

gloosx 2y ago

Idea hackneyed since LLM's appeared. Cool that implementation is open-source, though yt automatic captions are sometimes completely off-point, especially when people talking in the video don't have a diction of a tv show host. I wonder if an idea found it's niche after all? Do you guys summarise you videos to short texts and that leaves you satisfied? For me video is video, I can relax, sit and watch/listen to it. With text it is different, it is a mental exercise to read and process it, so turning video into text feels like an essential downgrade. I would prefer watching at 1.5/2x speed instead of text summary if I want to finish it faster.

nottorp 2y ago
2x video speed is still a lot slower than text.
amenhotep 2y ago
If I want to watch a video for the sake of watching a video, then no, a text summary would not at all be the same thing. But most of the time I don't want to watch a video, I just want to get information. A text summary then would be strictly superior.
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downsplat 2y ago
> For me video is video, I can relax, sit and watch/listen to it. With text it is different, it is a mental exercise to read and process it, so turning video into text feels like an essential downgrade. Exact opposite for me. Reading goes at my pace, in silence. Video is much more invasive, so I avoid it except for the highest quality stuff.
- gloosx 2y ago
  Interesting, I was always thinking that audio/visual information is naturally much easier to consume. For instance: I can watch a video and count to 10 in my head at the same time – I will still get everything what was in that video – but with text it's a much harder task since the head is fully occupied with "narrating" the text what I'm reading, so reading in the end turns into podcast inside the head before actually get consumed.

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m1keil 2y ago

That's pretty useful. I think yt itself is experimenting with similar feature as I see some videos have AI summaries in the official app.

andai 2y ago
Yeah. "Some." I've seen one in the past two months.

nottorp 2y ago

Most videos would do well with a summary of the summary of the generated transcript. Should take 30 seconds to go through.

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someothherguyy 2y ago

I would like to see one of these that produces an outlined summary then has timestamps as citations for the outline's individual entries.

Timwi 2y ago
That would be brilliant. I notice that in math/programming videos it will often just say “using a mathematical trick/concept” or “using bit manipulation” when it could just include the actual formula/equation. It would be nice to be able to go to the relevant section in the video to find it.

andai 2y ago

Change the prompt to "in bullet points" to increase the value by about 80%. (And add "by section" to get to 100%!)

crocowhile 2y ago

This is so fun! Could you make it compatible with openrouter please? I see you use the openai binding that allows you to specify a different base_url so that would work out of the box and integrates well with the .env ``` from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI( base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key="<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>", ) ```

Brajeshwar 2y ago

The sweet spot of most YouTube videos was supposedly under 10 minutes. What happened? These days, the typical YouTube videos are almost 30 minutes long. I'm fine with documentaries and the like. Is there a way to bring back the idea that under 10-minute videos work the best?

bckr 2y ago
You would have to convince YouTube that 10 minute videos generate more revenue. They’ve been tuning this beast for decades now.
_Algernon_ 2y ago
It's just a natural evolution of more people watching on their TVs and Mobile. Long slop and short slop with nothing in between. Must adapt to the TV and phone brain rot zombies.
- ghaff 2y ago
  Non-fiction text isn't that different. You have 5 to 10 minute blog/article reads and 250 page books from publishers with not a lot in between. (Yes, you can and I have, self-published books of an intermediate length but publishers don't generally want anything under 250 pages or so.)
  - _Algernon_ 2y ago
    You're reading the wrong non-fiction books then. Find books that are closer to academia than whatever you find in the non-fiction shelf of an airport bookstore.
geerlingguy 2y ago
8 minutes is the cutoff for "mid-roll" ads (you can insert ad breaks into the middle of your content, not just the beginning and end). But people also realized, especially in the past couple years, YouTube seemed to tweak the algorithm to favor watch time more strongly than in the past, so people started "fluffing up" videos to 20, 30+ minutes. As long as they could get a click with a decent thumbnail and title, and enough people to watch for at least a few minutes, the average watch time would go up, which was a very positive signal. Plus, they could insert like 3+ ad breaks (some big creators insert 6+!) and make more money. However, in the past year it seems like YouTube's tweaked the algorithm again to not favor watch time as strongly over some other metrics, leading to shorter videos being able to get more views sometimes (and not just music videos). (But they're still "less monetizable". I think this is why podcasting (and especially extremely long podcasts) have gotten so popular. A few thousand viewers watching for 2 hours gives a lot more ad revenue (especially if you fill in that space with read ads) than like 1 million views on a 3 minute clip.

thdhhghgbhy 2y ago

Text summarisation already frequently misses things, sometimes gets them completely backwards. Can't convince myself this will be any better.

TNWin 2y ago

I tried it to summarize some lecture videos. And the summary ranged from average to bad. Nothing I couldn't already get from the description. Even ChatGPT 4o spits out far better content. So far my method has been to take the transcript and use an LLM with customized prompt for summary.

computerthings 2y ago

I tried it on music videos, and with most of them I got the distinct impression it's drawing from the description or external info, maybe PR, because it was very generic, the funniest I saw being https://tldw.tube/?v=kxstMJY2Q28 https://tldw.tube/?v=kxstMJY2Q28 I was about to give up because after all, this isn't for music videos, tried something it could not possibly do well with, and I'm impressed, against my will. https://tldw.tube/?v=7X62OJG6Whg https://tldw.tube/?v=7X62OJG6Whg This isn't just an acceptable summary, this is really good, considering how much could be missed (like it did with https://tldw.tube/?v=6k7kk1lUnis https://tldw.tube/?v=6k7kk1lUnis for example).

joshuaturner 2y ago

From some light testing, the results here are pretty lackluster. I've used videosummarizerai.com in the past via ChatGPT and the ability to specify the format of the information you're looking for is a huge plus. Here's the summary of this video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1WkG8WuRcg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1WkG8WuRcg (AoE2 video)] from tldw.tube: > The video discusses the most powerful team combinations in the "10x Shared Civ Bonus" mod for Age of Empires II. It highlights how certain civilizations, when combined strategically, can create overpowering unit types and tactics. The focus is on four-player team compositions that leverage unique benefits: for instance, the combination of Franks or Incas for free castles, Japanese and Tatars for rapid trebuchet fire, and Celts for enhanced onagers. The video also explores various combinations for cavalry and infantry, including the Goths for swift unit production and a range of secondary civilizations to amplify strengths. Commenters contributed ideas for clever combos, emphasizing the limitless potential for exploiting the mod's mechanics to develop broken strategies that can quickly overwhelm opponents by accelerating unit production or enhancing existing attributes, thereby showcasing the humorous and chaotic nature of the mod's gameplay. and here's the summary of the same video from videosummarizerai.com via ChatGPT with the prompt "Give a summary of all civ combos mentioned in order": > Here’s a summary of the civilization combinations mentioned in the video in order: Castle Spam Team: Incas: Free castles and massive villager armor bonuses. Teutons: Adds +30 range to castles. Celts: Castles fire at four times the usual rate. Sicilians or Spanish: Increased castle build speed (castles built in 30 seconds). Ultimate Trebuchet Team: Japanese: Faster fire rate and instant packing/unpacking for trebuchets. Tatars: Adds +20 range to trebuchets. Britons: Adds splash damage and perfect accuracy with Warwolf. Saracens or Celts: Additional attack bonuses or faster firing trebuchets. Best Onager Combo: Celts: Increased fire rate and durability for onagers. Mongols: Super-speed movement for onagers. Koreans: Adds +10 range and removes minimum range. Slavs: Makes onagers free. Scorpion Team: Khmer: Adds range and additional projectiles. Romans: Reduces cost and increases attack rate. Ethiopians: Adds torsion engine tech for better area damage. Chinese: Adds huge damage to projectiles for almost quadrupled effectiveness. [goes on to list remaining 4 team combos]

doright 2y ago

Seems to use gpt-4o under the hood. I wonder if using Deepseek would make any difference in quality. I used to have nice and detailed summaries with this app lasting many paragraphs. It used to be totally free and you could submit as many links as you wanted. However they started forcing you to wait dozens of hours between summaries or pay for credits. I haven't found a YouTube summarizer as high quality since. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emote.youtube_summarizer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emote.yout... I'm thinking one could replicate such a service pretty easily and be able to plug in your Deepseek API token instead. It would be convenient if such services let you "bring your own API key" so to speak, so you'd only have to manage one bank of credits. But it's understandable that lots of people want in on a slice of the AI pie right now.

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jisnsm 2y ago

I tried using it on a 2-hour video and it said that… the video is too long? Kind of like hiring a painter to paint your house and him refusing the job because your house is unpainted.

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haykuro 2y ago
great analogy.

CM30 2y ago

Tried it on 3 random videos I watched, and the results were... mostly good, albeit mixed. On the one hand, it got my video about a Mario & Luigi: Brothership glitch dead right, immediately listing where you'd need to die to get an item early and what you'd get out of it. It also did an okay job summarising a Zelda dungeon analysis video by someone I'm subscribed to, with some info on why that dungeon was well-designed that clearly came from the video. Unfortunately, it did a poor job at summarising a video about plagiarism in the YouTube speedrunning essay space, associating the problem with smaller creators rather than the person the video was about and leaving out far too many details to be useful. This seems to confirm my assumptions about how an AI summariser would work in general; if the original media is a straightforward piece about one easily understandable topic, then it'll do fine and work about as well as a human would. If it's a longer piece with multiple points backed by various examples, then it'll struggle to summarise it in a way that makes sense.

braiamp 2y ago
> If it's a longer piece with multiple points backed by various examples, then it'll struggle to summarise it in a way that makes sense I've found the same problem with humans too, so it's not like an improvement over humans.

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atommclain 2y ago

Curious how well this compares to the same functionality built into Gemini.

Awtem 2y ago

I like the idea, but I get the message: "Too long video"... So I am wondering about its application if it only works for short videos

hrkname 2y ago

I use YouTube's transcript feature or 2x speed for slow talkers. Especially with political commentary many YouTubers stretch their content or talk slowly for more ad deliveries. It is annoying, because often there is an important five minute section hidden in a one hour video.

tanewishly 2y ago

Interestingly, YouTube also lends itself for this sort of thing for movies. You can watch scenes from movies and get the gist, while only spending ~30min on a movie. It's a great way to watch mediocre movies - they're not so horrible (1), and you do get the entertainment value without being exposed to the shlocky-est parts. (1) Eg, if you skip the beach scene, Terminator Dark Fate is... palatable! But yeah, the reasons for mediocrity typically still shine through a bit.

nashashmi 2y ago

What is really cool about this is that my attention span is kept after reading the summary. Like the following video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JBkAKCJJuFQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JBkAKCJJuFQ I am not getting emotionally invested to the point of losing the end focus of the speaker. Actually now I am looking forward to it.

dankobgd 2y ago

too long even this site cannot "watch" it

wopwops 2y ago

"Too long video" lol

esafak 2y ago

Does it just parse the captions like every other service or does it analyze the audio too?

leovander 2y ago

> An error occurred: tuple indices must be integers or slices, not str

stong1 2y ago
This should be fixed!

albert_e 2y ago

Tried Andrej Karpathy's latest video -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI It said "too long video" Exactly, duh ;D

waskosky 2y ago
I saw that too. I'm able to use Eightify for longer videos https://eightify.app/ https://eightify.app/
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acrophiliac 2y ago

An error occurred: tuple indices must be integers or slices, not str https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks-_Mh1QhMc&list=PLWDUzz3hCDJL313cxfWSnTh5X0ZtP1oVU&index=3&pp=iAQB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks-_Mh1QhMc&list=PLWDUzz3hCD...

stong1 2y ago
This should be fixed now. There was temporary outage due to proxy running out of bandwidth.

stong1 2y ago

Hi HN! I'm the author of this service. Thank you for your support. There may have been some temporary downtime due to residential proxy running out of bandwidth. I have purchased additional bandwidth. (I run this service for free.) There also may be some errors with particular videos because they are not accessible in certain regions. For now all requests to YouTube originate from United States, but open to change in the future to some kind of round-robin or fallback system. I know it's not perfect. I developed the tool originally for my own use. It's open source and I'm open to any patches or pull requests. Enjoy!

JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2y ago
> open-source > OPENAI_API_KEY Choose one.
- SomeoneOnTheWeb 2y ago
  The service itself is open source ; but it relies on a closed source service. Both are not incompatible.
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- suprjami 2y ago
  > OPENAI_BASE_URL > OPENAI_API_HOST
- jamesy0ung 2y ago
  If you don't like it, just edit the open-source code to point to a locally hosted open-source llm.
NewUser76312 2y ago
Hey this is really cool, I literally had the same idea about a month ago but ultimately decided to not pursue it. Glad someone else did. A few quick Qs - 1) Do you use the available auto-generated transcripts from youtube? Or do you do any audio parsing? I know transcripts aren't always available. 2) Do you have any plans to monetize in some way, do you think it would be possible? It's definitely a neat product but a tad generic and replicable, so I'm curious.

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fullshark 2y ago

So what is everyone doing with all this free time they've now accumulated from not reading, watching, or listening to media?

righthand 2y ago
Chatting with AI bots. I agree that this mentality of works being “too long so don’t ingest it”, is not a healthy way to go about life and thinking in general.
- DennisP 2y ago
  It's not that, it's "too long with low information density so ingest it more efficiently." That way we can spend our time on things that are more productive or enjoyable.
  - righthand 2y ago
    > That way we can spend our time on things that are more productive or enjoyable. That seems like an arms race, how do you know there aren't more productive ways to enjoy your time? Can something less productive be more enjoyable?
    - DennisP 2y ago
      I don't, and yes. I suspect this varies by person.
  - mazambazz 2y ago
    Videos are typically already summarized substitutes for complex topics--topics for which you might need to read text or literature to get the full context of. Now we want to min-max and summarize the video themselves. Then what? If that video summary is too long, we throw it into another LLM to summarize the summary of the summary? To what extent does this end? There's more to learning than just information density. There's visuals, presentations, explanations. And if you want more proof, then a video played a 2x speed is twice the information density, yet we all know that many videos would be extremely hard to retain anything from at that speed.

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renewiltord 2y ago

There's also a funny one like https://tldw.tech/ https://tldw.tech/ which makes everything into a The Verge video.

feelingsonice 2y ago

I tried a video 1:42 hours long and it told me it was too long. Increase the limit?

JoeDaDude 2y ago

This is not the only service of its kind. There is also the Video Gist: https://www.videogist.co/ https://www.videogist.co/ I can't speak to the differences between the two. Once casual observation is that the one posted by the OP seems to be a lot faster..

ggasp 2y ago

I made a shortcut for iPad to do more or less the same thing and promised myself to keep “engineering” the prompt but work pretty well as it is. Link: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/fbb5a315cb354fbf903bcfa4f409ba95 https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/fbb5a315cb354fbf903bcfa4f40... What the shortcut does is taking the transcript of the video and asking your ChatGPT app to extract main ideas, quotes, and facts. The prompt comes originally from fabric CLI tool https://danielmiessler.com/blog/fabric-origin-story https://danielmiessler.com/blog/fabric-origin-story

xivzgrev 2y ago

Pretty cool. The summary at first was helpful, but then delves into repeating itself. I tried it on John wick. Here’s the latter part of the summary. The video calls out the cliché tropes and logical inconsistencies in "John Wick," showing how they detract from the film's emotional impact. The critique outlines the logical flaws in "John Wick," focusing on cliché tropes that undermine the film’s emotional depth. The video critiques the logical inconsistencies and clichés in "John Wick," highlighting how they reduce its emotional impact. The critique points out clichés and logical flaws in "John Wick." The video notes clichés and flaws in "John Wick." The video critiques "John Wick."

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the__alchemist 2y ago

Will I still get to learn about Brilliant?!

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prashp 2y ago

How is this different from using Gemini to summarize a video given a YouTube URL?

TheArcane 2y ago

Bit of a waste to host this locally and still need an openai api key. This would be great with Ollama

jknoepfler 2y ago

I see the value in this, and thank you for posting it. That said, it really makes me wonder at how insanely inefficient information transfer over the internet can become. This is like... doing OCR on screenshots of PDFs to send messages, rather than just passing around text. Nice, searchable, parseable, indexible, extremely compressible, editable, readily versionable text.

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winkeltripel 2y ago

It seems to have some reasonable length limitations. It refused to distill this epic analysis of dungeons across 3 games, since the video approaches 4 hours long: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PajArJbPfpE https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PajArJbPfpE

singlepaynews 2y ago

My struggle with all these tools is that it’s been universally easier to type “summarize this video <link>” into chatGPT than to even keep track of the link to service. I desperately want a openAI-powered business to be viable, but it’s a snake eating its tail

observer987 2y ago

Nicely done! Thanks for open sourcing it as I've been able to run it locally and experiment with the prompt.