StudioOpen-source video-grep searches video content in the terminal with natural language and returns timestamps
Original title: Video grep in terminal for Agents
A developer released video-grep, an Apache 2.0 open-source tool that searches video content from the terminal by describing actions or scenes in natural language, returning matches with timestamps; it targets SSH-only machines like remote servers, CCTV/NVR boxes, and edge devices. It uses ffmpeg to cut videos into 6-second clips with 8 frames each and embeds them with EmbeddingGemma 2; it offers three model sizes (1.5 GB GPU, 550 MB and 320 MB ONNX CPU), runs fully offline after a one-time download, and needs no file names or metadata. Tested on an Apple M5 with 29 Wikimedia clips and 34 hand-labelled queries, the High model ranked the right video first for 97% of queries and in the top 5 for 100%; selecting a result outputs an ffmpeg command to save just that clip. Only macOS is tested s…
The open-source tool does semantic video search entirely in the terminal, runs locally offline, and outputs a ready-to-use clip command, useful for anyone digging through footage on headless servers.
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