alt Hacker NewsPretty terribly expensive way to watch a video with Claude.
Use Gemini or some local VLM to do this way more efficiently. We spent quite a bit of time on video understanding, and Claude will just burn tokens.
Check out this library: https://vlm-run.github.io/mm/
You can swap models and try out different encoding methods for videos (https://vlm-run.github.io/mm/encoders/#video)
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mh- • today at 1:15 AM
Assuming that's your project, the GitHub link from the PyPi page is a 404.
Do you mean that Gemini is most token-efficent at watching videos? Is that the case for e.g. just giving it a video in the browser? I admit, I dont give LLMs videos as I just assume it'll burn too many tokens.