alt Hacker NewsLast week I had Claude add support for aac audio to davinci resolve on Linux, just by patching the binary. It did almost exclusively with gdb and objdump, patching about 5 functions over an hour or two.
I only got it to the proof of concept stage. The patch adds aac but breaks flac support in the process. And it only works for aac in mp4 container files. But I’m sure with a bit of time we could make a patch which works everywhere and is additive only.
I say ‘we’ - I barely helped. Almost all the work was done by Claude.
Here’s Claude’s report, if anyone wants to build on this work:
https://claude.ai/code/artifact/87d38c2e-9ecb-4066-90cf-e0b2...
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"I only got it to proof of concept.... I'm sure with time"
this is AI psychosis. LLMs by design product plausible output -- it ALWAYS seems like you just need a little more time. That's why the junkies are up all night playing with these things, and yet the next industrial revolution has NOT arrived. if this is the singularity where is my clothes folding bot, my cold fusion, and my cure for all cancers?
Please do not post about things the bot almost did. Nobody cares. When you COMPLETE something with the bot you can post. The rest is delusions.
Are you planning to develop this in the open somewhere. I would be more than interested to have that davinci capability as well