claude-video-vision MCP server

Give Claude the ability to watch and understand videos — Claude Code plugin with frame extraction and multimodal audio analysis

What claude-video-vision does

Summarised from the project README; check the repository for the latest details.

Features

• Multimodal perception — Claude sees video frames directly and reads audio transcriptions with timestamps
• YouTube URL support — Pass a YouTube URL directly; the MCP server downloads it with `yt-dlp`, preserving source metadata and captions for context
• Flexible backends — Choose between cloud APIs or fully local processing
• Adaptive extraction — Claude adjusts fps, time range, and resolution based on your question
• Auto-installation — Whisper models download automatically on first use
• Interactive setup wizard — `/setup-video-vision` walks you through configuration

Tools exposed (6)

• video_watch – Extract frames + process audio (main tool)
• video_analyze – Analyze video structure with ffmpeg filters before extraction
• video_detail – Drill into specific cached or newly extracted moments
• video_info – Get video metadata without processing
• video_configure – Change settings
• video_setup – Check and guide dependency installation

Requirements

• Node.js 24+ (for the MCP server)
• ffmpeg (auto-detected, install instructions provided by setup wizard)
• yt-dlp (optional, required only for YouTube URLs; `brew install yt-dlp` on macOS)
• Backend-specific:
• Gemini API: free API key from ai.google.dev

How to install claude-video-vision

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