Video Processor Skill

Trit: 0 (ERGODIC - pipeline coordinator) Foundation: Babashka + FFmpeg + DuckDB

Overview

Automated video processing pipeline that:

1. Extracts metadata via ffprobe
2. Generates thumbnails at 5s mark
3. Transcodes to web-friendly H.264/AAC
4. Extracts audio as MP3
5. Records processing to DuckDB with Gay.jl coloring

When to Use

• Processing downloaded videos for analysis
• Extracting frames for multimodal understanding
• Preparing videos for web playback
• Building searchable video metadata indexes
• Automated video ingestion pipelines

Supported Formats

(def video-extensions
  #{"mp4" "mov" "mkv" "webm" "avi" "m4v" "flv" "wmv" "mpg" "mpeg"})

Usage

Process Single Video

bb video-processor.bb /path/to/video.mp4

Watch Directory

bb video-processor.bb /path/to/watch/dir

Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Description
VIDEO_OUTPUT_DIR	/tmp/processed_videos	Output directory
AMP_THREAD_ID	video-processor	Session ID for DuckDB

Pipeline Stages

1. Metadata Extraction

(defn extract-metadata [path]
  (shell {:out :string}
         "ffprobe" "-v" "quiet"
         "-print_format" "json"
         "-show_format" "-show_streams"
         path))

Returns JSON with duration, codec, bitrate, resolution.

2. Thumbnail Generation

(defn generate-thumbnail [input output]
  (shell "ffmpeg" "-y" "-i" input
         "-ss" "00:00:05" "-vframes" "1"
         "-vf" "scale=320:-1"
         output))

Creates 320px wide JPEG at 5 second mark.

3. Web Transcoding

(defn transcode-web [input output]
  (shell "ffmpeg" "-y" "-i" input
         "-c:v" "libx264" "-preset" "fast" "-crf" "23"
         "-c:a" "aac" "-b:a" "128k"
         "-movflags" "+faststart"
         output))

H.264/AAC with fast-start for streaming.

4. Audio Extraction

(defn extract-audio [input output]
  (shell "ffmpeg" "-y" "-i" input
         "-vn" "-c:a" "libmp3lame" "-q:a" "2"
         output))

High-quality MP3 (VBR ~190kbps).

5. DuckDB Recording

(defn record-processing! [path metadata outputs]
  (shell "duckdb" db-path
         (format "INSERT INTO fs_events
                  (path, event_type, size, checksum, session_id)
                  VALUES ('%s', 'video_processed', %s, '%s', '%s')"
                 path size checksum session-id)))

Output Structure

/tmp/processed_videos/
├── video_thumb.jpg      # Thumbnail
├── video_web.mp4        # Transcoded (if needed)
└── video_audio.mp3      # Extracted audio

DuckDB Schema

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS fs_events (
    path VARCHAR,
    event_type VARCHAR,
    size BIGINT,
    checksum VARCHAR,
    session_id VARCHAR,
    timestamp TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
);

-- Query processed videos
SELECT * FROM fs_events
WHERE event_type = 'video_processed'
ORDER BY timestamp DESC;

GF(3) Triad Integration

spi-parallel-verify (-1) ⊗ video-processor (0) ⊗ ffmpeg-media (+1) = 0 ✓
video-downloader (-1) ⊗ video-processor (0) ⊗ gay-mcp (+1) = 0 ✓

Voice Announcements

Processing stages announced via macOS say:

(defn announce [message]
  (shell "say" "-v" "Samantha (Enhanced)" message))

Dependencies

• babashka: Clojure scripting runtime
• ffmpeg/ffprobe: Media processing
• duckdb: Metadata storage

Install via:

brew install babashka ffmpeg duckdb

Integration with Video Understanding

For Multimodal Analysis

# 1. Download video
/video-downloader https://youtube.com/watch?v=...

# 2. Process and extract frames
bb video-processor.bb ~/Downloads/video.mp4

# 3. Analyze frames with Claude
# (frames available as thumbnails or extract more with ffmpeg)
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vf "fps=1" frames/frame_%04d.jpg

For ACSet Modeling

# Model video as temporal graph
@present SchVideo(FreeSchema) begin
    Frame::Ob
    Segment::Ob
    frame_of::Hom(Frame, Segment)
    next_frame::Hom(Frame, Frame)

    Timestamp::AttrType
    time::Attr(Frame, Timestamp)
end

Commands

# Process single video
just video-process /path/to/video.mp4

# Watch directory
just video-watch /path/to/dir

# Query processed videos
just video-list

Related Skills

• video-downloader (0): Download from platforms
• ffmpeg-media (+1): Advanced transcoding
• duckdb-ies (+1): Interactome analytics
• fswatch-duckdb (0): File system watching

Cat# Integration

Trit: 0 (ERGODIC)
Home: Prof
Poly Op: ⊗
Kan Role: Adj
Color: #26D826

GF(3) Naturality

The skill participates in triads satisfying:

(-1) + (0) + (+1) ≡ 0 (mod 3)