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Show HN: OpenBrief – Local-first video downloader/summarizer (github.com)

93 points by tantara ↗ HN
OpenBrief is basically a GUI for yt-dlp with some AI on top — paste a link, it downloads locally, and transcription and voice generation run with local AI on your machine. Summaries and chat over the transcript use an LLM, which is bring-your-own-key for now. It's open source and free.

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bethekidyouwant
Don’t YouTube videos already have a transcript?
stratos123
It's way worse than what you can get locally via whisper. Not sure why, perhaps Google legally can't use whisper, or can't spare the compute.
[dead] hbwang2076
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Centigonal
(responding to dead sibling) As someone who frequently replies to people's questions with "Great question!" or "That's a good point!," I'm a little concerned people are going to start thinking I'm an LLM.
ks2048
Within the past year, yt-dlp has ceased to work reliably, it seems Google is cracking down.
sophianara
This feels like the 'Obsidian for video'. I your approach: local-first, ownership of files, and composable AI instead of another cloud subscription.
devword
Curious how you handle long-context transcripts locally. Are you chunking + retrieval, or relying on large-context hosted models through BYO APIs?
tantara
STT models I used are fast enough to transcribe 1hr audio on my macbook (m1max).
sillyboi
Nice work. It's refreshing to see a simple and local-first Tauri app instead of another one CLI/TUI tool.
markoa
Looks interesting, starred, thanks.
[dead] zuogl
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riddley
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but could this be modified to create tab from a live performance? I improvised a solo with my band recently and it was a big hit and I'm feeling too lazy to transcribe it.
tantara
I believe so. AI could implement this feature in one shot
1afc6c31
That's cool ... will definitely try that. I know there are many tools like that but when it gives good results in the end I'll use it.
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