AI Video Search Engine (avse)
AI
semantic video search
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AI Video Search Engine (avse)
An open source AI video search engine to learn more about AI
avse.vercel.app#video search#semantic search#rag#embeddings#transcript search
How HN took it
7 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 6 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score +0.02.
Idea: 4 for, 2 againstPerformance: 2 for, 3 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Finds relevant sections of long videos well
From 1 comment
Thank you for answering and indexing the video so quickly. I'm blown away how good this works! I searched for the query just like you said and it really found exactly the…
remuskaos on HN
Solves the hidden-gems problem in long videos
From 1 comment
This is great, I've been looking for exactly that! Often times there are "hidden gems" of knowledge in longer videos, for example how some calculations for a specific problem are…
remuskaos on HN
Objections
Ranking and relevance are weak; search is not a solved problem
From 2 comments
The problem with this project is that it doesn't really solve the valuable problem, which is ranking/relevance. It's effectively just a very simple "indexer", if you can even…
ZephyrBlu on HN> but wouldn't able to accurately contextualise the actual content of the video based on the users question which is the focus on the tool Are you sure this is what users want?…
ZephyrBlu on HN
Results are sensitive to exact query phrasing
From 2 comments
Thank you for answering and indexing the video so quickly. I'm blown away how good this works! I searched for the query just like you said and it really found exactly the…
remuskaos on HNIt doesn't sound ideal that it's so phrasing dependant - 5th on a list of 9 videos is poor if you're searching without knowing which video you're looking for and without knowing…
swores on HN
Only indexes selected channels, so many queries return irrelevant results
From 2 comments
It does not work at indexing anything else than AI? Tried searching for something like zero knowledge proofs and it showed me courses in Java. Interesting approach though
eleijonmarck on HNI haven't been able to get a good search result yet. I tried "how do i improve my lap times at bathurst in assetto corsa competizione" and got a couple of irrelevant results…
mvdtnz on HN
Requests
Support for TikTok and automatic indexing
From 1 comment
Include or exclude channels in results
From 1 comment
Thank you for answering and indexing the video so quickly. I'm blown away how good this works! I searched for the query just like you said and it really found exactly the…
remuskaos on HN
Dark mode and topic tabs in the UI
From 2 comments
This is wonderful. A fantastic step towards indexing video... I have some ideas I'd like to share - something to improve this project: 1: Are you only scraping the video id and…
altruios on HNThis is amazing... UX Feedback: The vid bubbles are HUGE. https://i.imgur.com/TjHhtRr.png It would be great to have TopicTabs... I search for "X" and it gives me one of the topic…
samstave on HN
Transcribe audio with Whisper for videos without captions
From 1 comment
Questions
How were chunk sizes chosen for RAG
From 1 comment
How did you decide the chunking size? I’m working on a similar project and it seems our sweet spot was around 800 . But would really love to hear what others are doing here for…
social_quotient on HN
How to add videos to the index
From 2 comments
This is great, I've been looking for exactly that! Often times there are "hidden gems" of knowledge in longer videos, for example how some calculations for a specific problem are…
remuskaos on HNI like this. Another idea maybe is to build a podcast search engine too. The descriptions are there but many times the content is built up to ensure a particular podcast running…
thisisit on HN
Alternatives named
askYouTube.ai
From 1 comment
Also checkout www.askYouTube.ai Which does essentially this but requires no indexing of videos!
twayt on HN
dexa.ai
From 1 comment
Have you tried dexa.ai? Here is an example with Hubermanlab Podcast - https://dexa.ai/huberman
umate on HN
videogist
From 1 comment
There is a service that produces descriptions of each scene: https://www.videogist.co/ But I don't know about searchability.
viddi on HN