alt Hacker NewsShow HN: OpenBrief – Local-first video downloader/summarizer
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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Cool project! I built something similar a while back and then kept adding to it: https://github.com/rmusser01/tldw_server It’s now grown quite a bit past the original goal of transcribing and summarizing conference talks for me.
isn't this quite similar to https://github.com/kouhxp/yapsnap just with a llm for summarisation?
Nice work. It's refreshing to see a simple and local-first Tauri app instead of another one CLI/TUI tool.
This feels like the 'Obsidian for video'. I your approach: local-first, ownership of files, and composable AI instead of another cloud subscription.
Within the past year, yt-dlp has ceased to work reliably, it seems Google is cracking down.
Looks interesting, starred, thanks.
Curious how you handle long-context transcripts locally. Are you chunking + retrieval, or relying on large-context hosted models through BYO APIs?
Don’t YouTube videos already have a transcript?
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Clean implementation. One thing I always look for: how does this degrade when things go wrong? Good error handling is what separates weekend projects from tools people actually use.