| ▲ | jhatemyjob 18 hours ago | |
I wish they worked with the mpv folks instead of shoehorning this in. Based on the docs it looks like getting live transcription for a video will involve running the demuxer/decoder on one thread, and this whisper filter on another thread, using ffmpeg's AVIO (or to a REST API [1].... shudders) to synchronize those two parallel jobs. It could have been way simpler. Other than for the "live transcription" usecase (that they made unnecessarily complicated), I don't see how this is any better than running Whisper.cpp directly. Other people in this thread are basically saying "ffmpeg's interface is better understood" [2] but LLMs make that point moot since you can just ask them to do the drudgery for you. [1] https://medium.com/@vpalmisano/run-whisper-audio-transcripti... | ||