Aliplayer Video Summerize

• Some domestic companies are using AliPlayer as their video streaming solution.

• As some may know, there are notorious "learning" KPIs, wasting your time on those videos nobody gives a shit.

• So, why not make a script automatically transcribe the video to text and make a summary.

Basic approach

• when click playing videos in a browser, we can fetch the m3u8 link in the developer mode (F12)
• using ffmpeg -i <m3u8_link> -c <output>, we can download the video without logging in to the website
• using whisper to make a transcription and somewhat LLM to conclude the transcription.

Next Steps

• How to handle a playlist?

  • Good UX: automatically iterate through the playlist and fetch all m3u8 links
  • Bad UX: let the user to click videos and fetch m3u8 each time

• Can we use cookie for a session inside terminal

  • no longer need to open the link to the video every time
  • just feed the url to the video and let the magic happen