Hacker News with Generative AI: Video Processing

FastVideo: a lightweight framework for accelerating large video diffusion models (github.com/hao-ai-lab)
FastVideo is a lightweight framework for accelerating large video diffusion models.
Meta's new Video Understanding Multimodal Model used Qwen model for training (arxiv.org)
Despite the rapid integration of video perception capabilities into Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), the underlying mechanisms driving their video understanding remain poorly understood.
Representing Long Volumetric Video with Temporal Gaussian Hierarchy (zju3dv.github.io)
This paper aims to address the challenge of reconstructing long volumetric videos from multi-view RGB videos.
Don't Look Twice: Faster Video Transformers with Run-Length Tokenization (rccchoudhury.github.io)
We present Run-Length Tokenization (RLT), a simple and efficient approach to speed up video transformers by removing redundant tokens from the input.
Generating high-quality thumbnails from videos (apple.com)
Show HN: FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers (github.com/steelbrain)
Connect to remote ffmpeg servers. Are you tired of unsuccessfully trying to pass your GPU through to a docker container running in a VM? So was I! ffmpeg-over-ip allows you to run an ffmpeg server on a machine with access to a GPU (Linux, Windows, or Mac) and connect to it from a remote machine. The only thing you need is Node.js installed and a shared filesystem (could be NFS, SMB, etc.) between the two machines.
Video segmentation with Segment Anything 2 (SAM2) (roboflow.com)
StreamPot: Run FFmpeg as an API with fluent-FFmpeg compatibility, queues and S3 (github.com/StreamPot)
Texture Enhancement for Video Super-Resolution (github.com/DachunKai)
The challenge of writing a on-demand transcoder (zoriya.dev)
Show HN: ffmpeg-english "capture from /dev/video0 every 1 second to jpg files" (github.com/dheera)
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg (phoronix.com)