Explainer videos are dark patterns that replaced written howto documents in order to serve ads. Not seeing them pop up any more in search results is one of the few positive outcomes of Google switching to AI-first search results.
I sometimes run yt-dlp against YouTube or TikTok URLs to extract an mp4, then send that to Gemini to ask questions about the content.
It's particularly good for those frustrating recipe videos where they don't tell you quantities of ingredients to use - you can have Gemini hallucinate the quantities and it normally gets them about right.
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It's particularly good for those frustrating recipe videos where they don't tell you quantities of ingredients to use - you can have Gemini hallucinate the quantities and it normally gets them about right.
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Plus having the video file means I can extract frames as images at specific timestamps.
Homely though the ask feature is probably fit for purpose, at least on YouTube.