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Re: Show HN: From Markdown to Video

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Related: A very basic prototype I’ve been working on, but for video zines https://kickscondor.com/slaptrash Seems you could do something along these lines to avoid the video generation part.

Man, you're on fire! First fraidyc.at and now this. Kudos!

This is really cool that you took notice of my projects - thank you for the kindness, solstice. Please - a link to anything you are working on - or where I can find your feed - would be appreciated.

Re: Show HN: From Markdown to Video

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Man, you're on fire! First fraidyc.at and now this. Kudos!

This is really cool that you took notice of my projects - thank you for the kindness, solstice. Please - a link to anything you are working on - or where I can find your feed - would be appreciated.

Nothing to share with the wider internet at the moment, I'm afraid. We're just ships passing each other at night in the middle of the ocean. Smooth sailing!

Re: Show HN: From Markdown to Video

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From a technology point of view, this is really cool. From the view of someone that occasionally watches videos on YouTube, I am trying to figure out a nice way to say... I hate it. Or more specifically, I hate that it generates the voice, and basically enables video content spam. What we don't need more of is cheap, easy to automatically generate videos that are basically spam and/or clickbait, trying to get views.…

The primary issue I have with auto-generated video is its ability to systematically reduce accuracy over time due to being generated from out-of-date information, unmaintained APIs, or simple typos.

Manual editing and manual narration tends to act as a forcing function to review the information and approve its accuracy before publishing.

Auto-generated videos can often be published without a final review or fact check. As we see auto-generated video for things like product demos, and company training, it will open a new problem domain of catching “bugs” in those auto-generated videos.

Re: Show HN: From Markdown to Video

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For all those stuff, video is useless and prevents having benefits regular dashboard would. Only naration is useful form of presentation but you don't need this tech to do so.

I don't know about that. If I'm making breakfast and can see a screen, both narration and visuals are useful. I think that's why Google and Amazon came out with device assistants that have screens

If you are making breakfast and have a system that rotates dashboards (such as Grafana for example), that is exactly the same as having a video from the viewing angle, but otherwise better, since you can still come from the room and do some interactive stuff not possible if it were only on video.

So, video is only limiting you, nothing else.

I can imagine this to be used alike to PDF in specific contexts - if you need 100% guarantiee that local devices/viewers/etc wont change any output detail.

Re: Show HN: From Markdown to Video

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Aren't these kind of videos (auto-generated) prohibited by YouTube?

Only if you want to run ads.

that for the ads of that specific video? Or uploading a few of these would make the whole channel un-monetizable?

I mean,YT now has restrictions on how much engagement you need before you start monetizing. One could use those videos to bump up the numbers, and then monetize their real videos

Re: Show HN: From Markdown to Video

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is really cool that you took notice of my projects - thank you for the kindness, solstice. Please - a link to anything you are working on - or where I can find your feed - would be appreciated.

Nothing to share with the wider internet at the moment, I'm afraid. We're just ships passing each other at night in the middle of the ocean. Smooth sailing!

Farewell then, solstice. (Sensation that we'll pass again one day...)

Re: Show HN: From Markdown to Video

#77
I don't know if technically possible, but live preview would be really cool. Maybe javascript rendering to canvas without the roundtrip to the server for encoding to mp4.

Easier bulk upload / upload with curl / python requests is needed IMO.

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