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Re: Show HN: Scenestamps – A website for sharing movie scenes with timestamps

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Post by json_bourne_ »

dvt wrote: post #32

I launched something very similar ~5 years ago! The site is long gone, but there's some screenshots here: https://www.producthunt.com/products/spoiled-tv Good luck! My goal was to be a sort of "Rap Genius" for movies and TV shows, but unfortunately, I couldn't really figure out the business angle, and my traffic was abysmal, so I had to shut it down. If you care to, you can see my old pitch deck here[1]. [1] https://…

Hey dvt, saw your producthunt & pitch, wow. Traffic to my site before this post was like 10-15 per day, after this post yesterdat 179, today 302 and still going.... total crossed 1.1k

Only 10 registered users so far. One new user from this post I guess.

Would like to talk to you about this. My twitter : https://twitter.com/gjpx_

Re: Show HN: Scenestamps – A website for sharing movie scenes with timestamps

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Post by qingcharles »

aradaelli wrote: post #5

What's the timestamp relative to? Depending on the origin, the same movie/episode may have different lengths for things like opening credits or "previously on ..." shorts

I was/am working on similar tech, and there are dozens of cuts when you cover every possible edit and release format (VHS, Betamax, Laserdisc, DVD, Blu-ray, streaming) and even the problems of 24/25/"30"fps causing creep.

It's solvable, it just requires more tagging and more data.

Re: Show HN: Scenestamps – A website for sharing movie scenes with timestamps

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Post by qingcharles »

tetris11 wrote: post #12
superasn wrote: post #10

Nice idea for a very niche audience. I was wondering Since all movies have subtitles, can't this be done if you give gpt4/chatgpt the whole subtitles and ask it to identify identify the start and stop time in the above subtitles where "The President of the United States meets the X-Men, as they try to convince him to work together against the growing mutant threat". Just a thought.

It boggles my mind that someone hasn't used the entire corpus of https://frinkiac.com/ to write their own Simpsons episode with AI

Next best thing?

https://www.aipeter.live/

Re: Show HN: Scenestamps – A website for sharing movie scenes with timestamps

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Post by qingcharles »

echelon wrote: post #25
tetris11 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It boggles my mind that someone hasn't used the entire corpus of https://frinkiac.com/ to write their own Simpsons episode with AI

A bunch of high school and college kids are using our TTS APIs to run 24/7 streams of improvised SpongeBob, Family Guy, Simpsons, Futurama, South Park, Breaking Bad (wat??), and more. This stuff is all over Twitch and YouTube streaming.

This, right?

https://www.aipeter.live/

Re: Show HN: Scenestamps – A website for sharing movie scenes with timestamps

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Post by json_bourne_ »

qingcharles wrote: post #42
aradaelli wrote: post #5

What's the timestamp relative to? Depending on the origin, the same movie/episode may have different lengths for things like opening credits or "previously on ..." shorts

I was/am working on similar tech, and there are dozens of cuts when you cover every possible edit and release format (VHS, Betamax, Laserdisc, DVD, Blu-ray, streaming) and even the problems of 24/25/"30"fps causing creep. It's solvable, it just requires more tagging and more data.

For now I've stuck with streaming links, but yes more data makes it easy.

Re: Show HN: Scenestamps – A website for sharing movie scenes with timestamps

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Post by datascienced »

extraduder_ire wrote: post #14
shubb wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see anything like that here. It's metadata like imdb, rather than links to the movies themselves.

It's a shame streaming sites don't support URL slugs with timestamps or other data in them, AFAIK. It'd be really neat to be able to link to a specific scene halfway through an episode of a netflix show, like you can with youtube videos. Especially if it didn't mess with your watch history. They'd still authenticate users, so I doubt there'd be a rights issue.

Sounds like a job for a chrome extension!

Re: Show HN: Scenestamps – A website for sharing movie scenes with timestamps

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Post by json_bourne_ »

1123581321 wrote: post #28

Great idea. Would it be possible to add links? That way people creating the timestamps could link to YouTube clips that contain the scene with the t= property. Perhaps link multiple.

Yep, already there, I just removed it because it might be too much for users when they are creating form. The original forms included 'source related links' and 'scene related links'. Both for source and scenes where you can add multiple urls related to them.

This will be pushed later on.

Re: Show HN: Scenestamps – A website for sharing movie scenes with timestamps

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Post by seper8 »

fbdab103 wrote: post #24
seper8 wrote: post #18

Hey, why not allow adding of screen grab of the movie? I think thats fair use... I personally would love a site like this where you can also search for cinematographically beautiful frames/scenes.

If nothing else, that significantly changes the backend scale required. You should trivially be able to host (show, timestamp, text) in a SQLite database for a very long time. Expanding to screen caps adds all sorts of complexity: legal rights, consistent resizing, CDNs, EXIF stripping, what if some joker uploads shots of pornography, etc

All of these things (except the legal part) are trivial. You don't need a cdn, just use s3 or blob storage and put the blob id in the cdn. If you really want, you can use a cdn for responsive images based on screen width.

Re: Show HN: Scenestamps – A website for sharing movie scenes with timestamps

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Post by json_bourne_ »

1123581321 wrote: post #28

Great idea. Would it be possible to add links? That way people creating the timestamps could link to YouTube clips that contain the scene with the t= property. Perhaps link multiple.

Hey! updated to add scene related links to scenes while creating and editing it. Eg: https://scenestamps.com/scenestamp/01hwk9g8fg1sfvredw5ayvd7w...
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