It's a very cool technical feat, but not something I would personally pay for. I'll just spend the 1-2 minutes to watch the video for free. Not trying to discourage you, just giving honest feedback. Launching the early landing page is a good idea to validate further.
Now I can just print that video
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#12If the main challenge was 'not having the smartphone in the kitchen', then one possible solution could have been getting another screen dedicated to the kitchen. A tablet, a laptop, a small TV+Google Cast or such combination. It seems to be a proper media for 'printing' a video. Of course, choosing challenges and finding solutions is what drives fun.
I device I think would be great for the kitchen is a large wrist-mounted, waterproof e-ink screen, curved to wrap around the wrist, with two large scroll buttons.
The recipe could be loaded up via a linked smartphone or something, but then you have a device that you can touch with food covered hands and then wash it right alongside your hands later. Big screen so you don't have to squint or scroll frequently like you would on a smartwatch. E-ink so it works well despite bright kitchen lights and has low power consumption.
Re: Now I can just print that video
#13If the main challenge was 'not having the smartphone in the kitchen', then one possible solution could have been getting another screen dedicated to the kitchen. A tablet, a laptop, a small TV+Google Cast or such combination. It seems to be a proper media for 'printing' a video. Of course, choosing challenges and finding solutions is what drives fun.
To me the main problem this solves is having to rewatch the video over and over for each step. Most of the time it's like "Step 2: do thing" then quickly cuts to step 3 well before I could've finished step 2. So having it laid out like this is actually a decent format to receive recipes in.
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#14You can also use software to detect “cuts” in the video, which can be used to improve the frame-extraction over just getting six evenly spaced frames from the video.
This is a task called "video summarization". See https://paperswithcode.com/task/video-summarization . I guess the whole project is something like summarizing from video + subtitles + text to pictures + text.
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#15No need to spend hours trying to get the text extraction just right - pass the raw extraction into GPT and ask for it to give you the recipe.
I was thinking the same thing. Extraction and basic formatting of information from human language is something that LLMs excel at. Especially if the result is being shown to a human so small mistakes can be tolerated.
It could also dramatically increase quality, look at the below from the example PDF from the page:
> Garlic balsamic chicken, you'll be making over and over. By sear your chicken. I resin wine. Grab yourself a nice large bowl, extra virgin and olive oil. Balsamic glaze. Tomato paste. Honey, fresh lemon juice, garlic, Oregano fresh thyme, coat my chicken with this beautiful balsamic, no balsamic, left behind. Don't you dare waste the good thing. Right? Going in the oven at four twenty five degrees, about thirty ish minutes. Look yes. Fresh thyme, fresh parsley. This is so good. I can't wait. Win our winner. Oh
If we run this through ChatGPT with some basic prompt engineering this becomes:
> Start by searing your chicken in a pan. In a large bowl, combine extra virgin olive oil and balsamic glaze. Add tomato paste, honey, fresh lemon juice, garlic, oregano, and fresh thyme. Coat the chicken thoroughly with this balsamic mixture, ensuring no glaze is left behind. Preheat your oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit. Place the coated chicken in the oven and bake for about 30 minutes. Once cooked, garnish with fresh thyme and fresh parsley. Serve and enjoy your delicious garlic balsamic chicken. (Note: The phrase "I resin wine" in the audio transcription seems unclear and is possibly a mishearing. I have omitted it as it does not appear to fit the context of the recipe.)
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#16Wonder if Kagi's universal summarizer would work on recipe videos. It seems to do a decent job on YouTube videos, but those usually have cc built in.
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#17If the main challenge was 'not having the smartphone in the kitchen', then one possible solution could have been getting another screen dedicated to the kitchen. A tablet, a laptop, a small TV+Google Cast or such combination. It seems to be a proper media for 'printing' a video. Of course, choosing challenges and finding solutions is what drives fun.
To me the main problem this solves is having to rewatch the video over and over for each step. Most of the time it's like "Step 2: do thing" then quickly cuts to step 3 well before I could've finished step 2. So having it laid out like this is actually a decent format to receive recipes in.
Exactly. Fiddling with your phone over and over again while your hands are wet/covered in flour etc. A paper sheet you can pin to the fridge or just get dirty is a reasonable solution imo.
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#18You can also use software to detect “cuts” in the video, which can be used to improve the frame-extraction over just getting six evenly spaced frames from the video.
Not the post author but I tried this with ffmpeg and failed. Do you (does anyone) want to share some pointers?
I used something like this a few years ago in a project sort of similar to this one. There's a bunch of parsing and processing to do with that, and the "0.3" value is ... fiddly, but it worked pretty well:
ffprobe -show_frames -of compact=p=0 -f lavfi "movie=THE_VIDEO_FILE,select=gt(scene\,0.3)" -pretty`Re: Now I can just print that video
#19Great work! It's potentially useful and also hilarious.
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#20For some reason I though the goal was to print (with a 3d printer) a 3d projection of the 4d content of the video. That would be cool...