Claude Real Video
Claude Real Video is an MCP server that lets any LLM watch a video locally — and search everything it has ever watched. It has 2,204 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx claude-real-video.
github.com/HUANGCHIHHUNGLeo/claude-real-video (opens in a new tab)
- AI & search
- MIT
- Actively maintained
Install Claude Real Video
Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.
Claude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"claude-real-video": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"claude-real-video"
]
}
}
}Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport stdio claude-real-video -- uvx claude-real-videoCursor
{
"mcpServers": {
"claude-real-video": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"claude-real-video"
]
}
}
}Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.
VS Code
{
"servers": {
"claude-real-video": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"claude-real-video"
]
}
}
}Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).
About Claude Real Video
▶ 100-second demo: ChatGPT and Gemini can watch video, Claude can't. Here's what Claude answers once crv turns the video into frames plus a timestamped transcript.
- claude
- claude-code
- cli
- ffmpeg
- keyframe-extraction
- llm
- multimodal
- python
- scene-detection
- transcription
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What is Claude Real Video?
Claude Real Video is an MCP server that lets any LLM watch a video locally — and search everything it has ever watched. It has 2,204 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx claude-real-video. The source code is at github.com/HUANGCHIHHUNGLeo/claude-real-video.
How do I install the Claude Real Video MCP server?
Add the command uvx claude-real-video to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.
Is Claude Real Video free?
The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.
Is Claude Real Video actively maintained?
The most recent commit was on Oct 1, 2026. The latest release is v0.10.7, published Sep 26, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.