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Claude Video Vision

Claude Video Vision is an MCP server that gives Claude the ability to watch and understand videos — Claude Code plugin with frame extraction and multimodal audio analysis. It has 1,347 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y claude-video-vision.

github.com/jordanrendric/claude-video-vision (opens in a new tab)

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Install Claude Video Vision

Generated from the server's published package. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "claude-video-vision": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "claude-video-vision"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio claude-video-vision -- npx -y claude-video-vision

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "claude-video-vision": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "claude-video-vision"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "claude-video-vision": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "claude-video-vision"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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).

Tools (6)

Parsed from the Tools section of the README; check the repository for the current list.

  • video_watch

    Extract frames + process audio (main tool)

  • video_analyze

    Analyze video structure with ffmpeg filters before extraction

  • video_detail

    Drill into specific cached or newly extracted moments

  • video_info

    Get video metadata without processing

  • video_configure

    Change settings

  • video_setup

    Check and guide dependency installation

About Claude Video Vision

Give Claude the ability to watch and understand videos. A Claude Code plugin that extracts frames via ffmpeg and processes audio via multiple backends (Gemini API, local Whisper, or OpenAI API). Claude receives frames as images and audio transcription with timestamps — the plugin is a perception layer, not an interpretation layer.

  • claude-code
  • claude-code-plugin
  • ffmpeg
  • gemini
  • mcp
  • mcp-server
  • multimodal
  • video-analysis
  • whisper

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What is Claude Video Vision?

Claude Video Vision is an MCP server that gives Claude the ability to watch and understand videos — Claude Code plugin with frame extraction and multimodal audio analysis. It has 1,347 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y claude-video-vision. The source code is at github.com/jordanrendric/claude-video-vision.

How do I install the Claude Video Vision MCP server?

Add the command npx -y claude-video-vision 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 Video Vision 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 Video Vision actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 6, 2026. The latest release is v1.4.0, published Oct 6, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.