Birbla

Discussion summary

InstantVideos.org offers ~30 second documentaries, with recent discussions focusing on video rendering performance and platform features.

What the discussion says

  • Users are experimenting with video rendering times and GPU acceleration.
  • Some users report issues with image generation and rate limits.
  • The platform is appreciated for its simplicity and accurate narration.
“The audio narration is great and the documentary is accurate.”
— kittikitti
“I'm no expert here and was working w/ GLM-5.2, but rendering was CPU bound.”
— pw

Join the discussion

Write your take first — we'll ask for email only when you're ready to publish.

Sign in
  • Hacker News
  • I'm around to answer questions or receive feedback if anyone as any!
    by pw
  • Cool idea! Looks like my prompt is stuck, though. Might be an idea to provide a share link at the moment of hitting the button so you can check back later, because if I close the tab I will lose my prompt
    by ramon156
  • It’s an interesting concept, perhaps it could go more from ”narrated slide show” to ”video clip” in the near future if it doesn’t cost too much.
    by eckelhesten
  • Currently getting errors

    ---

    File "/usr/lib/python3.10/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 58, in run result = self.fn(self.args, *self.kwargs) File "/home/ubuntu/byclaude/video/harness/pipeline/pipeline.py", line 829, in build_clip clip = round(dur + TAIL, 3) TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and 'float' Video build failed (pipeline exit 1) — please try again. Powered by AI · by Claude · ~

    by albert_e
  • You could probably make your infra cheaper if you sent the generated slides to the web client and use some js ffmpeg wasm to compile the video in the browser. This way you could probably use the cheapest VPS to handle this.
    by f055
  • https://instantvideos.org/video/6be78e5ea542

    Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Short form)

    The audio narration is great and the documentary is accurate. Improvements could include more pictures or animations.

    This is a very great tool and framework! Thank you so much.

    by kittikitti
  • Fun idea! Hope it doesn't cost you too much to keep up depending on how much traction this thread gets ;)

    One small quirk I noticed with the generated short video: for each new slide/photo, there is a very gradual "zoom in" effect that occurs, which causes text to jitter a bit and is a bit disorienting. Not sure if that is specific to the "The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 in Boston" prompt I used or not.

    Also, is Claude involved in the video generation itself? I noticed the generated video has "By Claude" in the top left corner, but the logs seem to indicate that only GLM-5.2, Gemini Flash, and GPT-4o are involved (just curious!)

    by nickvec
  • How would I create a video like this?

    For example, I have several posts that explain concepts in detail, with supporting images. They're written in Markdown, and I keep refining them until I'm confident that the average person can read them and immediately understand the concept.

    The problem is that text is becoming a less popular medium for learning, while short form videos are increasingly being used to explain the same ideas.

    From what I can tell, this tool only lets you provide a prompt. Can it turn my existing Markdown posts and images into videos, or is it mainly intended for generating videos from simple prompts? I'm looking for something that preserves the explanations I've already written rather than creating something entirely new.

    by faangguyindia

Explore Birbla archives