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DimensionClaude Real Video MCP ServerLet any LLM actually watch a video locally — and search everything it has ever watchedBioMCPOne binary. One grammar. Evidence from the biomedical sources you already trust.
FMRS61 / 100 · C75 / 100 · B
Reliability9 / 2010 / 20
Security and permissions12 / 2016 / 20
Maintenance13 / 2018 / 20
Documentation14 / 2017 / 20
Setup experience13 / 2014 / 20
Best for
  • Users who want video preprocessing to stay local and only the chosen material to reach a cloud LLM
  • Developers using MCP-capable coding agents such as Claude Code or Cursor who need video evidence
  • Video analysis where scene-aware extraction beats fixed-interval sampling
  • Biomedical researchers
  • Clinicians
  • AI agents that need efficient access to biomedical literature and data analysis
Not for
  • Users expecting a hosted server with no local ffmpeg install
  • Enterprise procurement needing official Anthropic support or an SLA
  • Users who just want a one-off answer about one clip and do not care about local processing or reproducibility
  • Users needing to write to upstream databases (read-only)
  • Users requiring direct access to closed datasets (e.g., COSMIC is not directly integrated)
  • Users expecting all advanced features without API keys
Required permissions
  • Read video and subtitle files at any path you point it at on the local machine
  • Network access via yt-dlp to fetch video URLs
  • Write to the output directory (default crv-out) and the MCP analysis cache at ~/.cache/crv-mcp
  • Maintain a local SQLite memory index at ~/.crv/memory.db (overridable with CRV_MEMORY_DB, disable with CRV_NO_MEMORY=1)
  • Optional: read browser cookies to reach login-gated content in your own account
  • Requires internet access to query public biomedical APIs
  • Optional API keys (NCBI, Semantic Scholar, OpenFDA, etc.) to improve rate limits or unlock features
  • Local read/write access for skills, cache, and local study data (e.g., `~/.local/share/biomcp`)
Risks and side effects
  • Processing copyrighted or unauthorized content may violate the source site's terms; --cookies is meant for your own authorized access only
  • Transcripts and the memory index persist speech and on-screen text on local disk, which matters on shared machines
  • Whisper can invent captions on music-only or silent audio (installing the [fast] extra adds faster-whisper with Silero VAD to avoid this)
  • Once you paste extracted frames or the transcript into a cloud LLM, that data is handled by that provider
  • crv Pro is a paid add-on; the free edition lacks Pro features such as camera motion and voice emotion
  • Upstream API rate limits may affect performance
  • Some data sources (e.g., KEGG) have licensing terms that restrict non-academic use
  • Features requiring API keys (e.g., OncoKB) may be incomplete without them
  • Local binary installations need regular updates for compatibility
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, Claude Code, CursorClaude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex, Other MCP stdio clients
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