processing-video

processing-video is a skill for Claude Code from oaustegard/claude-skills. It costs 239 tokens per session (3,094 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A toolkit for changing and inspecting audio and video files with ffmpeg, a command-line media utility. It supports common media tasks such as conversion, trimming, extraction, compression, and subtitles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to convert formats, trim or merge clips, extract audio, create GIFs, add subtitles or watermarks, and adjust resolution or sound levels.
Why use it?
It provides standard commands for media processing without requiring a custom program for every file operation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the media-processing plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to convert formats, trim or merge clips, extract audio, create GIFs, add subtitles or watermarks, and adjust resolution or sound levels.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oaustegard/claude-skills/processing-video
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add oaustegard/claude-skills --skill processing-video
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oaustegard/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install media-processing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 239 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,094 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00239 $0.03094
Opus 5 $0.00120 $0.01547
Sonnet 5 $0.00048 $0.00619
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00309

Measured 9d ago against content hash 501e1250a1c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

processing-video scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/media-processing/skills/processing-video/SKILL.md · 189 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 189 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ffmpeg Toolkit

ffmpeg 6.1.1 is pre-installed with a full-featured build. Also available: ffprobe (media analysis) and ffplay (playback, limited use in container).

Before writing custom Python for media tasks, check whether ffmpeg handles it in a single command.

To interpret video content (summarize, describe, find scenes) rather than transform it, use the parsing-video skill — it samples frames into timestamped contact sheets that can be read as images.

Task Reference

Probe & Inspect Media

ffprobe — always start here to understand what you're working with.

ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_format -show_streams input.mp4
ffprobe -v quiet -show_entries format=duration,bit_rate -of csv=p=0 input.mp4
ffprobe -v quiet -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=width,height,r_frame_rate,codec_name -of csv=p=0 input.mp4

Video Format Conversion

ffmpeg -i input.avi output.mp4                             # container swap (re-encode)
ffmpeg -i input.avi -c copy output.mp4                     # container swap (no re-encode, fast)
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libx265 -crf 28 output.mp4       # H.265
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libvpx-vp9 -crf 30 -b:v 0 out.webm  # VP9 WebM
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libsvtav1 -crf 35 output.mp4     # AV1 (SVT, fastest AV1 encoder)
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libjxl output.jxl                # JPEG XL (single frame)

Encoder selection guide:

Goal Encoder Typical flags
Compatibility libx264 -crf 23 -preset medium
Better compression libx265 -crf 28 -preset medium
Web delivery libvpx-vp9 -crf 30 -b:v 0
Best compression libsvtav1 -crf 35 -preset 6
Lossless archival libx264 -crf 0 -preset veryslow

Lower CRF = higher quality. x264 default 23, x265 default 28, SVT-AV1 default 35 are visually similar.

Audio Format Conversion

ffmpeg -i input.wav -c:a libmp3lame -q:a 2 output.mp3     # MP3 VBR ~190kbps
ffmpeg -i input.wav -c:a libopus -b:a 128k output.opus    # Opus (best quality/size)
ffmpeg -i input.wav -c:a aac -b:a 192k output.m4a         # AAC
ffmpeg -i input.wav -c:a flac output.flac                  # FLAC lossless
ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -ar 44100 -ac 2 output.wav            # to WAV, set sample rate/channels

Read the full file on GitHub · 189 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 189 lines · 239 tokens per session scan A 501e1250a1c6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

processing-video is a skill published in the GitHub repository oaustegard/claude-skills (148 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 239 tokens to every session and 3,094 once invoked, about $0.0012 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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