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io.github.Azzy-H/mcp-video-frames

Video Frames

Is the Video Frames MCP server down? No. It answered initialize and tools/list in the probe of 2026-11-01.

MCP server that lets image-only models look at video: timecoded frames, measurable properties.

alive probed 2026-11-14 · unchanged since 2026-11-01

2tools
1.0ktokens in Claude
0.5 %of Claude's 200k window
0.4×the median server
1.9 sto initialize
4 msto list tools
Run it
uvx mcp-video-frames@0.1.1 (stdio, probed in a container with the network off)
Host
pypi.org
Reports itself as
mcp-video-frames
Capabilities
prompts, resources, tools
Instructions
514 characters
Of a 1M window
0.1 % of a 1M context window
Count
1.0k tokens in Claude, exact, measured 2026-10-25. With the Claude Code prefix mcp__…__ on each tool name: 1.1k. The o200k_base estimate is 618. Counted again when the tool definitions change. Method.
Repository
https://github.com/Azzy-H/mcp-video-frames
Registry
active, updated 2026-09-28 · registry entry
Changes
2 recorded, reachable in 2 of them. A row is added when the result, the tool count or the cost changes.

Most expensive tools

The Claude column scales the o200k estimate of each tool by this server's ratio of exact to estimate, 1.68×.

Tool≈ Claude tokenso200k estimateShare of this server
view_frames71342368 %
video_info32819532 %

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History

We add a row when the result changes. A server with no change keeps its last row.

ProbedResultInitToolsClaudeo200k
2026-10-25 06:51alive3.3 s21.0k618
2026-10-18 06:38alive1.9 s2618

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Stops answering, comes back, tool set or cost changes. One confirmation mail first, a stop link in every mail.

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