io.github.SylphxAI/video-reader-mcp

Video Reader MCP

Is the Video Reader MCP server down? No. It answered initialize and tools/list in the probe of 2026-10-31.

Evidence-first video MCP. Timeline document with ffprobe streams and subtitle cues.

alive probed 2026-11-14 · unchanged since 2026-10-31

1tools

543tokens in Claude Opus 5.5

0.3 %of Claude's 200k window

0.2×the median server

424 msto initialize

34 msto list tools

Run it: npx -y @sylphx/video-reader-mcp@0.1.0 (stdio, probed in a container with the network off)
Host: npmjs.com
Reports itself as: video-reader-mcp 0.1.0
Capabilities: tools
Instructions: 173 characters
Of a 1M window: <0.1 % of a 1M context window
Count: 543 tokens in Claude Opus 5.5, exact, measured 2026-10-17. With the Claude Code prefix mcp__…__ on each tool name: 556. The o200k_base estimate is 280. Counted again when the tool definitions change. Method.
Repository: https://github.com/SylphxAI/video-reader-mcp
Website: https://github.com/SylphxAI/video-reader-mcp#readme
Registry: deprecated, updated 2026-09-23 · registry entry

Most expensive tools

The Claude column scales the o200k estimate of each tool by this server's ratio of exact to estimate, 1.94×.

Tool	≈ Claude tokens	o200k estimate	Share of this server
read_video	543	280	100 %

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Servers that mention reader.

The result of the latest probe, the tool count and the token cost. The feed has an entry for every probe that changed them.

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