Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search
Details
- External ID
- 47503617
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- March 24, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 438
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.993849938499385
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Gemini Embedding 2 can project raw video directly into a 768-dimensional vector space alongside text. No transcription, no frame captioning, no intermediate text. A query like "green car cutting me off" is directly comparable to a 30-second video clip at the vector level.I used this to build a CLI that indexes hours of footage into ChromaDB, then searches it with natural language and auto-trims the matching clip. Demo video on the GitHub README. Indexing costs ~$2.50/hr of footage. Still-frame detection skips idle chunks, so security camera / sentry mode footage is much cheaper.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI video creation and editing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- video search engine
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It acts as a thin CLI wrapper around Google's Gemini Embedding 2 API and a vector store like LanceDB, SQLite-vec, or Qdrant to enable vector similarity search on video clips.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: sentinelsearch (local alternative), Anime similarity search tools
Concerns raised: 768 dimensional space insufficiency for video comparison, Privacy implications of automatic facial recognition, Thresholding challenges at scale, Cost structure concerns despite affordability
Feature requests: Local model support/integration, Thresholding improvements for scalability
Competitors
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Launched 146 days after the earliest competitor.
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