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AI · January 18, 2026

30min video analysis for $0.003 via frame-tiling and Vision API

Electron demo app showcasing VAM Seek library integration with folder tree view - unhaya/vam-seek-ai

30min video analysis for $0.003 via frame-tiling and Vision API launched on January 18, 2026 with 7 votes, #1,609 of 14,584 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Video analysis with AI is expensive. 10-minute video at 1fps = 600 API calls. Compression ratio: ~3,600x — Traditional 1fps = 18,000 API calls (~$50+). VAM-RGB: 1 call, under a cent. That's it. No cloud upload, no FFmpeg server, no frame-by-framefrom github.com

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