Local AI use cases with ffmpeg
ffmpeg is the standard open-source tool for converting and processing audio and video. Local pipelines use it to prepare media for Whisper and vision models.
Rebel BitesOffline meeting minutes with whisper.cpp + Ollama
Turns a 1-hour meeting into structured minutes in under 4 minutes on an RTX 3060, with zero network requests. Bash and Python pipeline included.
Overnight video-to-RAG pipeline for 2,000+ saved clips
A local Qwen3.6 35B with ffmpeg, scenedetect and Whisper indexes saved TikToks and YouTube videos, so you can later find 'that one plumbing tutorial'.