Yueying – Let AI watch videos runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 13 Sep 2026.
Local videos or YouTube/Bilibili URLs -> timestamped transcript, keyframes, contact sheets. Offline.
We read the source, 7 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df
What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.
p = subprocess.run(cmd, stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
path = os.path.join(out_dir, f"f{i:03d}_{slug_time(t)}.jpg")
env = dict(os.environ)
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We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.
This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.
claude mcp add yueying -- uvx yueying
{
"mcpServers": {
"yueying": {
"args": [
"yueying"
],
"command": "uvx"
}
}
}
[mcp_servers.yueying]
command = "uvx"
args = ["yueying"]
{
"mcpServers": {
"yueying": {
"args": [
"yueying"
],
"command": "uvx"
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"yueying": {
"args": [
"yueying"
],
"command": "uvx"
}
}
}
This one needs environment variables set before it will start:
PYTHONUTF8 (Set to 1 (UTF-8 I/O on Windows)), YUEYING_OUT_DIR (Folder for transcripts/keyframes (default ~/yueying_out)), YUEYING_MODEL (Default Whisper model: auto|tiny|base|small|medium|large-v3|large-v3-turbo), YUEYING_DEVICE (auto | cuda | cpu).
The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.
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