media.md

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Embedded media detection + transcript-first pipeline.	When changing media detection, embedded captions, or video-mode behavior.

Media detection + transcript-first

Detection (HTML)

• Embedded video/audio: <video> / <audio> tags, og:video / og:audio, iframe embeds (YouTube/Vimeo/Twitch/Wistia, Spotify/SoundCloud/Podcasts).
• Captions: <track kind="captions|subtitles" src=...>.

Transcript resolution order

1. Embedded captions (VTT/JSON) when available.
2. yt-dlp download + Whisper transcription (Groq first; then ONNX/local/OpenAI/FAL fallback).

CLI behavior

• --video-mode transcript prefers transcript-first media handling even when a page has text.
• Direct media URLs (mp4/webm/m4a/etc) skip HTML and transcribe.
• Local audio/video files are routed through the same transcript-first pipeline.
• YouTube still uses the YouTube transcript pipeline (captions → yt-dlp fallback).
• X/Twitter status URLs with detected video auto-switch to transcript-first (yt-dlp), even in auto mode.
• X broadcasts (/i/broadcasts/...) are treated as media-only and go transcript-first by default.
• Local media files are capped at 2 GB; remote media URLs are best-effort via yt-dlp (no explicit size limit).

Chrome extension behavior

• When media is detected on a page, the Summarize button gains a dropdown caret (Page/Video or Page/Audio).
• Selecting Video/Audio forces URL mode + transcript-first extraction for that run only.
• Selection is not stored.

Known limits

• No auth/cookie handling for embedded media; login-gated assets will fail.
• Captions are best-effort; if captions are missing or unreadable, we fall back to transcription.