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Video compressor tool

Video compressor

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Developers can build video optimization tools using Claude Fable 5.1 and WebAssembly FFMPEG without server-side processing.

Simon Willison created a video compressor tool using Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code. The tool uses the WebAssembly build of FFMPEG to optimize videos for web publishing. Willison demonstrated it by compressing a short video recorded on his phone.

Original · Simon Willison’s Weblog

Video compressor

Tool: Video compressor I recorded a short demo video of my Equal Earth animation on my phone and wanted to publish an optimized version of that video (using FFMPEG) on my blog, so I had Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code for web build me this tool using the WebAssembly build of FFMPEG. Tags: ffmpeg , video , webassembly , claude , claude-code , claude-mythos-fable