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Top 23 Python video-generation Projects
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ViMax
"ViMax: Agentic Video Generation (Director, Screenwriter, Producer, and Video Generator All-in-One)"
Project mention: Open Source Project of the Day (Part 17): ViMax - Video Generation Framework, All-in-One Director, Screenwriter, and Producer | dev.to | 2026-03-14This is Part 17 of the "Open Source Project of the Day" series. Today we explore ViMax (GitHub).
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Project mention: A beginner's guide to the Dynami-Crafter model by Camenduru on Replicate | dev.to | 2026-01-04
DynamiCrafter is a generative AI model that can animate open-domain still images based on a text prompt. It leverages pre-trained video diffusion priors to bring static images to life, allowing for the creation of engaging, dynamic visuals. This model is similar to other video generation models like VideoCrafter1, ScaleCrafter, and TaleCrafter, all of which are part of the "Crafter Family" of AI models developed by the same team.
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Project mention: Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large model | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-10
At the moment, no unfortunately. However, to my recent knowledge of open source alternatives, the vLLM team published a separate repository for omni models now:
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni
I have not yet tested out if this does full speech to speech, but this seems like a promising workspace for omni-modal models.
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Project mention: Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-29
Yup, similar concepts! Just at two opposite extremes of the compute/scaling spectrum.
- That forest trail world is ~5 million parameters, trained on 15 minutes of video, scoped to run on a five-year-old iPhone through a twenty-year old API (WebGL GPGPU, i.e OpenGL fragment shaders). It's the smallest '3D' world model I'm aware of.
- Genie 3 is (most likely) ~100 billion parameters trained on millions of hours of video and running across multiple TPUs. I would be shocked if it's not the largest-scale world model available to the public.
There are lots of neat intermediate-scale world models being developed as well (e.g. LingBot-World https://github.com/robbyant/lingbot-world, Waypoint 1 https://huggingface.co/blog/waypoint-1) so I expect we'll be able to play something of Genie quality locally on gaming GPUs within a year or two.
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AI-Youtube-Shorts-Generator
Open-source alternative to Opus Clip, Vidyo.ai, Klap & SubMagic. Turn long-form YouTube videos into viral 9:16 shorts using LLM highlight detection, Whisper transcription, and auto vertical cropping — free, no watermarks, no per-clip credits.
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Project mention: TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-25
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InternGPT
InternGPT (iGPT) is an open source demo platform where you can easily showcase your AI models. Now it supports DragGAN, ChatGPT, ImageBind, multimodal chat like GPT-4, SAM, interactive image editing, etc. Try it at igpt.opengvlab.com (支持DragGAN、ChatGPT、ImageBind、SAM的在线Demo系统)
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DynamiCrafter
[ECCV 2024, Oral] DynamiCrafter: Animating Open-domain Images with Video Diffusion Priors
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Project mention: Helios: 14B open source video model, real time at 19.5fps, runs on 6GB VRAM | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-24
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ReCamMaster
[ICCV'25 Best Paper Finalist] ReCamMaster: Camera-Controlled Generative Rendering from A Single Video
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MIMO
Official implementation of "MIMO: Controllable Character Video Synthesis with Spatial Decomposed Modeling"
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video-diffusion-pytorch
Implementation of Video Diffusion Models, Jonathan Ho's new paper extending DDPMs to Video Generation - in Pytorch
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FollowYourPose
[AAAI 2024] Follow-Your-Pose: This repo is the official implementation of "Follow-Your-Pose : Pose-Guided Text-to-Video Generation using Pose-Free Videos"
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
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Python video-generation discussion
Python video-generation related posts
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A beginner's guide to the Dynami-Crafter model by Camenduru on Replicate
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OmniHuman-1: Human Animation Models
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HunyuanVideo: A Systematic Framework for Large Video Generation Model
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Veo 2: Our video generation model
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HunyuanVideo: A Systematic Framework for Large Video Generation Model
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Index
What are some of the best open-source video-generation projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Pixelle-Video | 21,355 |
| 2 | LivePortrait | 18,494 |
| 3 | CogVideo | 12,763 |
| 4 | HunyuanVideo | 12,170 |
| 5 | ViMax | 8,624 |
| 6 | VideoCrafter | 5,063 |
| 7 | vllm-omni | 4,938 |
| 8 | Text2Video-Zero | 4,250 |
| 9 | lingbot-world | 3,859 |
| 10 | VACE | 3,797 |
| 11 | AI-Youtube-Shorts-Generator | 3,781 |
| 12 | MAGI-1 | 3,702 |
| 13 | FastVideo | 3,680 |
| 14 | TurboDiffusion | 3,522 |
| 15 | InternGPT | 3,203 |
| 16 | DynamiCrafter | 2,998 |
| 17 | MimicMotion | 2,598 |
| 18 | Helios | 1,883 |
| 19 | ReCamMaster | 1,817 |
| 20 | VBench | 1,645 |
| 21 | MIMO | 1,574 |
| 22 | video-diffusion-pytorch | 1,383 |
| 23 | FollowYourPose | 1,356 |
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