"""Read LLaVA-Video-83K media out of the tar shards. The dataset stores media as uncompressed tar shards plus a byte-offset index, so any file is one pread away and nothing has to be unpacked before training. from lvdu_reader import ShardReader r = ShardReader("/path/to/LLaVA-Video-83K") # annotation "video" field goes straight in vr = r.video_reader("academic_source/youcook2/203/Qh_rtJaCpXs/split_6.mp4") # decord VideoReader frames = r.scene_frames("shareVideoGPTV/frames/all_frames/v_XXX-Scene-001") Videos larger than 64 MiB are stored loose under videos_large/ and are handed to decord as a path, so a 707 MiB file is streamed from disk rather than buffered in RAM. Everything else comes back as bytes via BytesIO, which decord decodes byte-identically (verified against on-disk reads, seeks included). Safe under DataLoader workers: file handles are opened lazily per process and cached, and are never shared across a fork. """ from __future__ import annotations import io import os HOUND_PREFIX = "shareVideoGPTV/frames/all_frames/" class ShardReader: def __init__(self, root: str): import pandas as pd self.root = root idx = pd.read_parquet(os.path.join(root, "metadata", "shard_index.parquet")) self._idx = {m: (s, o, n) for m, s, o, n in zip(idx.member, idx.shard, idx.offset, idx.nbytes)} self._kind = dict(zip(idx.member, idx.kind)) # scene -> sorted frame members, built once. Scanning all ~377k keys per # call would be O(n) inside the dataloader hot path. self._scene: dict[str, list[str]] = {} for m, k in zip(idx.member, idx.kind): if k == "frame": self._scene.setdefault(m.split("/", 1)[0], []).append(m) for v in self._scene.values(): v.sort() self._fh: dict[str, io.BufferedReader] = {} self._pid = os.getpid() # ---------------------------------------------------------------- internals def _handle(self, shard: str, kind: str) -> io.BufferedReader: if os.getpid() != self._pid: # forked into a worker: drop inherited fds self._fh.clear() self._pid = os.getpid() fh = self._fh.get(shard) if fh is None: sub = "video" if kind == "video" else "frame" fh = open(os.path.join(self.root, "shards", sub, shard), "rb", buffering=0) self._fh[shard] = fh return fh def _resolve(self, key: str) -> str: """Annotation `video` field -> index member key.""" return key[len(HOUND_PREFIX):] if key.startswith(HOUND_PREFIX) else key # ------------------------------------------------------------------- public def __contains__(self, key: str) -> bool: # A llava_hound `video` field names a *scene directory*, not a file, so # it is never itself an index member -- its frames are "/x.jpeg". k = self._resolve(key) return k in self._idx or k in self._scene def kind_of(self, key: str) -> str: """'video' or 'scene' -- which accessor this key needs.""" k = self._resolve(key) if k in self._scene: return "scene" if k in self._idx: return self._kind[k] raise KeyError(key) def open(self, key: str): """Whatever this key represents: a decord VideoReader or a frame list.""" return self.scene_frames(key) if self.kind_of(key) == "scene" \ else self.video_reader(key) def path_of(self, key: str) -> str | None: """Filesystem path if the member is stored loose, else None.""" member = self._resolve(key) shard, _, _ = self._idx[member] return os.path.join(self.root, "videos_large", member) if shard == "" else None def read(self, key: str) -> bytes: """Raw bytes of one member (one pread for packed members).""" member = self._resolve(key) shard, offset, nbytes = self._idx[member] if shard == "": with open(os.path.join(self.root, "videos_large", member), "rb") as fh: return fh.read() fh = self._handle(shard, self._kind[member]) return os.pread(fh.fileno(), nbytes, offset) def video_reader(self, key: str, **kw): """decord.VideoReader for a video member; loose files go by path.""" from decord import VideoReader, cpu kw.setdefault("ctx", cpu(0)) p = self.path_of(key) return VideoReader(p, **kw) if p else VideoReader(io.BytesIO(self.read(key)), **kw) def scene_members(self, key: str) -> list[str]: """Sorted frame members of a llava_hound scene.""" scene = self._resolve(key) try: return self._scene[scene] except KeyError: raise KeyError(f"unknown scene {scene}") from None def scene_frames(self, key: str) -> list: """Decoded PIL frames of a llava_hound scene.""" from PIL import Image return [Image.open(io.BytesIO(self.read(m))).convert("RGB") for m in self.scene_members(key)] def close(self) -> None: for fh in self._fh.values(): fh.close() self._fh.clear()