| # Video sources and local reconstruction |
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| This repository publishes annotations only. Download upstream videos into a local |
| directory after reviewing the upstream terms and access requirements. |
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| | Component | Upstream repository | Pinned revision inspected for this release | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | QA annotations | `CASIA-IVA-Lab/ThinkStream` | `94a9d82bc74864ba6b705b52ffa3a2d4bc9733e8` | |
| | LLaVA video packages | `lmms-lab/LLaVA-Video-178K` | `6d8c562dc26d70042a0d9704d1cae58c94b89098` | |
| | Kinetics-700 video package | `omni-research/Tarsier2-Recap-585K` | `5cffa8342bbd9900fb50fdb7fd1b5f2cd1778ac4` | |
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| The last source is access-gated. Request access on its Hugging Face page and log in |
| locally before downloading. Keep access tokens out of scripts and command history. |
| Pinned repository revisions document upstream file listings; they are not a claim |
| that every local video was byte-hashed against that revision. |
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| ## Required LLaVA subsets |
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| The release references these five subsets, with their original names: |
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| ```text |
| 0_30_s_youtube_v0_1 |
| 0_30_s_academic_v0_1 |
| 1_2_m_academic_v0_1 |
| 1_2_m_activitynetqa |
| 2_3_m_academic_v0_1 |
| ``` |
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| `metadata/video_manifest.parquet` is the exact list of required files. Archives may |
| contain additional videos. Avoid downloading the entire upstream repository if only |
| these annotations are needed. |
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| Example, sequential download of the required archive groups: |
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| ```python |
| from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download |
| |
| subsets = [ |
| "0_30_s_youtube_v0_1", "0_30_s_academic_v0_1", |
| "1_2_m_academic_v0_1", "1_2_m_activitynetqa", "2_3_m_academic_v0_1", |
| ] |
| snapshot_download( |
| repo_id="lmms-lab/LLaVA-Video-178K", repo_type="dataset", |
| revision="6d8c562dc26d70042a0d9704d1cae58c94b89098", |
| allow_patterns=[f"{subset}/*.tar.gz" for subset in subsets], |
| local_dir="downloads/LLaVA-Video-178K", max_workers=1, |
| ) |
| ``` |
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| Inspect each archive's member paths, then extract each archive under its matching |
| subset directory. For example, for one archive: |
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| ```bash |
| mkdir -p /path/to/videos/LLaVA-Video-178K/0_30_s_youtube_v0_1 |
| tar -xzf downloads/LLaVA-Video-178K/0_30_s_youtube_v0_1/0_30_s_youtube_v0_1_videos_1.tar.gz \ |
| -C /path/to/videos/LLaVA-Video-178K/0_30_s_youtube_v0_1 |
| ``` |
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| Historical annotations contain `.../<subset>/data/<source-folder>/...`. The archive |
| may instead extract `.../<subset>/<source-folder>/...`. The preparation script tries |
| both forms, so a machine-specific symlink is unnecessary. `liwei_youtube_videos`, |
| `academic_source`, and `ActivityNet-QA` are inherited upstream directory names. |
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| ## Kinetics-700 package |
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| ```python |
| from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download |
| |
| snapshot_download( |
| repo_id="omni-research/Tarsier2-Recap-585K", repo_type="dataset", |
| revision="5cffa8342bbd9900fb50fdb7fd1b5f2cd1778ac4", |
| allow_patterns=["Kinetics-700/videos.tar.part-*", "Kinetics-700/metadata.json"], |
| local_dir="downloads/Tarsier2", max_workers=1, |
| ) |
| ``` |
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| The inspected package has 13 numbered `videos.tar.part-*` files. After obtaining all |
| parts, concatenate in filename order and extract the tar stream: |
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| ```bash |
| mkdir -p /path/to/videos/Kinetics-700 |
| cat downloads/Tarsier2/Kinetics-700/videos.tar.part-* \ |
| | tar -xf - -C /path/to/videos/Kinetics-700 |
| ``` |
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| The archive contains `videos/<clip-id>.mp4`. Clip filenames such as |
| `<video-id>_000179_000189.mp4` identify an upstream clip; the annotation interval is |
| relative to that clip, not the original full YouTube timeline. Re-downloading from |
| another source can change clip boundaries or availability, so verify correspondence. |
|
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| ## Expected layout |
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| ```text |
| videos/ |
| ├── LLaVA-Video-178K/ |
| │ ├── 0_30_s_youtube_v0_1/liwei_youtube_videos/... |
| │ ├── 0_30_s_academic_v0_1/academic_source/... |
| │ ├── 1_2_m_academic_v0_1/academic_source/... |
| │ ├── 1_2_m_activitynetqa/ActivityNet-QA/... |
| │ └── 2_3_m_academic_v0_1/academic_source/... |
| └── Kinetics-700/videos/... |
| ``` |
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| Validate path mapping without writing output: |
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| ```bash |
| python scripts/prepare_local_data.py --video-root /path/to/videos --config current --check-only |
| ``` |
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| Use `--llava-root` and `--kinetics-root` if sources are stored separately. The check |
| does not download, decode or modify videos. File existence alone cannot guarantee |
| correct clip identity, decodability, or the validity of every time interval. |
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