laion/BVD-I-300M-URLs

LAION-BVD - 300M Video Frame URLs

This repository contains the URLs for ~300 million keyframes extracted from publicly available web videos. No image data is included, only the source video URL and the frame timestamp needed to reproduce each frame.

Frames were extracted from BVD-RAW and cover YouTube, Dailymotion, and Vimeo content.

Dataset structure

Column	Type	Description
webpage_url	string	URL of the source video
frame_pts_time	float	Presentation timestamp of the frame in seconds

Repository structure

frames/
  0/
    0000.parquet
    ...
  1/
    ...

Loading the data

import datasets

ds = datasets.load_dataset("LAION/BVD-I-300M-URLs", data_dir="frames", split="train")

Or with pandas:

import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_parquet("frames/", engine="pyarrow")

Reproducing frames

Each frame can be reproduced from its source video using yt-dlp and ffmpeg:

yt-dlp -o video.mp4 "<webpage_url>"
ffmpeg -ss <frame_pts_time> -i video.mp4 -frames:v 1 frame.png

Relation to LAION-BVD

Release	Description
LAION/BVD-1.3B-URLs	1.3B raw video URLs from CommonCrawl
This dataset	300M keyframe URLs with timestamps