# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved. # SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-NVIDIA-OneWay-Noncommercial """OpenAI-compatible chat-completions client for the evaluated models and the judge. A clip is sent in one of two ways: * ``gemini_video``: the whole clip as one ``image_url`` part holding a ``data:video/mp4;base64,...`` URL. * ``openai_frames``: JPEG frames spread evenly across the clip, one ``image_url`` part each. """ from __future__ import annotations import base64 import importlib.util import json import os import socket import sys import time import urllib.error import urllib.request CHAT_COMPLETIONS_URL = (os.environ.get("VLM_API_BASE", "").rstrip("/") + "/v1/chat/completions") if os.environ.get("VLM_API_BASE", "") else "" # HTTP statuses worth retrying: server errors, gateway failures and rate limits. # A failed request is dropped from the run, so transient errors must be retried. RETRYABLE_STATUS = frozenset({429, 500, 502, 503, 504}) # Socket timeout for every chat-completions POST. Without one, urlopen can block # forever on a dead connection. HTTP_TIMEOUT_SEC = float(os.environ.get("VLM_HTTP_TIMEOUT_SEC", "600")) # Attempts per request to an evaluated model (retryable errors only), and the # wait between attempts. API_MAX_ATTEMPTS = 10 API_RETRY_WAIT_SEC = 5 def post_chat_completion( url: str, api_key: str, payload: dict, server_error_max_attempts: int, server_error_wait_sec: int, ) -> dict: headers = { "Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}", "Content-Type": "application/json", } data = json.dumps(payload).encode("utf-8") attempts = max(1, server_error_max_attempts) for attempt in range(1, attempts + 1): req = urllib.request.Request(url, data=data, headers=headers, method="POST") body = "" try: with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=HTTP_TIMEOUT_SEC) as resp: if resp.status < 200 or resp.status >= 300: print(f"Request failed with HTTP {resp.status}: {url}", file=sys.stderr) sys.exit(1) body = resp.read().decode("utf-8") except urllib.error.HTTPError as e: err_body = e.read().decode("utf-8", errors="replace") if e.code in RETRYABLE_STATUS and attempt < attempts: print( f"HTTP {e.code} on POST {url} " f"(attempt {attempt}/{attempts}), retrying in {server_error_wait_sec}s...", file=sys.stderr, ) time.sleep(server_error_wait_sec) continue print(f"Request failed with HTTP {e.code}: {url}", file=sys.stderr) if err_body: print(err_body[:2000], file=sys.stderr) sys.exit(1) except (TimeoutError, socket.timeout, urllib.error.URLError) as e: # MUST stay below the HTTPError clause: HTTPError subclasses URLError, # so ordering it first would swallow every HTTP status here. # A stalled connection is retried exactly like a 5xx. if attempt < attempts: print( f"{type(e).__name__} on POST {url} " f"(attempt {attempt}/{attempts}), retrying in {server_error_wait_sec}s...", file=sys.stderr, ) time.sleep(server_error_wait_sec) continue print( f"Request failed after {attempts} attempts ({type(e).__name__}): {url}", file=sys.stderr, ) sys.exit(1) if not body: return {} return json.loads(body) sys.exit(1) def video_mime_from_path(path: str) -> str: lower = path.lower() if lower.endswith(".mp4"): return "video/mp4" if lower.endswith(".webm"): return "video/webm" if lower.endswith(".mov"): return "video/quicktime" if lower.endswith(".mpeg") or lower.endswith(".mpg"): return "video/mpeg" print( "Unsupported video extension (use .mp4, .webm, .mov, .mpeg, .mpg): " f"{path}", file=sys.stderr, ) sys.exit(1) def video_data_uri_from_file(video_path: str) -> str: p = video_path if os.path.isabs(video_path) else os.path.abspath(video_path) if not os.path.isfile(p): print(f"Video file not found: {p}", file=sys.stderr) sys.exit(1) with open(p, "rb") as f: raw = f.read() if not raw: print(f"Video file is empty: {p}", file=sys.stderr) sys.exit(1) b64 = base64.standard_b64encode(raw).decode("ascii") return f"data:{video_mime_from_path(p)};base64,{b64}" def build_messages_gemini_video(question: str, video_data_uri: str) -> list[dict]: """Question text plus one image_url part holding the whole clip.""" return [ { "role": "user", "content": [ {"type": "text", "text": question}, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": video_data_uri}, }, ], } ] def load_cv2(): if importlib.util.find_spec("cv2") is None: print( "Frame mode needs OpenCV: pip install opencv-python-headless", file=sys.stderr, ) sys.exit(1) import cv2 return cv2 def extract_jpeg_base64_frames(video_path: str, max_frames: int) -> list[str]: """Return up to ``max_frames`` JPEG frames spread evenly from the first to the last frame.""" cv2 = load_cv2() cap = cv2.VideoCapture(video_path) if not cap.isOpened(): print(f"Cannot open video for frame extraction: {video_path}", file=sys.stderr) sys.exit(1) total = int(cap.get(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_COUNT) or 0) out: list[str] = [] if total <= 0: # Frame count unavailable: decode everything, then subsample evenly. frames = [] while True: ok, fr = cap.read() if not ok: break frames.append(fr) cap.release() if not frames: return out n = min(max_frames, len(frames)) idxs = [round(i * (len(frames) - 1) / max(1, n - 1)) for i in range(n)] if n > 1 else [0] for i in idxs: ok, buf = cv2.imencode(".jpg", frames[i]) if ok: out.append(base64.standard_b64encode(buf.tobytes()).decode("ascii")) return out n = min(max_frames, total) idxs = [round(i * (total - 1) / max(1, n - 1)) for i in range(n)] if n > 1 else [0] for i in idxs: cap.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_POS_FRAMES, i) ok, fr = cap.read() if not ok: continue enc_ok, buf = cv2.imencode(".jpg", fr) if enc_ok: out.append(base64.standard_b64encode(buf.tobytes()).decode("ascii")) cap.release() return out def build_messages_openai_frames(question: str, jpeg_base64_frames: list[str]) -> list[dict]: """Question text plus one data:image/jpeg;base64,... part per frame.""" parts: list[dict] = [{"type": "text", "text": question}] for b64 in jpeg_base64_frames: parts.append( { "type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": f"data:image/jpeg;base64,{b64}"}, } ) return [{"role": "user", "content": parts}] def resolve_input_mode(flag: str, model: str) -> str: """``auto`` sends frames to GPT models and the whole clip to every other model.""" if flag in ("openai_frames", "gemini_video"): return flag m = (model or "").lower() if "gpt-" in m or "/gpt" in m: return "openai_frames" return "gemini_video" def extract_assistant_text(response: dict) -> str: choices = response.get("choices") if not isinstance(choices, list) or not choices: return "" ch0 = choices[0] if not isinstance(ch0, dict): return "" msg = ch0.get("message") if not isinstance(msg, dict): return "" content = msg.get("content") if isinstance(content, str): return content.strip() if isinstance(content, list): parts: list[str] = [] for part in content: if not isinstance(part, dict): continue if part.get("type") == "text": t = (part.get("text") or "").strip() if t: parts.append(t) return "\n".join(parts).strip() return "" def query_model( video_path: str, question: str, model: str, api_url: str, api_key: str, input_mode: str, max_frames: int, robot_type: str = "", ) -> str: """Send the clip and question to a model and return its answer text.""" if resolve_input_mode(input_mode, model) == "openai_frames": messages = build_messages_openai_frames( question, extract_jpeg_base64_frames(video_path, max_frames), ) else: messages = build_messages_gemini_video(question, video_data_uri_from_file(video_path)) if robot_type: messages = [ {"role": "system", "content": f"You are a {robot_type}."}, *messages, ] payload = {"model": model, "messages": messages} response = post_chat_completion( api_url, api_key, payload, API_MAX_ATTEMPTS, API_RETRY_WAIT_SEC, ) return extract_assistant_text(response)