# /// script # requires-python = ">=3.11" # dependencies = [ # "saturate[hf]==0.3.0", # ] # # [tool.hf-jobs] # image = "vllm/vllm-openai:v0.32.0" # flavor = "a100-large" # timeout = "2h" # secrets = ["HF_TOKEN"] # /// """ Caption whole videos — no chunking — with Qwen3.8-27B, writing a resumable dataset. Qwen3.8-27B (Apache 2.0, not gated) ingests videos natively at hour scale: an 11-minute film is one request, and in --timestamps mode the model returns a timeline of events whose times are read off per-frame time tags (verified accurate to the ~2s sampling interval, with on-screen text quoted verbatim). This is the structural difference from marlin-caption.py, which must split anything over ~60s into chunks. Serves the model on vLLM inside the job and pumps every video in INPUT_DIR through it with saturate: crash-safe parquet out, exact resume (re-running skips completed videos), congestion-aware concurrency. Input: Output (one parquet dataset): /input/film.mp4 (11 min) -> 1 row per video — columns: video, /input/clip.mp4 (45 s) -> duration_s, caption, events (JSON, --timestamps mode), token counts Examples: # Caption a bucket of videos on HF Jobs (the [tool.hf-jobs] header sets the # image, a100-large and HF_TOKEN; hf CLI >= 1.32) hf jobs uv run --timeout 2h \\ -v hf://buckets/user/my-videos:/input:ro \\ https://huggingface.co/datasets/uv-scripts/video/raw/main/qwen38-caption.py \\ /input hf://buckets/user/my-videos/captions # Timestamped event timeline per film instead of a prose caption ... qwen38-caption.py /input hf://buckets/user/out --timestamps # Local machine with a CUDA GPU (needs ~60 GB VRAM); vLLM comes from the # Jobs image, so add it yourself uv run --with vllm==0.32.0 qwen38-caption.py ./videos ./captions-out Thinking mode defaults off for captions (little gain, big latency) but ON for --timestamps: measured on the 11-min film, the non-thinking model may answer a timeline request with a one-line summary, while thinking mode produced a frame-verified 96-event timeline. --thinking / --no-thinking overrides. Frame budget: the model's default video processor caps a video at 768 frames and a fixed pixel budget (~12k video tokens). At the default 2 fps anything longer than ~6.4 min is capped, so a long film is seen at lower frame rate and resolution: an 11-min film at ~1 frame per 0.9 s, an hour at ~1 frame per 4.7 s. Small on-screen text gets harder to read as videos get longer. The model card's "Long Video Understanding" section explains how to raise the budget. Model: Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B (27B dense, hybrid GDN linear attention, vision tower). bf16 weights are ~52 GB — a100-large is the smallest sensible Jobs flavor; h200 generates ~2.3x faster if latency matters. """ import argparse import hashlib import json import logging import re import shutil import subprocess import sys from pathlib import Path logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format="%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(message)s") logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) MODEL = "Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B" VIDEO_EXTENSIONS = {".mp4", ".mkv", ".webm", ".mov", ".avi", ".m4v"} CAPTION_PROMPT = ( "Describe this video: the setting, the people, what happens over its course, " "and any text that appears on screen." ) TIMESTAMPS_PROMPT = ( "Watch this video and produce a timeline of events covering the WHOLE video " "from start to finish. Output ONLY the timeline, one event per line. For " "each event give the time range as in decimal seconds " "(e.g. <95.0 - 112.5>) followed by a one-sentence description. " "Include title cards, on-screen text (quoted), and scene changes. " "Do not summarize; cover the full duration." ) THINK = re.compile(r".*?\s*|^.*?\s*", re.DOTALL) # accepts decimal seconds (<95.0 - 112.5>) and clock forms (<01:35 - 01:52>) EVENT_LINE = re.compile( r"<(\d+(?::\d{2}){0,2}(?:\.\d+)?)\s*-\s*(\d+(?::\d{2}){0,2}(?:\.\d+)?)>\s*[:–\-]?\s*(.+)") def to_seconds(ts: str) -> float: parts = [float(x) for x in ts.split(":")] out = 0.0 for part in parts: out = out * 60 + part return round(out, 2) def probe_duration(path: Path) -> float | None: try: out = subprocess.run( ["ffprobe", "-v", "error", "-show_entries", "format=duration", "-of", "csv=p=0", str(path)], capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=120) return round(float(out.stdout.strip()), 2) except (ValueError, subprocess.SubprocessError): return None def config_tag(**config) -> str: """Short hash of everything that changes the output, so resume never reuses a row produced under a different prompt, mode or frame rate.""" return hashlib.sha256(json.dumps(config, sort_keys=True).encode()).hexdigest()[:12] def parse_events(text: str) -> list[dict]: return [{"start": to_seconds(a), "end": to_seconds(b), "text": d.strip()} for a, b, d in EVENT_LINE.findall(text)] def main(): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser( description=__doc__, formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter) parser.add_argument("input_dir", help="Directory of videos (e.g. a mounted bucket)") parser.add_argument("output", help="Dataset output: hf://datasets/..., hf://buckets/..., or local path") parser.add_argument("--timestamps", action="store_true", help="Return a event timeline per video instead of a prose caption") parser.add_argument("--prompt", help="Override the built-in prompt") parser.add_argument("--thinking", action=argparse.BooleanOptionalAction, default=None, help="Thinking mode. Default: on for --timestamps (measured: without it the " "model may summarize instead of covering the video), off otherwise") parser.add_argument("--max-videos", type=int, help="Only process the first N videos (testing)") parser.add_argument("--window-max", type=int, default=8, help="Max in-flight requests (default 8 — whole-video requests are large)") parser.add_argument("--max-model-len", type=int, default=131072) parser.add_argument("--retry-errors", action="store_true", help="Re-attempt rows that errored in a previous run") args = parser.parse_args() if args.window_max < 1: sys.exit("--window-max must be at least 1") if shutil.which("ffprobe") is None: sys.exit("ffprobe not found — use the vllm/vllm-openai image (has it) or install ffmpeg") input_root = Path(args.input_dir).resolve() videos = sorted(p for p in input_root.rglob("*") if p.suffix.lower() in VIDEO_EXTENSIONS) if args.max_videos: videos = videos[: args.max_videos] if not videos: sys.exit(f"no videos found under {input_root}") logger.info("found %d videos", len(videos)) prompt = args.prompt or (TIMESTAMPS_PROMPT if args.timestamps else CAPTION_PROMPT) thinking = args.timestamps if args.thinking is None else args.thinking tag = config_tag(model=MODEL, prompt=prompt, timestamps=args.timestamps, thinking=thinking) logger.info("config tag %s (part of every row id; changing the prompt or mode " "re-processes videos instead of reusing old rows)", tag) # Row id = relative path + file size + config tag: a replaced video or a # changed setting gets a new id, so resume cannot return a stale result. rows = [(f"{p.relative_to(input_root)}|{p.stat().st_size}|{tag}", {"video": str(p.relative_to(input_root)), "uri": p.as_uri(), "duration_s": probe_duration(p)}) for p in videos] # Timeline output scales with video length; measured 9.6K tokens for an # 11-min film — leave generous headroom. Thinking needs its own budget on top. max_tokens = 16384 if args.timestamps else 4096 if thinking: max_tokens += 32768 def to_request(row: dict) -> dict: req = { "model": MODEL, "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": [ {"type": "video_url", "video_url": {"url": row["uri"]}}, {"type": "text", "text": prompt}, ]}], "max_tokens": max_tokens, } if thinking: # model-card sampling params per mode req.update({"temperature": 1.0, "top_p": 0.95, "top_k": 20}) else: req.update({"temperature": 0.7, "top_p": 0.8, "top_k": 20, "presence_penalty": 1.5, "chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": False}}) return req def parse(row: dict, resp: dict) -> dict: # Raising here makes saturate store an error row, which --retry-errors # re-attempts; a truncated or empty answer must not count as done. choice = resp["choices"][0] raw = choice["message"]["content"] or "" if choice.get("finish_reason") == "length": raise ValueError(f"truncated at max_tokens={max_tokens} (finish_reason=length)") if "" in raw and "" not in raw: raise ValueError("reasoning never finished (no )") text = THINK.sub("", raw).strip() if not text: raise ValueError("empty response") usage = resp.get("usage") or {} out = {"video": row["video"], "duration_s": row["duration_s"], "caption": text, "prompt_tokens": usage.get("prompt_tokens"), "completion_tokens": usage.get("completion_tokens")} if args.timestamps: events = parse_events(text) if not events: raise ValueError("no events in the response") duration = row["duration_s"] if duration and any(e["end"] > duration + 2.0 for e in events): raise ValueError(f"event ends past the video's {duration}s duration") out["events"] = json.dumps(events) return out from saturate import Auto, Engine, pump with Engine( MODEL, engine="vllm", extra_args=[ "--allowed-local-media-path", str(input_root), "--max-model-len", str(args.max_model_len), # Model card's video flag. vLLM 0.32 then samples at the model's # default 2 fps (a 60 s clip -> 119 frames). Do NOT also pass # --mm-processor-kwargs '{"fps": ..., "do_sample_frames": true}': # on 0.32 the frames are sampled twice and every request 400s. "--media-io-kwargs", json.dumps({"video": {"num_frames": -1}}), # Unbounded growth on distinct videos — OOM-kills the node if left on. "--mm-processor-cache-gb", "0", ], ) as endpoint: stats = pump( rows, to_request=to_request, parse=parse, endpoint=endpoint, output=args.output, window=Auto(initial=min(4, args.window_max), min_limit=1, max_limit=args.window_max), retry_errors=args.retry_errors, # A thinking timeline can run to ~49k tokens; at 8 in flight one # request can take longer than saturate's 1800 s default. read_timeout=7200, ) logger.info("done: %d ok, %d failed, %.1f tok/s (window settled at %d)", stats.rows_processed, stats.rows_failed, stats.tokens_per_sec, stats.final_limit) if stats.rows_failed: logger.warning("failed rows are recorded in the output; re-run with " "--retry-errors to attempt them again") if __name__ == "__main__": main()