About video input

[gemcollector]

Description of the feature request:

Fantastic work! I wonder if is it possible to input a video (.mp4) while using gemini-1.5-pro api? The tutorial seems to only provide access to a single image.

What problem are you trying to solve with this feature?

I wanna input a video sequence, just like the web version.

Any other information you'd like to share?

No response

[singhniraj08]

@gemcollector, Video formats are supported for Gemini 1.5 pro api. For larger images, videos (sequences of image frames), and audio, upload the files with the File API before including them in prompts. Thank you!

[gemcollector]

Thanks for your reply~! So Does it mean if we wanna upload the videos, we can only upload sequences of image frames instead of directly uploading the .mp4 file？

[gemcollector]

Are there any examples I can refer to? Thank you!

[gemcollector]

I think this repo can solve my question! Thanks! https://github.com/google-gemini/cookbook

[singhniraj08]

@gemcollector, Sorry for delayed response. You can follow Gemini API: Prompting with Video tutorial. The Gemini API currently does not support video files directly. Instead, you can provide a series of timestamps and image files. Thank you!