When uploading a video, In the Cookbook, it says “NOTE: The File API samples the video at 1 frame per second (FPS). This sampling rate may be subject to change to provide the best inference quality.” How to increase this rate, e.g., 5 frames per second?

The Video cookbook is brand new, and shows the newer, more convenient API. Up to last week, you had to split the video into individual frames, separate out the audio track, and then feed the model all the parts (in sequence) when using AI Studio. People tended to use ffmpeg to make frame collections…

File API, upload video, how to increase FPS?

Gemini API

Junyan_Xu May 22, 2025, 1:00am 4

Now FPS feature is officially supported.

Any plans to increase FPS?

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File API, upload video, how to increase FPS?

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