Gemini API Video Understanding Timeout (504 DEADLINE_EXCEEDED) with 1.08 GB Video in GCS

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I’m trying to use Google Cloud Storage (GCS) with the Gemini API for video understanding, but I’m consistently running into timeouts.

  • Video size: 1.08 GB

  • Duration: 3:30

  • Error:
    google.genai.errors.ServerError: 504 DEADLINE_EXCEEDED
    {'error': {'code': 504, 'message': 'Deadline expired before operation could complete.', 'status': 'DEADLINE_EXCEEDED'}}

I also tried using the File API with the same file, but it times out as well. Since the File API limit is 2 GB, I expected this to work.

Has anyone run into this with larger videos? What’s the recommended approach to handle this?
Thanks in advance.