fix(vllm): ship codec-free OpenCV for image inputs

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Summary

The vLLM CUDA runtime needs OpenCV for Mistral still-image preprocessing. This change rebuilds the installed OpenCV version without video backends, preserving cv2.resize while excluding the binary wheel's software video codecs.

• Retains NVDEC for shipped H.264/H.265 video input and gives actionable guidance for unavailable OpenCV video decoding.
• Restores install_media_decoders vllm for video and audio: it replaces codec-free OpenCV with a same-version binary wheel, installs missing PyAV, and verifies decoder availability in a fresh interpreter.
• Reports the required OpenCV replacement flags in dry-run output.
• Keeps the OpenCV policy test specific to CUDA builds; CPU/XPU builds retain the absence check.
• Updates decoder documentation and trims the added comments.

Installing software decoders remains an explicit operator action that changes the container's media-codec surface. Other backend decoder mappings retain their validated version bounds.

Validation

Current head: 8345843d27ee45c99694273497e7397cc426b7a2.

Full CI and Pre Merge passed on this exact head. The September 16, 2026, 05:00 UTC snapshot has 74 successful check runs, 40 skipped checks, no failures, and no queued or running checks. CodeRabbit's commit status is successful. Skipped checks are not counted as passes.

The vLLM runtime and EFA image builds, AMD64/ARM64 tests, two-GPU tests, compliance audit, and all four vLLM deployment tests passed. The completed AMD64 test log explicitly confirms test_vllm_image_ships_no_software_video_codecs passed. The backend, deployment, and Dynamo runtime status gates also passed. No unexpected skipped jobs were identified against the workflow's active filters.

All 31 review threads are resolved. GitHub reports CLEAN and APPROVED; dmitry-tokarev-nv approved this exact head, and rmccorm4 has an existing approval. The approving review's two P3 observations (PyAV documentation and diagnostic cause length) are explicitly nonblocking and were left unchanged. A formal additional re-review request for nv-anants returned HTTP 404 and assigned no reviewer. Existing bot requests were not repeated.

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Related Issues

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved video-decoder errors and installation guidance when bundled OpenCV cannot decode video.
  • Preserved clear handling for missing or unsupported audio and video decoders.
  • Automatically replaces unusable OpenCV builds with matching-version binary support when installing video decoders.
  • Prevented recommendations to install unnecessary media packages.
  • Preserved still-image OpenCV functionality while excluding unsupported video decoding from vLLM runtime images.

• Documentation

  • Clarified OpenCV’s still-image support and video-decoding limitations in vLLM images.
  • Updated decoder installation instructions for supported audio and video options.

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Validation status: incomplete

Evidence summary: [3/5 validated · 1 runs in CI · 1 needs hardware]

AI review assessment (advisory, not an approval): needs_changes. An automated reviewer read the change and raised one blocking finding. It is posted as a separate comment on this request. Repository CI and human reviewers decide whether to merge.

Validation result: incomplete. Every check that could run in the environment where this change was prepared passed, including a paired before/after run over the affected packages that showed no new failures. The single-GPU serving smoke could not run on that host at all: its CUDA 13.0 PyTorch build refuses the host's 12.8 driver, which was reproduced with bare PyTorch and no Dynamo code. No further iteration on that host could change this, so the check is left unproven rather than retried.

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Check 1

Builds the changed Dynamo source and confirms that Python can import its compiled extension.

Result: Passed (exit 0)

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Check 2

Checks the changed files with the repository's fast lint and formatting commands.

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Check 3

Runs the relevant Python unit tests without requiring a GPU.

Result: Passed (exit 0)

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Check 4

Builds the affected container image and checks its runtime setup.

Result: Failed (exit 1)

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Details:

No Docker socket here: 'docker info' exits 127 (binary absent), so the runtime image cannot be built or inspected in this environment. The image build is owned by the pre-merge jobs in .github/workflows/pr.yaml: vllm-build (builds the vLLM runtime image with inline_compliance), vllm-test (runs the pre_merge/vllm/gpu_0 suite inside that image), and vllm-compliance-audit (independent SBOM/OSRB audit of the built image). All three are gated on the 'vllm' path filter in .github/filters.yaml, which this change matches via components/src/dynamo/vllm/main.py and the new test file. Verified rather than assumed: these jobs have NOT run for this head commit -- it is on no remote branch and GitHub returns HTTP 422 'No commit found for SHA' for it. So the image build is unproven as of this run, and it is the CI lane, not this environment, that must prove it. Note the change adds no container layer: nothing under container/ or pyproject.toml is touched, so the image's codec surface is unchanged and no OpenCV is added.

Check 5

Starts Dynamo with vLLM on one GPU and sends a real request.

Result: Failed (exit 1)

Command:

bash -c 'set -x; nvidia-smi --query-gpu=driver_version --format=csv,noheader; python3 -c "import torch; print(torch.__version__, torch.version.cuda); torch.cuda.init(); print(torch.cuda.get_device_name(0))"'

Details:

Attempted for real, not inherited: the frontend and the vLLM worker were launched exactly as the the validation command (Qwen3-0.6B, TP1, max-model-len 4096, --load-format dummy, --discovery-backend file). The frontend came up and answered {"status":"healthy","endpoints":[],"instances":[]}, but no worker ever registered; the worker exited 1 after ~45s. Root cause is the host driver, not the change: EngineCore dies in vllm/v1/worker/gpu_worker.py init_device -> torch._C._cuda_init() with 'RuntimeError: The NVIDIA driver on your system is too old (found version 12080)'. Reproduced with no Dynamo code at all: torch 2.11.0+cu130 against driver 570.124.06 (CUDA 12.8) raises the identical RuntimeError on a bare torch.cuda.init(). No CUDA context can be created on this host, so Section 1 is unreachable for any change and Sections 2 and 3 never run. One real signal did survive: the traceback shows execution reached AsyncLLM.from_vllm_config in components/src/dynamo/vllm/main.py, which is downstream of the new preflight, so the added check ran against a genuine vLLM-built config for a non-multimodal model and returned without raising -- it does not break ordinary worker startup. Live serving of the multimodal Mistral path needs a host whose driver matches the CUDA 13.0 torch build; in CI the vllm-test job runs this lane on GPU runners.

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Assessment: needs_changes

The change diagnoses a real defect, and the decision not to add OpenCV to the image is
correct — I verified that against the repository rather than taking it on trust. One
blocking defect remains: the new startup guard is broader than the problem it fixes, and
it refuses a class of deployment that works today.

Findings

Blocking — the preflight refuses audio-only Mistral models that never touch OpenCV

components/src/dynamo/vllm/main.py:462-468

check_mistral_image_decoder raises when three conditions hold: the model is multimodal,
the tokenizer mode is mistral, and cv2 is absent. Nothing in it checks that the model
supports the image modality, and is_multimodal_model is true for any modality —
in vLLM 0.26.0 it is multimodal_config is not None (vllm/config/model.py:1633-1635),
which follows from the model class declaring SupportsMultiModal.

VoxtralForConditionalGeneration is audio-only and sits inside that gap:

• It declares SupportsMultiModal (vllm/model_executor/models/voxtral.py:308-310), so
  is_multimodal_model is True.
• Its supported modalities are audio and nothing else —
  get_supported_mm_limits() returns {"audio": 5}
  (vllm/model_executor/models/voxtral.py:112-113).
• It requires --tokenizer-mode mistral. Its processing info raises unless the
  tokenizer is a MistralTokenizer (vllm/model_executor/models/voxtral.py:85-88), so
  the operator has no way to avoid the second condition.
• It never needs OpenCV. In mistral_common 1.11.7, assert_opencv_installed()
  (mistral_common/imports.py:88) has exactly one call site, transform_image in
  mistral_common/tokens/tokenizers/image.py:155. Audio tokenization does not reach it.

So a Voxtral worker that starts today would, after this change, fail at
components/src/dynamo/vllm/main.py:468 before the engine is created, with a message that
opens Cannot process image input: and tells the operator to install an image decoder it
does not use. That is a new startup failure introduced by the fix, not a pre-existing one
surfaced earlier. Audio on vLLM is a supported Dynamo path, not a hypothetical one: the
installer ships an audio decoder for this backend
(components/src/dynamo/common/utils/install_media_decoders.py:118 and :136) and
codec_errors.py:129 has a dedicated audio_decoder_missing builder.

A second, narrower case sits in the same gap. Effective per-prompt limits are ignored, so
an image-capable Mistral model served with the image limit set to zero — which starts
today, because vLLM only profiles a modality whose allowed limit is above zero
(vllm/multimodal/encoder_budget.py:73-77) — is refused as well.

The new tests do not catch this because the negative-control matrix is one axis short. The
parametrization at
components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/test_vllm_mistral_image_preflight.py:88-98 varies only
is_multimodal_model and tokenizer_mode, and the fake config at :45-50 carries no
modality information at all, so "multimodal and mistral but audio-only" is unreachable
from the suite.

Requested changes

1. Narrow the guard at components/src/dynamo/vllm/main.py:462-468 so it fires only when
   the model actually supports image input. vLLM exposes the per-model answer through
   MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY.get_processing_info(model_config) (vllm/multimodal/registry.py:208),
   whose get_supported_mm_limits() contains "image" for image-capable models and not for
   Voxtral. If that is judged too heavy for a startup guard, the cheaper signal is the
   hf_config inspection this file already uses at main.py:436-438 — a Voxtral
   hf_config has no vision_config, and change.md records that the Mistral vision model
   used for the runtime demonstration does. Consider the effective image limit in the same
   condition, so a multimodal model served with image input disabled still starts.
2. Extend the negative control at
   components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/test_vllm_mistral_image_preflight.py:88-110 with the
   case that is missing: multimodal, tokenizer_mode="mistral", no cv2, image not among
   the model's supported modalities — asserting the preflight stays silent. That requires
   the fake config at :45-50 to carry whichever modality signal the fix reads.

What I verified and found sound

The substitution for what the request literally asked for

The request asked for opencv-python-headless to be added to the vLLM runtime container. I
checked the three files that decide whether that is possible, rather than relying on the
plan's account of them, and the prohibition is real and doubly enforced:

• The image build removes OpenCV and then asserts it is gone.
  container/templates/vllm_runtime.Dockerfile:442-443 uninstalls
  opencv-python opencv-python-headless among others, :448 deletes the cv2 directory
  and the opencv_python* metadata from site-packages, and :456 ends the layer with
  ! python3 -c "import cv2" 2>/dev/null;. Adding the wheel would fail the build on that
  line.
• A permanent test asserts the same thing about the shipped image.
  tests/dependencies/test_no_software_video_codecs.py:246
  (test_vllm_image_ships_no_software_video_codecs) reaches
  _assert_python_carriers_absent() at :128, which requires
  importlib.util.find_spec("cv2") to be None. Its module docstring marks the assertions
  as the permanent half of the file, to outlive the workarounds around them.
• The sanctioned path for an operator who wants image input already exists and already
  installs the exact package the request named.
  components/src/dynamo/common/utils/install_media_decoders.py:115-117 pins
  opencv-python-headless>=4.13.0.92,<5, and :136 lists it for the vllm backend.

So the literal request cannot be implemented, and the operator-visible outcome — image
input on this path stays an explicit install — is unchanged by this diff. What the change
adds is that the operator learns it in seconds with the supported command in front of them,
instead of after a full model load and with a suggestion
(pip install mistral-common[opencv]) that resolves an unbounded OpenCV version into a
pinned stack. I agree with that substitution. It serves the intent behind the request,
and the accompanying documentation change means an operator hitting this can act without
reading source.

The image case is genuinely not a regression

For the models the guard is aimed at, it refuses only what already fails. vLLM's startup
memory profiling builds dummy multimodal inputs and runs them through the real processor —
get_dummy_mm_inputs calls processor.apply(...) at vllm/multimodal/registry.py:249-254,
reached from vllm/v1/worker/gpu_model_runner.py:5746-5749 during the profile run. Under
--tokenizer-mode mistral that path goes into mistral_common and hits transform_image,
so an image-capable Mistral-tokenizer model without cv2 cannot start today either. The
guard moves that failure earlier and reports the right remedy.

The error message cannot drift from the documented install

mistral_image_decoder_missing (components/src/dynamo/common/multimodal/codec_errors.py:97)
builds its install hint through the shared _install_hint helper at :38, which formats
the spec out of VALIDATED_SPECS and appends INSTALLER_CMD from :26. The version bound
in the operator-facing message therefore comes from the same constant the installer uses,
and the recorded run shows the two agreeing: the message quotes
opencv-python-headless>=4.13.0.92,<5, and installing that spec resolved 4.14.0.94 and
cleared both upstream's own guard and the preflight.

Scope

The diff is six files, +301 / -2, and matches the deliverables the plan named. Nothing
under container/, no pyproject.toml edit, and no change to the two dependency-policy
tests — git diff --stat 68bb98300..HEAD confirms it. The commit
fc8efdb97ecfc63333f0f88b2528fda002320832 is on a non-default branch with a clean working
tree, carries a Conventional Commit subject, and has a Signed-off-by: trailer.

The proportionality question is worth naming, because the request sounded like a one-line
dependency addition and the answer is 301 lines. The production change is small — about 25
lines of guard plus one message builder. The remainder is 177 lines of tests and 26 lines
of documentation. Given that the guard has four branches and a documented operator remedy,
I do not think that is padding, but a maintainer who wants the change smaller should look
at the test file first, and at test_upstream_still_image_encode_needs_cv2 within it.

Test walk

I applied one question to each test the diff adds: with the production change reverted and
the test kept, would it still pass?

Six of the eight tests in test_vllm_mistral_image_preflight.py fail on that revert — the
raise (:70), the three negative controls (:99), the installed case (:113), and the
missing-attribute case (:127) all call check_mistral_image_decoder and get
AttributeError without it. The two new tests in
components/src/dynamo/common/tests/multimodal/test_codec_errors.py exercise the new
message builder and fail without it. The recorded before-run matches exactly: with
main.py reverted, 6 failed, 12 passed; with the change restored, 18 passed.

Two tests survive that revert, and change.md names both rather than hiding them. I
considered a deletion finding for each and am not raising one, for reasons a maintainer can
disagree with:

• test_vllm_model_config_still_exposes_the_attributes_the_preflight_reads
  (components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/test_vllm_mistral_image_preflight.py:145) reads no
  file this diff changed; it pins two attribute names on upstream vllm.config.ModelConfig.
  The production code reads those names through getattr with silent defaults
  (main.py:462 and :464), so an upstream rename would turn the guard into a no-op that
  fails nothing. This test is the only thing that would notice, which is the case the
  no-tautological-tests rule explicitly preserves: pin the string that code on the other
  side of the boundary reads.
• test_upstream_still_image_encode_needs_cv2 (:163) grounds the change's premise on
  upstream mistral_common instead of a mock, and fails if upstream stops requiring
  OpenCV — the event that should retire the preflight. This is the weaker of the two,
  since it exercises no Dynamo code at all; it is the one to drop if the revert rule is
  applied strictly.

Neither is a mirror of the diff, and neither would pass if the thing it pins moved, so I do
not think deleting them improves the change.

Validation record

Every check the plan called for has a recorded result, and none reads "not run". The
editable install, the lint pass over the six changed files, and the unit-test pair all ran
and passed. Reading the captured output rather than the summary: the before-run really does
fail with AttributeError: module 'dynamo.vllm.main' has no attribute 'check_mistral_image_decoder' on six tests, and the after-run really does list 18 passing
tests by name, so the green rows exercise the changed code rather than merely executing.

Two gaps are honestly recorded and neither is a defect in this diff:

• The container image was not built, because no Docker daemon is reachable where this ran
  (docker info exits 127). The named lanes that build and exercise the image on this
  repository are vllm-build and vllm-test, with vllm-compliance-audit for the codec
  policy. That the image still ships no OpenCV is therefore unproven here and proven there
  — worth confirming those lanes actually ran for the head that gets reviewed, rather than
  assuming a green-looking request means they did.
• The worker could not be launched end to end. The host's GPU driver is older than the
  installed torch build requires, so no CUDA context can be created for any change on this
  machine — the same failure reproduces with plain torch and is unrelated to the diff. The
  run's declared verdict is blocked for that reason. I have assessed the change on its
  merits regardless, and neither that verdict nor the unbuilt image is what drives this
  assessment: the blocking finding above is, and it is one a green smoke test would not
  have caught either, since it needs an audio-only Mistral model to surface.

The closest available substitute did run and is worth knowing about: the preflight was
called against a real VllmConfig built for a Mistral vision model through
AsyncEngineArgs(...).create_engine_config(...), raising under --tokenizer-mode mistral
and passing under auto. That is the exact code path this change adds, one step before
the engine is constructed.

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Walkthrough

The change separates vLLM’s source-built OpenCV from video-capable decoders. It updates decoder installation, error classification, container validation, tests, and multimodal serving documentation.

Changes

Software video decoder handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
vLLM image codec contract container/templates/vllm_runtime.Dockerfile, tests/dependencies/test_no_software_video_codecs.py, pyproject.toml	The runtime image rebuilds OpenCV without video backends. Dependency tests validate the permitted OpenCV contents. Mypy ignores optional cv2 imports.
Decoder installer mapping components/src/dynamo/common/utils/install_media_decoders.py, components/src/dynamo/common/tests/test_install_media_decoders.py, docs/fern/pages/use-cases/multimodal-serving/*	The installer detects codec-free OpenCV, replaces it with a same-version binary wheel, and installs missing PyAV. Tests cover reinstall flags, validation, and concurrent availability. Documentation describes the replacement procedure.
Decoder error remediation components/src/dynamo/common/multimodal/codec_errors.py, components/src/dynamo/common/tests/multimodal/test_codec_errors.py, components/src/dynamo/common/tests/multimodal/conftest.py	Decoder errors detect installed carriers and generate package-specific hints. Importable but unusable OpenCV receives a version-pinned forced reinstall command.
Video backend failure handling components/src/dynamo/common/multimodal/video_loader.py, components/src/dynamo/common/tests/multimodal/test_video_loader.py, components/src/dynamo/common/tests/multimodal/test_audio_loader.py	Video loading identifies OpenCV builds without FFmpeg or GStreamer. Matching failures become actionable media decoder errors. Other backend and unrelated failures remain unchanged.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to da34f

Some uncommon broken-OpenCV scenarios can abort installation or provide ineffective recovery guidance, and the documentation can misstate VP8/VP9 support. These are bounded issues but should be corrected.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: shipping codec-free OpenCV for vLLM image inputs.
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CI result: green on b231a35. Every check that runs on this head passes; rust-tests, rust-clippy, operator, and Recipe Check are skipped by their path filters. The earlier pre-commit failure was a single black hook on components/src/dynamo/common/multimodal/video_loader.py, corrected in b231a35. One limit for a maintainer: the container build, compliance, and test lanes have never run on this branch, because they start only after /ok to test <sha> names the short SHA of the latest commit.

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Repair round 1, pushed as 3de7a67, addressing the four open review findings.

check_mistral_image_decoder now imports cv2 instead of probing for its spec. An OpenCV whose native libraries are absent is perfectly discoverable, so importlib.util.find_spec("cv2") cleared the preflight and handed that deployment the upstream failure this check exists to replace. Only ImportError is converted; the original exception is kept as the cause and its text is carried into the message.

The check consults multimodal_config.get_limit_per_prompt("image") before requiring OpenCV. A worker started with --limit-mm-per-prompt image=0 never reaches the image tokenizer — vLLM leaves a zero-limit modality out of multimodal profiling — so those text- and audio-only deployments start without OpenCV today and keep doing so.

Tests. Added test_a_broken_cv2_install_fails_the_same_way_as_a_missing_one (discoverable cv2 that raises on import; asserts the cause chain and the underlying text), test_preflight_stays_silent_when_image_input_is_disabled, and test_preflight_still_fires_when_image_input_is_allowed. The contract test now also pins ModelConfig.multimodal_config and MultiModalConfig.get_limit_per_prompt. Removed the redundant (False, "auto") parameter from test_preflight_stays_silent_off_the_mistral_image_path.

Checks run on 3de7a67:

python -m pytest components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/test_vllm_mistral_image_preflight.py
# 10 passed

python -m pytest components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests -m "pre_merge and vllm and gpu_0"
# 12 failed, 1099 passed, 6 skipped, 30 deselected

pre-commit run --files components/src/dynamo/vllm/main.py \
  components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/test_vllm_mistral_image_preflight.py --hook-stage manual
# all applicable hooks passed

The 12 failures are in test_realtime_handler.py, test_vllm_api_contract.py, test_vllm_unit.py, and multimodal_utils/. The identical 12 fail with these two files reverted to fc8efdb, so they are pre-existing here and not caused by this branch.

The one failing check on the request, lychee, is also not from this branch: its six errors are in deploy/operator/docs/footer.md, two reference/kubernetes-api/ pages, and lychee/out.md, none of which this change touches, and the five most recent Docs link check runs on main all conclude failure.

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- Line 54: Update the documentation around install_media_decoders to clarify
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including av, rather than only OpenCV; recommend the direct OpenCV-only command
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🟡 Minor · Scope the VP8/VP9 statement to the optional Rust frontend decoder.

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Scope the VP8/VP9 statement to the optional Rust frontend decoder.

The --frontend-decoding path can decode VP8/VP9 input through FFmpeg, but the default backend path does not provide that decoder. The current bullet presents this as an unconditional runtime-image capability, so operators may omit the backend decoder package and receive an unsupported-codec error. Remove the bullet from the default input list or qualify it with --frontend-decoding.

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Line 282 adds a function-scoped import. Place import torch with the module imports. If a collection environment can omit Torch, use a module-level optional-dependency collection guard.

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In `@components/src/dynamo/common/multimodal/codec_errors.py`:
- Around line 89-92: Update _install_hint so the vllm/opencv-python-headless
case always includes --only-binary opencv-python-headless in its pip command,
including when _carrier_present("cv2") is false, while leaving generic
VALIDATED_SPECS hints unchanged.

In `@components/src/dynamo/common/multimodal/video_loader.py`:
- Line 229: Update _decode_video_bytes around media_io.load_bytes to catch
OSError only when it is attributable to the selected OpenCV carrier, translate
it via video_decoder_missing(...), and re-raise unrelated backend or I/O
OSErrors unchanged. Add a regression test covering the carrier-initialization
failure and preserving the validated reinstall guidance.

In `@components/src/dynamo/common/utils/install_media_decoders.py`:
- Line 195: The fallback probe around _vllm_opencv_spec() only catches
ImportError, so other cv2 import failures can propagate as CalledProcessError
and abort installation. Update the child probe to treat any cv2 import failure
as unavailable, or handle CalledProcessError in _vllm_opencv_spec() by returning
_OPENCV.spec; add a regression test covering a non-ImportError cv2 failure.

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In `@docs/fern/pages/use-cases/multimodal-serving/additional-media-decoders.md`:
- Line 12: Update the VP8/VP9 video bullet in the decoder capabilities list to
scope it explicitly to the optional --frontend-decoding path, or remove it from
the default input list; do not present FFmpeg VP8/VP9 decoding as an
unconditional backend runtime capability.

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In `@tests/dependencies/test_no_software_video_codecs.py`:
- Line 282: Move the function-scoped torch import to module scope alongside the
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factory: Addressed all three findings from the latest review. Each is about the same case — a cv2 that raises on import rather than being absent — and each one degraded the remedy differently.

• _vllm_opencv_spec() ran its probe with check=True, so a child that died on a broken cv2 import raised CalledProcessError and aborted the whole vLLM decoder install. The probe now treats any cv2 import failure as unavailable, and the caller falls back to opencv-python-headless>=4.13.0.92,<5 if the probe cannot run at all.
• The install hint for a broken carrier fell through to the generic command without --only-binary, which lets pip build the sdist — the codec-free build the operator is trying to get rid of. The vLLM OpenCV pair now keeps --only-binary opencv-python-headless on that path too.
• A cv2 that fails to initialise inside load_bytes raises OSError, which no handler translated, so load_video() turned it into a generic ValueError and the remedy was lost. OSError now joins the existing narrow translation, behind the same two conditions: the error must be attributable to the OpenCV carrier and OpenCV must lack a video backend. An OSError that never names the carrier, such as a full disk, still propagates unchanged.

Commit: c7e3980 (fix(multimodal): keep OpenCV diagnostics usable when cv2 is broken), 5 files, +85 -19, with four regression tests: the probe fallback, a planted broken cv2, the translated carrier OSError, and the unrelated OSError that must not be blamed on OpenCV.

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In components/src/dynamo/common/multimodal/video_loader.py, Line 231 calls _cv2_lacks_video_backend() while it handles an OpenCV-attributable OSError. At Line 66, that helper imports cv2, but Line 67 catches only ImportError.

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One correction to my earlier wording: returning False for this import failure would preserve the original OSError, but it would still lose the remediation. To preserve the intended contract, treat a non-ImportError failure while importing cv2 as an unusable OpenCV video backend. For example:

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factory: Adds the test assertion I promised in the thread about the broken-cv2 install hint. The fix itself landed in c7e3980; the test for it did not, and I said it had. It does now.

test_broken_carrier_is_not_treated_as_the_source_build in components/src/dynamo/common/tests/multimodal/test_codec_errors.py asserted --force-reinstall and the bounded spec, but not --only-binary opencv-python-headless. That flag is what stops pip from rebuilding the codec-free source distribution the remedy is meant to replace, and the broken-cv2 path is exactly where it is easy to lose. The assertion is now in the test, with a comment saying why it matters.

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• Blocking: components/src/dynamo/common/multimodal/video_loader.py, Line 67 catches only ImportError in _cv2_lacks_video_backend(). Line 231 calls this helper while handling an OpenCV-attributable OSError. If cv2 raises OSError during import, the helper raises that new error. The code does not raise MissingMediaDecoderError, so the user loses the binary-wheel reinstall guidance.

  Treat a non-ImportError failure during the cv2 import as an unusable video backend. Add a regression test that leaves _cv2_lacks_video_backend() unmocked, makes media_io.load_bytes() raise an OpenCV-attributable OSError, and makes the cv2 import raise OSError. Assert that _decode_video_bytes() raises MissingMediaDecoderError.

• Minor: components/src/dynamo/common/utils/install_media_decoders.py, Lines 389-390 concatenate to "(for air-gapped hosts)air-gapped hosts)" in --pip-args help output. Remove the duplicated string literal.

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nursery: @dynamo-ops please run full CI for 8345843

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@glamr-agent Full review completed for head 8345843d27ee45c99694273497e7397cc426b7a2.

I found no new blocking source issue.

The current change fixes the prior broken-cv2 path. _cv2_lacks_video_backend() now treats a non-ImportError failure during cv2 import as an unusable OpenCV backend. _decode_video_bytes() then returns MissingMediaDecoderError with the binary-wheel reinstall guidance.

The CLI help no longer duplicates air-gapped hosts.

The installer still replaces vLLM’s codec-free OpenCV with a binary wheel. It uses --force-reinstall and --only-binary. The Dockerfile and codec-policy test continue to verify that the shipped CUDA image has no OpenCV FFmpeg or GStreamer video backend.

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Approving at 8345843d. Both findings I raised are fixed, and I re-verified each by execution rather than accepting the reply.

Fixes confirmed

• ships_cv2 is now derived from torch.version.cuda, which resolves without a visible GPU (measured: torch 2.13.0+cu130 | torch.version.cuda = 13.0 | cuda visible: False). CPU/XPU images keep the OpenCV-absence assertion they had been losing.
• --dry-run now prints --force-reinstall --only-binary opencv-python-headless ahead of the spec line, so the CLI no longer hands an operator a command that pip reports as already satisfied.

Reviewed the five new commits as changes in their own right, since fixes are where new defects enter:

• The new regression tests pin the new behaviour. Dropping OSError from the except tuple fails test_decode_video_bytes_cv2_os_error_is_actionable; neutering _needs_binary_wheel to False fails three tests in test_codec_errors.py. Full suite at this head: 85 passed.
• The OSError widening is correctly gated. An unrelated OSError("[Errno 28] No space left on device") is re-raised untouched; only a cv2-attributable error on a backendless build converts. I checked all four failure shapes and the resulting operator message names the codec, the build state and the exact remedy.
• The documented shell fallback is correct in both sh and bash, across all its branches — metadata present → ==4.99.0.99, metadata absent but cv2 importable → ==4.99.0.*, neither → the bounded range. I also ran the case the thread did not mention, a cv2 that raises on import, and it correctly reaches the bounded range. Both pages carry byte-identical snippets.

Outstanding, both P3, neither blocking

1. av is a vLLM video backend, not audio-only — VideoBackend.load_bytes dispatches backend="pyav", and I decoded a VP9 clip through it on 0.28.0 with cv2 unusable. The table still reads vLLM | audio | av, so an operator installing audio support also gets a software video path without that being stated anywhere.
2. c7e39803 changed the backendless-cv2 cause from a fixed string to str(exc), which is unbounded, on the branch that now also catches OSError. The motivation is sound — it is what surfaces libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file for a broken build — and every message I could actually reach is library-generated and short. I could not construct an input-derived path to it, so this is an observation, not a finding; I raise it only because this module's own docstring exists on account of a decoder that once embedded a whole payload in its message. A length cap on cause would retire the question cheaply.

Where verification stopped: I ran nothing against a real multimodal Mistral model, so the image-input path this PR exists to restore is unverified by me end to end. The heavy build and test lanes have not run on this head — that is yours, and I am not treating it as part of this bar. I authored no commits here.

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nursery: Full CI passed for 8345843d27ee45c99694273497e7397cc426b7a2: https://github.com/ai-dynamo/dynamo/actions/runs/35053556055 . The current-head rollup has no failures or pending checks, all 31 review threads are resolved, and GitHub reports CLEAN / APPROVED. The vLLM codec-policy test passed in remote CI. No source changes or pushes were needed in this pass; the PR description now reflects completed validation. The PR remains open for maintainer merge.