[CI/Build] Bump PyNvVideoCodec version

[Isotr0py]

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Purpose

• Fix Vram semaphore infra #44465 (comment)

Test Plan

vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct --media-io-kwargs.video.backend=pynvvideocodec

pytest -s -v tests/multimodal/test_video.py -k pynv

Test Result

$ python examples/generate/multimodal/openai_chat_completion_client_for_multimodal.py -c video
Chat completion output from video url:
 A baby wearing glasses is sitting on a bed and flipping through the pages of a book. The baby is holding the book with both hands and appears to be reading it. The baby occasionally looks up from the book and smiles.
Chat completion output from base64 encoded video:
 A baby wearing glasses is sitting on a bed and flipping through the pages of a book. The baby is holding the book with both hands and appears to be reading it. The baby occasionally looks up from the book and smiles.

tests/multimodal/test_video.py::test_pynvvideocodec_backend_accounts_raw_decoded_frames PASSED
tests/multimodal/test_video.py::test_pynvvideocodec_codec_uses_dynamic_sampling_strategy PASSED
tests/multimodal/test_video.py::test_pynvvideocodec_decoder_slots_are_bounded PASSED
tests/multimodal/test_video.py::test_pynvvideocodec_decoder_slot_retains_simple_decoder PASSED

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[Harry-Chen]

A release pipeline run is triggered at: https://buildkite.com/vllm/release-v2/builds/3338

[brandonpelfrey]

@Harry-Chen Just seeing this in my morning time. pynvvideocodec 2.1.0 is known to have an issue which is why we had 2.0.4 as the set dependency. (I'm asking the team to better understand if it affects us here in vLLM or not). Can you tell me which architectures/versions of the wheels are required for the vLLM pipeline? I saw your comment in the original PR that the wheels for 2.0.4 didn't support the necessary configuration, but it wasn't clear to me which version(s) you need for aarch64? We can make sure going forward that necessary versions are being built in future releases of pynvvideocodec.

[brandonpelfrey]

@Harry-Chen I just asked and it sounds like we could publish another wheel for 2.0.4 if we can know the architectures required.

[Harry-Chen]

@Harry-Chen I just asked and it sounds like we could publish another wheel for 2.0.4 if we can know the architectures required.

Yes, if you can have the manylinux_2_28_aarch64 wheel uploaded for 2.0.4, we can surely revert the dependency.

[JaheimLee]

@Harry-Chen @brandonpelfrey Hi. Why doesn't PyNvVideoCodec==2.1.0 have wheels for cp313 and above?

[Harry-Chen]

@Harry-Chen @brandonpelfrey Hi. Why doesn't PyNvVideoCodec==2.1.0 have wheels for cp313 and above?

Oops. I think we still need to make it optional then.