From 34051ad7145104e73ba3a7f5b39506ad0949bb8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harshal Janjani <harshaljanjani@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2026 11:51:15 +0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat: Add video support for the Transformers backend (#57441)

Signed-off-by: Harshal Janjani <harshaljanjani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Harry Mellor <19981378+hmellor@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Harry Mellor <19981378+hmellor@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 docs/models/supported_models.md               |   4 +-
 .../generation/test_transformers_audio.py     |  16 +-
 .../generation/test_transformers_video.py     | 100 ++++
 .../processing/test_transformers_video.py     | 277 +++++++++++
 tests/models/transformers/test_backend.py     |  19 +-
 vllm/config/model.py                          |  24 +-
 .../models/transformers/multimodal.py         | 432 +++++++++++++++---
 .../models/transformers/utils.py              |  10 +-
 vllm/transformers_utils/config.py             |   8 +-
 9 files changed, 775 insertions(+), 115 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tests/models/multimodal/generation/test_transformers_video.py
 create mode 100644 tests/models/multimodal/processing/test_transformers_video.py

diff --git a/docs/models/supported_models.md b/docs/models/supported_models.md
index e461379bcb..a55559b0d6 100644
--- a/docs/models/supported_models.md
+++ b/docs/models/supported_models.md
@@ -19,12 +19,10 @@ vLLM also supports model implementations that are available in Transformers. We
 
 Currently, the Transformers modeling backend works for the following:
 
-- Modalities: embedding models, language models, vision-language models* and audio-language models
+- Modalities: embedding models, language models, vision-language models and audio-language models
 - Architectures: encoder-only, decoder-only, mixture-of-experts
 - Attention types: full attention and/or sliding attention
 
-_*Vision-language models currently accept only image inputs. Support for video inputs will be added in a future release._
-
 If the Transformers model implementation follows all the steps in [writing a custom model](#writing-custom-models) then, when used with the Transformers modeling backend, it will be compatible with the following features of vLLM:
 
 - All the features listed in the [compatibility matrix](../features/README.md#feature-x-feature)
diff --git a/tests/models/multimodal/generation/test_transformers_audio.py b/tests/models/multimodal/generation/test_transformers_audio.py
index 9195579877..230cbc910c 100644
--- a/tests/models/multimodal/generation/test_transformers_audio.py
+++ b/tests/models/multimodal/generation/test_transformers_audio.py
@@ -69,13 +69,8 @@ AUDIO_MODEL_SETTINGS: dict[str, dict[str, Any]] = {
 }
 
 
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("model_id", list(AUDIO_MODEL_SETTINGS))
-def test_transformers_audio_generation(
-    hf_runner: type[HfRunner],
-    vllm_runner: type[VllmRunner],
-    monkeypatch,
-    model_id: str,
-):
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def use_spawn_for_audio_models(monkeypatch):
     """Single-process workaround for V1 fork safety deadlock issue
     (vllm-project/vllm/issues/17676). Running multiple audio models together
     under pytest can cause (possibly flaky) hangs, so they are grouped under
@@ -87,6 +82,13 @@ def test_transformers_audio_generation(
     disable_envs_cache()
     monkeypatch.setenv("VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD", "spawn")
 
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("model_id", list(AUDIO_MODEL_SETTINGS))
+def test_transformers_audio_generation(
+    hf_runner: type[HfRunner],
+    vllm_runner: type[VllmRunner],
+    model_id: str,
+):
     settings = AUDIO_MODEL_SETTINGS[model_id]
     audio_lora_path = settings.get("audio_lora_path")
 
diff --git a/tests/models/multimodal/generation/test_transformers_video.py b/tests/models/multimodal/generation/test_transformers_video.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bbb31b7be8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/models/multimodal/generation/test_transformers_video.py
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+
+from typing import Any
+
+import pytest
+from transformers import AutoModelForImageTextToText
+
+from vllm.assets.video import VideoAsset
+from vllm.envs import disable_envs_cache
+
+from ....conftest import HfRunner, VllmRunner
+from ...utils import check_logprobs_close
+from .vlm_utils import model_utils
+
+VIDEO_ASSET = VideoAsset("baby_reading", num_frames=8)
+
+VIDEO_MODEL_SETTINGS: dict[str, dict[str, Any]] = {
+    "Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct": {
+        "prompt": (
+            "<|im_start|>user\n"
+            "<|vision_start|><|video_pad|><|vision_end|>"
+            "Describe this video.<|im_end|>\n"
+            "<|im_start|>assistant\n"
+        ),
+    },
+    "llava-hf/llava-onevision-qwen2-0.5b-ov-hf": {
+        "prompt": (
+            "<|im_start|>user <video>\nDescribe this video.<|im_end|>"
+            "<|im_start|>assistant\n"
+        ),
+    },
+    "CohereLabs/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct": {
+        "prompt": (
+            "<BOS_TOKEN><|START_OF_TURN_TOKEN|><|USER_TOKEN|>"
+            "<|VISION_START|><|VIDEO_PAD|><|VISION_END|>Describe this video."
+            "<|END_OF_TURN_TOKEN|><|START_OF_TURN_TOKEN|><|CHATBOT_TOKEN|>"
+        ),
+    },
+    "Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct": {
+        "prompt": (
+            "<|im_start|>system\nYou are a helpful assistant.<|im_end|>\n"
+            "<|im_start|>user\n"
+            "<|vision_start|><|video_pad|><|vision_end|>"
+            "Describe this video.<|im_end|>\n"
+            "<|im_start|>assistant\n"
+        ),
+    },
+}
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def use_spawn_for_video_models(monkeypatch):
+    """Single-process workaround for V1 fork safety deadlock issue
+    (vllm-project/vllm/issues/17676). Running multiple video models together
+    under pytest can cause (possibly flaky) hangs, so they are grouped under
+    the same config. Using VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn avoids the
+    deadlock and allows worker processes to terminate cleanly, and release
+    GPU memory between test runs until the issue is fixed."""
+    # TODO: Remove monkeypatch once
+    # https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/17676 is fixed.
+    disable_envs_cache()
+    monkeypatch.setenv("VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD", "spawn")
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("model_id", list(VIDEO_MODEL_SETTINGS))
+def test_transformers_video_generation(
+    hf_runner: type[HfRunner],
+    vllm_runner: type[VllmRunner],
+    model_id: str,
+):
+    prompt = VIDEO_MODEL_SETTINGS[model_id]["prompt"]
+    video = (VIDEO_ASSET.np_ndarrays, VIDEO_ASSET.metadata)
+
+    with vllm_runner(
+        model_id,
+        model_impl="transformers",
+        dtype="bfloat16",
+        max_model_len=8192,
+        enforce_eager=True,
+        limit_mm_per_prompt={"video": 1},
+    ) as vllm_model:
+        vllm_outputs = vllm_model.generate_greedy_logprobs(
+            [prompt], 128, num_logprobs=10, videos=[video]
+        )
+
+    with hf_runner(
+        model_id, dtype="bfloat16", auto_cls=AutoModelForImageTextToText
+    ) as hf_model:
+        hf_model = model_utils.qwen3_vl_patch_hf_runner(hf_model)
+        hf_outputs = hf_model.generate_greedy_logprobs_limit(
+            [prompt], 128, num_logprobs=10, videos=[video]
+        )
+
+    check_logprobs_close(
+        outputs_0_lst=hf_outputs,
+        outputs_1_lst=vllm_outputs,
+        name_0="hf",
+        name_1="vllm",
+    )
diff --git a/tests/models/multimodal/processing/test_transformers_video.py b/tests/models/multimodal/processing/test_transformers_video.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8d06843f06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/models/multimodal/processing/test_transformers_video.py
@@ -0,0 +1,277 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+import numpy as np
+import pytest
+from transformers import Qwen3VLVideoProcessor
+
+from vllm.config import ModelConfig
+from vllm.multimodal import MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY
+from vllm.multimodal.cache import MultiModalProcessorOnlyCache
+
+VIDEO_MODEL_SETTINGS = {
+    "Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct": {
+        "prompt": (
+            "<|im_start|>user\n"
+            "<|vision_start|><|video_pad|><|vision_end|>"
+            "Describe this video.<|im_end|>\n"
+            "<|im_start|>assistant\n"
+        ),
+    },
+    "llava-hf/llava-onevision-qwen2-0.5b-ov-hf": {
+        "prompt": (
+            "<|im_start|>user <video>\nDescribe this video.<|im_end|>"
+            "<|im_start|>assistant\n"
+        ),
+    },
+    "CohereLabs/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct": {
+        "prompt": (
+            "<BOS_TOKEN><|START_OF_TURN_TOKEN|><|USER_TOKEN|>"
+            "<|VISION_START|><|VIDEO_PAD|><|VISION_END|>Describe this video."
+            "<|END_OF_TURN_TOKEN|><|START_OF_TURN_TOKEN|><|CHATBOT_TOKEN|>"
+        ),
+    },
+    "Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct": {
+        "prompt": (
+            "<|im_start|>system\nYou are a helpful assistant.<|im_end|>\n"
+            "<|im_start|>user\n"
+            "<|vision_start|><|video_pad|><|vision_end|>"
+            "Describe this video.<|im_end|>\n"
+            "<|im_start|>assistant\n"
+        ),
+    },
+}
+
+
+def _video(
+    num_frames: int = 8,
+    seed: int = 0,
+    fps: float = 1.0,
+    do_sample_frames: bool = False,
+) -> tuple[np.ndarray, dict]:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(seed)
+    frames = rng.integers(256, size=(num_frames, 64, 64, 3), dtype=np.uint8)
+    metadata = {
+        "fps": fps,
+        "total_num_frames": num_frames,
+        "frames_indices": list(range(num_frames)),
+        "do_sample_frames": do_sample_frames,
+    }
+    return frames, metadata
+
+
+def _hf_video_kwargs(*videos):
+    return {
+        "videos": [frames for frames, _ in videos],
+        "video_metadata": [
+            {k: v for k, v in metadata.items() if k != "do_sample_frames"}
+            for _, metadata in videos
+        ],
+        "do_sample_frames": videos[0][1]["do_sample_frames"],
+    }
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("model_id", list(VIDEO_MODEL_SETTINGS))
+def test_video_multimodal_processor(model_id):
+    mm_processor = MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY.create_processor(
+        ModelConfig(model=model_id, model_impl="transformers")
+    )
+    hf_processor = mm_processor.info.get_hf_processor()
+
+    video = _video()
+    frames, _ = video
+    result = mm_processor(
+        prompt=VIDEO_MODEL_SETTINGS[model_id]["prompt"],
+        mm_items=mm_processor.info.parse_mm_data({"video": video}),
+        hf_processor_mm_kwargs={},
+    )
+
+    hf_inputs = hf_processor(
+        text=VIDEO_MODEL_SETTINGS[model_id]["prompt"],
+        **_hf_video_kwargs(video),
+        return_mm_token_type_ids=True,
+        return_tensors="pt",
+    )
+    assert result["prompt_token_ids"] == hf_inputs["input_ids"][0].tolist()
+
+    (placeholder,) = result["mm_placeholders"]["video"]
+    (num_video_tokens,) = hf_processor._get_num_multimodal_tokens(
+        video_sizes=[frames.shape[:3]]
+    )["num_video_tokens"]
+    assert placeholder.get_num_embeds() == num_video_tokens
+    assert placeholder.get_num_embeds() == int(
+        (hf_inputs["mm_token_type_ids"] == 2).sum()
+    )
+
+    (item,) = result["mm_kwargs"]["video"]
+    rows = item["pixel_values_videos"].data.shape[0]
+    if "video_grid_thw" in item:
+        assert rows == int(item["num_video_patches"].data)
+    else:
+        assert rows == len(frames)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("model_id", list(VIDEO_MODEL_SETTINGS))
+def test_video_multiple_inputs(model_id):
+    """Multiple videos per prompt are each detected as a separate placeholder
+    and multi-modal item by the Transformers modeling backend."""
+    mm_processor = MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY.create_processor(
+        ModelConfig(model=model_id, model_impl="transformers")
+    )
+    hf_processor = mm_processor.info.get_hf_processor()
+
+    messages = [
+        {
+            "role": "user",
+            "content": [
+                {"type": "video"},
+                {"type": "video"},
+                {"type": "text", "text": "Compare these videos."},
+            ],
+        }
+    ]
+    prompt = hf_processor.apply_chat_template(
+        messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=False
+    )
+    videos = [_video(8, seed=0), _video(8, seed=1)]
+    result = mm_processor(
+        prompt=prompt,
+        mm_items=mm_processor.info.parse_mm_data({"video": videos}),
+        hf_processor_mm_kwargs={},
+    )
+
+    assert len(result["mm_placeholders"]["video"]) == 2
+    assert len(result["mm_kwargs"]["video"]) == 2
+    hf_inputs = hf_processor(
+        text=prompt, **_hf_video_kwargs(*videos), return_tensors="pt"
+    )
+    assert result["prompt_token_ids"] == hf_inputs["input_ids"][0].tolist()
+
+
+def test_video_fields_not_claimed_by_image():
+    """A prompt holding an image and a video keeps the fields of each on its own
+    modality, so the image branch does not claim the video processor's outputs."""
+    model_id = "Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct"
+    mm_processor = MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY.create_processor(
+        ModelConfig(model=model_id, model_impl="transformers")
+    )
+
+    result = mm_processor(
+        prompt=(
+            "<|vision_start|><|image_pad|><|vision_end|> and "
+            "<|vision_start|><|video_pad|><|vision_end|> What do these show?"
+        ),
+        mm_items=mm_processor.info.parse_mm_data(
+            {"image": _video()[0][0], "video": _video()}
+        ),
+        hf_processor_mm_kwargs={},
+    )
+
+    (image_item,) = result["mm_kwargs"]["image"]
+    (video_item,) = result["mm_kwargs"]["video"]
+    assert {"pixel_values", "image_grid_thw"} <= set(image_item.keys())
+    assert {"pixel_values_videos", "video_grid_thw"} <= set(video_item.keys())
+    assert len(result["mm_placeholders"]["image"]) == 1
+    assert len(result["mm_placeholders"]["video"]) == 1
+
+
+def test_repeated_video_hits_the_processor_cache():
+    """Check that mm caching is actually working."""
+    model_config = ModelConfig(
+        model="Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct", model_impl="transformers"
+    )
+    model_config.multimodal_config.mm_processor_cache_gb = 4
+    mm_processor = MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY.create_processor(model_config)
+    cache = MultiModalProcessorOnlyCache(model_config)
+    video = _video()
+
+    def process():
+        return mm_processor(
+            prompt=VIDEO_MODEL_SETTINGS["Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct"]["prompt"],
+            mm_items=mm_processor.info.parse_mm_data({"video": video}),
+            hf_processor_mm_kwargs={},
+            cache=cache,
+        )
+
+    first, second = process(), process()
+
+    assert cache.make_stats().hits > 0
+    assert first["prompt_token_ids"] == second["prompt_token_ids"]
+    assert first["mm_hashes"] == second["mm_hashes"]
+
+
+def test_video_unsupported_when_processor_cannot_count_tokens(monkeypatch):
+    """A processor that cannot count video tokens is served as image-only."""
+    monkeypatch.delattr(Qwen3VLVideoProcessor, "get_num_of_video_patches")
+    mm_processor = MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY.create_processor(
+        ModelConfig(model="Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct", model_impl="transformers")
+    )
+
+    assert "video" not in mm_processor.info.get_supported_mm_limits()
+
+
+def test_merged_token_fields_split_per_video():
+    """VideoLLaMA3's compression mask has one row per merged token, not per patch."""
+    mm_processor = MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY.create_processor(
+        ModelConfig(model="lkhl/VideoLLaMA3-2B-Image-HF", model_impl="transformers")
+    )
+
+    result = mm_processor(
+        prompt="<|im_start|>user\n<|video_pad|>\n<|video_pad|>\nDescribe.<|im_end|>\n",
+        mm_items=mm_processor.info.parse_mm_data({"video": [_video(8), _video(4)]}),
+        hf_processor_mm_kwargs={},
+    )
+
+    items = result["mm_kwargs"]["video"]
+    assert [len(item["video_compression_mask"].data) for item in items] == [128, 64]
+
+
+def test_video_sampled_by_processor():
+    """Frames left for the processor to sample yield the tokens HF does."""
+    model_id = "Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct"
+    mm_processor = MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY.create_processor(
+        ModelConfig(model=model_id, model_impl="transformers")
+    )
+    hf_processor = mm_processor.info.get_hf_processor()
+    prompt = VIDEO_MODEL_SETTINGS[model_id]["prompt"]
+    video = _video(64, fps=30.0, do_sample_frames=True)
+
+    result = mm_processor(
+        prompt=prompt,
+        mm_items=mm_processor.info.parse_mm_data({"video": video}),
+        hf_processor_mm_kwargs={},
+    )
+    hf_inputs = hf_processor(
+        text=prompt,
+        **_hf_video_kwargs(video),
+        return_mm_token_type_ids=True,
+        return_tensors="pt",
+    )
+
+    assert result["prompt_token_ids"] == hf_inputs["input_ids"][0].tolist()
+    (placeholder,) = result["mm_placeholders"]["video"]
+    assert placeholder.get_num_embeds() == int(
+        (hf_inputs["mm_token_type_ids"] == 2).sum()
+    )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("model_id", list(VIDEO_MODEL_SETTINGS))
+def test_dummy_video_has_the_most_tokens(model_id):
+    """Profiling must build a dummy video with exactly the most tokens a video
+    can produce, or memory is under- or over-reserved."""
+    mm_processor = MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY.create_processor(
+        ModelConfig(model=model_id, model_impl="transformers")
+    )
+    info = mm_processor.info
+    seq_len = info.ctx.model_config.max_model_len
+
+    result = mm_processor.get_dummy_mm_inputs({"video": 1})
+
+    (placeholder,) = result["mm_placeholders"]["video"]
+    max_tokens = info.get_max_video_tokens(seq_len, {"video": 1})
+    assert placeholder.get_num_embeds() == max_tokens
+    # Shrinking the dummy frames must never cost tokens
+    num_frames = info.get_num_frames_with_most_features(seq_len, {"video": 1})
+    (huge_frame_tokens,) = info.get_hf_processor()._get_num_multimodal_tokens(
+        video_sizes=[[num_frames, 10_000, 10_000]]
+    )["num_video_tokens"]
+    assert max_tokens >= huge_frame_tokens
diff --git a/tests/models/transformers/test_backend.py b/tests/models/transformers/test_backend.py
index 001ee5ef12..cce66d73aa 100644
--- a/tests/models/transformers/test_backend.py
+++ b/tests/models/transformers/test_backend.py
@@ -587,12 +587,14 @@ class MarkingStub(SupportsMultiModal, nn.Module):
     _pre_trained_model_classes = Base._pre_trained_model_classes
 
 
-def build_marked_model(image_limit: int, skip_tokenizer_init: bool = False):
+def build_marked_model(
+    image_limit: int, video_limit: int = 0, skip_tokenizer_init: bool = False
+):
     """Build the HF model inside the marking context and return it."""
     model_config = ModelConfig(
         model=MULTIMODAL_MODEL,
         model_impl="transformers",
-        limit_mm_per_prompt={"image": image_limit},
+        limit_mm_per_prompt={"image": image_limit, "video": video_limit},
     )
     # Set after construction: building the config itself needs the tokenizer
     model_config.skip_tokenizer_init = skip_tokenizer_init
@@ -606,10 +608,15 @@ def build_marked_model(image_limit: int, skip_tokenizer_init: bool = False):
     return stub.model
 
 
-@pytest.mark.parametrize(("image_limit", "skipped"), [(0, True), (4, False)])
-def test_tower_weights_skipped_when_modality_disabled(image_limit, skipped):
-    """`--limit-mm-per-prompt image=0` should drop the vision tower's weights."""
-    vision_tower = build_marked_model(image_limit).vision_tower
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("image_limit", "video_limit", "skipped"),
+    [(0, 0, True), (4, 0, False), (0, 4, False)],
+)
+def test_tower_weights_skipped_when_modality_disabled(
+    image_limit, video_limit, skipped
+):
+    """Only `--limit-mm-per-prompt image=0,video=0` drops the tower they share."""
+    vision_tower = build_marked_model(image_limit, video_limit).vision_tower
     assert isinstance(vision_tower, StageMissingLayer) is skipped
 
 
diff --git a/vllm/config/model.py b/vllm/config/model.py
index 538bdcc834..cfbb870e78 100644
--- a/vllm/config/model.py
+++ b/vllm/config/model.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ from vllm.transformers_utils.config import (
     get_pooling_config,
     get_sentence_transformer_tokenizer_config,
     is_encoder_decoder,
-    is_rope_parameters_nested,
+    iter_rope_parameters,
     mrope_num_dims,
     try_get_dense_modules,
     try_get_generation_config,
@@ -2566,24 +2566,14 @@ def _get_and_verify_max_len(
         )
         derived_max_model_len = default_max_len
 
-    # In Transformers v5 rope_parameters could be TypedDict or dict[str, TypedDict].
-    # To simplify the verification, we convert it to dict[str, TypedDict].
-    rope_parameters = getattr(hf_config, "rope_parameters", None)
-    if rope_parameters and not is_rope_parameters_nested(rope_parameters):
-        rope_parameters = {"": rope_parameters}
-    if rope_parameters is not None:
-        # Layers without RoPE do not contribute to context length scaling.
-        rope_parameters = {
-            layer_type: rp
-            for layer_type, rp in rope_parameters.items()
-            if rp is not None
-        }
+    # Layers without RoPE do not contribute to context length scaling.
+    rope_parameters = list(iter_rope_parameters(hf_config))
 
     # NOTE(woosuk): Gemma3's max_model_len (128K) is already scaled by RoPE
     # scaling, so we skip applying the scaling factor again.
-    if rope_parameters is not None and "gemma3" not in hf_config.model_type:
+    if rope_parameters and "gemma3" not in hf_config.model_type:
         scaling_factor = 1.0
-        for rp in rope_parameters.values():
+        for rp in rope_parameters:
             # No need to consider "type" key because of patch_rope_parameters when
             # loading HF config
             rope_type = rp["rope_type"]
@@ -2623,9 +2613,7 @@ def _get_and_verify_max_len(
     if max_model_len is None or max_model_len == -1:
         # For LongRoPE, default to original_max_position_embeddings to avoid
         # performance degradation for shorter sequences
-        if rope_parameters is not None and any(
-            rp["rope_type"] == "longrope" for rp in rope_parameters.values()
-        ):
+        if any(rp["rope_type"] == "longrope" for rp in rope_parameters):
             max_model_len = int(
                 getattr(
                     hf_config, "original_max_position_embeddings", derived_max_model_len
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/transformers/multimodal.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/transformers/multimodal.py
index 9887619858..12771d2050 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/transformers/multimodal.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/transformers/multimodal.py
@@ -16,14 +16,15 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 """Transformers modeling backend mixin for multi-modal models."""
 
+import math
 from collections import defaultdict
-from collections.abc import Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+from collections.abc import Callable, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
 from contextlib import ExitStack, contextmanager
+from functools import cached_property
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
 
 import torch
 import transformers
-from transformers.utils.generic import ModelOutput
 
 from vllm.compilation.decorators import should_torch_compile_mm_encoder
 from vllm.config.utils import getattr_iter
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ from vllm.multimodal.processing import (
     PromptUpdateDetails,
     cached_encode,
 )
+from vllm.multimodal.processing.processor import HFMultiModalInputs
 from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors
 from vllm.utils.gpu_sync_debug import gpu_sync_allowed
 from vllm.utils.torch_utils import async_tensor_h2d
@@ -62,7 +64,19 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING:
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
 _MODALITY_TO_TOKEN_TYPE_ID = {"image": 1, "video": 2, "audio": 3}
-_MODALITY_SIZE_KEYS = {"audio": "num_audio_tokens", "image": "num_image_patches"}
+_MODALITY_SIZE_KEYS = {
+    "audio": "num_audio_tokens",
+    "image": "num_image_patches",
+    "video": "num_video_patches",
+}
+# NOTE: Profiling cap as in llava_onevision._MAX_FRAMES_PER_VIDEO
+# past which a pixel budget only shrinks the frames, so Qwen3-VL's most is
+# 12168 tokens at 16 frames and 9600 at its `max_frames` of 768
+_MAX_FRAMES_PER_VIDEO = 16
+# Arbitrary large size, bounded only by the processor's own resizing
+_MAX_DUMMY_SIDE = 10_000
+# Tiny inputs trip processors' channel-axis inference
+_MIN_DUMMY_SIDE = 224
 
 
 def _get_embed_token_id(replacement_ids: torch.Tensor) -> int:
@@ -70,6 +84,15 @@ def _get_embed_token_id(replacement_ids: torch.Tensor) -> int:
     return int(replacement_ids.mode().values)
 
 
+def _count_embed_tokens(seqs: list[list[int]]) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """Number of embedding tokens in each item's replacement."""
+    counts = []
+    for seq in seqs:
+        ids = torch.tensor(seq)
+        counts.append(int(ids.eq(_get_embed_token_id(ids)).sum()))
+    return torch.tensor(counts)
+
+
 class MultiModalProcessingInfo(BaseProcessingInfo):
     def _get_audio_processor(self) -> Any:
         # TODO: drop feature_extractor branch once huggingface/transformers#44394 lands.
@@ -77,23 +100,62 @@ class MultiModalProcessingInfo(BaseProcessingInfo):
             self.get_hf_processor(), ("audio_processor", "feature_extractor")
         )
 
+    @cached_property
     def _is_audio_model(self) -> bool:
         return self._get_audio_processor() is not None
 
+    @cached_property
     def _is_image_model(self) -> bool:
         return hasattr(self.get_hf_processor(), "image_processor")
 
+    @cached_property
+    def _is_video_model(self) -> bool:
+        if not hasattr(self.get_hf_processor(), "video_processor"):
+            return False
+        try:
+            Base.check_version("5.18.0", "video inputs")
+        except ImportError as e:
+            logger.info_once("%s, so video inputs are disabled.", e)
+            return False
+        num_frames = self._get_min_video_frames()
+        side = _MIN_DUMMY_SIDE
+        # TODO: Drop the except branch once every video processor can count, see
+        # https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/43329
+        try:
+            mm_tokens = self._get_num_mm_tokens(video_sizes=([num_frames, side, side],))
+        except AttributeError:
+            logger.info_once(
+                "%s cannot count video tokens yet, so the Transformers modeling "
+                "backend serves this model without video inputs. See "
+                "https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/43329",
+                type(self.get_hf_processor()).__name__,
+            )
+            return False
+        return mm_tokens["num_video_tokens"] is not None
+
+    @cached_property
+    def _video_needs_metadata(self) -> bool:
+        video_processor = getattr(self.get_hf_processor(), "video_processor", None)
+        return getattr(video_processor, "do_sample_frames", False)
+
+    def _get_min_video_frames(self) -> int:
+        video_processor = self.get_hf_processor().video_processor
+        # A processor without `temporal_patch_size` groups no frames, so one is enough
+        return getattr(video_processor, "temporal_patch_size", 1)
+
     def _get_supported_modalities(self) -> list[str]:
         modalities = []
-        if self._is_audio_model():
+        if self._is_audio_model:
             modalities.append("audio")
-        if self._is_image_model():
+        if self._is_image_model:
             modalities.append("image")
+        if self._is_video_model:
+            modalities.append("video")
         if not modalities:
             raise ValueError(
-                f"{type(self.get_hf_processor()).__name__} exposes neither an image "
-                "processor nor an audio processor, so the Transformers modeling "
-                "backend cannot serve this model as multi-modal."
+                f"{type(self.get_hf_processor()).__name__} exposes no image, video "
+                "or audio processor, so the Transformers modeling backend cannot "
+                "serve this model as multi-modal."
             )
         return modalities
 
@@ -104,12 +166,13 @@ class MultiModalProcessingInfo(BaseProcessingInfo):
         return 16000.0
 
     def get_data_parser(self) -> MultiModalDataParser:
-        if self._is_audio_model():
-            return MultiModalDataParser(
-                target_sr=self._get_audio_sampling_rate(),
-                expected_hidden_size=self._get_expected_hidden_size(),
-            )
-        return super().get_data_parser()
+        target_sr = self._get_audio_sampling_rate() if self._is_audio_model else None
+        return MultiModalDataParser(
+            target_sr=target_sr,
+            video_needs_metadata=self._video_needs_metadata,
+            expected_hidden_size=self._get_expected_hidden_size(),
+            allow_missing_mm_embeddings=self.allow_missing_mm_embeddings,
+        )
 
     def get_supported_mm_limits(self):
         return dict.fromkeys(self._get_supported_modalities())
@@ -121,6 +184,8 @@ class MultiModalProcessingInfo(BaseProcessingInfo):
             max_tokens["audio"] = self.get_max_audio_tokens()
         if "image" in modalities:
             max_tokens["image"] = self.get_max_image_tokens()
+        if "video" in modalities:
+            max_tokens["video"] = self.get_max_video_tokens(seq_len, mm_counts)
         return max_tokens
 
     def get_max_audio_tokens(self) -> int:
@@ -136,30 +201,127 @@ class MultiModalProcessingInfo(BaseProcessingInfo):
             f"The following attribute names were checked: {names}."
         )
 
-    def get_max_image_tokens(self) -> int:
-        width, height = self.get_image_size_with_most_features()
+    def _get_num_mm_tokens(self, **sizes: Sequence[Sequence[int]]) -> Any:
         processor = self.get_hf_processor()
         multimodal_config = self.ctx.model_config.get_multimodal_config()
         mm_processor_kwargs = multimodal_config.mm_processor_kwargs or {}
-        mm_tokens = processor._get_num_multimodal_tokens(
-            image_sizes=([height, width],), **mm_processor_kwargs
-        )
-        image_tokens = mm_tokens["num_image_tokens"][0]
-        return image_tokens
+        return processor._get_num_multimodal_tokens(**sizes, **mm_processor_kwargs)
+
+    def get_max_image_tokens(self) -> int:
+        size = self.get_image_size_with_most_features()
+        return self._get_num_image_tokens(size)
+
+    def get_max_video_tokens(self, seq_len: int, mm_counts: Mapping[str, int]) -> int:
+        num_frames = self.get_num_frames_with_most_features(seq_len, mm_counts)
+        return self._get_max_video_tokens_for_frames(num_frames)
+
+    def _get_max_video_tokens_for_frames(self, num_frames: int) -> int:
+        size = self.get_video_size_with_most_features(num_frames)
+        return self._get_num_video_tokens(num_frames, size)
+
+    def _get_num_image_tokens(self, size: ImageSize) -> int:
+        mm_tokens = self._get_num_mm_tokens(image_sizes=([size.height, size.width],))
+        return mm_tokens["num_image_tokens"][0]
+
+    def _get_num_video_tokens(self, num_frames: int, size: ImageSize) -> int:
+        video_sizes = ([num_frames, size.height, size.width],)
+        mm_tokens = self._get_num_mm_tokens(video_sizes=video_sizes)
+        return mm_tokens["num_video_tokens"][0]
+
+    def _get_size_candidates(
+        self, sub_processor: Any, divisors: tuple[int, ...]
+    ) -> list[ImageSize]:
+        """Candidate sizes read off a sub-processor's `size`.
+
+        The keys are one of `VALID_SIZE_DICT_KEYS`, so the bound is either exact
+        or an area budget, which `divisors` splits over its items. `shortest_edge`
+        bounds only the small side, so it yields no candidate.
+
+        `longest_edge` is read as the area budget Qwen and GLM use it for. A
+        processor using it as an edge length (SmolVLM) yields a tiny candidate,
+        which is only chosen if it ties on tokens, so it is still correct.
+        """
+        size = getattr(sub_processor, "size", None) or {}
+        height = size.get("height", size.get("max_height"))
+        width = size.get("width", size.get("max_width"))
+        if height and width:
+            return [ImageSize(width=width, height=height)]
+        if max_pixels := size.get("max_pixels", size.get("longest_edge")):
+            sides = {math.isqrt(max_pixels // divisor) for divisor in divisors}
+            return [
+                ImageSize(width=side, height=side) for side in sorted(sides) if side
+            ]
+        return []
+
+    def _get_size_with_most_tokens(
+        self, candidates: list[ImageSize], count: Callable[[ImageSize], int]
+    ) -> ImageSize:
+        """Smallest size found that yields the most tokens.
+
+        `size` bounds the resized output, not the token count, so the candidates
+        are compared by token count against an arbitrary large fallback, which
+        tiling processors need. The fallback goes last so a candidate wins a tie.
+        Resize rounding can give a large input fewer tokens (Qwen2.5-VL), so the
+        candidates matter for the count, not only for memory.
+
+        The winner is then halved while the count holds, so processors with no
+        usable bound aren't profiled on huge dummy inputs.
+        """
+        sizes = [*candidates, ImageSize(width=_MAX_DUMMY_SIDE, height=_MAX_DUMMY_SIDE)]
+        num_tokens = [count(size) for size in sizes]
+        most_tokens = max(num_tokens)
+        size = sizes[num_tokens.index(most_tokens)]
+
+        while min(size.width, size.height) // 2 >= _MIN_DUMMY_SIDE:
+            smaller = ImageSize(width=size.width // 2, height=size.height // 2)
+            if count(smaller) < most_tokens:
+                break
+            size = smaller
+        return size
 
     def get_image_size_with_most_features(self) -> ImageSize:
-        return ImageSize(width=10_000, height=10_000)  # arbitrary very large size
+        return self._get_size_with_most_tokens(
+            self._get_size_candidates(self.get_hf_processor().image_processor, (1,)),
+            self._get_num_image_tokens,
+        )
+
+    def get_video_size_with_most_features(self, num_frames: int) -> ImageSize:
+        """Per-frame size that yields the most video tokens.
+
+        The video processor's `size` budget may cover one frame, every frame or
+        every temporal patch, so all three splits are tried.
+        """
+        video_processor = self.get_hf_processor().video_processor
+        grid_t = max(num_frames // self._get_min_video_frames(), 1)
+        return self._get_size_with_most_tokens(
+            self._get_size_candidates(video_processor, (num_frames, grid_t, 1)),
+            lambda size: self._get_num_video_tokens(num_frames, size),
+        )
+
+    def get_num_frames_with_most_features(
+        self, seq_len: int, mm_counts: Mapping[str, int]
+    ) -> int:
+        max_videos = max(mm_counts.get("video", 0), 1)
+        step = self._get_min_video_frames()
+        num_frames = step
+        while (
+            num_frames + step <= _MAX_FRAMES_PER_VIDEO
+            and self._get_max_video_tokens_for_frames(num_frames + step) * max_videos
+            <= seq_len
+        ):
+            num_frames += step
+        return num_frames
 
 
 class MultiModalDummyInputsBuilder(BaseDummyInputsBuilder[MultiModalProcessingInfo]):
     def get_dummy_text(self, mm_counts: Mapping[str, int]) -> str:
         text = ""
-        if self.info._is_audio_model() and (num_audios := mm_counts.get("audio", 0)):
+        if self.info._is_audio_model and (num_audios := mm_counts.get("audio", 0)):
             processor = self.info.get_hf_processor()
             audio_token = getattr(processor, "audio_token", "")
             # Separated so that adjacent placeholders stay distinguishable
             text += " ".join([audio_token] * num_audios)
-        if self.info._is_image_model() and (num_images := mm_counts.get("image", 0)):
+        if self.info._is_image_model and (num_images := mm_counts.get("image", 0)):
             processor = self.info.get_hf_processor()
             if "gemma3" in processor.__class__.__name__.lower():
                 image_token = processor.boi_token
@@ -171,6 +333,10 @@ class MultiModalDummyInputsBuilder(BaseDummyInputsBuilder[MultiModalProcessingIn
                 end_token = getattr(processor, "image_end_token", "")
                 image_token = f"{start_token}{image_token}{end_token}"
             text += image_token * num_images
+        if self.info._is_video_model and (num_videos := mm_counts.get("video", 0)):
+            processor = self.info.get_hf_processor()
+            video_token = getattr(processor, "video_token", "")
+            text += video_token * num_videos
         return text
 
     def get_dummy_mm_data(
@@ -180,7 +346,7 @@ class MultiModalDummyInputsBuilder(BaseDummyInputsBuilder[MultiModalProcessingIn
         mm_options: "MultiModalDummyOptions",
     ) -> MultiModalDataDict:
         data = MultiModalDataBuiltins()
-        if self.info._is_audio_model() and (num_audios := mm_counts.get("audio", 0)):
+        if self.info._is_audio_model and (num_audios := mm_counts.get("audio", 0)):
             sampling_rate = self.info._get_audio_sampling_rate()
             sub = self.info._get_audio_processor()
             chunk_length = getattr(sub, "chunk_length", None) if sub else None
@@ -191,7 +357,7 @@ class MultiModalDummyInputsBuilder(BaseDummyInputsBuilder[MultiModalProcessingIn
                 num_audios=num_audios,
                 overrides=mm_options.get("audio"),
             )
-        if self.info._is_image_model() and (num_images := mm_counts.get("image", 0)):
+        if self.info._is_image_model and (num_images := mm_counts.get("image", 0)):
             width, height = self.info.get_image_size_with_most_features()
             data["image"] = self._get_dummy_images(
                 width=width,
@@ -199,6 +365,36 @@ class MultiModalDummyInputsBuilder(BaseDummyInputsBuilder[MultiModalProcessingIn
                 num_images=num_images,
                 overrides=mm_options.get("image"),
             )
+        if self.info._is_video_model and (num_videos := mm_counts.get("video", 0)):
+            num_frames = self.info.get_num_frames_with_most_features(seq_len, mm_counts)
+            width, height = self.info.get_video_size_with_most_features(num_frames)
+            videos = self._get_dummy_videos(
+                width=width,
+                height=height,
+                num_frames=num_frames,
+                num_videos=num_videos,
+                overrides=mm_options.get("video"),
+            )
+            # Only processors that sample frames need metadata, which has the
+            # dummy frames consumed verbatim
+            if self.info._video_needs_metadata:
+                video_processor = self.info.get_hf_processor().video_processor
+                fps = getattr(video_processor, "fps", None)
+                videos = [
+                    (
+                        video,
+                        {
+                            "fps": fps,
+                            "duration": len(video) / fps if fps else None,
+                            "total_num_frames": len(video),
+                            "frames_indices": list(range(len(video))),
+                            "video_backend": "opencv",
+                            "do_sample_frames": False,
+                        },
+                    )
+                    for video in videos
+                ]
+            data["video"] = videos
         return data
 
 
@@ -211,6 +407,40 @@ class MultiModalProcessor(BaseMultiModalProcessor[MultiModalProcessingInfo]):
     and with it the multi-modal processor cache.
     """
 
+    def _get_hf_mm_inputs(
+        self,
+        mm_items: MultiModalDataItems,
+        hf_kwargs: Mapping[str, object],
+    ) -> HFMultiModalInputs:
+        """Pass the video metadata along to the HF processor."""
+        hf_inputs = super()._get_hf_mm_inputs(mm_items, hf_kwargs)
+        hf_data = hf_inputs.hf_data
+
+        if "videos" not in hf_data or not self.info._video_needs_metadata:
+            return hf_inputs
+
+        videos = hf_data["videos"]
+        assert isinstance(videos, Sequence)
+        videos, metadata = zip(*videos)
+        hf_data["videos"] = list(videos)
+        hf_data["video_metadata"] = [
+            {k: v for k, v in item.items() if k != "do_sample_frames"}
+            for item in metadata
+        ]
+        do_sample_frames = {item.get("do_sample_frames", False) for item in metadata}
+        if len(do_sample_frames) > 1:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "The videos in a request must agree on `do_sample_frames`, "
+                "since the HF processor takes one value for all of them."
+            )
+
+        return hf_inputs._replace(
+            hf_kwargs={
+                "do_sample_frames": do_sample_frames.pop(),
+                **hf_inputs.hf_kwargs,
+            }
+        )
+
     def _get_modality_field_names(self, modality: str) -> set[str]:
         """Names of the fields the sub-processor for `modality` produces."""
         # TODO: use else branch only once huggingface/transformers#44394 lands.
@@ -287,23 +517,18 @@ class MultiModalProcessor(BaseMultiModalProcessor[MultiModalProcessingInfo]):
         modalities = [m for m, size in sizes.items() if size is not None]
 
         # Keys we wrote ourselves, rather than ones a sub-processor produced
-        own_keys = set(_MODALITY_SIZE_KEYS.values()) | {
+        own_keys = {*_MODALITY_SIZE_KEYS.values(), "num_video_tokens"} | {
             f"{modality}_replacement_{suffix}"
             for modality in modalities
             for suffix in ("ids", "sizes")
         }
+        # Registered by name below, so no sub-processor has to claim them
+        own_keys |= {"image_grid_thw", "video_grid_thw", "second_per_grid_ts"}
         keys = [key for key in hf_inputs if key not in own_keys]
         owned = self._partition_keys_by_modality(keys, modalities)
 
-        # Un-padded fields are already one entry per item, so index rather than slice
-        mm_fields: dict[str, MultiModalFieldConfig] = {
-            key: MultiModalFieldConfig.batched(modality)
-            if modality == "audio" or isinstance(hf_inputs[key], list)
-            else MultiModalFieldConfig.flat_from_sizes(
-                modality,
-                sizes[modality],
-                dim=self._get_slice_dim(hf_inputs[key], int(sizes[modality].sum())),
-            )
+        mm_fields = {
+            key: self._get_field_config(modality, key, hf_inputs, sizes[modality])
             for modality in modalities
             for key in owned[modality]
         }
@@ -326,13 +551,51 @@ class MultiModalProcessor(BaseMultiModalProcessor[MultiModalProcessingInfo]):
             mm_fields["image_grid_thw"] = MultiModalFieldConfig.batched(
                 "image", keep_on_cpu=True
             )
-            # TODO: route to "video" once the video modality is supported
+        if "video" in modalities:
             mm_fields["video_grid_thw"] = MultiModalFieldConfig.batched(
-                "image", keep_on_cpu=True
+                "video", keep_on_cpu=True
+            )
+            mm_fields["second_per_grid_ts"] = MultiModalFieldConfig.batched(
+                "video", keep_on_cpu=True
             )
 
         return mm_fields
 
+    def _get_field_config(
+        self,
+        modality: str,
+        key: str,
+        hf_inputs: "BatchFeature",
+        sizes: torch.Tensor,
+    ) -> MultiModalFieldConfig:
+        data = hf_inputs[key]
+        # Un-padded fields are already one entry per item, so index rather than slice
+        if modality == "audio" or isinstance(data, list):
+            return MultiModalFieldConfig.batched(modality)
+
+        total = int(sizes.sum())
+        dim = self._get_slice_dim(data, total)
+        if modality != "video":
+            return MultiModalFieldConfig.flat_from_sizes(modality, sizes, dim=dim)
+
+        rows = data.shape[dim]
+        if rows == len(sizes):
+            return MultiModalFieldConfig.batched("video")
+        if rows == total:
+            return MultiModalFieldConfig.flat_from_sizes("video", sizes, dim=dim)
+        # VideoLLaMA3's compression mask has one row per token the processor counts
+        num_video_tokens = hf_inputs["num_video_tokens"]
+        if rows == int(num_video_tokens.sum()):
+            return MultiModalFieldConfig.flat_from_sizes(
+                "video", num_video_tokens, dim=dim
+            )
+        # NOTE: Any other layout would need a per-model guess, which we'd like to avoid
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"{type(self.info.get_hf_processor()).__name__} returned {rows} row(s) of "
+            f"`{key}` for {len(sizes)} video(s) with {total} patch(es), so the rows "
+            "cannot be attributed to a video."
+        )
+
     def _get_hf_mm_text(self, mm_counts: Mapping[str, int]) -> str:
         return self.dummy_inputs.get_dummy_text(mm_counts)
 
@@ -569,11 +832,15 @@ class MultiModalProcessor(BaseMultiModalProcessor[MultiModalProcessingInfo]):
                     hf_inputs, hf_data, len(seqs)
                 )
             elif modality == "audio":
-                counts = []
-                for seq in seqs:
-                    ids = torch.tensor(seq)
-                    counts.append(int(ids.eq(_get_embed_token_id(ids)).sum()))
-                hf_inputs["num_audio_tokens"] = torch.tensor(counts)
+                hf_inputs["num_audio_tokens"] = _count_embed_tokens(seqs)
+            elif modality == "video":
+                grid = hf_inputs.get("video_grid_thw")
+                hf_inputs["num_video_patches"] = (
+                    grid.prod(-1)
+                    if grid is not None
+                    else torch.ones(len(seqs), dtype=torch.long)
+                )
+                hf_inputs["num_video_tokens"] = _count_embed_tokens(seqs)
 
         hf_inputs.pop("input_ids")
 
@@ -833,25 +1100,47 @@ class MultiModalMixin(SupportsMultiModal, SupportsMRoPE, Base):
         if pixel_values is None:
             return None
 
-        num_image_patches = kwargs.pop("num_image_patches")
+        return self._process_vision_input(
+            "image", pixel_values, kwargs.pop("num_image_patches"), **kwargs
+        )
 
-        split_sizes = num_image_patches.flatten().tolist()
+    def _process_video_input(self, **kwargs) -> list[torch.Tensor] | None:
+        pixel_values_videos: torch.Tensor | None = kwargs.pop(
+            "pixel_values_videos", None
+        )
+        if pixel_values_videos is None:
+            return None
+
+        kwargs.pop("second_per_grid_ts", None)
+        return self._process_vision_input(
+            "video", pixel_values_videos, kwargs.pop("num_video_patches"), **kwargs
+        )
+
+    def _process_vision_input(
+        self,
+        modality: str,
+        pixel_values: torch.Tensor,
+        num_patches: torch.Tensor,
+        **kwargs,
+    ) -> list[torch.Tensor]:
+        split_sizes = num_patches.flatten().tolist()
         if isinstance(pixel_values, torch.Tensor):
-            vision_embeddings = self._get_image_features(pixel_values, **kwargs)
+            vision_embeddings = self._get_features(modality, pixel_values, **kwargs)
             if isinstance(vision_embeddings, torch.Tensor):
                 return self._split_embeddings(vision_embeddings, split_sizes)
             return list(vision_embeddings)
 
-        # Images the processor left un-padded arrive as a list once their
+        # Items the processor left un-padded arrive as a list once their
         # shapes differ. Encode them one at a time so that none of them is
         # padded to match another.
         embeddings: list[torch.Tensor] = []
-        for index, image in enumerate(pixel_values):
-            features = self._get_image_features(
-                image.unsqueeze(0),
+        for index, item in enumerate(pixel_values):
+            features = self._get_features(
+                modality,
+                item.unsqueeze(0),
                 **self._select_item_kwargs(kwargs, index, len(pixel_values)),
             )
-            # Encoders which return one entry per image return a single entry
+            # Encoders which return one entry per item return a single entry
             if not isinstance(features, torch.Tensor):
                 features = torch.cat(list(features))
             embeddings.extend(self._split_embeddings(features, [split_sizes[index]]))
@@ -870,35 +1159,31 @@ class MultiModalMixin(SupportsMultiModal, SupportsMRoPE, Base):
             for key, value in kwargs.items()
         }
 
-    def _get_image_features(self, pixel_values: torch.Tensor, **kwargs) -> Any:
+    def _get_features(self, modality: str, pixel_values: torch.Tensor, **kwargs) -> Any:
         # grid_thw fields are registered keep_on_cpu; restore the on-device
-        # placement that HF get_image_features implementations expect.
+        # placement that HF get_*_features implementations expect.
         for key, value in kwargs.items():
             if isinstance(value, torch.Tensor) and value.is_cpu:
                 kwargs[key] = async_tensor_h2d(value, pixel_values.device)
 
-        # The underlying HuggingFace `get_image_features` implementations
+        # The underlying HuggingFace `get_*_features` implementations
         # contain model-internal syncs (e.g. Idefics3 filters all-zero
         # padding images via boolean-mask indexing, LlavaOnevision
         # branches on per-sample batch counts).
         with gpu_sync_allowed():
-            features = self.model.get_image_features(pixel_values, **kwargs)
-
-        # Transformers `v5`, `self.get_image_features` returns a tuple
-        # containing the features and optionally attentions/hidden_states
-        # After v5 is settled, we can enable qwen3-vl with several outputs
-        # from `self.get_image_features`
-        if isinstance(features, tuple):
-            return features[0]
-        if isinstance(features, ModelOutput):
-            return features.pooler_output
-        return features
+            get_modality_features = getattr(self.model, f"get_{modality}_features")
+            features = get_modality_features(pixel_values, return_dict=True, **kwargs)
+        return features.pooler_output
 
     def embed_multimodal(self, **kwargs) -> MultiModalEmbeddings:
         # Each helper detects its own inputs. We are called once per modality, so the
         # leftovers a helper forwards to the HF model can't belong to the other one.
         embeddings: list[torch.Tensor] = []
-        for process_input in (self._process_audio_input, self._process_image_input):
+        for process_input in (
+            self._process_audio_input,
+            self._process_image_input,
+            self._process_video_input,
+        ):
             embeddings.extend(process_input(**kwargs) or [])
         return embeddings
 
@@ -917,16 +1202,21 @@ class MultiModalMixin(SupportsMultiModal, SupportsMRoPE, Base):
                 "use_audio_in_video",
             },
         )
-        if any(v for k, v in kwargs.items() if k not in {"image_grid_thw"}):
+        if kwargs.get("audio_feature_lengths") or kwargs.get("use_audio_in_video"):
             raise NotImplementedError(
-                "Transformers modeling backend only supports images."
+                "Transformers modeling backend does not support audio inputs in "
+                "M-RoPE models."
             )
 
         image_grid_thw = kwargs.get("image_grid_thw", [])
         video_grid_thw = kwargs.get("video_grid_thw", [])
+        second_per_grid_ts = kwargs.get("second_per_grid_ts", [])
 
         image_grid_thw = torch.stack(image_grid_thw) if image_grid_thw else None
         video_grid_thw = torch.stack(video_grid_thw) if video_grid_thw else None
+        second_per_grid_ts = (
+            torch.stack(second_per_grid_ts) if second_per_grid_ts else None
+        )
 
         # `get_rope_index` doesn't always accept arbitrary `kwargs`
         if not hasattr(self, "_get_rope_index_kwarg_names"):
@@ -950,6 +1240,7 @@ class MultiModalMixin(SupportsMultiModal, SupportsMRoPE, Base):
             for name, value in (
                 ("image_grid_thw", image_grid_thw),
                 ("video_grid_thw", video_grid_thw),
+                ("second_per_grid_ts", second_per_grid_ts),
             )
             if value is not None or accepts_kwarg(name)
         }
@@ -958,8 +1249,11 @@ class MultiModalMixin(SupportsMultiModal, SupportsMRoPE, Base):
             for feature in mm_features:
                 position = feature.mm_position
                 offset, length = position.offset, position.length
+                is_embed = position.is_embed
+                if is_embed is None:
+                    is_embed = slice(None)
                 mm_token_type_id = _MODALITY_TO_TOKEN_TYPE_ID[feature.modality]
-                mm_token_type_ids[offset : offset + length] = mm_token_type_id
+                mm_token_type_ids[offset : offset + length][is_embed] = mm_token_type_id
             kwargs["mm_token_type_ids"] = mm_token_type_ids.unsqueeze(0)
 
         mrope_positions, mrope_position_delta = self.model.get_rope_index(
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/transformers/utils.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/transformers/utils.py
index 8007cc789e..a39dd8f73b 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/transformers/utils.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/transformers/utils.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ from vllm.model_executor.layers.linear import (
 )
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.vocab_parallel_embedding import VocabParallelEmbedding
 from vllm.model_executor.models.utils import maybe_prefix
-from vllm.transformers_utils.config import is_rope_parameters_nested
+from vllm.transformers_utils.config import iter_rope_parameters
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from vllm.config import VllmConfig
@@ -366,10 +366,4 @@ def can_enable_torch_compile(vllm_config: "VllmConfig") -> bool:
     """
     text_config = vllm_config.model_config.hf_config.get_text_config()
     # Dynamic rope scaling is not compatible with torch.compile
-    rope_parameters: dict | None = getattr(text_config, "rope_parameters", None) or {}
-    if rope_parameters:
-        # Nest rope_parameters if not nested already to simplify logic
-        if not is_rope_parameters_nested(rope_parameters):
-            rope_parameters = {"": rope_parameters}
-        return all(rp["rope_type"] != "dynamic" for rp in rope_parameters.values())
-    return True
+    return all(rp["rope_type"] != "dynamic" for rp in iter_rope_parameters(text_config))
diff --git a/vllm/transformers_utils/config.py b/vllm/transformers_utils/config.py
index e49f894a85..4931204714 100644
--- a/vllm/transformers_utils/config.py
+++ b/vllm/transformers_utils/config.py
@@ -683,15 +683,15 @@ def patch_rope_parameters(config: PreTrainedConfig) -> None:
         config.validate_rope()
 
 
-def _iter_rope_parameters(config: PreTrainedConfig) -> Iterator[dict[str, Any]]:
+def iter_rope_parameters(config: PreTrainedConfig) -> Iterator[dict[str, Any]]:
     """Yield a config's rope parameters, one dict per layer type if nested."""
     rope_parameters = getattr(config, "rope_parameters", None)
     if not isinstance(rope_parameters, dict):
         return
 
     if is_rope_parameters_nested(rope_parameters):
-        yield from (p for p in rope_parameters.values() if isinstance(p, dict))
-    else:
+        yield from (p for p in rope_parameters.values() if isinstance(p, dict) and p)
+    elif rope_parameters:
         yield rope_parameters
 
 
@@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ def _mrope_section(config: PreTrainedConfig) -> Sequence[int] | None:
 
     names = ("mrope_section", "xdrope_section")
 
-    for params in _iter_rope_parameters(config):
+    for params in iter_rope_parameters(config):
         for i, name in enumerate(names):
             section = params.get(name)
             if isinstance(section, (list, tuple)):