diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 74ae6e162..afee822dd 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -487,6 +487,15 @@ version = "2.6.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "b048fb63fd8b5923fc5aa7b340d8e156aec7ec02f0c78fa8a6ddc2613f6f71de"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "bitreader"
+version = "0.3.11"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "886559b1e163d56c765bc3a985febb4eee8009f625244511d8ee3c432e08c066"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "bitstream-io"
 version = "2.6.0"
@@ -1194,6 +1203,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "zune-inflate",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "fallible_collections"
+version = "0.4.9"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a88c69768c0a15262df21899142bc6df9b9b823546d4b4b9a7bc2d6c448ec6fd"
+dependencies = [
+ "hashbrown 0.13.2",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "fancy-regex"
 version = "0.11.0"
@@ -1512,6 +1530,15 @@ version = "0.12.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "8a9ee70c43aaf417c914396645a0fa852624801b24ebb7ae78fe8272889ac888"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "hashbrown"
+version = "0.13.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "43a3c133739dddd0d2990f9a4bdf8eb4b21ef50e4851ca85ab661199821d510e"
+dependencies = [
+ "ahash",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "hashbrown"
 version = "0.14.5"
@@ -2471,6 +2498,20 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 2.0.89",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "mp4parse"
+version = "0.17.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "63a35203d3c6ce92d5251c77520acb2e57108c88728695aa883f70023624c570"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitreader",
+ "byteorder",
+ "fallible_collections",
+ "log",
+ "num-traits",
+ "static_assertions",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "multimap"
 version = "0.10.0"
@@ -4436,6 +4477,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "metrics-exporter-prometheus",
  "minijinja",
  "minijinja-contrib",
+ "mp4parse",
  "ngrok",
  "nohash-hasher",
  "once_cell",
diff --git a/proto/v3/generate.proto b/proto/v3/generate.proto
index 2f91ef864..e344d901d 100644
--- a/proto/v3/generate.proto
+++ b/proto/v3/generate.proto
@@ -64,6 +64,14 @@ message Image {
   string mimetype = 2;
 }
 
+message Video {
+  /// Binary video data.
+  bytes data = 1;
+
+  /// Video MIME type.
+  string mimetype = 2;
+}
+
 message InputChunk {
   oneof chunk {
     /// Plain text data
@@ -71,8 +79,7 @@ message InputChunk {
     /// Image data
     Image image = 2;
     /// Video URLs
-    string video = 3;
-
+    Video video = 3;
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/router/Cargo.toml b/router/Cargo.toml
index 9258fe035..161ddc8e2 100644
--- a/router/Cargo.toml
+++ b/router/Cargo.toml
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ uuid = { version = "1.9.1", default-features = false, features = [
 csv = "1.3.0"
 ureq = "=2.9"
 pyo3 = { workspace = true }
+mp4parse = "0.17.0"
 
 
 [build-dependencies]