diff --git a/integration-tests/models/__snapshots__/test_flash_qwen2_vl_video/test_qwen2_vl_simpl.json b/integration-tests/models/__snapshots__/test_flash_qwen2_vl_video/test_qwen2_vl_simpl.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..612edb07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/integration-tests/models/__snapshots__/test_flash_qwen2_vl_video/test_qwen2_vl_simpl.json
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+{
+  "choices": [
+    {
+      "delta": {
+        "content": "",
+        "role": "assistant"
+      },
+      "finish_reason": "stop",
+      "index": 0,
+      "logprobs": null
+    }
+  ],
+  "created": 1733450914,
+  "id": "",
+  "model": "Qwen/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct",
+  "object": "chat.completion.chunk",
+  "system_fingerprint": "2.4.2-dev0-native",
+  "usage": null
+}
diff --git a/integration-tests/models/test_flash_qwen2_vl_video.py b/integration-tests/models/test_flash_qwen2_vl_video.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b5b7dc01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/integration-tests/models/test_flash_qwen2_vl_video.py
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+import pytest
+import json
+import requests
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+def qwen2_vl_handle(launcher):
+    with launcher(
+        "Qwen/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct",
+        max_input_length=10_000,
+        max_batch_prefill_tokens=10_000,
+        max_total_tokens=10_001,
+        cuda_graphs=[0],
+    ) as handle:
+        yield handle
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+async def qwen2_vl(qwen2_vl_handle):
+    await qwen2_vl_handle.health(300)
+    return qwen2_vl_handle.client
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_qwen2_vl_simpl(qwen2_vl, response_snapshot):
+    responses = requests.post(
+        f"{qwen2_vl.base_url}/v1/chat/completions",
+        headers=qwen2_vl.headers,
+        json={
+            "model": "tgi",
+            "messages": [
+                {
+                    "role": "user",
+                    "content": [
+                        {
+                            "type": "video_url",
+                            "video_url": {
+                                "url": "https://test-videos.co.uk/vids/bigbuckbunny/mp4/h264/360/Big_Buck_Bunny_360_10s_1MB.mp4"
+                            },
+                        },
+                        {
+                            "type": "text",
+                            "text": "Describe this video.",
+                        },
+                    ],
+                },
+            ],
+            "seed": 42,
+            "max_tokens": 100,
+            "stream": True,
+        },
+    )
+
+    # iterate over the response in chunks
+    count = 0
+    full_text = ""
+    last_response = None
+    for chunk in responses.iter_content(chunk_size=1024):
+        if chunk:
+            count += 1
+            # remove the "data: " prefix, trailing newline, and split the chunk into individual lines
+            lines = chunk.decode("utf-8").replace("data: ", "").rstrip("\n").split("\n")
+            for line in lines:
+                if line == "[DONE]":
+                    break
+                print("=", line)
+                try:
+                    response = json.loads(line)
+                    # print(response)
+                    last_response = response
+                    full_text += response["choices"][0]["delta"]["content"]
+                except json.JSONDecodeError:
+                    pass
+    # assert count == 27
+    # assert response.usage == {
+    #     "completion_tokens": 10,
+    #     "prompt_tokens": 50,
+    #     "total_tokens": 60,
+    # }
+    # assert (
+    #     response.choices[0].message.content
+    #     == "In a bustling city, a chicken named Cluck"
+    # )
+    assert last_response == response_snapshot
diff --git a/router/src/validation.rs b/router/src/validation.rs
index 17808b3c..461f43cb 100644
--- a/router/src/validation.rs
+++ b/router/src/validation.rs
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ use tokio::sync::mpsc;
 use tokio::sync::oneshot;
 use tracing::{instrument, Span};
 use {once_cell::sync::Lazy, regex::Regex};
+// video processing
+use ffmpeg_next::format::Pixel;
+use ffmpeg_next::media::Type;
+use ffmpeg_next::software::scaling::{context::Context, flag::Flags};
+use std::io::Write;
 
 static DEFAULT_GENERATION_LENGTH: u32 = 1024;
 
@@ -536,7 +541,11 @@ fn format_to_mimetype(format: ImageFormat) -> String {
     .to_string()
 }
 
-pub fn fetch_video(input: &str) -> Result<(Vec<u8>, String, usize, usize, f32), ValidationError> {
+pub fn fetch_video(
+    input: &str,
+    target_width: u32,
+    target_height: u32,
+) -> Result<ProcessedVideo, ValidationError> {
     let (data, mimetype) =
         if input.starts_with("<video>(http://") || input.starts_with("<video>(https://") {
             let url = &input["<video>(".len()..input.len() - 1];
@@ -544,7 +553,7 @@ pub fn fetch_video(input: &str) -> Result<(Vec<u8>, String, usize, usize, f32),
             (data, "video/mp4".to_string())
         } else if input.starts_with("<video>(data:") {
             let content = &input["<video>(data:".len()..input.len() - 1];
-            let tokens: Vec<_> = content.split(';').collect();
+            let tokens: Vec<&str> = content.split(';').collect();
             if tokens.len() != 2 {
                 return Err(ValidationError::InvalidVideoContent(content.to_string()));
             }
@@ -559,45 +568,101 @@ pub fn fetch_video(input: &str) -> Result<(Vec<u8>, String, usize, usize, f32),
             return Err(ValidationError::InvalidVideoContent(input.to_string()));
         };
 
-    let mut cursor = Cursor::new(&data);
-    let context = mp4parse::read_mp4(&mut cursor).map_err(|_| ValidationError::MP4Error)?;
+    // init ffmpeg
+    ffmpeg_next::init().map_err(|_| ValidationError::FFmpegError)?;
 
-    let video_track = context
-        .tracks
-        .iter()
-        .find(|track| track.track_type == mp4parse::TrackType::Video)
-        .ok_or(ValidationError::NoVideoStream)?;
+    // create temporary file for ffmpeg input
+    let mut temp_file = tempfile::NamedTempFile::new().map_err(ValidationError::IoError)?;
+    temp_file
+        .write_all(&data)
+        .map_err(ValidationError::IoError)?;
 
-    let video_info = video_track
-        .tkhd
-        .as_ref()
-        .ok_or(ValidationError::NoVideoStream)?;
-    let width = (video_info.width >> 16) as usize;
-    let height = (video_info.height >> 16) as usize;
+    let mut ictx =
+        ffmpeg_next::format::input(&temp_file.path()).map_err(|_| ValidationError::FFmpegError)?;
 
-    // timescale units per second
-    let timescale = video_track.timescale.map(|t| t.0 as f32).unwrap_or(600.0);
+    let input = ictx
+        .streams()
+        .best(Type::Video)
+        .ok_or(ValidationError::FFmpegError)?;
+    let video_stream_index = input.index();
 
-    // TODO: revisit if we need duration in seconds
-    let _duration = video_track
-        .duration
-        .map(|d| d.0 as f32 / timescale)
-        .unwrap_or(0.0);
+    let context_decoder = ffmpeg_next::codec::context::Context::from_parameters(input.parameters())
+        .map_err(|_| ValidationError::FFmpegError)?;
+    let mut decoder = context_decoder
+        .decoder()
+        .video()
+        .map_err(|_| ValidationError::FFmpegError)?;
 
-    let time_to_sample = video_track
-        .stts
-        .as_ref()
-        .ok_or(ValidationError::NoVideoStream)?;
+    let width = target_width;
+    let height = target_height;
 
-    let num_samples = time_to_sample
-        .samples
-        .iter()
-        .map(|entry| entry.sample_count)
-        .sum::<u32>();
+    let mut scaler = Context::get(
+        decoder.format(),
+        decoder.width(), // original width
+        decoder.height(),
+        Pixel::RGB24,
+        width, // target width
+        height,
+        Flags::BILINEAR,
+    )
+    .map_err(|_| ValidationError::FFmpegError)?;
 
-    let total_frames = num_samples as f32;
+    let mut frame_index = 0;
+    let mut captured_frame_index = 0;
+    let mut frames = vec![];
 
-    Ok((data, mimetype, height, width, total_frames))
+    let mut receive_and_process_decoded_frames = |decoder: &mut ffmpeg_next::decoder::Video,
+                                                  raw_fps: f32|
+     -> Result<(), ffmpeg_next::Error> {
+        let mut decoded = ffmpeg_next::util::frame::video::Video::empty();
+        let fps = raw_fps.floor();
+        while decoder.receive_frame(&mut decoded).is_ok() {
+            let mut rgb_frame = ffmpeg_next::util::frame::video::Video::empty();
+            scaler.run(&decoded, &mut rgb_frame)?;
+            if frame_index as f32 % fps == 0.0 {
+                captured_frame_index += 1;
+                // Create new buffer without padding
+                let mut frame_data =
+                    Vec::with_capacity((rgb_frame.width() * rgb_frame.height() * 3) as usize);
+                let src_data = rgb_frame.data(0);
+                let row_size = rgb_frame.width() as usize * 3;
+
+                // Copy each row without padding
+                for y in 0..rgb_frame.height() as usize {
+                    let start = y * rgb_frame.stride(0) as usize;
+                    let end = start + row_size;
+                    frame_data.extend_from_slice(&src_data[start..end]);
+                }
+                frames.push(frame_data);
+            }
+            frame_index += 1;
+        }
+        Ok(())
+    };
+
+    for (stream, packet) in ictx.packets() {
+        // Floor the fps to get a whole number
+        let fps = (stream.rate().numerator() as f32 / stream.rate().denominator() as f32).floor();
+
+        if stream.index() == video_stream_index {
+            decoder
+                .send_packet(&packet)
+                .map_err(|_| ValidationError::FFmpegError)?;
+            receive_and_process_decoded_frames(&mut decoder, fps)
+                .map_err(|_| ValidationError::FFmpegError)?;
+        }
+    }
+    decoder
+        .send_eof()
+        .map_err(|_| ValidationError::FFmpegError)?;
+
+    Ok(ProcessedVideo {
+        mimetype,
+        height,
+        width,
+        frames,
+        sampled_frames: captured_frame_index,
+    })
 }
 
 fn fetch_image(input: &str) -> Result<(Vec<u8>, String, usize, usize), ValidationError> {
@@ -688,22 +753,18 @@ fn image_tokens(
     }
 }
 
-fn video_tokens(config: &Config, height: usize, width: usize, total_frames: f32) -> String {
+fn video_tokens(config: &Config, height: u32, width: u32, sampled_frames: f32) -> String {
     use Config::*;
 
     match config {
         // TOOD: improve to use the config to better estimate the number of tokens
         Qwen2Vl(_config) => {
-            let video_fps = 30_f32;
-            let fps = 30_f32;
-            let min_frames = 16_f32;
-            let max_frames = 64_f32;
+            let min_frames = 2_f32;
+            let max_frames = 256_f32;
             // make sure the frames are within the range and are even
-            let nframes = (total_frames / video_fps * fps)
-                .max(min_frames)
-                .min(max_frames);
+            let nframes = (sampled_frames).max(min_frames).min(max_frames);
             let nframes = (nframes / 2.0).round() as usize * 2;
-            let num_tokens = nframes * height * width / 1541;
+            let num_tokens = nframes * height as usize * width as usize / 1541;
             format!(
                 "<|vision_start|>{:?}<|vision_end|>",
                 "<|video_pad|>".repeat(num_tokens)
@@ -754,37 +815,66 @@ fn prepare_input<T: TokenizerTrait>(
                     input_chunks.push(Chunk::Text(inputs[start..chunk_start].to_string()));
                     tokenizer_query.push_str(&inputs[start..chunk_start]);
                 }
-                let (data, mimetype, height, width, total_frames) =
-                    fetch_video(&inputs[chunk_start..chunk_end])?;
-                input_chunks.push(Chunk::Video(Video { data, mimetype }));
-                let video_tokens = video_tokens(config, height, width, total_frames);
+                let processed_video = match config {
+                    Idefics | Mllama | Idefics2(_) | Paligemma(_) | LlavaNext(_) => {
+                        let default_target_width = 224;
+                        let default_target_height = 224;
+                        fetch_video(
+                            &inputs[chunk_start..chunk_end],
+                            default_target_width,
+                            default_target_height,
+                        )?
+                    }
+                    Qwen2Vl(_) => {
+                        let target_width = 360;
+                        let target_height = 420;
+                        fetch_video(&inputs[chunk_start..chunk_end], target_width, target_height)?
+                    }
+                    _ => {
+                        unreachable!("Video tokens are not supported for this model configuration")
+                    }
+                };
+
+                input_chunks.push(Chunk::Video(Video {
+                    data: processed_video.frames.iter().flatten().cloned().collect(),
+                    mimetype: processed_video.mimetype.clone(),
+                    width: processed_video.width,
+                    height: processed_video.height,
+                    num_frames: processed_video.frames.len() as u32,
+                }));
+                let video_tokens = video_tokens(
+                    config,
+                    processed_video.height,
+                    processed_video.width,
+                    processed_video.sampled_frames as f32,
+                );
                 tokenizer_query.push_str(&video_tokens);
                 start = chunk_end;
             }
 
-            // clip remaining inputs and process images
-            let remaining_input = &inputs[start..];
-            for chunk in RE.find_iter(remaining_input) {
-                let chunk_start = chunk.start() + start;
-                let chunk_end = chunk.end() + start;
+            // handle image content after video content
+            for chunk in RE.find_iter(&inputs) {
+                let chunk_start = chunk.start();
+                let chunk_end = chunk.end();
                 if chunk_start != start {
                     input_chunks.push(Chunk::Text(inputs[start..chunk_start].to_string()));
                     tokenizer_query.push_str(&inputs[start..chunk_start]);
                 }
                 let (data, mimetype, height, width) = fetch_image(&inputs[chunk_start..chunk_end])?;
-                input_chunks.push(Chunk::Image(Image { data, mimetype }));
+                input_chunks.push(Chunk::Image(Image {
+                    data,
+                    mimetype: mimetype.clone(),
+                }));
                 tokenizer_query.push_str(&image_tokens(config, preprocessor_config, height, width));
                 start = chunk_end;
             }
-
-            // Add any remaining text
             if start != inputs.len() {
                 input_chunks.push(Chunk::Text(inputs[start..].to_string()));
                 tokenizer_query.push_str(&inputs[start..]);
             }
 
-            // Apply any necessary token fixups
             tokenizer_query = image_tokens_fixup(config, tokenizer_query);
+
             (tokenizer_query, input_chunks)
         }
         _ => (inputs.clone(), vec![Chunk::Text(inputs)]),
@@ -797,7 +887,6 @@ fn prepare_input<T: TokenizerTrait>(
 
     Ok((encoding, input_chunks))
 }
-
 type TokenizerRequest = (
     (String, bool, Option<usize>),
     oneshot::Sender<Result<(tokenizers::Encoding, Vec<Chunk>), ValidationError>>,
@@ -810,16 +899,21 @@ pub struct Image {
     pub mimetype: String,
 }
 
+pub struct ProcessedVideo {
+    mimetype: String,
+    height: u32,
+    width: u32,
+    frames: Vec<Vec<u8>>, // RGB frames
+    sampled_frames: usize,
+}
+
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Eq, PartialEq)]
 pub struct Video {
     pub data: Vec<u8>,
     pub mimetype: String,
-}
-
-impl Video {
-    pub fn as_bytes(&self) -> Vec<u8> {
-        self.frames.iter().flatten().cloned().collect()
-    }
+    pub width: u32,
+    pub height: u32,
+    pub num_frames: u32,
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Eq, PartialEq)]
@@ -845,9 +939,19 @@ impl ChunksToString for Vec<Chunk> {
                 let encoded = STANDARD.encode(data);
                 output.push_str(&format!("![](data:{};base64,{})", mimetype, encoded))
             }
-            Chunk::Video(Video { data, mimetype }) => {
+            Chunk::Video(Video {
+                data,
+                mimetype,
+                width,
+                height: _,
+                num_frames: _,
+            }) => {
+                // TODO: revisit if we should limit video support to v3 - to avoid sending very large base64 strings
                 let encoded = STANDARD.encode(data);
-                output.push_str(&format!("<video>(data:{};base64,{})", mimetype, encoded))
+                output.push_str(&format!(
+                    r#"<video width="{}"><source src="data:{};base64,{}" type="{}"></video>"#,
+                    width, mimetype, encoded, mimetype
+                ));
             }
         });
         output
@@ -983,6 +1087,10 @@ pub enum ValidationError {
     MP4Error,
     #[error("no video stream found")]
     NoVideoStream,
+    #[error("io error: {0}")]
+    IoError(#[from] std::io::Error),
+    #[error("ffmpeg error")]
+    FFmpegError,
 }
 
 #[cfg(test)]