Faster folder based builder + parquet support + allow repeated media + use torchvideo by @lhoestq in https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/pull/7424
decord with torchvision to read videos, since decord is not maintained anymore and isn't available for recent python versions, see the video dataset loading documentation here for more details. The Video type is still marked as experimental is this versionfrom datasets import load_dataset, Video
dataset = load_dataset("path/to/video/folder", split="train")
dataset[0]["video"] # <torchvision.io.video_reader.VideoReader at 0x1652284c0>
metadata.parquet in addition to metadata.csv or metadata.jsonl for the metadata of the image/audio/video filesAdd IterableDataset.decode with multithreading by @lhoestq in https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/pull/7450
dataset = dataset.decode(num_threads=num_threads)
Add with_split to DatasetDict.map by @jp1924 in https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/pull/7368
string_to_dict to return None if there is no match instead of raising ValueError by @ringohoffman in https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/pull/7435ds.set_epoch(new_epoch) by @lhoestq in https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/pull/7451Full Changelog: https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/compare/3.3.2...3.4.0
Fetched April 7, 2026