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# LongCat recipes

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        <h2>LongCat inference recipes</h2>
        <p>LongCat Video from Meituan covers text-to-video and image-to-video, and its maintained examples chain optional distilled and 720p refinement passes.</p>
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## Before you run

The generated commands expect a local clone:

    git clone https://github.com/hao-ai-lab/FastVideo.git
    cd FastVideo

Use [Configuration](../inference/configuration.md) for supported Python and
CLI settings, [Optimizations](../inference/optimizations.md) for attention and
memory tradeoffs, and the [support matrix](../inference/support_matrix.md) for
the supported model and optimization surface.

## Troubleshooting

- Each LongCat script runs multiple passes (basic, distilled, refine); total runtime scales accordingly, and every pass prints its own output directory.
- Out of memory: the sources already enable VAE and text-encoder CPU offload; further options are covered in [Offloading](../inference/offloading.md).

## Evidence status

All recipes on this page are **Source-backed**: their commands, model IDs, and flags were validated against the checked-in FastVideo sources listed above (static validation). No runtime GPU validation is recorded for these recipes, so GPU model fit, memory use, throughput, and runtime duration are **Unknown** and deliberately not claimed. Runtime buttons show only the GPU counts configured in checked-in sources.