---
license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
  - video-classification
  - other
language:
  - en
tags:
  - counter-strike
  - cs2
  - esports
  - hltv
  - video
  - audio
  - parquet
  - reinforcement-learning
pretty_name: "OpenCS2 — POV Renders"
configs:
  - config_name: previews
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/**/chunks-preview-*.parquet
    default: true
  - config_name: matches
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: index/manifest-*.parquet
  - config_name: rounds
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: index/rounds-*.parquet
  - config_name: chunks
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/**/chunks-full-*.parquet
---

![OpenCS2](https://huggingface.co/spaces/blanchon/counter-strike-2-dataset-viewer/resolve/main/static/header.webp)

# OpenCS2 — POV Renders

> **Browse with the [OpenCS2 Viewer](https://huggingface.co/spaces/blanchon/counter-strike-2-dataset-viewer)** — every match, map and round, with all 10 player POVs synced on one timeline.

Tick-aligned Counter-Strike 2 POV training clips, rendered from
[`blanchon/cs2_dataset_demo`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/blanchon/cs2_dataset_demo). Each row is
≤1 minute of one player's perspective; ten POVs per round share the same tick clock.

Per chunk:

- **Video** — 1280×720 @ 32 fps, near-lossless H.264.
- **Audio** — per-player stereo, mixed from that player's position and orientation.
- **Inputs** — every tick: keys, mouse delta, view angles, fire/jump/use, weapon switches.
- **World state** — every tick, all 10 players: position, velocity, view, health, armor, weapon, alive flag.

---

## Usage

Four configs. `previews` is the cheap default; `chunks` is the heavy training data.

| Config               | Row                                                              | Use                       |
| -------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------- |
| `previews` (default) | low-res `preview.mp4` + 1 Hz inputs/world sidecars               | browsing, sanity checks   |
| `chunks`             | path-only `video.mp4` + `audio.wav`, embedded inputs/worlds      | training                  |
| `matches`            | one per `(match_id, map_name)` with team/event metadata          | filtering / index         |
| `rounds`             | one per `(match_id, map_name, round)` with tick boundaries       | filtering / index         |

### Stream with `datasets`

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

# Default browsing view
previews = load_dataset("blanchon/cs2_dataset_render_part2", split="train", streaming=True)

# Training rows. Pass columns/filters at load time so the parquet reader pushes them down.
chunks = load_dataset(
    "blanchon/cs2_dataset_render_part2", "chunks",
    split="train", streaming=True,
    columns=["video", "audio", "inputs", "worlds", "match_id", "round", "player"],
    filters=[("player", "==", 0)],
)
```

### Query with DuckDB

```sql
INSTALL httpfs; LOAD httpfs;

-- Match index
SELECT match_id, map_name, team1, team2, event, match_date
FROM 'hf://datasets/blanchon/cs2_dataset_render_part2/index/manifest-*.parquet'
WHERE event ILIKE '%IEM%';

-- Long rounds only
SELECT match_id, map_name, round, round_duration_ticks
FROM 'hf://datasets/blanchon/cs2_dataset_render_part2/index/rounds-*.parquet'
WHERE round_duration_ticks > 3000;

-- Preview rows, filter by AWP plays (cheap visual triage)
SELECT match_id, round, player, chunk_index, primary_weapon
FROM 'hf://datasets/blanchon/cs2_dataset_render_part2/data/**/chunks-preview-*.parquet'
WHERE primary_weapon = 'AWP';
```

### Partial download with the `hf` CLI

Hive partitioning lets you target a single match/map/player without touching the rest:

```bash
# Index files only (~MB, scan-friendly)
hf download blanchon/cs2_dataset_render_part2 --repo-type dataset --include "index/*.parquet"

# All previews for one match
hf download blanchon/cs2_dataset_render_part2 --repo-type dataset \
    --include "data/match_id=2393343/**/chunks-preview-*.parquet" \
    --include "data/match_id=2393343/**/previews/**"

# Full chunks (video+audio+parquet) for one player on one map
hf download blanchon/cs2_dataset_render_part2 --repo-type dataset \
    --include "data/match_id=2393343/map_name=de_ancient/player=0/**"
```

---

## Structure

### Repository layout

```
data/
  match_id=<id>/map_name=<map>/player=<0-9>/
    chunks-preview-<machine>-<uuid>.parquet
    chunks-full-<machine>-<uuid>.parquet
    chunks/chunk_<n>/{video.mp4, audio.wav}
    previews/chunk_<n>/{preview.mp4, inputs.preview.json, world.preview.jsonl}
index/
  manifest-<machine>-<uuid>.parquet     # one row per (match, map)
  rounds-<machine>-<uuid>.parquet       # one row per (match, map, round)
```

Hive `key=value` directories prune at the path level. Media files are loose; the
parquets store relative `*_path` columns plus an `hf://...` URI for the Hub
dataset viewer. Parallel render workers each write their own `<machine>-<uuid>`
shard so uploads never collide.

### Row semantics

- `player` is the canonical 0-9 player index, stable for a match.
- `spec_slot` is the transient CS2 spectator slot used to capture the POV — useful only for debugging.
- Recording starts at the playable round start (`freeze_end_tick`). Death POVs keep a short
  death tail clamped to round end; survivor POVs keep a short post-round tail, so final
  kill/round-win feedback is not clipped. POVs in the same round can have different durations.
- `inputs` and `worlds` are struct-of-arrays in the chunks parquet — `row["worlds"]["X"]` returns
  the per-tick X position list for all 10 players.
- Hot filter columns on `chunks`: `match_id`, `map_name`, `player`, `round`, `chunk_index`,
  `primary_weapon`, `player_side`, `survived_chunk`, `damage_taken`, `shots_fired`,
  `distance_traveled`, `weapons_used`.

---

## Creation

Built with the recorder in <https://github.com/julien-blanchon/opencs2-dataset>:

1. **Demos** — pulled from [`blanchon/cs2_dataset_demo`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/blanchon/cs2_dataset_demo).
2. **Render** — a headless CS2 + custom plugin replays each demo, captures every player POV
   tick-by-tick, and streams raw frames to NVENC. Validated end-to-end:
   `start_tick == requested`, frame count matches the tick range.
3. **Parquet** — chunks (≤1 min) sorted by `(round, chunk_index)`, written with
   `row_group_size=1`, `write_page_index=True` and `use_content_defined_chunking=True`
   so re-uploads of touched chunks transfer near-zero bytes via Xet.
4. **Upload** — each render worker writes its own `<machine>-<uuid>` shard via
   `upload_large_folder` with `hf_transfer` + `hf_xet`.

---

## Licensing & Usage

`.dem` source data is mirrored from HLTV; downstream use is bound by the original
tournament terms. Renders + metadata: **CC-BY-4.0**.

---

## Citation

```bibtex
@misc{blanchon2026opencs2,
  author       = {Julien Blanchon},
  title        = {OpenCS2 Dataset},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/julien-blanchon/opencs2-dataset}}
}
```