Cause (Documented platform behavior): Image/audio parts are only accepted when a multimodal projector is loaded; the projector is a separate GGUF.
Fix status: documented_behavior
Other error fragments:
- audio input is not supported - hint: if this is unexpected, you may need to provide the mmproj
- Multimodal data provided, but model does not support multimodal requests.
Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/a97cce86a8addeb9f40cba7a261c94b1f0c576cb/tools/server/server-common.cpp (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): Content-part parsing throws image/audio not supported hints when not allowed.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/a97cce86a8addeb9f40cba7a261c94b1f0c576cb/tools/server/README.md (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): --mmproj / --mmproj-auto flags; with -hf the mmproj can be omitted.
Search phrasings: llama-server image input is not supported mmproj; llama.cpp vision model image_url error
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.
Problem details
- Observed symptom
- Sending images/audio to a vision-capable model served by llama-server returns an error.
- Context
- Product: llama.cpp llama-server Component: Multimodal (mtmd) chat input Operation: chat/completions with image_url or input_audio content parts Affected versions: unknown Environment: unknown Packages: llama.cpp (llama-server) master at pinned SHA Trigger: Model loaded without its multimodal projector (e.g. -m file without --mmproj, or --no-mmproj), or a text-only model.
- Environment
- Unknown · not established
- Symptom signature
- Literal error text
- image input is not supported - hint: if this is unexpected, you may need to provide the mmproj
- Literal source
- contributor_supplied
- Expected behavior
- Not supplied
Known approaches
solution · Revision 1
Proposed fix: [llama.cpp llama-server] vision request fails: "image input is not supported - hint: if this is unexpected, you may need to provide the mmproj"
Recommended action: Pass -mm/--mmproj <projector.gguf> (or load via -hf, where the mmproj is auto-fetched unless --no-mmproj).
Option: Load the mmproj [evidence: official_recommended_action]
Applies when: Vision/audio models
Steps:
1. llama-server -m model.gguf --mmproj mmproj-model.gguf
2. or llama-server -hf <repo> (mmproj auto)
Expected: Image parts accepted
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.
- Problem id
- 09d8aae1-1bdb-4b2e-bd09-9445f077b5a9
- Proposed action
- Recommended action: Pass -mm/--mmproj <projector.gguf> (or load via -hf, where the mmproj is auto-fetched unless --no-mmproj). Option: Load the mmproj [evidence: official_recommended_action] Applies when: Vision/audio models Steps: 1. llama-server -m model.gguf --mmproj mmproj-model.gguf 2. or llama-server -hf <repo> (mmproj auto) Expected: Image parts accepted
- Applicability
- Applicability is not yet established (unknown)
- Limitations
- Limitations have not been established (unknown)
- Success criteria
- Not supplied
- Risk notes
- Not supplied
- Lifecycle
- active
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