Thanks to @tugot17 for detecting and reporting the issue.
For vision models (e.g. LFM2.5-VL-1.6B and Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct) `llama-mtmd-cli` produces identical output to HF implementation.
However `llama-server` doesn't. I traced it down to extra newline
inserted after `<__media__>`.
This happens in `to_json_oaicompat`, that treats media markers as text
and joins all parts with `\n` separator.
PR introduces new type `media_marker` and uses it for media markers.
Extra logic is added to prevent insertion of newlines before and after
media markers.
With this change number of input tokens is identical to HF
implementation and as a result the output is also identical.
I explored other ways to address the issue
* remove completely `\n` between text parts in `to_json_oaicompat`
* merge text messages in server-common.cpp before sending them to `to_json_oaicompat`
Please propose alternative ways of fixing this issue.
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