diff --git a/references/video_classification/train.py b/references/video_classification/train.py
index 74852c2f721..b51b424c629 100644
--- a/references/video_classification/train.py
+++ b/references/video_classification/train.py
@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ def main(args):
 
     # Data loading code
     print("Loading data")
-    traindir = os.path.join(args.data_path, 'train_avi-480p')
-    valdir = os.path.join(args.data_path, 'val_avi-480p')
+    traindir = os.path.join(args.data_path, args.train_dir)
+    valdir = os.path.join(args.data_path, args.val_dir)
     normalize = T.Normalize(mean=[0.43216, 0.394666, 0.37645],
                             std=[0.22803, 0.22145, 0.216989])
 
@@ -274,6 +274,8 @@ def parse_args():
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='PyTorch Classification Training')
 
     parser.add_argument('--data-path', default='/datasets01_101/kinetics/070618/', help='dataset')
+    parser.add_argument('--train-dir', default='train_avi-480p', help='name of train dir')
+    parser.add_argument('--val-dir', default='val_avi-480p', help='name of val dir')
     parser.add_argument('--model', default='r2plus1d_18', help='model')
     parser.add_argument('--device', default='cuda', help='device')
     parser.add_argument('--clip-len', default=16, type=int, metavar='N',