av.open does not accept unicode name in Python 3

[svilendobrev]

i've tried to build on python 3.4.
The setup.py needs fixing : raw_config inside library_config() needs decoding into unicode
i.e.

def library_config(name): 
    ..after getting raw_config..
            try: unicode    #py2 here
            except: #py3 here
                import sys
                raw_config = raw_config.decode( sys.stdout.encoding)
   ...

and that makes setup.py work.

Then, trying, av.open expects a bytes filename but gets unicode, and cython cannot autoconvert if not ascii. If filename is ascii, then all works (well i'm only reading audio). But If not ascii. no deal..

[mikeboers]

Which revision are you using? I thought the decode part of this was addressed recently (in be03c9b).

[svilendobrev]

on decode: i used whatever comes from pip, and that is not latest although version.num is same. now u're doing direct raw_config.decode, regardless of python 2 or 3, which may break something? dunno. if it works ok, doesnt matter.

[mikeboers]

Ok. So I need to re-release the current master for the setup.py. The filename thing is another issue I need to look into.

[mozbugbox]

Patch to accept unicode filename in Python3: py3-filename-encoding.txt

[andreymal]

Non-English-speaking users (like me) can't use PyAV while this issue is not fixed :(