ffmpeg not installed on Mac

[fmarzocca]

Hi,

I installed moviepy on Mac with pip3 install moviepy, but no ffmpeg got in. Should I have to manually install ffmpeg with Homebrew?

[tburrows13]

Just run any program with from moviepy.editor import *, and it will download it for you.
If it doesn't (I think this might have actually changed recently), it will give you a command to run, imageio.plugins.ffmpeg.download(), which you can run in the shell after running import imageio.
Let us know if this helped!

[Zulko]

Wow, I didn't know you could have syntax like from moviepy.editor install *. Is it a new thing ?

[tburrows13]

@Zulko Sorry, I'm being stupid! Should be import! Edited the post in question now.

[Zulko]

I actually believed it and now I am disappointed. It's cool to see that moviepy is auto-installing ffmpeg again.

[tburrows13]

Sorry, I really haven't made myself very clear! I don't think it is auto-installing ffmpeg again, when I said it had changed recently, I meant it had stopped auto-installing ffmpeg. And, yeah, I guess it wasn't that recent.

[Zulko]

ok got it

[fmarzocca]

Thanks. I will go through this

[fmarzocca]

it downloaded a "ffmpeg.osx" file. What is it?

[fmarzocca]

Got. it. I had to make it executable in order to test it. But this is an old version of ffmpeg (2.6.3). Current verison is 3.3.2

[jakirkham]

FWIW am adding a package to conda-forge, which would install moviepy with ffmpeg out of the box. Feedback and other maintainers on the package welcome. 😄

xref: conda-forge/staged-recipes#3331

[tburrows13]

Now that moviepy uses imageio_ffmpeg, this shouldn't be an issue.