Moviepy: Error with Pillow

[FlorianMeissner]

Hi,

I just wanted to start working with moviepy. But I ran into a problem that there seems to be a Pillow lib file is miss or so. First of all my code and the terminal output.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import moviepy.editor as mpy
clip1 = mpy.ColorClip((1280, 720), col=(255,0,0))
clip1 = clip1.set_duration(5)
clip2 = mpy.ImageClip("testimg.png")
clip2 = clip2.set_duration(10)
final_video = mpy.concatenate_videoclips([clip1, clip2], method="compose")
final_video.write_videofile("composition.mp4", fps=24)

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "mpy_test.py", line 8, in <module>
clip2 = mpy.ImageClip("testimg.png")
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/moviepy/video/VideoClip.py", line 923, in __init__
img = imread(img)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/imageio/core/functions.py", line 187, in imread
return reader.get_data(0)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/imageio/core/format.py", line 241, in __exit__
self.close()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/imageio/core/format.py", line 256, in close
self._close()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/imageio/plugins/pillow.py", line 93, in _close
self._im.close()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 528, in __getattr__
raise AttributeError(name)
AttributeError: close

I install Pillow with pip and I do find all mentioned files of imageio on my hard drive. But the PIL package is not there even thoughapt-get (Ubuntu14.04) says, it is installed. What could have gone wrong here?

Thanks

Florian

[earney]

Florian,

This code works for me. What version of imageio do you have? maybe that is the issue?

Billy

[FlorianMeissner]

Wow, that was a fast reply! Thanks for that.

I check with pip listand got the following:
imageio 2.1.2
moviepy 0.2.2.13
numpy 1.8.2
Pillow 2.3.0
pip 1.5.4

At the moviepy doc I could find a hint which version is required by the dependencies. Do you know more?

Florian

[earney]

I'm not sure.. but I'll add a label for us to add this to the documentation.
Your modules look up to date, so I'm not sure what the problem is. Could you try reinstalling a few of them (imageio and pillow) and see if that helps?

[FlorianMeissner]

Good advice! Pillow was creating the problem. I somehow got an old version via the Ubuntu repos. after killing that one and reinstalling 4.0.0 with pip it works.

But now I got an FFMPEG error.
[MoviePy] >>>> Building video composition.mp4
[MoviePy] Writing video composition.mp4
0%| 0/361 [00:00 Traceback (most recent call last):
File "mpy_test.py", line 12, in
final_video.write_videofile("composition.mp4", fps=24, audio=False)
File "", line 2, in write_videofile
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/moviepy/decorators.py", line 54, in requires_duration
return f(clip, a, *k)
File "", line 2, in write_videofile
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/moviepy/decorators.py", line 137, in use_clip_fps_by_default
return f(clip, new_a, *new_kw)
File "", line 2, in write_videofile
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/moviepy/decorators.py", line 22, in convert_masks_to_RGB
return f(clip, a, *k)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/moviepy/video/VideoClip.py", line 338, in write_videofile
ffmpeg_params=ffmpeg_params)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/moviepy/video/io/ffmpeg_writer.py", line 223, in ffmpeg_write_video
writer.write_frame(frame)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/moviepy/video/io/ffmpeg_writer.py", line 186, in write_frame
raise IOError(error)
IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

MoviePy error: FFMPEG encountered the following error while writing file composition.mp4:

Unrecognized option 'preset'
Failed to set value 'medium' for option 'preset'

So far I got from Google that it meight be a problem saving a temp file and that I should pass a path to it. But According to Movipy docs write_videofile has not parameter for that.

[earney]

This is a new one for me! Are you still using the same code above, and it produces this error?

[Zulko]

what's the ffmpeg version ?

[FlorianMeissner]

Jup, same code. ffmpeg returrns:
ffmpeg version 0.8.6-6:0.8.6-1ubuntu2, Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the Libav developers
built on Mar 30 2013 22:20:06 with gcc 4.7.2

If I enter ffmpeg -preset medium it give the same error. It is latest version from the repos.

[Zulko]

Your version of ffmpeg is 4 years old, you should try installing a more recent one (it's pretty easy to do, you download a binary and copy it in usr/bin).

[FlorianMeissner]

Let me try it. For testing I outcommented line 104 of moviepy/video/io/ffmpeg_writer.py to get rid of the preset option. And tada, it works. So may be the old version from the repo might be so old that it doesn't have this option.

[FlorianMeissner]

Works perfectly! Now have ffmpeg 7:3.2.2. Thanks for all. Do we something like a thumbs-up button on git?