I have ffmpeg
and ffprobe
installed on my mac (macOS Sierra), and I have added their path to PATH. I can run them from terminal.
I am trying to use ffprobe
to get the width and height of a video file using the following code:
import subprocess
import shlex
import json
# function to find the resolution of the input video file
def findVideoResolution(pathToInputVideo):
cmd = "ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_streams"
args = shlex.split(cmd)
args.append(pathToInputVideo)
# run the ffprobe process, decode stdout into utf-8 & convert to JSON
ffprobeOutput = subprocess.check_output(args).decode('utf-8')
ffprobeOutput = json.loads(ffprobeOutput)
# find height and width
height = ffprobeOutput['streams'][0]['height']
width = ffprobeOutput['streams'][0]['width']
return height, width
h, w = findVideoResolution("/Users/tomburrows/Documents/qfpics/user1/order1/movie.mov")
print(h, w)
I am sorry I cannot provide a MCVE, as I didn't write this code, and I don't really know how it works.
It gives the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/tomburrows/Dropbox/Moviepy Tests/get_dimensions.py", line 21, in <module>
h, w = findVideoResolution("/Users/tomburrows/Documents/qfpics/user1/order1/movie.mov")
File "/Users/tomburrows/Dropbox/Moviepy Tests/get_dimensions.py", line 12, in findVideoResolution
ffprobeOutput = subprocess.check_output(args).decode('utf-8')
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 626, in check_output
**kwargs).stdout
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 693, in run
with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 947, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 1551, in _execute_child
raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'ffprobe'
If python is not reading from the PATH file, how can I specify where ffprobe
is?
Edit:
It appears the python path is not aligned with my shell path.
Using os.environ["PATH"]+=":/the_path/of/ffprobe/dir"
at the beginning of each program allows me to use ffprobe, but why might my python path not be the same as my shell path?
You may use
to verify/validate that ffprobe is in your python environment. According to the error you have, it is likely not.