Setting conf.py ffmpeg path on the fly from python about moviepy HOT 5 CLOSED

Thanks for the insight. I didn't know you could change the content of "conf" at run time, this is really nice.

@bobatsar @sanfx would the following implementation be ok for you ?

It should work like this:

import moviepy.conf as mpy_conf
mpy_conf.change_settings({'FFMPEG_BINARY': my_custom_path,
                'IMAGEMAGICK_BINARY':my_other_custom_path})

You could make a personal configuration file my_conf.py like that:

FFMPEG_BINARY= my_custom_path
IMAGEMAGICK_BINARY = my_other_custom_path
#etc...

and you would use it like this:

conf.change_settings(file="path/to/my_conf.py")

Then there will also be a get_setting function which will be used everywhere where the configuration values are needed, like you suggested with get_ffmpeg_binary, so that errors will be raised at write_video time if for instance FFMPEG wasn't found and wasn't set manually.

I just need some time to ensure that the error messages stay informative in all cases.

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Hi Zulko,

yes that sounds good for me.
I don't understand why one would need additionally the my_conf.py variant but perhaps @sanfx knows a usage scenario for that.

Thanks for the great work

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Ok, that will be done. The advantage of using my_conf.py is that if the program gets big with many parameters in the configuration, then some user will have a favorite configuration file that they can use in all of their script. It's common practice with matplotlib, where you ca define a "stylesheet" for all your plots which is actually a configuration file.

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Done ! At least on Github, not yet on PyPi. See the new moviepy/config_defaults.py for the details.

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Dear guys,

i tried to implement your solutions for this issue. But it wont work for me. I got the "[Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified".
my start-code:
import os
import moviepy.config as mpy_conf
mpy_conf.FFMPEG_BINARY = os.path.join("C:\Program Files (x86)\ImageMagick-6.9.0-Q16", "ffmpeg", "ffmpeg.exe")
from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip, ImageSequenceClip

Is their any else to consider? What could be wrong?

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