I was getting a quite annoying error inside an infinite loop about ffprobe. I am not very familiar with ffmpeg tool, so it took me a couple of hours to realize that I didn't have ffmpeg on my laptop. This check should clarify the problem before trying to parse media stream.
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Downloading ./videos/2024-05-13 05_03_30-2024-05-13 05_04_46.mp4...
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'ffprobe'
Warning: Could not calculate length from stream.
Downloading ./videos/2024-05-13 05_03_30-2024-05-13 05_04_46.mp4...
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'ffprobe'
Warning: Could not calculate length from stream.
Downloading ./videos/2024-05-13 05_03_30-2024-05-13 05_04_46.mp4...
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'ffprobe'
Warning: Could not calculate length from stream.
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It will return the following error with this check if ffmpeg is not installed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
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File "/Users/.../pytapo/media_stream/downloader.py", line 110, in download
convert = Convert()
^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/.../pytapo/media_stream/convert.py", line 21, in __init__
raise Exception('ffmpeg is not installed')
Exception: ffmpeg is not installed
I was getting a quite annoying error inside an infinite loop about
ffprobe
. I am not very familiar withffmpeg
tool, so it took me a couple of hours to realize that I didn't haveffmpeg
on my laptop. This check should clarify the problem before trying to parse media stream.It will return the following error with this check if
ffmpeg
is not installed: