I also made sure ffmpeg has libx264 enabled.Īpologies if i missed anything, i am fairly new to python. I am not noticing any codec related issues when I used ffmpeg directly from terminal to write an mp4 video file. > clip.write_videofile('myvid.webm', codec='libvpx') Please install this codec or change the codec when calling write_videofile. The video export failed because FFMPEG didn't find the specified codec for video encoding (libx264).

MoviePy error: FFMPEG encountered the following error while writing file test_videos_output/solidYellowLeft.mp4: ~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/moviepy/video/io/ffmpeg_writer.py in ffmpeg_write_video(clip, filename, fps, codec, bitrate, preset, withmask, write_logfile, audiofile, verbose, threads, ffmpeg_params, progress_bar) ~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/moviepy/decorators.py in convert_masks_to_RGB(f, clip, *a, **k)Ģ4 in write_videofile(self, filename, fps, codec, bitrate, audio, audio_fps, preset, audio_nbytes, audio_codec, audio_bitrate, audio_bufsize, temp_audiofile, rewrite_audio, remove_temp, write_logfile, verbose, threads, ffmpeg_params, progress_bar) ~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/moviepy/decorators.py in use_clip_fps_by_default(f, clip, *a, **k) ~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/moviepy/decorators.py in requires_duration(f, clip, *a, **k)ĥ2 raise ValueError('Attribute 'duration' not set') in write_videofile(self, filename, fps, codec, bitrate, audio, audio_fps, preset, audio_nbytes, audio_codec, audio_bitrate, audio_bufsize, temp_audiofile, rewrite_audio, remove_temp, write_logfile, verbose, threads, ffmpeg_params, progress_bar) OSError Traceback (most recent call last) > 134 (img_array.tobytes())ĭuring handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: ~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/moviepy/video/io/ffmpeg_writer.py in write_frame(self, img_array)

BrokenPipeError Traceback (most recent call last) I am trying to write mp4 video files using moviepy on Ubuntu 17.10 and running into below mentioned codec issue.

Install ffmpeg ubuntu 17.10