Fails on FreeBSD

[yurivict]

This line from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip fails:

$ python2.7 x.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "x.py", line 1, in <module>
    from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/moviepy/editor.py", line 22, in <module>
    from .video.io.VideoFileClip import VideoFileClip
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/moviepy/video/io/VideoFileClip.py", line 3, in <module>
    from moviepy.video.VideoClip import VideoClip
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/moviepy/video/VideoClip.py", line 21, in <module>
    from .io.ffmpeg_writer import ffmpeg_write_image, ffmpeg_write_video
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/moviepy/video/io/ffmpeg_writer.py", line 11, in <module>
    from moviepy.config import get_setting
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/moviepy/config.py", line 35, in <module>
    FFMPEG_BINARY = get_exe()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/imageio/plugins/ffmpeg.py", line 99, in get_exe
    if plat.startswith('win'):
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'

py27-moviepy-0.2.3.2_1

[tburrows13]

I think you are missing some of the error? Please make sure you’ve got everything.

[yurivict]

Yes, sorry, I updated the message.

[tburrows13]

If you go to /~https://github.com/imageio/imageio/blob/73dadda9d93f9e2c4724095f91a2acd4ecd13c4a/imageio/core/util.py#L539, you’ll see that the function is returning None. That’s your problem. Try editing that function to make it return a string, and that will stop the error mentioned. However, if FreeBSD isn’t supported by imageio, then you may encounter other problems elsewhere.

[keikoro]

@yurivict Did you manage to solve your problem? Can we close this issue?

[yurivict]

The problem is gone, closing, thanks!