I have a similar problem on my Mac Intel; I also used Homebrew to install ffmpeg. The Processing editor balks at the line of code which calls videoExport.startMovie(); If you look at the source code for this library .startMovie() calls another function called initialize(). If you look at initialize() it anticipates that ffmpeg is installed either in /usr/local/bin or /usr/bin. However, Homebrew installed ffmpeg@6 in /usr/local/opt on my system. Therefore ffmpeg is not where the VideoExport library anticipated it would be. There is source code to display a dialog for the user to declare where the file is actually located, but I never saw it. Hence I can’t clear the error so far. One option would be to try and move ffmpeg to where it is expected to be.
When I download this version and replace the requisite files in the ‘libraries’ folder I still have the error. To be fair, his fork was apparently designed to fix another error message, not the one in the original post.
How did you install ffmpeg on your system? When I download the static build mentioned in your dialog message I get a single executable file, and I don’t know where to put it.
This was the FFmpeg release I used: Builds - CODEX FFMPEG @ gyan.dev < ffmpeg-release-essentials.zip
I put it on a folder: D:\Program_Portable\ffmpeg-7.0.1-essentials_build
This may not address the Mac issues but it resolved the W10 issues and may be helpful to someone visiting this topic.
Whenever I have a call to videoExport.endMovie(); I get:
NullPointerException: it must not be null
Windows, with processing 4.2.
This is the error that the fork was revised to fix. The original post error occurred with videoExport.startMovie() not .endMovie(); It’s probably irrelevant.
How did you run this code? Does it just have to be present on your system and not necessarily ‘running’? How does VideoExport know where it is located?
I tried to install ffmpeg for some other project and pip3 said it couldn’t do it and suggested I use brew. So I just used ‘brew install ffmpeg’ and then checked its location with ‘whereis ffmpeg’; it returned that it was installed in /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg /usr/local/share/man/man1/ffmpeg.1 which is one of the places VideoExport expects it to be; I think that’s why it started working without error.
Hi Please let me know if I can improve the README files in the project to help solve any issues. Do you think I should make the Gradle branch the default one?
BTW @sven … I didn’t know whereis ffmpeg returns multiple paths. The first one is the executable. The second one is its documentation.
Please let me know if I can improve the README files in the project to help solve any issues. Do you think I should make the Gradle branch the default one?