ffmpeg dependency

[bendichter]

I get this on the Motif Videos stage. The installation instructions don't say anything about needing ffmpeg installed.

[bendichter]

On an M1 mac, prod version of vame desktop

[nathan-vm]

This is a dependency of VAME package itself (here: https://github.com/EthoML/VAME/blob/main/requirements.txt) most specificly this lib: imageio.

I haven't found an easy way to bundle ffmpeg into the python binary. Maybe we should just add documentation?

[bendichter]

@nathan-vm I don't think adding documentation to download ffmpeg solves the problem. Even if one has ffmpeg on their computer, it still won't be found by the app.

It looks like this issue has a better solution.

[bendichter]

As of 0.3.4, I am still getting this error

[bendichter]

@luiztauffer

It looks like you tried to resolve this by adding

tmp_ret = collect_all('imageio_ffmpeg')
datas += tmp_ret[0]; binaries += tmp_ret[1]; hiddenimports += tmp_ret[2]

It has not worked for me. Could you try importing imageio_ffmpeg somewhere in the app, as the linked issue suggests?