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Chris Luckett
Chris Luckett

Reputation: 73

Is it possible to install and encode whitewater videos (python) on Windows 7

I am hoping to use whitewater videos on my company's website however I am unable to install the software or encode videos on my windows PC, all of the documentation says to use a Mac.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/whitewater

I have installed Python 3.6. And I installed the whitewater package using the command prompt:

python whitewater\setup.py

It appeared to install, but I can't encode any videos.

When I try to encode a video using the Command Prompt, I get the following error:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\local-cluckett>python whitewater /test,mp4

Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\local-cluckett\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\runpy .py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main "main", mod_spec) File "C:\Users\local-cluckett\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\runpy .py", line 85, in _run_code exec(code, run_globals) File "whitewater__main__.py", line 5, in from .cli import main SystemError: Parent module '' not loaded, cannot perform relative import

C:\Users\local-cluckett>

Does anyone know what the problem could be?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 131

Answers (1)

Chris Luckett
Chris Luckett

Reputation: 73

First I had to install Python 2.7 from here - https://www.python.org/downloads/ (I had to use the standard 32 bit version despite using a 64 bit version of Windows 7, there is a really useful step by step guide here - https://www.howtogeek.com/197947/how-to-install-python-on-windows/):

I then had to install Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 from here - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266

I could then install whitewater from PyPI by using the command prompt command:

pip install whitewater

Whitewater then appeared to install correctly, however whenever I tried to encode a video I got an error, e.g.

whitewater C:\video.mp4

video not found whitewater.whitewater.ProgramEnd

I had to then install ffmpeg by downloading it from here - https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/ and following this useful guide - http://adaptivesamples.com/how-to-install-ffmpeg-on-windows/

Finally it worked.

Upvotes: 0

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