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sebastian wei
sebastian wei

Reputation: 81

Moviepy problem: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb5 in position 1494: invalid start byte

I got "'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb5 in position 1494: invalid start byte" when I try to access a local video file. I uploaded the file to google drive and ran the code in colab and it's fine. I got this problem when I ran it on local drive with jupyter notebook.

my code:

import moviepy.editor as mp    
path='D:/Movie/Multimedia_Corpus/Test01/video_files/'
file='test01.rmvb'
fclip=mp.VideoFileClip(path+file)

error:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
UnicodeDecodeError                        Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-23-1ebadda110d3> in <module>
      9 for f in AllFiles:
     10   print(f)
---> 11   fclip=mp.VideoFileClip(path+f,'rb')

~\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\moviepy\video\io\VideoFileClip.py in __init__(self, filename, has_mask, audio, audio_buffersize, target_resolution, resize_algorithm, audio_fps, audio_nbytes, verbose, fps_source)
     86         # Make a reader
     87         pix_fmt = "rgba" if has_mask else "rgb24"
---> 88         self.reader = FFMPEG_VideoReader(filename, pix_fmt=pix_fmt,
     89                                          target_resolution=target_resolution,
     90                                          resize_algo=resize_algorithm,

~\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\moviepy\video\io\ffmpeg_reader.py in __init__(self, filename, print_infos, bufsize, pix_fmt, check_duration, target_resolution, resize_algo, fps_source)
     33         self.filename = filename
     34         self.proc = None
---> 35         infos = ffmpeg_parse_infos(filename, print_infos, check_duration,
     36                                    fps_source)
     37         self.fps = infos['video_fps']

~\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\moviepy\video\io\ffmpeg_reader.py in ffmpeg_parse_infos(filename, print_infos, check_duration, fps_source)
    257     proc = sp.Popen(cmd, **popen_params)
    258     (output, error) = proc.communicate()
--> 259     infos = error.decode('utf8')
    260 
    261     del proc

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb5 in position 1494: invalid start byte

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2226

Answers (2)

oussama benslama
oussama benslama

Reputation: 47

Try this:

infos = error.decode("utf-8", errors="ignore")

Or you can install moviepy==2.0.0.dev2 and it will work.

NB: The 2.0.0.dev2 version of moviepy is not released yet.

Upvotes: 5

sebastian wei
sebastian wei

Reputation: 81

I found out that it's actually a bug of moviepy. I opened ffmpeg_reader.py and changed the line 259, i.e. the third error line posted in the question.

Original code:

infos = error.decode('utf8')

New code:

try:
    infos = error.decode('utf8')
except:
    infos = error.decode('ANSI')

Upvotes: 1

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