WindowsError[5] and AttributeError Exception

[sxmrxzxr]

I was trying out this example and got the following error.

C:\Python27>testmovies.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\testmovies.py", line 3, in <module>
    video = VideoFileClip("VID_20150518_103912.mp4").subclip(5, 15)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\moviepy\video\io\VideoFileClip.py", line 55, in __init__
    reader = FFMPEG_VideoReader(filename, pix_fmt=pix_fmt)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\moviepy\video\io\ffmpeg_reader.py", line 32, in __init__
    infos = ffmpeg_parse_infos(filename, print_infos, check_duration)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\moviepy\video\io\ffmpeg_reader.py", line 240, in ffmpeg_parse_infos
    proc.terminate()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 1019, in terminate
    _subprocess.TerminateProcess(self._handle, 1)
WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied
Exception AttributeError: "VideoFileClip instance has no attribute 'reader'" in
<bound method VideoFileClip.__del__ of <moviepy.video.io.VideoFileClip.VideoFile
Clip instance at 0x030E2080>> ignored

After extensive research, I had difficulty finding other people with this problem so I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or I stumbled across an undiscovered bug

[Zulko]

Not sure. Have you installed ImageMagick ? It is currently necessary to render texts.

[sxmrxzxr]

Actually no, I haven't. I'll download that and let you know.

[sxmrxzxr]

Installed ImageMagick and I'm getting the same error. Not sure if it's noteworthy, but I'm getting a different pointer at the bottom each time.

[Zulko]

I had read too fast the error. It seems that the access to the video file is denied. That's strange.

[sxmrxzxr]

It's very strange, especially considering that I'm running it in command prompt as an administrator.

[jmcmellen]

I've been getting the WindowsError Access is Denied, but I don't think it is permissions. I think in some cases the subprocess finishes on its own very quickly, and when you try to terminate a dead process on Windows it throws an Exception, which causes the clip initialization to fail.

I tried wrapping the terminate (in ffmpeg_reader.py) in a try/except, and that seems to allow the script to continue. Would you be interested in a pull request? Or do you want to try it on your own? It's a simple change.

[peircej]

I've got the same error. On mac and linux everything's running fine, but windows give the same stack trace as above (Win7 32bit version running as admin frmo the terminal).

If I wrap the terminate call in try..except as suggested by @jmcmellen then I get no error but the audio of the movie doesn't get imported (movie.audio=None) and I'm concerned that this is leaving rogue processes that never close?

[peircej]

My mistake. I'd turned off the audio import previously to see which stream was causing the permissions error. The try...except solution solves the problem for me just fine.

[Zulko]

In that case I'd be interested by a pull request !

[jmcmellen]

I think this is fixed by PR#175

[keikoro]

I'm closing this issue as it's from 2015 and the last comment made it sound like it got fixed by a PR that same year.