video clip from URI

[lordcenzin]

Hi
I was wondering if it is possible to create a VideoFileClip using a URI instead a string?
My video is stored under GCP cloud storage, therefore the filepath follows the following structure:
gs://bucketname/filename.mp4

I put a file in cloud storage and tried to create a VideoFileClip:

video_path = 'gs://bucketname/filename.mp4'
vc = VideoFileClip(video_path)

OSError: MoviePy error: failed to read the duration of file gs://sky-video-analysis/dataset/tavecchio.mp4.
Here are the file infos returned by ffmpeg:

ffmpeg version N-86111-ga441aa90e8-static http://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/  Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 5.4.1 (Debian 5.4.1-8) 20170304
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-static --disable-debug --disable-ffplay --disable-indev=sndio --disable-outdev=sndio --cc=gcc-5 --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-gray --enable-libass --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-librtmp --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-libzimg
  libavutil      55. 63.100 / 55. 63.100
  libavcodec     57. 96.101 / 57. 96.101
  libavformat    57. 72.101 / 57. 72.101
  libavdevice    57.  7.100 / 57.  7.100
  libavfilter     6. 89.101 /  6. 89.101
  libswscale      4.  7.101 /  4.  7.101
  libswresample   2.  8.100 /  2.  8.100
  libpostproc    54.  6.100 / 54.  6.100
gs://bucketname/filename.mp4: Protocol not found
Did you mean file:gs://bucketname/filename.mp4?`

Do you have any idea?

[Zulko]

Not sure, but it looks like the last line of your logs tells you that maybe your file path should be file:gs://bucketname/filename.mp4

[lordcenzin]

well, actually gs:// is the uri
it looks like a ffmpeg message

[tburrows13]

Yes, it is an ffmpeg message. It’s saying that you haven’t given it a recognised protocol. Try it with

video_path = 'file:gs://bucketname/filename.mp4'
vc = VideoFileClip(video_path)

[lordcenzin]

no, my understanding is that "gs" is the "google storage" way to define the uri, similar to "ftp://".
However that seems worse:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
OSError                                   Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-8-4f47f6f2d562> in <module>()
      3 video_path = 'file:gs://bucketname/dataset/filename.mp4'
      4 outfile = 'file:gs://bucketname/dataset/filename.mp3'
----> 5 vc = VideoFileClip(video_path)
      6 #vc.audio.write_audiofile(outfile)

/usr/local/envs/py3env/lib/python3.5/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)
     89                                          target_resolution=target_resolution,
     90                                          resize_algo=resize_algorithm,
---> 91                                          fps_source=fps_source)
     92 
     93         # Make some of the reader's attributes accessible from the clip

/usr/local/envs/py3env/lib/python3.5/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)
     31         self.proc = None
     32         infos = ffmpeg_parse_infos(filename, print_infos, check_duration,
---> 33                                    fps_source)
     34         self.fps = infos['video_fps']
     35         self.size = infos['video_size']

/usr/local/envs/py3env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/moviepy/video/io/ffmpeg_reader.py in ffmpeg_parse_infos(filename, print_infos, check_duration, fps_source)
    270         raise IOError(("MoviePy error: the file %s could not be found!\n"
    271                       "Please check that you entered the correct "
--> 272                       "path.")%filename)
    273 
    274     result = dict()

OSError: MoviePy error: the file file:gs://bucketname/dataset/filename.mp4 could not be found!
Please check that you entered the correct path.

[tburrows13]

There’s a list of protocols supported by ffmpeg here. Doesn’t look like gs:, is on there, so might have to try something else.

[keikoro]

@lordcenzin Can we close this?

[lordcenzin]

yes, please.