Can't install python FFVideo package

I am trying to install FFVideo package from pypi. I've installed all dependencies listed here: Now I am getting following error.

$ pip install -U FFVideo
Collecting FFVideo Using cached
Building wheels for collected packages: FFVideo Running setup.py bdist_wheel for FFVideo ... error Complete output from command /home/kuba/.local/share/virtualenvs/myproject-Wt0aku_V/bin/python2.7 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-wkJ7XB/FFVideo/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-OmIzSN --python-tag cp27: running bdist_wheel running build running build_ext building 'ffvideo' extension creating build creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7 creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/ffvideo gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/ffmpeg -I/home/kuba/.pyenv/versions/2.7.14/include/python2.7 -c ffvideo/ffvideo.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/ffvideo/ffvideo.o ffvideo/ffvideo.c: In function ‘__pyx_pf_7ffvideo_11VideoStream___cinit__’: ffvideo/ffvideo.c:1581:25: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘avcodec_alloc_frame’; did you mean ‘avcodec_send_frame’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] __pyx_v_self->frame = avcodec_alloc_frame(); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ avcodec_send_frame ffvideo/ffvideo.c:1581:23: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion] __pyx_v_self->frame = avcodec_alloc_frame(); ^ ffvideo/ffvideo.c: In function ‘__pyx_pf_7ffvideo_11VideoStream_2__init__’: ffvideo/ffvideo.c:1886:5: warning: ‘codec’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations] __pyx_t_3 = ((__pyx_v_self->format_ctx->streams[__pyx_v_i])->codec->codec_type == AVMEDIA_TYPE_VIDEO); ^~~~~~~~~ In file included from ffvideo/ffvideo.c:259:0: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavformat/avformat.h:893:21: note: declared here AVCodecContext *codec; ^~~~~ ffvideo/ffvideo.c:1998:3: warning: ‘codec’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations] __pyx_t_10 = __pyx_v_self->stream->codec; ^~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ffvideo/ffvideo.c:259:0: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavformat/avformat.h:893:21: note: declared here AVCodecContext *codec; ^~~~~ ffvideo/ffvideo.c: In function ‘__pyx_pf_7ffvideo_11VideoStream_4__dealloc__’: ffvideo/ffvideo.c:2344:5: warning: ‘av_free_packet’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations] av_free_packet((&__pyx_v_self->packet)); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ffvideo/ffvideo.c:258:0: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavcodec/avcodec.h:4650:6: note: declared here void av_free_packet(AVPacket *pkt); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ffvideo/ffvideo.c: In function ‘__pyx_pf_7ffvideo_11VideoStream_8__decode_next_frame’: ffvideo/ffvideo.c:2636:13: warning: ‘avcodec_decode_video2’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations] __pyx_v_ret = avcodec_decode_video2(__pyx_v_self->codec_ctx, __pyx_v_self->frame, (&__pyx_v_frame_finished), (&__pyx_v_self->packet)); ^~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ffvideo/ffvideo.c:258:0: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavcodec/avcodec.h:4993:5: note: declared here int avcodec_decode_video2(AVCodecContext *avctx, AVFrame *picture, ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ffvideo/ffvideo.c:2668:9: warning: ‘av_free_packet’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations] av_free_packet((&__pyx_v_self->packet)); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ffvideo/ffvideo.c:258:0: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavcodec/avcodec.h:4650:6: note: declared here void av_free_packet(AVPacket *pkt); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ffvideo/ffvideo.c:2742:5: warning: ‘av_free_packet’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations] av_free_packet((&__pyx_v_self->packet)); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ffvideo/ffvideo.c:258:0: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavcodec/avcodec.h:4650:6: note: declared here void av_free_packet(AVPacket *pkt); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ffvideo/ffvideo.c: In function ‘__pyx_pf_7ffvideo_11VideoStream_12current’: ffvideo/ffvideo.c:2989:24: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion] __pyx_v_scaled_frame = avcodec_alloc_frame(); ^ ffvideo/ffvideo.c:3024:3: warning: ‘avpicture_get_size’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations] __pyx_v_buflen = avpicture_get_size(__pyx_v_self->ffmpeg_frame_mode, __pyx_v_self->frame_width, __pyx_v_self->frame_height); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ffvideo/ffvideo.c:258:0: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavcodec/avcodec.h:5653:5: note: declared here int avpicture_get_size(enum AVPixelFormat pix_fmt, int width, int height); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ffvideo/ffvideo.c:3045:51: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘PyObject_AsCharBuffer’ from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types] __pyx_t_3 = PyObject_AsCharBuffer(__pyx_v_data, (&__pyx_v_data_ptr), (&__pyx_v_buflen)); if (unlikely(__pyx_t_3 == -1)) {__pyx_filename = __pyx_f[0]; __pyx_lineno = 275; __pyx_clineno = __LINE__; goto __pyx_L1_error;} ^ In file included from /home/kuba/.pyenv/versions/2.7.14/include/python2.7/Python.h:133:0, from ffvideo/ffvideo.c:4: /home/kuba/.pyenv/versions/2.7.14/include/python2.7/abstract.h:476:22: note: expected ‘const char **’ but argument is of type ‘char **’ PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyObject_AsCharBuffer(PyObject *obj, ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ffvideo/ffvideo.c:3068:9: warning: ‘avpicture_fill’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations] avpicture_fill(((struct AVPicture *)__pyx_v_scaled_frame), ((__pyx_t_6ffmpeg_uint8_t *)__pyx_v_data_ptr), __pyx_v_self->ffmpeg_frame_mode, __pyx_v_self->frame_width, __pyx_v_self->frame_height); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ffvideo/ffvideo.c:258:0: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavcodec/avcodec.h:5638:5: note: declared here int avpicture_fill(AVPicture *picture, const uint8_t *ptr, ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ffvideo/ffvideo.c:3086:44: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘sws_scale’ from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types] sws_scale(__pyx_v_img_convert_ctx, __pyx_v_self->frame->data, __pyx_v_self->frame->linesize, 0, __pyx_v_self->height, __pyx_v_scaled_frame->data, __pyx_v_scaled_frame->linesize); ^~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ffvideo/ffvideo.c:261:0: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/libswscale/swscale.h:217:5: note: expected ‘const uint8_t * const* {aka const unsigned char * const*}’ but argument is of type ‘uint8_t ** {aka unsigned char **}’ int sws_scale(struct SwsContext *c, const uint8_t *const srcSlice[], ^~~~~~~~~ ffvideo/ffvideo.c: In function ‘initffvideo’: ffvideo/ffvideo.c:6432:30: error: ‘PIX_FMT_RGB24’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘AV_PIX_FMT_RGB24’? __pyx_t_2 = PyInt_FromLong(PIX_FMT_RGB24); if (unlikely(!__pyx_t_2)) {__pyx_filename = __pyx_f[0]; __pyx_lineno = 48; __pyx_clineno = __LINE__; goto __pyx_L1_error;} ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ AV_PIX_FMT_RGB24 ffvideo/ffvideo.c:6432:30: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in ffvideo/ffvideo.c:6444:30: error: ‘PIX_FMT_GRAY8’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘AV_PIX_FMT_GRAY8’? __pyx_t_2 = PyInt_FromLong(PIX_FMT_GRAY8); if (unlikely(!__pyx_t_2)) {__pyx_filename = __pyx_f[0]; __pyx_lineno = 49; __pyx_clineno = __LINE__; goto __pyx_L1_error;} ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ AV_PIX_FMT_GRAY8 ffvideo/ffvideo.c:6456:30: error: ‘PIX_FMT_YUV420P’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘AV_PIX_FMT_YUV420P’? __pyx_t_2 = PyInt_FromLong(PIX_FMT_YUV420P); if (unlikely(!__pyx_t_2)) {__pyx_filename = __pyx_f[0]; __pyx_lineno = 51; __pyx_clineno = __LINE__; goto __pyx_L1_error;} ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AV_PIX_FMT_YUV420P error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 ---------------------------------------- Failed building wheel for FFVideo Running setup.py clean for FFVideo
Failed to build FFVideo
Installing collected packages: FFVideo Running setup.py install for FFVideo ... error Complete output from command /home/kuba/.local/share/virtualenvs/myproject-Wt0aku_V/bin/python2.7 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-wkJ7XB/FFVideo/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-record-6GrcYv/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/kuba/.local/share/virtualenvs/myproject-Wt0aku_V/include/site/python2.7/FFVideo: running install running build running build_ext building 'ffvideo' extension creating build creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7 creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/ffvideo gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/ffmpeg -I/home/kuba/.pyenv/versions/2.7.14/include/python2.7 -c ffvideo/ffvideo.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/ffvideo/ffvideo.o ffvideo/ffvideo.c: In function ‘__pyx_pf_7ffvideo_11VideoStream___cinit__’: ffvideo/ffvideo.c:1581:25: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘avcodec_alloc_frame’; did you mean ‘avcodec_send_frame’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] __pyx_v_self->frame = avcodec_alloc_frame(); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ avcodec_send_frame ffvideo/ffvideo.c:1581:23: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion] __pyx_v_self->frame = avcodec_alloc_frame(); ^ ffvideo/ffvideo.c: In function ‘__pyx_pf_7ffvideo_11VideoStream_2__init__’: ffvideo/ffvideo.c:1886:5: warning: ‘codec’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations] __pyx_t_3 = ((__pyx_v_self->format_ctx->streams[__pyx_v_i])->codec->codec_type == AVMEDIA_TYPE_VIDEO); ^~~~~~~~~ In file included from ffvideo/ffvideo.c:259:0: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavformat/avformat.h:893:21: note: declared here AVCodecContext *codec; ^~~~~ ffvideo/ffvideo.c:1998:3: warning: ‘codec’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations] __pyx_t_10 = __pyx_v_self->stream->codec; ^~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ffvideo/ffvideo.c:259:0: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavformat/avformat.h:893:21: note: declared here AVCodecContext *codec; ^~~~~ ffvideo/ffvideo.c: In function ‘__pyx_pf_7ffvideo_11VideoStream_4__dealloc__’: ffvideo/ffvideo.c:2344:5: warning: ‘av_free_packet’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations] av_free_packet((&__pyx_v_self->packet)); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ffvideo/ffvideo.c:258:0: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavcodec/avcodec.h:4650:6: note: declared here void av_free_packet(AVPacket *pkt); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ffvideo/ffvideo.c: In function ‘__pyx_pf_7ffvideo_11VideoStream_8__decode_next_frame’: ffvideo/ffvideo.c:2636:13: warning: ‘avcodec_decode_video2’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations] __pyx_v_ret = avcodec_decode_video2(__pyx_v_self->codec_ctx, __pyx_v_self->frame, (&__pyx_v_frame_finished), (&__pyx_v_self->packet)); ^~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ffvideo/ffvideo.c:258:0: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavcodec/avcodec.h:4993:5: note: declared here int avcodec_decode_video2(AVCodecContext *avctx, AVFrame *picture, ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ffvideo/ffvideo.c:2668:9: warning: ‘av_free_packet’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations] av_free_packet((&__pyx_v_self->packet)); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ffvideo/ffvideo.c:258:0: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavcodec/avcodec.h:4650:6: note: declared here void av_free_packet(AVPacket *pkt); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ffvideo/ffvideo.c:2742:5: warning: ‘av_free_packet’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations] av_free_packet((&__pyx_v_self->packet)); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ffvideo/ffvideo.c:258:0: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavcodec/avcodec.h:4650:6: note: declared here void av_free_packet(AVPacket *pkt); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ffvideo/ffvideo.c: In function ‘__pyx_pf_7ffvideo_11VideoStream_12current’: ffvideo/ffvideo.c:2989:24: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion] __pyx_v_scaled_frame = avcodec_alloc_frame(); ^ ffvideo/ffvideo.c:3024:3: warning: ‘avpicture_get_size’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations] __pyx_v_buflen = avpicture_get_size(__pyx_v_self->ffmpeg_frame_mode, __pyx_v_self->frame_width, __pyx_v_self->frame_height); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ffvideo/ffvideo.c:258:0: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavcodec/avcodec.h:5653:5: note: declared here int avpicture_get_size(enum AVPixelFormat pix_fmt, int width, int height); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ffvideo/ffvideo.c:3045:51: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘PyObject_AsCharBuffer’ from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types] __pyx_t_3 = PyObject_AsCharBuffer(__pyx_v_data, (&__pyx_v_data_ptr), (&__pyx_v_buflen)); if (unlikely(__pyx_t_3 == -1)) {__pyx_filename = __pyx_f[0]; __pyx_lineno = 275; __pyx_clineno = __LINE__; goto __pyx_L1_error;} ^ In file included from /home/kuba/.pyenv/versions/2.7.14/include/python2.7/Python.h:133:0, from ffvideo/ffvideo.c:4: /home/kuba/.pyenv/versions/2.7.14/include/python2.7/abstract.h:476:22: note: expected ‘const char **’ but argument is of type ‘char **’ PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyObject_AsCharBuffer(PyObject *obj, ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ffvideo/ffvideo.c:3068:9: warning: ‘avpicture_fill’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations] avpicture_fill(((struct AVPicture *)__pyx_v_scaled_frame), ((__pyx_t_6ffmpeg_uint8_t *)__pyx_v_data_ptr), __pyx_v_self->ffmpeg_frame_mode, __pyx_v_self->frame_width, __pyx_v_self->frame_height); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ffvideo/ffvideo.c:258:0: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavcodec/avcodec.h:5638:5: note: declared here int avpicture_fill(AVPicture *picture, const uint8_t *ptr, ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ffvideo/ffvideo.c:3086:44: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘sws_scale’ from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types] sws_scale(__pyx_v_img_convert_ctx, __pyx_v_self->frame->data, __pyx_v_self->frame->linesize, 0, __pyx_v_self->height, __pyx_v_scaled_frame->data, __pyx_v_scaled_frame->linesize); ^~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ffvideo/ffvideo.c:261:0: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/libswscale/swscale.h:217:5: note: expected ‘const uint8_t * const* {aka const unsigned char * const*}’ but argument is of type ‘uint8_t ** {aka unsigned char **}’ int sws_scale(struct SwsContext *c, const uint8_t *const srcSlice[], ^~~~~~~~~ ffvideo/ffvideo.c: In function ‘initffvideo’: ffvideo/ffvideo.c:6432:30: error: ‘PIX_FMT_RGB24’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘AV_PIX_FMT_RGB24’? __pyx_t_2 = PyInt_FromLong(PIX_FMT_RGB24); if (unlikely(!__pyx_t_2)) {__pyx_filename = __pyx_f[0]; __pyx_lineno = 48; __pyx_clineno = __LINE__; goto __pyx_L1_error;} ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ AV_PIX_FMT_RGB24 ffvideo/ffvideo.c:6432:30: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in ffvideo/ffvideo.c:6444:30: error: ‘PIX_FMT_GRAY8’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘AV_PIX_FMT_GRAY8’? __pyx_t_2 = PyInt_FromLong(PIX_FMT_GRAY8); if (unlikely(!__pyx_t_2)) {__pyx_filename = __pyx_f[0]; __pyx_lineno = 49; __pyx_clineno = __LINE__; goto __pyx_L1_error;} ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ AV_PIX_FMT_GRAY8 ffvideo/ffvideo.c:6456:30: error: ‘PIX_FMT_YUV420P’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘AV_PIX_FMT_YUV420P’? __pyx_t_2 = PyInt_FromLong(PIX_FMT_YUV420P); if (unlikely(!__pyx_t_2)) {__pyx_filename = __pyx_f[0]; __pyx_lineno = 51; __pyx_clineno = __LINE__; goto __pyx_L1_error;} ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AV_PIX_FMT_YUV420P error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 ----------------------------------------
Command "/home/kuba/.local/share/virtualenvs/myproject-Wt0aku_V/bin/python2.7 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-wkJ7XB/FFVideo/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-record-6GrcYv/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/kuba/.local/share/virtualenvs/myproject-Wt0aku_V/include/site/python2.7/FFVideo" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-wkJ7XB/FFVideo/

I've found this:

But i can not install older version of ffmpeg (currently 3.4.2-2). I am on Ubuntu 18.04

3 Answers

You could try something like this, which seems to install and import without any errors.

#download FFVideo without installing
pip download FFVideo
#unpack tar file
tar -xvf FFVideo-0.0.13.tar.gz
#replace deprecated references
sed -i -e 's/avcodec_alloc_frame/av_frame_alloc/g' FFVideo-0.0.13/ffvideo/ffvideo.c
sed -i -e 's/PIX_FMT_RGB24/AV_PIX_FMT_RGB24/g' FFVideo-0.0.13/ffvideo/ffvideo.c
sed -i -e 's/PIX_FMT_GRAY8/AV_PIX_FMT_GRAY8/g' FFVideo-0.0.13/ffvideo/ffvideo.c
sed -i -e 's/PIX_FMT_YUV420P/AV_PIX_FMT_YUV420P/g' FFVideo-0.0.13/ffvideo/ffvideo.c
#pack it
tar -zcvf FFVideo-0.0.13.tar.gz FFVideo-0.0.13
#install
pip install --upgrade FFVideo-0.0.13.tar.gz

First download ffvideo using pip

pip download ffvideo
tar -xf FFVideo-0.0.13.tar.gz
cd FFVideo-0.0.13
python setup.py install

The previous accepted answer needs an additional replacement for AV_CODEC_FLAG_GRAY to work now.

# download FFVideo without installing
pip download FFVideo
# unpack tar file
tar -xvf FFVideo-0.0.13.tar.gz
# replace deprecated references
sed -i -e 's/avcodec_alloc_frame/av_frame_alloc/g' FFVideo-0.0.13/ffvideo/ffvideo.c
sed -i -e 's/PIX_FMT_RGB24/AV_PIX_FMT_RGB24/g' FFVideo-0.0.13/ffvideo/ffvideo.c
sed -i -e 's/PIX_FMT_GRAY8/AV_PIX_FMT_GRAY8/g' FFVideo-0.0.13/ffvideo/ffvideo.c
sed -i -e 's/PIX_FMT_YUV420P/AV_PIX_FMT_YUV420P/g' FFVideo-0.0.13/ffvideo/ffvideo.c
# additional reference missing from previous answer
sed -i -e 's/CODEC_FLAG_GRAY/AV_CODEC_FLAG_GRAY/g' FFVideo-0.0.13/ffvideo/ffvideo.c
# pack it
tar -zcvf FFVideo-0.0.13.tar.gz FFVideo-0.0.13
# install
pip install --upgrade FFVideo-0.0.13.tar.gz