Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #56934


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Timestamp:
Aug 7, 2018, 5:20:36 AM (6 years ago)
Author:
ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
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​According to the ImageMagick forum, it looks like ImageMagick used to require ffmpeg for reading video files, but as of late 2013 it will use either ffmpeg or libav/avconv, whichever is installed.

It looks like ImageMagick does not declare a dependency on ffmpeg. Do you have it installed? If not, try sudo port install ffmpeg.

I don't recall why ImageMagick doesn't declare a dependency on ffmpeg, but it might be because I would guess that most people use ImageMagick only to manipulate images; I didn't even know it could produce a video from a set of images. Adding a heavy dependency like ffmpeg would add overhead that most people probably wouldn't need. But maybe we should add a variant to the port for this.

#42299 might be related or the same issue.

If you would like MacPorts to offer libav/avconv, please re-open #50039 and discuss there.

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  • Ticket #56934

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  • Ticket #56934 – Description

    initial v1  
    11I'm trying to put together a timelapse video from individual frames, like:
    22
     3{{{
    34convert *.jpg output.mp4
     5}}}
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    57This produces:
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     9{{{
    710convert: delegate failed `'avconv' -nostdin -v -1 -i '%M%%d.jpg' '%u.%m' 2> '%u'' @ error/delegate.c/InvokeDelegate/1919.
     11}}}
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    913The issue is that it wants avconv, but avconv is not available with MacPorts.  See here:
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    1317As you can see from the answers, installing avconv is possible if you use MacPorts, but is very inconvenient.  Whereas with brew it's trivial.
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    15 There has been an attempt to bring avconv into MacPorts here:
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    17 https://trac.macports.org/ticket/50039
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    19 It was rejected because "it appears that ffmpeg provides all this provides".  It seems not.  The current situation leaves ImageMagick in a broken state.
     19There has been an attempt to bring avconv into MacPorts [ticket:50039 here]. It was rejected because "it appears that ffmpeg provides all this provides".  It seems not.  The current situation leaves ImageMagick in a broken state.