Installing FFMPEG on Mac

Question

I have tried installing ffmpeg through homebrew using

brew install ffmpeg

When I tried importing ffmpeg into Python I got the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named ffmpeg

I can confirm that ffmpeg is installed through brew list. I am not sure why python is not recognizing it.

Answer 1

What you've installed is the /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg command-line tool and various C libraries. It doesn't include any Python bindings. If you want to install ffmpeg-python, run pip install --user ffmpeg-python.