Sounds like you’re using Gstreamer. If you have access to OpenCV, it would be informative to see if the same file is opened correctly via the OpenCV backend, with data = io.Video(source=video_path, backend='opencv')

I’ve heard our Gstreamer backend could use some attention…

On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 5:36:01 PM UTC-6, !link wrote:

Hello,

I'm trying to get skimage working with video, and I'm using a relatively small video to test the functionality I need. 

If I run the following code (with a video I know to play in multiple players) it seems to hang python.

import os

from skimage import io

** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject)

video_path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(),'test.avi')

data = io.Video(source = video_path)

as in, I've let it run for 5 + min on a 2.5 MB file and had to kill the python process. 

I'm running OS X 10.9.1 and I have:

Python 2.7.6 :: Anaconda 1.7.0 (x86_64)

skimage 0.8.2

Gstreamer 1.2.3 from binary at http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/

and gst-python010 installed

In case it matters, I installed gst-python via:

$ brew tap homebrew/versions

$ brew install gst-python010

I would appreciate any suggestions or recommendations as to how to determine where the error is, and then how to go about correcting it.