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MoviePy ImageClip randomly producing grey videos

I am trying to create a simple video of one image with audio with MoviePy. Working with the same code, sometimes MoviePy randomly produces greyed out and glitched videos like this:greyed out video (opened with VLC Media Player)

The audio works fine in the final video, and the image used is also completely fine. I tried searching but couldn't find anything that worked. I also re-downloaded FFMPEG, thinking it would solve the problem, but to no advantage.

The code I am using is:

# assume aud_path, vid_path and out_path are set and imports have been done
aud_clip = AudioFileClip(aud_path)
vid_clip = ImageClip(vid_path)
vid_clip = vid_clip.set_audio(aud_clip).set_duration(aud_clip.duration)
vid_clip.write_videofile(out_path, temp_audiofile='temp-audio.m4a', remove_temp=True, codec="libx264", audio_codec="aac", fps=24)

Any help will be appreciated.

Solution

  • I figured it out! For anyone having a similar problem, the problem was in the vid_clip.write_videfile() method in the codec argument.

    I changed the codec to "mpeg4" and it is working fine now.