Installation

Binary wheels

Binary wheels are provided on PyPI for Linux, MacOS, and Windows linked against FFmpeg. The most straight-forward way to install BasswoodAV is to run:

pip install basswood-av

Building from the latest source

# Get BasswoodAV from GitHub.
git clone https://github.com/basswood-io/BasswoodAV
cd BasswoodAV

# Prep a virtualenv.
source scripts/activate.sh

# Optionally build FFmpeg.
./scripts/build-deps

# Build BasswoodAV.
make

On Windows you must indicate the location of your FFmpeg, e.g.:

python setup.py build --ffmpeg-dir=C:\ffmpeg