Raised unknown C++ exception! about pyscenedetect

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@spiritualcoach I wrote a guide for Linux here:
https://breakthrough.github.io/Installing-OpenCV/

I don't know too much about OS X, but I assume the installation method would likely be similar as it is on Linux. Sorry I can't be of too much specific help in this case, I only have Windows/Linux machines available.

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Hello @spiritualcoach;

From what you posted above, it seems like the version of OpenCV you're using doesn't seem to like that particular file. This is likely due to an exception being thrown in the video decoder library OpenCV is invoking for that file format. In this particular case, the AVFoundation library; opening the file with cv2.CAP_FFMPEG may occur due to incomplete or missing ffmpeg/libavcodec support.

How did you go about installing the Python-OpenCV module? For Linux and OSX users, I would recommend compiling/installing the OpenCV module from scratch, instead of using a package manager from your OS or pip.

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@Breakthrough Thanks for your reply! I have tried many different ways to install OpenCV and seems nothing work. Could you please be so kind to share how I can do that?

UPD: Last time I have tried to do it by this instruction, however don't know how to make it completely from scratch.

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Closing as duplicate of #41. Feel free to post any follow up comments. This issue will be resolved when PySceneDetect v0.5 is released (should be by the end of the month).