I have been trying to run an mp4 in Tkinter and have been getting an error message about a couple line errors in –main–.py, and runpy.py. I’m a newbie and this is confusing me because I’ve been spending hours trying to fix this. I am also having a problem in the file path for my video, so help on that would also be greatly appreciated! Here is the code I am running!
import tkinter as tk, threading import imageio from PIL import Image, ImageTk ⠀ video_name = "C:UsersJacob KuhnVideosRotomdex.mp4" #This is my video file path video = imageio.get_reader(video_name) ⠀ def stream(label): ⠀ for image in video.iter_data(): frame_image = ImageTk.PhotoImage(Image.fromarray(image)) label.config(image=frame_image) label.image = frame_image ⠀ if __name__ == "__main__": ⠀ root = tk.Tk() my_label = tk.Label(root) my_label.pack() thread = threading.Thread(target=stream, args=(my_label,)) thread.daemon = 1 thread.start() root.mainloop()
and the error sent.
Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:UsersJacob KuhnAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython310librunpy.py", line 196, in _run_module_as_main return _run_code(code, main_globals, None, File "C:UsersJacob KuhnAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython310librunpy.py", line 86, in _run_code File "c:program filesmicrosoft visual studio2022communitycommon7ideextensionsmicrosoftpythoncoredebugpy__main__.py", line 45, in <module> cli.main() File "c:program filesmicrosoft visual studio2022communitycommon7ideextensionsmicrosoftpythoncoredebugpy/..debugpyservercli.py", line 444, in main run() File "c:program filesmicrosoft visual studio2022communitycommon7ideextensionsmicrosoftpythoncoredebugpy/..debugpyservercli.py", line 285, in run_file runpy.run_path(target_as_str, run_name=compat.force_str("__main__")) File "C:UsersJacob KuhnAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython310librunpy.py", line 268, in run_path code, fname = _get_code_from_file(run_name, path_name) File "C:UsersJacob KuhnAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython310librunpy.py", line 242, in _get_code_from_file code = compile(f.read(), fname, 'exec') File "C:UsersJacob KuhnsourcereposRotomDexRotomDexRotomDex.py", line 5 video_name = "C:UsersJacob KuhnVideosRotomdex.mp4" #This is my video file path ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated UXXXXXXXX escape Press any key to continue . . .
Anybody got a clue?
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Answer
Use ‘/’ forward slash instead of backward slash while specify the path. So you would write this instead:
C:/Users/Jacob Kuhn/Videos/Rotomdex.mp4