Blink AVI creation error

[M44DSW]

Hi

I'm trying to use Blink to create an animation of the 2004 BL86 Asteroid. It creates the .png file ok and then errors on creating the .AVI. Error below. Any ideas?

[2015-01-27 18:02:15]
ffmpeg -y -r 25 -i Blink%05d.png Blink.avi

*** Failed to execute external process: Failed to start

Regards
Dave

[pfile]

do you know where ffmpeg is installed on your system? simply put the full pathname to the ffmpeg binary file on the line that currently starts with "ffmpeg", that is something like "/some/place/on/disk/ffmpeg" if on linux or OSX, or "C:\Some\Directory\ffmpeg" on windows.

rob

[bitli]

ffmpeg is not installed or part of PI, you have to install it somewhere (get it from https://www.ffmpeg.org/) and then set the parth in the configuration of blink
I think this is for license reasons, but I am not sure.
-- bitli

[M44DSW]

Rob/Bitli

Thank you for your responses. Indeed I had no idea I needed to install ffmpeg or what ffmpeg was. I have now been to the website suggested, installed the Mac executable and changed the directory in the Blink tool. This worked a treat and got rid of the error so thank you. Probably need some information in the Blink function to state that ffmpeg needs to be installed and point to the external website as it is free.

Regards
Dave