[TIKA-1510] FFMpeg installed but not parsing video files

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.9
• Component/s: parser

Environment

FFMPEG, Mac OS X 10.9 with HomeBrew

• Assignee: Chris A. Mattmann
• Reporter: Chris A. Mattmann
• Created: 11/Jan/15 18:24
• Updated: 29/Oct/19 15:52
• Resolved: 25/May/15 19:33

Description

I have FFMPEG installed with homebrew:

# brew install ffmpeg

I've got some AVI files and have tried to parse them with Tika:

[chipotle:~/Desktop/drone-vids] mattmann% tika -m SPOT11_000001\ 17.AVI
Content-Length: 334917340
Content-Type: video/x-msvideo
X-Parsed-By: org.apache.tika.parser.EmptyParser
resourceName: SPOT11_000001 17.AVI

I took a look at the ExternalParser, which is configured for using ffmpeg if it's installed. It seems it only works on:

   <mime-types>
       <mime-type>video/avi</mime-type>
       <mime-type>video/mpeg</mime-type>
     </mime-types>

I'll add video/x-msvideo and see if that fixes it. I also stumbled upon the work by rgauss at Github - Ray I noticed there is no parser in that work:

https://github.com/AlfrescoLabs/tika-ffmpeg

But there seems to be metadata extraction code, etc. Ray should I do something with this?

Issue Links

• is related to: TIKA-634 Command Line Parser for Metadata Extraction
• requires: TIKA-1638 Make ExternalParser actually work