🐍 Tapeworm has hatched! New multimedia plugin for Grasshopper!

[diff-arch]

Hi everyhody,

@antoinemaes and I have finally released our first Grasshopper plugin:

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Tapeworm is a free and open source Grasshopper multimedia plugin for Windows and macOS, fully written in Python.
We use the free and open source FFmpeg project - a cross-platform command-line-based program for transcoding multimedia files -, and offer some of its functionality to Grasshopper users.

Current Features:

• create videos from image sequences
• create image sequences from video
• transcode between various image formats
• rename entire image sequences
• and much more!

Introductory Video:

Tapeworm & FFmpeg install for Grasshopper + basic workflow

Links:

Tapeworm

GitHub - diff-arch/Tapeworm: FFmpeg controller plugin for Grasshopper®

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We officially support Rhino 6 and later, but Tapeworm should work in any Rhino version that supports GHPython.

Feel free to take it for a spin! Feedback is welcome.

[DanielPiker]

Nice work!
When I first tried it, it froze Rhino when I placed the ‘FFmpeg Remote’ component, I think because it was having trouble finding the ffmpeg.exe file where I had it installed on a secondary drive. When I moved my ffpmeg to C:\Program Files it worked fine.

[diff-arch]

@DanielPiker

When I first tried it, it froze Rhino when I placed the ‘FFmpeg Remote’ component, I think because it was having trouble finding the ffmpeg.exe file where I had it installed on a secondary drive. When I moved my ffpmeg to C:\Program Files it worked fine.

Exactly, our code only looks for an FFmpeg installation on C:\ for Windows users. However, you can customize the search path or even better hard-code/define a FFmpeg installation path inside Tapeworm/config.py, if you want to keep FFmpeg on another drive.

I have noted that this froze your canvas, when it should have only raised a component error for not finding the FFmpeg executable.
Sorry for that and thanks for reporting it!

[diff-arch]

Tapeworm v1.0.1 has hatched!

Bug Fixes:

• non-zero-padded sequences starting at 1 failed the number sequence prediction, originally reported by food4rhino.com user dvdrbls (24/03/2021 - 05:56)
• detection of multi-number sequence sequences reported more sequence numbers than actually present

Other:

• added “Updating Tapeworm” guide
• updated “FFmpeg Installation” guide with note for Windows users about installations on drives other than C:/, originally reported here by @DanielPiker

A special thanks to all the people that reported bugs or wrote supportive comments.

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Available on Github and Food4Rhino!