Anaconda / Spyder new package?

Question

I am trying to install ffmpeg on my Anaconda/Spyder install (Win 10/64 bit). I have it in Anaconda

However, Spyder does not recognize it

import matplotlib.animation as ani

ani.MovieWriterRegistry().list()
[]

import ffmpeg
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<ipython-input-4-16f5f3b4de71>", line 1, in <module>
    import ffmpeg

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ffmpeg'

Am I missing a step? I'm obviously rather new to this so any help would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

( Spyder maintainer here ) This is caused by the common confusion conda is a pip replacement , which is false.

Basically, conda installed for you the ffmpeg C library, not the Python bindings to it.

I have given answers at length about this topic, so I don't plan to do it again. Please see this one for example.