Too many open files error

[Sonam Singh]

I have many avi files.

for i,row in  files:

        path=row

        f=path

        with imageio.get_reader(path) as read:

            ims=[]

            for j,im in enumerate(read):

                ims.append(im)

        act = np.array(ims)

        

        np.save('out/'+f, act)

after reading 300+  avi files, I am getting runtime error : too many open files.

I want to convert avi files to numpy array for further processing,

If i am not wrong, isn't the context manger ('with') should be dealing with it? also, forcefully closing with read.close doesn't help either.

Any ideas?

-Sonam

[Almar Klein]

Yes, the context manager should calls `_close()` on the reader object, which, for the ffmpeg reader calls `_terminate()`, which should terminate the ffmpeg process. Looking at the code, everything seems to be in order, but maybe something is holding onto the process somehowe.

 

If you feel like diving in, you could play around here (https://github.com/imageio/imageio/blob/master/imageio/plugins/ffmpeg.py#L380-L395) to e.g. check that it is indeed called for each file, or kill the process if we failed to stop it the “nice way”.

 

Also, have you tried commenting the `np.save()` to be sure its imageio?

 

If the problem persists, can you please make an issue on the issue tracker on Github?

 

Thanks,

  Almar

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