What if a user wants to bring her/his own ffmpeg?

• For pip one can use --no-binary to force installing the source-only version.
• For conda, I propose that we make a conda recipe that does not include the ffmpeg exe, but depends on the ffmpeg conda package. Then one can use conda install --no-deps imageio-ffmpeg to install just the wrapper.

Thoughts?

[djhoese]

@peircej it is also important to note that on conda/conda-forge the imageio-ffmpeg package will be depending on the conda-forge version of ffmpeg (unless I’m misunderstanding).

[almarklein]

FYI imageio-ffmpeg is now available in the conda-forge channel. As mentioned earlier, it is a noarch package (does not include the binaries) but depends on the ffmpeg conda package.