Get the “OsError: [Winerror 6] handle in the VideoFileClip function”

video_clip.reader.close()
video_clip.audio.reader.close_proc()

I used python to create a program by importing the moviepy library, but I received the following error:

 from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip

white_output ='videos/testVideo.mp4'
clip1 = VideoFileClip("videos/testVideo.mp4")

OSError Traceback ( most recent call last)
 in ()
 1 white_output ='videos/testVideo.mp4 '
----> 2 clip1 = VideoFileClip("videos/testVideo.mp4")
 3 white_clip = clip1.fl_image(process_image) #NOTE: this function expects color images!!
 4 get_ipython().magic('time white_clip.write_videofile(white_output, audio=False)')

C:\Users\hp pc\Anaconda3\envs\lib\site-packages\moviepy\video \io\VideoFileClip.py in __init__(self, filename, has_mask, audio, audio_buffersize, audio_fps, audio_nbytes, verbose)
 53 # Make a reader
 54 pix_fmt= "rgba" if has_mask else "rgb24" 
---> 55 reader = FFMPEG_VideoReader(filename, pix_fmt=pix_fmt)
 56 self.reader = reader
 57 # Make some of the reader's attributes accessible from the clip
< br />C:\Users\hp pc\Anaconda3\envs\lib\site-packages\moviepy\video\io\ffmpeg_reader.py in __init__(self, filename, print_infos, bufsize, pix_fmt, check_duration)
 30 
 31 self.filename = filename
---> 32 inf os = ffmpeg_parse_infos(filename, print_infos, check_duration)
 33 self.fps = infos['video_fps']
 34 self.size = infos['video_size']

C: \Users\hp pc\Anaconda3\envs\lib\site-packages\moviepy\video\io\ffmpeg_reader.py in ffmpeg_parse_infos(filename, print_infos, check_duration)
 236 popen_params["creationflags"] = 0x08000000
 237 
--> 238 proc = sp.Popen(cmd, **popen_params)
 239 
 240 proc.stdout.readline()

C:\ Users\hp pc\Anaconda3\envs\lib\subprocess.py in __init__(self, args, bufsize, executable, stdin, stdout, stderr, preexec_fn, close_fds, shell, cwd, env, universal_newlines, startupinfo, creationflags, restore_signals, start_new_session , pass_fds)
 840 pass_fds=()):
 841 """Create new Popen instance."""
--> 842 _cleanup()
 843 # Held while anything is calling waitpid before returncode has been
 844 # updated to prevent clobbering returncode if wait() or poll() are

C:\Users\hp pc\Anaconda3\envs\lib\subprocess.py in _cleanup()
 503 def _cleanup():
 504 for inst in _active[:]:
--> 505 res = inst._internal_poll(_deadstate=sys.maxsize)
 506 if res is not None:
 507 try:

C:\Users\hp pc\Anaconda3\envs\lib\subprocess.py in _internal_poll(self, _deadstate, _WaitForSingleObject, _WAIT_OBJECT_0, _GetExitCodeProcess)
 1257 "" "
 1258 if self.returncode is None:
-> 1259 if _WaitForSingleObject(self._handle, 0) == _WAIT_OBJECT_0:
 1260 self.returncode = _GetExitCodeProcess(self._handle)
 1261 return self.returncode

OSError: [WinError 6] The handle is invalid

Please let me know a solution.

I solved this problem by running the following command after reading the video.

video_clip.reader.close()
video_clip .aud io.reader.close_proc()

See https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy/issues/73 and https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy/issues/164.