io.Video hanging indefinitely on load

[!link]

I am using gstreamer, because when I tried to install OpenCV (version 
2.4.7.1) via brew and then test to see if it works python segfaulted. Maybe 
I need to find a different source for OpenCV.

$ brew install opencv
==> Downloading https://github.com/Itseez/opencv/archive/2.4.7.1.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/opencv-2.4.7.1.tar.gz
==> Patching
patching file cmake/OpenCVFindOpenNI.cmake
==> cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/Cellar/opencv/2.4.7.1 
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None -DCM
==> make
==> make install
Warning: Could not fix libpython2.7.dylib in 
/usr/local/Cellar/opencv/2.4.7.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cv2.so
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/opencv/2.4.7.1: 224 files, 40M, built in 2.7 minutes

$ python
Python 2.7.6 |Anaconda 1.7.0 (x86_64)| (default, Jan 10 2014, 11:23:15)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import cv
Segmentation fault: 11

On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 4:17:45 PM UTC-8, Josh Warner wrote:
>
> Sounds like you’re using Gstreamer. If you have access to OpenCV, it would 
> be informative to see if the same file is opened correctly via the OpenCV 
> backend, with data = io.Video(source=video_path, backend='opencv')
>
> I’ve heard our Gstreamer backend could use some attention…
>
> On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 5:36:01 PM UTC-6, !link wrote:
>
> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to get skimage working with video, and I'm using a relatively 
>> small video to test the functionality I need. 
>>
>> If I run the following code (with a video I know to play in multiple 
>> players) it seems to hang python.
>>
>> import os
>> from skimage import io
>> ** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject)
>> video_path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(),'test.avi')
>> data = io.Video(source = video_path)
>>
>> as in, I've let it run for 5 + min on a 2.5 MB file and had to kill the 
>> python process. 
>>
>> I'm running OS X 10.9.1 and I have:
>>
>> Python 2.7.6 :: Anaconda 1.7.0 (x86_64)
>> skimage 0.8.2
>> Gstreamer 1.2.3 from binary at http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
>> and gst-python010 installed
>>
>> In case it matters, I installed gst-python via:
>> $ brew tap homebrew/versions
>> $ brew install gst-python010
>>
>> I would appreciate any suggestions or recommendations as to how to 
>> determine where the error is, and then how to go about correcting it. 
>>
>>
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