mediapipe 0.10.11 is wrongly depending on protobuf 3.x, it should be version > 4.x, even 5.x works

[alanwilter]

Have I written custom code (as opposed to using a stock example script provided in MediaPipe)

No

OS Platform and Distribution

macOS Silicon

Programming Language and version

Python

MediaPipe version

0.10.11

Solution

FaceMesh

Describe the actual behavior

mediapipe 0.10.11 does not work on macOS, at least not on Silicon ones

Describe the expected behaviour

It should work like it does on Linux

Standalone code/steps you may have used to try to get what you need

I did:

pip install protobuf -U
...
Successfully installed protobuf-5.26.1

and now it works with mediapipe 0.10.11 on my Mac M1.

However, poetry add protobuf does not work because mediapipe is still hooked to protobuf 3.x:

mediapipe 0.10.11 requires protobuf<4,>=3.11, but you have protobuf 5.26.1 which is incompatible.