ffprobe or avprobe not found. Please install one

Question

I want to add tags to mp3 converted by youtube-dl & ffmpeg:

youtube-dl -o '/Output/qpgTC9MDx1o.mp3' qpgTC9MDx1o -f bestaudio --extract-audio --metadata-from-title "%(artist)s - %(title)s" 2>&1

I have this error in the output result:

[youtube] qpgTC9MDx1o: Downloading webpage [youtube] qpgTC9MDx1o: Extracting video information [youtube] qpgTC9MDx1o: Downloading js player en_US-vfluGO3jj [youtube] qpgTC9MDx1o: Downloading DASH manifest [download] /var/www/vhosts/mp3-y.com/httpdocs/Mp3_Output/quick-mp3.com-JALAL-EL-HAMDAOUI-2007-ARRASSIATES-VOL2-F1P-9CDoxlQ.mp3 has already been downloaded [download] 100% of 13.43MiB WARNING: qpgTC9MDx1o: writing DASH m4a. Only some players support this container. Install ffmpeg or avconv to fix this automatically. [fromtitle] parsed artist: Maroon 5 [fromtitle] parsed title: Animals ERROR: ffprobe or avprobe not found. Please install one.

Answer 1

Make sure you have the latest version for youtube-dl:
sudo youtube-dl -U

After that you can solve this problem by installing the missing ffmpeg.

Ubuntu and debian:
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

macOS:
brew install ffmpeg

Windows:
choco install ffmpeg

Answer 2

For Windows, do this.

Go to https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/releases and download Windows file.

Extract to C:\Program Files and extract your zipped file.

Then go to System Properties and add C:\Program Files\ffmpeg-master-latest-win64-gpl\bin to SYSTEM variables PATH

Answer 3

This is so simple if on windows...

In the folder where you have youtube-dl.exe

goto https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/

download the ffmpeg-git-full.7z file the download link is https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/ffmpeg-git-full.7z

Open that zip file and move the ffmpeg.exe file to the same folder where youtube-dl.exe is

Example "blahblah.7z / whatevertherootfolderis / bin / ffmpeg.exe"

youtube-dl.exe -x --audio-format mp3 -o %(title)s.%(ext)s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyPKRcBTsFQ

Answer 4

Posting what i found recently, just so that it might be of help.

Once you have installed ffmpeg as stated by various answers here , use the below option to point to the location of ffmpeg .

in my case i've installed ffmpg in (on Windows PC) E:\ffmpeg\bin

Use underscore rather than hyphen, while invoking youtube-dl from Python, and use --ffmpeg-location if calling from command line eg

ydl_opts = {       
            'ffmpeg_location' : 'E:\\ffmpeg\\bin\\ffmpeg.exe',
            } 

Answer 5

• Update your version of youtube-dl to the lastest as older version might not support.

   pip install --upgrade youtube_dl
  

• Install 'ffmpeg' and 'ffprobe' module

   pip install ffmpeg
   pip install ffprobe
  

• If you face the same issue, then download ffmpeg builds and put all the .exe files to Script folder($path: "Python\Python38-32\Scripts") (Windows OS only)

Answer 6

brew install ffmpeg will install what you need and all the dependencies if you are on a Mac.

Answer 7

There is some confusion when using pip install in Windows. The instructions talk about a specific folder which has youtube-dl.exe. There is no such folder if you use pip install.

The solution is to:

• Download one of the builds from https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/
• Extract the zip contents
• Place the contents of the bin folder (there are three exe files) in any folder which is a path in Windows. I personally use Ananconda, so I placed them in /Anaconda/Scripts, but you could place it in any folder and add that folder to the path.

Answer 8

You can install them by

sudo apt-get install -y libav-tools

Answer 9

On a Mac, install ffmpeg by downloading it from:

https://ffmpeg.org/download.html

Under "Get packages & executable files/Static Builds for macOS 64-bit".

I downloaded ffmpeg and ffprobe.

After download, I extracted the binaries ffmpeg and ffprobe, copied them to my path and set permissions:

cp ffmpeg /usr/local/bin/
cp ffprobe /usr/local/bin/
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/ff*

With brew install ffmpeg on macOS 10.13 I got the following Error: ffmpeg: no bottle available! and I was also not able to build ffmpeg on my machine.

Answer 10

I know the user asked this for Linux, but I had this issue in Windows (10 64bits) and found little information, so this is how I solved it:

• Download LIBAV, I used libav-11.3-win64.7z. Just copy "avprobe.exe" and all DLLs from "/win64/usr/bin" to where "youtube-dl.exe" is.

In case LIBAV does not help, try with FFMPEG, copying the contents of the "bin" folder to where "youtube-dl.exe" is. That did not help me, but others said it did, so it may worth a try.

Hope this helps someone having the issue in Windows.

Answer 11

On Windows, you can easily install ffmpeg via chocolatey

choco install ffmpeg

Answer 12

on MAC i tried to run brew install ffmpeg but it didn't work and got many errors, so i did this and it worked:

1- make sure you have the latest version of youtube-dl

pip install --upgrade youtube_dl

2- go to https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/ and download ffmpeg and ffprobe

3- run which youtube-dl on Terminal to get the path, where youtube-dl is installed.

you should get something like this : /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/bin/

4- copy the 2 file you downloaded ffmpeg and ffprobe to the bin folder of your path from step 3.

that's it. you shouldn't get this error again.

Answer 13

This is an old question. But if you're using a virtualenv with python, place the contents of the downloaded libav bin folder in the Scriptsfolder of your virtualenv.

Answer 14

Compiling the last answers into one:

If you're on Windows, use chocolatey:

choco install ffmpeg

If you are on Mac, use Brew:

brew install ffmpeg

If you are on a Debian Linux distribution, use apt:

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

And make sure Youtube-dl is updated:

youtube-dl -U

Answer 15

You can follow these steps (for mac):

rm -rf /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp* or for youtube-dl: rm -rf /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl*

then run;

brew install yt-dlp

you'll get a symlink error which you can resolve by running:

brew link --overwrite yt-dlp

It should work now!!

Answer 16

What worked for me (youtube-dl version 2018.03.03, ffprobe 0.5, no avprobe, 3.4.1-tessus, in Hi-Sierra/iMac) was:

brew install libav

(thanks to marciovsena's post on GitHub).

I saw elsewhere that libav might be deprecated in the future, but I'll worry about it when we get there.

Answer 17

1. update your version of youtube-dl to the lastest as older version might not support palylists.

   sudo youtube-dl -U if u installed via .deb

   sudo pip install --upgrade youtube_dl via pip

2. use this to download the playlist as an MP3 file

   youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 #url_to_playlist