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.

Solution 1

Make sure you have the last version for youtube-dl

sudo youtube-dl -U

after that you can solve this problem by installing the missing ffmpeg on ubuntu and debian:

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

and macOS use the command:

brew install ffmpeg

Solution 2

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

Solution 3

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.

Solution 4

On Windows, you can easily install ffmpeg via chocolatey

choco install ffmpeg

Solution 5

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.

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Comments

[Nathan Tuggy]

So… install one. Problem solved?

[Anass]

how i verify if ffprobe installed in centos ? and if not how i can make install ?

[Nathan Tuggy]

That's a rather different question, and one that is probably better asked on either Unix & Linux or Super User, since I'm pretty sure ffprobe is not a programmer-exclusive tool.

[JAL]

Maybe ask the authors of youtube-dl or post on their GitHub project page?

[llogan]

If you're referring to Ubuntu, then as of 15.10 libav-tools is a virtual/transitional package and points to ffmpeg package, so there is no need to use it instead of ffmpeg.

[Pubudu]

Thanks. This helped me. A small correction to this. You should copy the contents of the bin folder to where youtube-dl.exe is.

[llogan]

That will install avprobe from the Libav fork. brew install ffmpeg should install ffprobe from FFmpeg. I guess either will work with youtube-dl, but FFmpeg is much more active organization than Libav.

[Sn3akyP3t3]

I had success by just copying the extracted contents of LIBAV to the Program Files folder and added the path to "C:\Program Files\libav-11.3-win64\win64\usr\bin" as an environment variable to the System Path group.

[nuriselcuk]

Why did you downvote this one? I have installed chocolatey then install ffmpeg with choco on Windows command window. After successfully installed ffmpeg - I am able to convert it to mp3

[leonheess]

Thank you so much!

[codingbruh]

Thanks buddy. Choco has really made windows very developer friendly

[user12386945]

this does not address the question .

[hipokito]

I downloaded 64 bit version and my dinosaur PC couldn't handle it, hence after downloading 32 bit version, worked as a charm.

[Hylle]

On MacOS you should use brew upgrade youtube-dl to make sure you have latest version of youtube-dl

[3kstc]

windows alternative?

[3kstc]

link is failing

[Enrico]

On windows its choco install ffmpeg

[Szesan]

Well if you have a 32-bit (or x86) operating system, then it naturally it can't handle 64 bit software. It has nothing to do with it being a dinosaur, it's a compatibility issue.

[wafflecat]

This is what Windows users need to do. I went for the FFMPEG instructions, but the link is no longer working, so I used this instead.