ffprobe or avprobe not found. Please install one.

[gigalala]

Hi,
So i am trying to download a playlist using youtube-dl. But when i try to download my playlist the first video is downloaded and converted successfully, and on the second i get "ffprobe or avprobe not found. Please install one.".
Obviously i have both ffprobe and avprobe installed and can be used on my mac.

from __future__ import unicode_literals
import youtube_dl



ydl_opts = {
    'format': 'bestaudio/best',
    'postprocessors': [{
        'key': 'FFmpegExtractAudio',
        'preferredcodec': 'mp3',
        'preferredquality': '192'}]}


with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
    ydl.download(['https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_60Wu6jUZd8ppBT7t5lnRTjuChiJdz_R'])

Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/Avihai/Desktop/YoutubeDownloader/Test.py", line 15, in <module>
    ydl.download(['https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_60Wu6jUZd8ppBT7t5lnRTjuChiJdz_R'])
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1740, in download
    url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 687, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 848, in process_ie_result
    extra_info=extra)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 740, in process_ie_result
    extra_info=extra_info)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 687, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 733, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1386, in process_video_result
    self.process_info(new_info)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1722, in process_info
    self.post_process(filename, info_dict)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1788, in post_process
    self.report_error(e.msg)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 550, in report_error
    self.trouble(error_message, tb)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 520, in trouble
    raise DownloadError(message, exc_info)
youtube_dl.utils.DownloadError: �[0;31mERROR:�[0m ffprobe or avprobe not found. Please install one.

Any ideas?
Thank you

[ivan]

You might have them installed, but are they in your PATH?

[gigalala]

Its a mac, so i am not sure what you mean by "PATH"

Thank you

[TRox1972]

@gigalala Print the output of echo $PATH and whereis ffmpeg

[gigalala]

echo $PATH output:
/Users/Avihai/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/Users/Avihai/.yadr/bin:/Users/Avihai/.yadr/bin/yadr

whereis ffmpeg returns nothing, but i chekced and ffmepg is on "/usr/local/bin/" which is in PATH.
Can you think of a reason why the first video is downloaded and converted successfully, while i get the error on the second?

Thank you

[yan12125]

Please add 'verbose': True to ydl_opts.

Also the path in Python may be different. Add print(os.getenv('PATH')) in your Python script.

[gigalala]

Hi,

@yan12125 you were right, print(os.getenv('PATH')) returns only/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin.
Why is that? and how i fix it?

Thank you

[yan12125]

Why is that?

Depends. Most likely some startup scripts modifies PATH.

how i fix it?

Looks working: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1681244/3786245

[yan12125]

I guess you have solved the problem. If not feel free to leave a comment here.