ffprobe error trying to use ffmpeg-location option

[Mitchellwbooks]

I am working on a python program
I have the options as

ydl_opts = {
'format': 'bestaudio/best', # choice of quality
'postprocessors': [{
'key': 'FFmpegExtractAudio',
'preferredcodec': 'mp3',
'preferredquality': bitrate
}], # only keep the audio
'logger': loggerWindow(),
'audioformat' : "mp3", # convert to mp3
'noplaylist' : playlist, # only download single song, not playlist
'ffmpeg-location': programDir
}
The program directory:
C:\Users\My_User\Documents\Python Projects\SongDownloader\src\downloader
and in the downloader folder is ffmpeg.exe and ffprobe.exe
it gives me an error saying

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\threading.py", line 914, in _bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\threading.py", line 862, in run
self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
File "C:\Users\mitchell\Documents\Python Projects\SongDownloader\src\downloader\functions.py", line 126, in download
ydl.download(url)
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1791, in download
url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 705, in extract_info
return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 751, in process_ie_result
return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1435, in process_video_result
self.process_info(new_info)
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1773, in process_info
self.post_process(filename, info_dict)
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1839, in post_process
self.report_error(e.msg)
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 568, in report_error
self.trouble(error_message, tb)
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 538, in trouble
raise DownloadError(message, exc_info)
youtube_dl.utils.DownloadError: ERROR: WARNING: unable to obtain file audio codec with ffprobe

[dstftw]

The opts key is ffmpeg_location not ffmpeg-location. The error is saying that ffprobe found via PATH is broken.

[Mitchellwbooks]

oh I see... will this option work if i give it a string for ffmpeg and ffprobes directory?

[yan12125]

will this option work if i give it a string for ffmpeg and ffprobes directory?

yes

[Mitchellwbooks]

I am sorry for the late response. I am a bit confused in terms of the error in my code above. I am passing the directory in the dictionary using ProgramDir