WARNING: unable to obtain file audio codec with ffprobe on Mac

[hadifarnoud]

% youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=79EM0HRU-NA\&list\=PL1FE04D7E681F658D\&index\=15 -t -x --audio-format best -f 18 --verbose

I do have latest version of both youtube-dl and ffmpeg. I updated everything with brew update && brew upgrade

youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=79EM0HRU-NA\&list\=PL1FE04D7E681F658D\&index\=15 -t -x --audio-format best -f 18 --verbose
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.01.02
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Darwin-12.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] 79EM0HRU-NA: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] 79EM0HRU-NA: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 79EM0HRU-NA: Extracting video information
[download] Ashegham man- Filme Ghermez-79EM0HRU-NA.mp4 has already been downloaded
WARNING: unable to obtain file audio codec with ffprobe

[phihag]

What output do you get when you type

which ffprobe

? By the way, you can avoid quoting the URL by just putting it into quotes. You may also want to update youtube-dl (with sudo youtube-dl -U - YouTube has changed a lot, so some videos won't work with the old 2013.01.02. With the new version, -t is deprecated, since it has no effect.

[hadifarnoud]

ffprobe not found

I think youtube-dl is latest version. I did -U before submitting this ticket

[jaimeMF]

Do you have ffprobe installed?, if so, it should be in one of directories in your path, otherwise youtube-dl cannot use it.

[hadifarnoud]

I don't think I have. I tried brew install ffprobe. Didn't work. There is no ffprobe command on terminal
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz
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Do you have ffprobe installed?, if so, it should be in one of directories in your path, otherwise youtube-dl cannot use it.

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[jaimeMF]

Brew should install also ffprobe if you do brew install ffmpeg, it should appear in brew list ffmpeg:

/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/1.2.1/bin/ffserver
/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/1.2.1/bin/ffprobe
/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/1.2.1/bin/ffmpeg
... (more directories appear here)

If you can run ffmpeg and which ffmpeg gives the path to the binary, it may be a problem with brew, they'll probably give you better support than us.

[hadifarnoud]

brew link --overwrite ffmpeg solved the issue

[iprebeg]

similar happened with mavericks coming along due to ffprobe wasn't able to load libass.4.dylib anymore, reinstalling ffmpeg helped