Unable to obtain file audio codec with ffprobe

[joamla96]

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Hi

Im trying to set up youtube-dl on my raspberry pi. I've installed ffmpeg, and used the manual install guide for youtube-dl.

Trying to run the program, and extract the audio, but it gives me some codec error. I can see from the verbose, that ffmpeg is present, which I have also verifyed myself on the system.

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo youtube-dl -x --verbose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbXgHAzUWB0
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-x', u'--verbose', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbXgHAzUWB0']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.05.18.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.9 - Linux-4.4.50+-armv6l-with-debian-8.0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg present, ffprobe present, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] nbXgHAzUWB0: Downloading webpage
[youtube] nbXgHAzUWB0: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] nbXgHAzUWB0: Extracting video information
[youtube] {22} signature length 43.42, html5 player vfl8jhACg
[youtube] {43} signature length 43.42, html5 player vfl8jhACg
[youtube] {18} signature length 43.42, html5 player vfl8jhACg
[youtube] {36} signature length 43.42, html5 player vfl8jhACg
[youtube] {17} signature length 43.42, html5 player vfl8jhACg
[youtube] {137} signature length 43.42, html5 player vfl8jhACg
[youtube] {248} signature length 43.42, html5 player vfl8jhACg
[youtube] {136} signature length 43.42, html5 player vfl8jhACg
[youtube] {247} signature length 43.42, html5 player vfl8jhACg
[youtube] {135} signature length 43.42, html5 player vfl8jhACg
[youtube] {244} signature length 43.42, html5 player vfl8jhACg
[youtube] {134} signature length 43.42, html5 player vfl8jhACg
[youtube] {243} signature length 43.42, html5 player vfl8jhACg
[youtube] {133} signature length 43.42, html5 player vfl8jhACg
[youtube] {242} signature length 43.42, html5 player vfl8jhACg
[youtube] {160} signature length 43.42, html5 player vfl8jhACg
[youtube] {278} signature length 43.42, html5 player vfl8jhACg
[youtube] {140} signature length 43.42, html5 player vfl8jhACg
[youtube] {171} signature length 43.42, html5 player vfl8jhACg
[youtube] {249} signature length 43.42, html5 player vfl8jhACg
[youtube] {250} signature length 43.42, html5 player vfl8jhACg
[youtube] {251} signature length 43.42, html5 player vfl8jhACg
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://r3---sn-ovgq0oxu-j2ie.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?mt=1495128329&clen=4068946&key=yt6&requiressl=yes&gir=yes&sparams=clen%2Cdur%2Cei%2Cgir%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Ckeepalive%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&keepalive=yes&beids=%5B9466591%5D&initcwndbps=5772500&id=o-AKxgSeluBDD13eNqZgAK0oBgpjuZq5i9pwXOzrHaFTww&pl=17&dur=250.061&mime=audio%2Fwebm&ms=au&source=youtube&mv=m&mm=31&ipbits=0&mn=sn-ovgq0oxu-j2ie&itag=251&expire=1495150022&lmt=1449812687269932&ei=ZtkdWYy3F9TXYs7akYAJ&upn=kjUKBSeDZq8&ip=130.226.70.90&signature=5F7820D65CCD91BE21E42A2060B3F56654135437.856EDFF2FBCECED2F18EA26EEEEF09728723A761&ratebypass=yes'
[download] Axwell _ Ingrosso - Sun Is Shining-nbXgHAzUWB0.webm has already been downloaded
[download] 100% of 3.88MiB
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffprobe -show_streams 'file:Axwell _ Ingrosso - Sun Is Shining-nbXgHAzUWB0.webm'
ERROR: WARNING: unable to obtain file audio codec with ffprobe
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1942, in post_process
files_to_delete, info = pp.run(info)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/postprocessor/ffmpeg.py", line 243, in run
raise PostProcessingError('WARNING: unable to obtain file audio codec with ffprobe')
PostProcessingError: WARNING: unable to obtain file audio codec with ffprobe

[dstftw]

Post the output of ffprobe -show_streams 'file:Axwell _ Ingrosso - Sun Is Shining-nbXgHAzUWB0.webm'.

[joamla96]

Returns:

Illegal instruction

Running it with sudo, returns nothing

[dstftw]

Meaning you ffmpeg is broken.

[joamla96]

Ah, great, only spent half a night trying to get that installed.

Thank you for quick support!