--ffmpeg-location doesn't work if quite right

[Delivator]

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Add the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

PS C:\Users\Delivator\Desktop> youtube-dl -v --ffmpeg-location "D:\Documents\GitHub\youtube-dl.js\node_modules\ffmpeg-binaries\bin" --external-downloader ffmpeg -x https://youtu.be/q5weS3aY-Qc
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '--ffmpeg-location', 'D:\\Documents\\GitHub\\youtube-dl.js\\node_modules\\ffmpeg-binaries\\bin', '--external-downloader', 'ffmpeg', '-x', 'https://youtu.be/q5weS3aY-Qc']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.01.21
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.16299
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] q5weS3aY-Qc: Downloading webpage
[youtube] q5weS3aY-Qc: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] q5weS3aY-Qc: Extracting video information
[youtube] {22} signature length 43.40, html5 player vflX4ueE4
[youtube] {43} signature length 43.40, html5 player vflX4ueE4
[youtube] {18} signature length 43.40, html5 player vflX4ueE4
[youtube] {36} signature length 43.40, html5 player vflX4ueE4
[youtube] {17} signature length 43.40, html5 player vflX4ueE4
[youtube] {137} signature length 43.40, html5 player vflX4ueE4
[youtube] {248} signature length 43.40, html5 player vflX4ueE4
[youtube] {136} signature length 43.40, html5 player vflX4ueE4
[youtube] {247} signature length 43.40, html5 player vflX4ueE4
[youtube] {135} signature length 43.40, html5 player vflX4ueE4
[youtube] {244} signature length 43.40, html5 player vflX4ueE4
[youtube] {134} signature length 43.40, html5 player vflX4ueE4
[youtube] {243} signature length 43.40, html5 player vflX4ueE4
[youtube] {133} signature length 43.40, html5 player vflX4ueE4
[youtube] {242} signature length 43.40, html5 player vflX4ueE4
[youtube] {160} signature length 43.40, html5 player vflX4ueE4
[youtube] {278} signature length 43.40, html5 player vflX4ueE4
[youtube] {140} signature length 43.40, html5 player vflX4ueE4
[youtube] {171} signature length 43.40, html5 player vflX4ueE4
[youtube] {249} signature length 43.40, html5 player vflX4ueE4
[youtube] {250} signature length 43.40, html5 player vflX4ueE4
[youtube] {251} signature length 43.40, html5 player vflX4ueE4
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://r2---sn-4g5ednle.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id=o-AHOkcITwOTGCpIGgGVU46zOA0ODCU8_mK_qkCs1VGpE9&ei=-iNuWrCyHZPg1gLF2rLAAg&ipbits=0&ip=cencored&key=yt6&ms=au&mv=m&mt=1517167532&clen=5838915&lmt=1508887339181428&gir=yes&dur=325.781&mn=sn-4g5ednle&mm=31&sparams=clen%2Cdur%2Cei%2Cgir%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Ckeepalive%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cexpire&expire=1517189210&itag=251&keepalive=yes&mime=audio%2Fwebm&source=youtube&pl=33&requiressl=yes&initcwndbps=1355000&signature=0CFD1BAC62A34FACDF17E5210A65FAC6FDDB891C.8693F0BDE4CF88E62F29BBB35A66C8C160F68E45&ratebypass=yes'
[download] Destination: TRETTMANN - Geh ran (prod. KITSCHKRIEG)-q5weS3aY-Qc.webm
ERROR: m3u8 download detected but ffmpeg or avconv could not be found. Please install one.
  File "__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpm93u0ksi\build\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 465, in main
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpm93u0ksi\build\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 455, in _real_main
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpm93u0ksi\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1988, in download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpm93u0ksi\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 795, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpm93u0ksi\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 849, in process_ie_result
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpm93u0ksi\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1622, in process_video_result
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpm93u0ksi\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1895, in process_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpm93u0ksi\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1834, in dl
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpm93u0ksi\build\youtube_dl\downloader\common.py", line 361, in download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpm93u0ksi\build\youtube_dl\downloader\external.py", line 33, in real_download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpm93u0ksi\build\youtube_dl\downloader\external.py", line 209, in _call_downloader
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpm93u0ksi\build\youtube_dl\downloader\common.py", line 163, in report_error
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpm93u0ksi\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 612, in report_error
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpm93u0ksi\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 574, in trouble

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

The --ffmpeg-location parameter doesn't work quite right imo.
I have this folder (

    Verzeichnis: D:\Documents\GitHub\youtube-dl.js\node_modules\ffmpeg-binaries\bin


Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name                                                        
----                -------------         ------ ----                                                        
-a----       11.12.2016     05:51       45171088 ffmpeg                                                      
-a----       26.01.2018     02:54       36653056 ffmpeg.exe                                                  
-a----       26.01.2018     02:54       36541440 ffplay.exe                                                  
-a----       11.12.2016     05:51       45084752 ffprobe                                                     
-a----       26.01.2018     02:54       36556288 ffprobe.exe                                                 
-a----       11.12.2016     05:51       40390000 ffserver                                                    

) and when giving this folder path to youtube-dl, it says ERROR: m3u8 download detected but ffmpeg or avconv could not be found. Please install one. even tho all the required ffmpeg binaries are in this folder. But when when I delete the linux binaries (ffmpeg, ffprobe & ffserver) it works.

So im guessing youtube-dl sees that there is a ffmpeg file in this folder, tries to use it and because it doesn't work just says that ffmpeg isn't installed. If that is the case, it maybe should also check if there is a ffmpeg.exe file in that directory.

Sure I could just delete the files and it would work fine, but I don't thinks that it should work like this.

[dstftw]

Post the output of Get-FileHash youtube-dl.exe -Algorithm SHA1.

[Delivator]

Sure

PS C:\Users\Delivator\PATH> Get-FileHash youtube-dl.exe -Algorithm SHA1

Algorithm       Hash                                                                   Path
---------       ----                                                                   ----
SHA1            A5E39CDE683199850FE1FE5F813968FD20803D2C                               C:\Users\Delivator\PATH\youtube-dl.exe

[dstftw]

Incorrect hash. Hash for 2018.01.21 is 4fb4f863f0cb507e23f6c50a2280e387b4ce2b41.

[Delivator]

Sorry I must have done an update, error still occurs in version 2018.01.27 tho

[Hrxn]

Why do you have the Linux binaries in the same folder?

[Delivator]

I was tying to use a node module called ffmpeg-binaires (https://github.com/Hackzzila/node-ffmpeg-binaries) which as I had to find out downloads and extracts both windows and linux binaries independend of the os it's beeing installed on.

[Delivator]

Turned out to be a problem with the library I was using.