[Bug Report] Not recognizing fmpeg or ffprobe

[jolespin]

I installed youtube-dl and ffmpeg with the following commands:

pip install youtube-dl
conda install -c menpo ffmpeg --yes

My current version:

(python3) jespinozlt-osx:~ jespinoz$ youtube-dl --version
2018.04.03

I made sure to make the permissions 777 for the ffmpeg binary but it's still not recognizing it.

I have ffmpeg in this location:

(python3) jespinozlt-osx:Downloaded_Music jespinoz$ which ffmpeg
/Users/jespinoz/anaconda/envs/python3/bin/ffmpeg

I made sure the binary was working:

(python3) jespinozlt-osx:Downloaded_Music jespinoz$ ffmpeg --help | head
ffmpeg version 2.8.6 Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
  built with llvm-gcc 4.2.1 (LLVM build 2336.11.00)
  configuration: --prefix=/Volumes/Ramdisk/sw --enable-gpl --enable-pthreads --enable-version3 --enable-libspeex --enable-libvpx --disable-decoder=libvpx --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-avfilter --enable-libopencore_amrwb --enable-libopencore_amrnb --enable-filters --enable-libgsm --enable-libvidstab --enable-libx265 --disable-doc --arch=x86_64 --enable-runtime-cpudetect
  libavutil      54. 31.100 / 54. 31.100
  libavcodec     56. 60.100 / 56. 60.100
  libavformat    56. 40.101 / 56. 40.101
  libavdevice    56.  4.100 / 56.  4.100
  libavfilter     5. 40.101 /  5. 40.101
  libswscale      3.  1.101 /  3.  1.101
  libswresample   1.  2.101 /  1.  2.101
  libpostproc    53.  3.100 / 53.  3.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...

Getting help:
    -h      -- print basic options
    -h long -- print more options
    -h full -- print all options (including all format and codec specific options, very long)
    See man ffmpeg for detailed description of the options.

Print help / information / capabilities:

Running the youtube-dl command with the verbose flag:

(python3) jespinozlt-osx:Downloaded_Music jespinoz$ youtube-dl -v --extract-audio --audio-quality 0 --audio-format best --ffmpeg-location /Users/jespinoz/anaconda/envs/python3/bin/ffmpeg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UvBX3REqSY
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '--extract-audio', '--audio-quality', '0', '--audio-format', 'best', '--ffmpeg-location', '/Users/jespinoz/anaconda/envs/python3/bin/ffmpeg', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UvBX3REqSY']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.04.03
[debug] Python version 3.6.4 (CPython) - Darwin-15.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.6, phantomjs 2.1.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] 9UvBX3REqSY: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 9UvBX3REqSY: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 9UvBX3REqSY: Extracting video information
[youtube] {43} signature length 44.45, html5 player vflENcx6t
[youtube] {18} signature length 44.45, html5 player vflENcx6t
[youtube] {36} signature length 44.45, html5 player vflENcx6t
[youtube] {17} signature length 44.45, html5 player vflENcx6t
[youtube] {135} signature length 44.45, html5 player vflENcx6t
[youtube] {244} signature length 44.45, html5 player vflENcx6t
[youtube] {134} signature length 44.45, html5 player vflENcx6t
[youtube] {243} signature length 44.45, html5 player vflENcx6t
[youtube] {133} signature length 44.45, html5 player vflENcx6t
[youtube] {242} signature length 44.45, html5 player vflENcx6t
[youtube] {160} signature length 44.45, html5 player vflENcx6t
[youtube] {278} signature length 44.45, html5 player vflENcx6t
[youtube] {140} signature length 44.43, html5 player vflENcx6t
[youtube] {171} signature length 44.45, html5 player vflENcx6t
[youtube] {249} signature length 44.45, html5 player vflENcx6t
[youtube] {250} signature length 44.45, html5 player vflENcx6t
[youtube] {251} signature length 44.45, html5 player vflENcx6t
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://r4---sn-jvm-n5ol.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?key=yt6&lmt=1449648788469113&mv=m&keepalive=yes&itag=171&fvip=5&c=WEB&clen=4049047&source=youtube&sparams=clen%2Cdur%2Cei%2Cgcr%2Cgir%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Ckeepalive%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cexpire&expire=1522975444&dur=263.557&initcwndbps=8226250&ei=dG7GWs3aF5yy-wOPyZCIDw&ip=192.207.234.194&requiressl=yes&mt=1522953721&gir=yes&ms=au%2Crdu&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-jvm-n5ol%2Csn-a5meknl7&mime=audio%2Fwebm&id=o-AO-i5l6o4Pk1HaeQ1t0t36LPvn-t8MrfZ85YYZi37m2J&pl=24&gcr=us&ipbits=0&signature=353D11017C3C66FF005830C26F9D190AAF709B4D.A4582AF576E7267B0DDFEF816C76631DEF70C7BC&ratebypass=yes'
[download] Missy Elliott & Da Brat - Sock It 2 Me [Video]-9UvBX3REqSY.webm has already been downloaded
[download] 100% of 3.86MiB
ERROR: ffprobe or avprobe not found. Please install one.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/jespinoz/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2035, in post_process
    files_to_delete, info = pp.run(info)
  File "/Users/jespinoz/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/postprocessor/ffmpeg.py", line 241, in run
    filecodec = self.get_audio_codec(path)
  File "/Users/jespinoz/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/postprocessor/ffmpeg.py", line 156, in get_audio_codec
    raise PostProcessingError('ffprobe or avprobe not found. Please install one.')
youtube_dl.utils.PostProcessingError: ffprobe or avprobe not found. Please install one.

[jolespin]

What can I do so this isn't flagged as incomplete? I don't think that warrants a closed issue.

[dstftw]

Read and fill issue template appropriately.

[jolespin]

Is that sufficient?

[dstftw]

Error message clearly states you have no ffprobe installed.

[jolespin]

Is ffprobe not a submodule of ffmpeg?

[jolespin]

Can you remove the closed flag since the issue is not resolved yet?

[dstftw]

As said there is no issue. Install ffprobe.