Unable to obtain file audio codec with ffprobe

[RomanScott]

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2052, in post_process
  File "site-packages/youtube_dl/postprocessor/ffmpeg.py", line 274, in run
youtube_dl.utils.PostProcessingError: WARNING: unable to obtain file audio codec with ffprobe

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "modules/downloaders/youtube.py", line 66, in downloadMedia
  File "site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2006, in download
  File "site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 805, in extract_info
  File "site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 859, in process_ie_result
  File "site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1640, in process_video_result
  File "site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1987, in process_info
  File "site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2054, in post_process
  File "site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 622, in report_error
  File "site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 592, in trouble
youtube_dl.utils.DownloadError: ERROR: WARNING: unable to obtain file audio codec with ffprobe

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Hello, I have run into a very strange issue. I am trying to use youtube-dl to extract audio files from YouTube and download them. I only get this issue in a Mac environment, on Windows it works perfectly.

Here is my Python code:

        downloadOptions = {
            'progress_hooks': [progressHook],
            'outtmpl': mediaPath + '/%(id)s.%(ext)s',
            'format': 'bestaudio/best',
            'subtitlesformat': 'srt/ttml/best',
            'ffmpeg_location': FFMPEG_FOLDER_LOCATION,
            'writesubtitles': True,
            'writeautomaticsub': True,
            'noplaylist': True,
            'call_home': False,
            'postprocessors': [
                {
                    'key': 'FFmpegExtractAudio',
                    'preferredcodec': 'wav',
                },
                {
                    'key': 'FFmpegSubtitlesConvertor',
                    'format': 'srt',
                },
            ],
        }

        with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(downloadOptions) as ydl:
            try:
                ydl.download([url])

Please help!

[dstftw]

Most likely ffprobe/ffmpeg is broken/does not run in your environment.

[RomanScott]

@dstftw You're right my ffmpeg was broken, thank you!