Pyinstaller, youtube_dl and ffmpeg!!

[Elite]

I created an GUI for ytdl and it works fine when executed from python file, however if I pack it using pyinstaller with one file option it downloads the video but fails to convert it using ffmpeg (one copy of which is in the application folder and another on OS path).

I noticed if I allow pyinstaller to open a console window http://pythonhosted.org/PyInstaller/#id23 it works fine and executes ffmpeg.

[phihag]

As mentioned in our bug reporting guidelines, please post the output you get when you add the --verbose option (or set {'verbose': True} in the params for the YoutubeDL object). Without that, we cannot see what is going on here.

That being said, this is almost certainly a pyinstaller issue. How does the directory layout actually look when it's unpacked?

[Elite]

Got this while researching the issue - https://groups.google.com/d/msg/pyinstaller/-4Fdy7suh0U/0o9Yqa78zCEJ, it seems the problem lies in the fact how subprocess calls are handled when using pyinstaller one-file option.

[phihag]

Closing; the problem seems to be in pyinstaller. Even if it's not, without the requested additional information we could not hope to solve it.