DownloadError: ERROR: ffprobe or avprobe not found. Please install one.

[nadermx]

I keep getting this error DownloadError: ERROR: ffprobe or avprobe not found. Please install one.

I am on ubuntu 14.04 and I already did this

sudo apt-get install -y libav-tools

and ffmpeg is showing as installed

root@www:/home/www/yout# ffmpeg -version
ffmpeg version 2.6.3 Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 4.8 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1)

Here is the input I'm putting into the youtube-dl

temp_filepath = 'temp/%s-%s.%s' % (uuid.uuid4(), output_file, '%(ext)s')

    ydl_opts = {
    'verbose': True,
    'format': 'bestaudio/best', # choice of quality
    'outtmpl': temp_filepath,  # name the location
    'noplaylist' : True,        # only download single song, not playlist
    'postprocessors': [{
      'key': 'FFmpegExtractAudio',
      'preferredcodec': 'mp3',
      }],
     }

And here is the error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/www/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rq/worker.py", line 557, in perform_job
    rv = job.perform()
  File "/home/www/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rq/job.py", line 492, in perform
    self._result = self.func(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/home/www/yout/worker.py", line 100, in extract_audio
    extraction_result = start_extraction(url, audio_filename)
  File "/home/www/yout/worker.py", line 132, in start_extraction
    result = ydl.download([url])
  File "/home/www/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1446, in download
    res = self.extract_info(url)
  File "/home/www/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 662, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/home/www/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 708, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "/home/www/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1150, in process_video_result
    self.process_info(new_info)
  File "/home/www/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1429, in process_info
    self.post_process(filename, info_dict)
  File "/home/www/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1495, in post_process
    self.report_error(e.msg)
  File "/home/www/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 529, in report_error
    self.trouble(error_message, tb)
  File "/home/www/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 499, in trouble
    raise DownloadError(message, exc_info)
DownloadError: ERROR: ffprobe or avprobe not found. Please install one.

Any help would be appreciated

[jaimeMF]

Can you run ffprobe or avprobe? (that's why it's failing)

Side note: don't run youtube-dl as the root user, we try to make it as safe as possible but you should avoid running programs as root if possible.

[nadermx]

I will change the user after I get it working.

I believe I can run ffprobe and avprobe

root@www:/home/www/yout# ffprobe
ffprobe version 2.6.3 Copyright (c) 2007-2015 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 4.8 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1)

root@www:/home/www/yout# avprobe
avprobe version 9.18-6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+fdkaac, Copyright (c) 2007-2014 the Libav developers
  built on Apr 10 2015 23:18:58 with gcc 4.8 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1)
Simple multimedia streams analyzer

[jaimeMF]

Post the full output you get when running youtube-dl --verbose --extract-audio SOME_URL using the same user as your python code.

[nadermx]

this is bizzar when I run that it gives me this..

(env)root@www:/home/www/yout# youtube-dl --verbose --extract-audio 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEVUFKfpp5Y'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'--extract-audio', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEVUFKfpp5Y']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.04.09
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.13.0-52-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] exe versions: avconv 9.18-6, avprobe 9.18-6, ffmpeg 2.6.3, ffprobe 2.6.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] PEVUFKfpp5Y: Downloading webpage
[youtube] PEVUFKfpp5Y: Extracting video information
[youtube] PEVUFKfpp5Y: Downloading DASH manifest
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://r13---sn-aiglln76.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id=3c455414a7e9a796&itag=141&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mm=31&mn=sn-aiglln76&mv=m&ms=au&pl=48&nh=IgpwcjAzLmxocjE0KgkxMjcuMC4wLjE&ratebypass=yes&mime=audio/mp4&gir=yes&clen=3650358&lmt=1384815776052266&dur=114.474&fexp=901803,9406617,9407992,9408092,9408142,9408420,9408697,9408710,9409203,9413140,9413503,9414936,9415160,9415304,9415663,9415752,962731&mt=1433412898&signature=266ECED52115968C4E295BFFB03A30A4C64B1498.08626664DE30B666A5F8BC0121424F85C70C0929&sver=3&upn=rkYBKqv-OyQ&key=dg_yt0&ip=2a03:b0c0:1:d0::3ea:5001&ipbits=0&expire=1433434627&sparams=ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source,requiressl,mm,mn,mv,ms,pl,nh,ratebypass,mime,gir,clen,lmt,dur'
[download] Destination: 9 months old twins dancing and trying to get the music back-PEVUFKfpp5Y.m4a
[download] 100% of 3.48MiB in 00:00
[ffmpeg] Correcting container in "9 months old twins dancing and trying to get the music back-PEVUFKfpp5Y.m4a"
WARNING: Your copy of avconv is outdated, update avconv to version 10-0 or newer if you encounter any errors.
[debug] ffmpeg command line: avconv -y -i '9 months old twins dancing and trying to get the music back-PEVUFKfpp5Y.m4a' -c copy -f mp4 '9 months old twins dancing and trying to get the music back-PEVUFKfpp5Y.temp.m4a'
[debug] avconv command line: avprobe -show_streams '9 months old twins dancing and trying to get the music back-PEVUFKfpp5Y.m4a'
[youtube] Post-process file 9 months old twins dancing and trying to get the music back-PEVUFKfpp5Y.m4a exists, skipping

[jaimeMF]

Post the output you get when running this python script (which I guess is similar to what you are using):

from youtube_dl import YoutubeDL
ydl_opts = {
    'verbose': True,
    'format': 'bestaudio/best', # choice of quality
    'outtmpl': 'example.%(ext)s',  # name the location
    'noplaylist' : True,        # only download single song, not playlist
    'postprocessors': [{
        'key': 'FFmpegExtractAudio',
        'preferredcodec': 'mp3',
    }],
}
ydl = YoutubeDL(ydl_opts)

ydl.download(['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEVUFKfpp5Y'])

If that works but you script still fails, post the code you are running and its output so that we can try to reproduce it.

[nadermx]

Ok, figured it out. It was working fine when it was not in supervisor. Once I put the app under supervisor the issue started. Didn't click until just now.

In the supervisor config file I had to add the location of ffprobe in ontop of the virtual env directory as seen below.

environment=PATH="/home/www/env/bin:/usr/bin"

Thank you so much for your help!