ffprobe or avprobe not found. Please install one - youtube

Question

I want to add tags to mp3 converted by youtube-dl & ffmpeg:
youtube-dl -o
'/Output/qpgTC9MDx1o.mp3' qpgTC9MDx1o -f bestaudio --extract-audio --metadata-from-title "%(artist)s -
%(title)s" 2>&1
I have this error in the output result:
[youtube] qpgTC9MDx1o: Downloading webpage [youtube] qpgTC9MDx1o:
Extracting video information [youtube] qpgTC9MDx1o: Downloading js
player en_US-vfluGO3jj [youtube] qpgTC9MDx1o: Downloading DASH
manifest [download]
/var/www/vhosts/mp3-y.com/httpdocs/Mp3_Output/quick-mp3.com-JALAL-EL-HAMDAOUI-2007-ARRASSIATES-VOL2-F1P-9CDoxlQ.mp3
has already been downloaded [download] 100% of 13.43MiB WARNING:
qpgTC9MDx1o: writing DASH m4a. Only some players support this
container. Install ffmpeg or avconv to fix this automatically.
[fromtitle] parsed artist: Maroon 5 [fromtitle] parsed title: Animals
ERROR: ffprobe or avprobe not found. Please install one.

Answer 1

Make sure you have the latest version for youtube-dl:
sudo youtube-dl -U
After that you can solve this problem by installing the missing ffmpeg.
Ubuntu and debian:
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
macOS:
brew install ffmpeg
Windows:
choco install ffmpeg

Answer 2

brew install ffmpeg will install what you need and all the dependencies if you are on a Mac.

Answer 3

I know the user asked this for Linux, but I had this issue in Windows (10 64bits) and found little information, so this is how I solved it:
Download LIBAV, I used libav-11.3-win64.7z. Just copy "avprobe.exe" and all DLLs from "/win64/usr/bin" to where "youtube-dl.exe" is.
In case LIBAV does not help, try with FFMPEG, copying the contents of the "bin" folder to where "youtube-dl.exe" is. That did not help me, but others said it did, so it may worth a try.
Hope this helps someone having the issue in Windows.

Answer 4

On Windows, you can easily install ffmpeg via chocolatey
choco install ffmpeg

Answer 5

There is some confusion when using pip install in Windows. The instructions talk about a specific folder which has youtube-dl.exe. There is no such folder if you use pip install.
The solution is to:
Download one of the builds from https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/
Extract the zip contents
Place the contents of the bin folder (there are three exe files) in any folder which is a path in Windows. I personally use Ananconda, so I placed them in /Anaconda/Scripts, but you could place it in any folder and add that folder to the path.

Answer 6

Compiling the last answers into one:
If you're on Windows, use chocolatey:
choco install ffmpeg
If you are on Mac, use Brew:
brew install ffmpeg
If you are on a Debian Linux distribution, use apt:
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
And make sure Youtube-dl is updated:
youtube-dl -U

Answer 7

What worked for me (youtube-dl version 2018.03.03, ffprobe 0.5, no avprobe, 3.4.1-tessus, in Hi-Sierra/iMac) was:
brew install libav
(thanks to marciovsena's post on GitHub).
I saw elsewhere that libav might be deprecated in the future, but I'll worry about it when we get there.

Answer 8

You can install them by
sudo apt-get install -y libav-tools

Answer 9

Update your version of youtube-dl to the lastest as older version might not support.
pip install --upgrade youtube_dl
Install 'ffmpeg' and 'ffprobe' module
pip install ffmpeg
pip install ffprobe
If you face the same issue, then download ffmpeg builds and put all the .exe files to Script folder($path: "Python\Python38-32\Scripts") (Windows OS only)

Answer 10

This is so simple if on windows...
In the folder where you have youtube-dl.exe
goto https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/
download the ffmpeg-git-full.7z file
the download link is https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/ffmpeg-git-full.7z
Open that zip file and move the ffmpeg.exe file to the same folder where youtube-dl.exe is
Example "blahblah.7z / whatevertherootfolderis / bin / ffmpeg.exe"
youtube-dl.exe -x --audio-format mp3 -o %(title)s.%(ext)s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyPKRcBTsFQ

Answer 11

On a Mac, install ffmpeg by downloading it from:
https://ffmpeg.org/download.html
Under "Get packages & executable files/Static Builds for macOS 64-bit".
I downloaded ffmpeg and ffprobe.
After download, I extracted the binaries ffmpeg and ffprobe, copied them to my path and set permissions:
cp ffmpeg /usr/local/bin/
cp ffprobe /usr/local/bin/
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/ff*
With brew install ffmpeg on macOS 10.13 I got the following Error: ffmpeg: no bottle available! and I was also not able to build ffmpeg on my machine.

Answer 12

on MAC i tried to run brew install ffmpeg but it didn't work and got many errors, so i did this and it worked:
1- make sure you have the latest version of youtube-dl
pip install --upgrade youtube_dl
2- go to https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/ and download ffmpeg and ffprobe
3- run which youtube-dl on Terminal to get the path, where youtube-dl is installed.
you should get something like this : /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/bin/
4- copy the 2 file you downloaded ffmpeg and ffprobe to the bin folder of your path from step 3.
that's it. you shouldn't get this error again.

Answer 13

On WINDOWS
You can just install it by using winget. If you have Windows 11 or modern versions of Windows 10 winget comes preinstalled. so just use the below command.
winget install ffmpeg

Answer 14

Posting what i found recently, just so that it might be of help.
Once you have installed ffmpeg as stated by various answers here , use the below option to point to the location of ffmpeg .
in my case i've installed ffmpg in (on Windows PC) E:\ffmpeg\bin
Use underscore rather than hyphen, while invoking youtube-dl from Python, and use --ffmpeg-location if calling from command line
eg
ydl_opts = {
'ffmpeg_location' : 'E:\\ffmpeg\\bin\\ffmpeg.exe',
}

Answer 15

update your version of youtube-dl to the lastest as older version might not support palylists.
sudo youtube-dl -U if u installed via .deb
sudo pip install --upgrade youtube_dl via pip
use this to download the playlist as an MP3 file
youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 #url_to_playlist

Answer 16

This is an old question. But if you're using a virtualenv with python, place the contents of the downloaded libav bin folder in the Scriptsfolder of your virtualenv.