ffmpeg not found.

[rrondo]

Hey! Could you help me to fix that? Some videos download fine, but the rest have this strange error:

• OS: Windows 10
• Application version 2.4.8
• Application type installed version

Thanks!

[StefanLobbenmeier]

It should download FFmpeg on its own after you start the application. You could try restarting the application to give it a chance to do that again.

But it might be that something changed that broke the download on the server side, I noticed on the original repo there are also 2 fresh bug reports:
jely2002#486
jely2002#487

[StefanLobbenmeier]

It looks like somehow the ffmpeg release page has an outdated certificate

I will have to ask them to renew it

[StefanLobbenmeier]

Hmm no its certainly related, but actually their certificate is up to date when I open https://ffbinaries.com/api/v1/version/latest in the browser:

[StefanLobbenmeier]

Found the fix, but using it takes more work.

The issue is that the electron (which is the ui framework used in this project) version used is quite old and it does not use the latest root certificates, so the certificate is not considered valid.

To fix this, I updated electron to the latest version, but upgrading electron also requires some migration to work, so I am not sure how much work this is.

[StefanLobbenmeier]

As a workaround for now, please download it manually from https://ffbinaries.com/downloads. We need both ffmpeg and ffprobe

Target folder:

• Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\youtube-dl-gui\resources\app.asar.unpacked\binaries
• macOS: /Applications/Open Video Downloader.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar.unpacked/binaries/
• Linux: (I am not sure honestly, but should be ~/.youtube-dl-gui, please correct me if I am wrong)

The folder should look like this:

[rrondo]

Thank you, Stefan! Putting those two files (ffmpeg and ffprobe) worked for me, problem solved.

[ENTPRESTIGIOUS]

I have this error having updated to 2.4.9

[StefanLobbenmeier]

You’re right, on MacOS the workaround is required after the update, other platforms should be fine.

[StefanLobbenmeier]

@ENTPRESTIGIOUS just did a hotfix in 2.4.10, can you try again in a few minutes?

[StefanLobbenmeier]

https://github.com/StefanLobbenmeier/youtube-dl-gui/releases/tag/v2.4.10

[victokurk]

@StefanLobbenmeier Thank you. Updating from 2.4.8 to 2.4.10 fixed this error for me.

[philoupd]

I have 2.5.4 installed on my MacBook Pro M3 pro and still have this issue also after replacing ffmpeg and ffprobe as described above. Am I missing something or am I doing something it wrong?

[StefanLobbenmeier]

@philoupd one thing that might cause this is that it currently downloads the x64 ffmpeg, so it requires Rosetta to be installed.