[Bug]: RuntimeWarning: Couldn't find ffmpeg or avconv - defaulting to ffmpeg, but may not work

[Morriz]

What happened?

In step 8 of the setup, when running fabric --help I get the following error:

RuntimeWarning: Couldn't find ffmpeg or avconv - defaulting to ffmpeg, but may not work

I am using python 3.12

Version check

• Yes I was.

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[ideologysec]

Do you have ffmpeg installed and in your $PATH...?

[danielmiessler]

Yes, just path issues.

[christrille]

Got this error on Mac:

• RuntimeWarning: Couldn't find ffmpeg or avconv - defaulting to ffmpeg, but may not work

I installed ffmpeg and it worked fine:

• brew install ffmpeg

[jasonagutierrez]

I'm running fabric in fresh install of WSL and I needed to

1. Install Python 3

• sudo apt update && sudo apt install python3 python3-pip

2. Add Python to my PATH

• edit your ~/.bashrc file and adding the following line: export PATH="$PATH:/usr/bin/python3"

3. Reset the terminal

• source ~/.bashrc

4. Install FFMPEG

• sudo apt install ffmpeg # version 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1

After these steps, I no longer received the error.