ERROR: The specified file cannot be found

[Lohorunk]

cli args:

--backend wget --destdir C:\Users\user\Desktop\ --latestepisode --proxy 80.81.243.26:8800 -o plswork https://areena.yle.fi/1-50107839

full error:

ERROR: Failed to execute wget -O 'C:\Users\user\Desktop\plswork.mp4' --no-use-server-timestamps '--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0' --header 'X-Forwarded-For: 91.156.141.167' --timeout=20 --progress=bar --tries=5 --random-wait --show-progress --continue 'https://cdnsecakmi.kaltura.com/p/1955031/sp/195503100/playManifest/entryId/1_ctu8muwy/flavorId/1_62nr7rpf/format/url/protocol/https/a.mp4?uiConfId=43362851&referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9hcmVlbmEueWxlLmZpLzEtNTAxMDQzMjg=&playSessionId=11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111&clientTag=html5:v1.7.1'
ERROR: The specified file cannot be found

tried: changing backend to ffmpeg removing proxy (acsess denied error) admin cmd

OS: windows 10 20H2

[aajanki]

That error might mean that yle-dl can't run the wget application because it is not found on the search path. Install wget and try again. If you already have wget installed, you can tell yle-dl its location using the --wget command line switch.

[Lohorunk]

--backend wget --wget C:\Program Files(x86)\GnuWin32\bin --destdir C:\Users\user\Desktop\ --latestepisode --proxy 195.221.251.200:8080 -o plswork https://areena.yle.fi/1-50107839

doesent work

usage: yle-dl [-h] [-V] [--debug] [-q] [-c FILENAME] [-i FILENAME] [-o FILENAME] [--output-template TEMPLATE] [--pipe] [--destdir DIR] [--create-dirs] [--showurl | --showtitle | --showepisodepage | --showmetadata]
              [--vfat] [--no-resume] [--no-overwrite] [--ratelimit BR] [--proxy URI] [--postprocess CMD] [--sublang LANG] [--metadatalang LANG] [--latestepisode] [--maxbitrate RATE] [--resolution RES] [--startposition S]
              [--duration S] [--preferformat F] [--backend BE] [--ffmpeg PATH] [--ffprobe PATH] [--wget PATH]
              [url]

yle-dl 20220704: Download media files from Yle Areena and Elävä Arkisto
Copyright (C) 2009-2022 Antti Ajanki <antti.ajanki@iki.fi>, license: GPLv3

...

--ffmpeg C:\Users\user\Downloads\d\f\bin\ffmpeg.exe --destdir C:\Users\user\Desktop\ --latestepisode --proxy 195.221.251.200:8080 -o plswork https://areena.yle.fi/1-50107839

doesent work to

Output file: C:\Users\user\Desktop\plswork.mkv
ERROR: ffmpeg or ffprobe not found on PATH.
ERROR: Install ffmpeg, use "--ffmpeg" to set ffmpeg location or use "--backend wget"

tried so much more and nothing worked

[aajanki]

wget

The argument for the --wget switch should include the wget exe file (not just the directory). In addition, because the path contains a space, surround it with double quotes (or possibly single quotes? I'm not familiar with the Windows command line.). Also, should there be a white space betweeen "Files" and "(x86)"?

So something like this:

--wget "C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin\wget.exe"

ffmpeg

In addition to --ffmpeg, yle-dl might also need to know the location of ffprobe.exe specified by --ffprobe. I'm guessing that ffprobe.exe is located in the same folder as ffmpeg.exe.

Try including both of these:

--ffmpeg C:\Users\user\Downloads\d\f\bin\ffmpeg.exe --ffprobe C:\Users\user\Downloads\d\f\bin\ffprobe.exe

I will add a note that both --ffmpeg and --ffprobe are needed in the error message.

[Lohorunk]

Thanks with the help, started working using wget backend.

but therre is a minor issue: when destination file already existst for some reason it spits out

ERROR: ffmpeg or ffprobe not found on PATH.
ERROR: Install ffmpeg, use "--ffmpeg" to set ffmpeg location or use "--backend wget".

in the end of the error (backend set to wget)

[aajanki]

Good to hear that you got the wget backend working!

Thanks for notifying about the spurious ffmpeg error message. There was a bug that caused yle-dl to try to call ffprobe even if you had selected the wget backend. I fixed that so it should not print the error message anymore in the future.