ope: FFmpeg/avconv not found after upgrading from 2.6.0 to 2.7+

[robin840211]

What's happening? Firstly many thanks for this bot that it's a really great bot I'm currently using. But there's some problem that I can only use old version now, and not sure why. I'm first use this since 2.5.0, and even 2.6.0 works like a charm; but after tried updating from 2.6.0 to 2.7.1, FFMPEG_PATH broke with unknown reason, and revert to 2.6.0 works, detailed below.

Currently I have add extra environment variable in .env file to prevent Windows not find FFMPEG issue: FFMPEG_PATH=D:/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg.exe

And it works normally when in 2.6.0, but after upgrade to 2.7.1, then tried npm i and npm run start, all looks fine, but got response 🚫 ope: FFmpeg/avconv not found! in Discord channel when trying to play something, and seems no error appear in console (or will log appear in somewhere that I've not noticed?)

Since that, I've tried stuffs below, but all of them does not work:

• Use System (or User - the same result) Environment Variable in "System" -> "Related Settings" -> "Advanced system settings" -> "Environment Variables...", instead of .env file, but still the same error.

• Cleared whole git clone and re-clone again from git here; same error

• Cleared bot database and cache, then re-clone again also, to perform fresh run; same error

• Upgraded ffmpeg (7.0 in current release) as I guess it's too old issue; same error

  (note: upgrade ffmpeg will even worse when revert to muse 2.6.0, which will response 🚫 ope: Output format webm is not available or play a muted audio, but not an issue here, focus on muse versioning)

So I finally revert to muse 2.6.0 with ffmpeg 4.2.3, with .env's (or System/User Environment Variable's) FFMPEG_PATH, all works very well whether fresh or downgrade.

Can't figure out why cause this happen, but might be something broken in nodes lib or else...? I like this great bot project, just wanna know if can be solved or not. though won't affect if using old version. Many thanks.

Logs

npm run start

> muse@2.7.1 start
> npm run env:set-database-url -- tsx src/scripts/migrate-and-start.ts

> muse@2.7.1 env:set-database-url
> tsx src/scripts/run-with-database-url.ts tsx src/scripts/migrate-and-start.ts

(node:14500) ExperimentalWarning: `--experimental-loader` may be removed in the
future; instead use `register()`:
--import 'data:text/javascript,import { register } from "node:module"; import {
pathToFileURL } from "node:url"; register("file%3A///D%3A/GitProject/muse/node_m
odules/tsx/dist/loader.js", pathToFileURL("./"));'
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(node:15824) ExperimentalWarning: `--experimental-loader` may be removed in the
future; instead use `register()`:
--import 'data:text/javascript,import { register } from "node:module"; import {
pathToFileURL } from "node:url"; register("file%3A///D%3A/GitProject/muse/node_m
odules/tsx/dist/loader.js", pathToFileURL("./"));'
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
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Runtime I'm running Muse:

• [x] Directly from the cloned repository
• [ ] Inside a Docker container
• [ ] Something else (please elaborate)

Versions

• Muse: 2.6.0 -> 2.7.1
• Docker: None
• OS: Windows 8.1 x64
• Node.js: v20.11.1 (with npm@10.2.4)
• ffmpeg: 4.2.3-win64-static

[codetheweb]

Hmm, nothing changed around ffmpeg handling between versions (https://github.com/codetheweb/muse/compare/v2.6.0...v2.7.1) so I'm not sure what's going on.

It sounds like setting the FFMPEG_PATH variable should work with the most recent version though?

[robin840211]

Saw that handling part changes nothing also...

About FFMPEG_PATH, currently find that FFMPEG_PATH actually works in muse 2.7.1, which ffmpeg does actually called and appeared in task manager when called by user command, just can't play as error message shows. Did a small try using Process Explorer to copy-paste whole commands to directly run from ffmpeg, such like: D:/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg.exe -reconnect 1 -reconnect_streamed 1 -reconnect_delay_max 5 -to 241 -i https://the-really-long.video.url.here -acodec libopus -vn -f webm -filter:a volume=-6.04dB pipe:1 or D:/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg.exe -ss 5 -to 241 -i D:\GitProject\muse\data\cache\cache_name_with_long_number_and_alphabat -acodec libopus -vn -f webm -filter:a volume=1 pipe:1

All works fine in ffmpeg side, and the command from muse 2.6.0 / 2.7.1 passed to ffmpeg are the same, so... may it just the muse can't play the streams returned from ffmpeg with some reason, and cause it says FFmpeg/avconv not found...?

==Other tests==

• Tested even just 2.7.0, seems the issue still persist, though not sure what changed there.

• Based on the error message FFmpeg/avconv not found, I searched online for a while and found that the issue can be solved by installing ffmpeg-static with the command npm i ffmpeg-static (which installed 5.2.0 automatically on my side). After this, each play command will make node_modules' ffmpeg to be called with some params, then call FFMPEG_PATH's ffmpeg to do stuff. Although still haven't figured out why directly call from ffmpeg won't work in 2.7.1 without that, at least it seems to be working now...except some issue. This way will accumulates a large number of ffmpeg processes, which is under node_modules. Each new ffmpeg process is generated and remains after each song is played, until muse is terminated, or one of these ffmpeg processes is killed which also causes muse to crash.

These are what I found now, hope something can be helpful there.

[robin840211]

New update though nothing new, since my small server got php's CVE-2024 hacked these days so dropped old system...lol Updated to 2.8.1, issue persist with same result/situation even fresh install from git on new pc...might be nodejs issue or lib? Environments changed just OS from Win8.1 to Win10, nodejs also updated to 20.14.0 but results the same...

Might test in free weekends recently otz