Message: FFmpegPath is null

[Trollheimer]

Hello world, please help me. I get the message: Version: 2,252 Reported Exception: An exception occured Message: FFmpegPath is null. Cannot convert. If you do not have ffmpeg, consider downloading it. Stacktrace: bei youtube_dl_gui.Convert.convertFile(String input, String output, Int32 convType) Source: youtube-dl-gui TargetSite: Boolean convertFile(System.String, System.String, Int32) Full report: System.Exception: FFmpegPath is null. Cannot convert. If you do not have ffmpeg, consider downloading it. bei youtube_dl_gui.Convert.convertFile(String input, String output, Int32 convType)

But in the general settings, I saved the ffmpeg directory.

My sttings.ini: [youtube-dl-gui] FirstTime=True [Downloads] downloadPath=F:\ separateDownloads=True SaveFormatQuality=True deleteYtdlOnClose=False useYtdlUpdater=True fileNameSchema=%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s fixReddit=True separateIntoWebsiteURL=True SaveSubtitles=False subtitlesLanguages=en CloseDownloaderAfterFinish=True UseProxy=False ProxyType=-1 ProxyIP= ProxyPort= SaveThumbnail=False SaveDescription=False SaveVideoInfo=False SaveAnnotations=False SubtitleFormat= DownloadLimit=0 RetryAttempts=10 DownloadLimitType=1 ForceIPv4=False ForceIPv6=False LimitDownloads=False EmbedSubtitles=False EmbedThumbnails=False VideoDownloadSound=True AudioDownloadAsVBR=False KeepOriginalFiles=False WriteMetadata=False SkipBatchTip=False AutomaticallyDownloadFromProtocol=True [Batch] SelectedType=-1 SelectedVideoQuality=0 SelectedVideoFormat=0 SelectedAudioQuality=0 SelectedAudioFormat=0 DownloadVideoSound=False DownloadAudioVBR=False SelectedAudioQualityVBR=0 CustomArguments= [Converts] detectFiletype=True clearOutput=False clearInput=False videoBitrate=7500 videoPreset=5 videoProfile=1 videoCRF=8 videoFastStart=False hideFFmpegCompile=False audioBitrate=256 videoUseBitrate=False videoUsePreset=False videoUseProfile=False videoUseCRF=True audioUseBitrate=True [Errors] detailedErrors=False logErrors=False suppressErrors=False [General] UseStaticYtdl=False ytdlPath= UseStaticFFmpeg=True ffmpegPath=F:\youtube\ffmpeg\bin CheckForUpdatesOnLaunch=False HoverOverURLTextBoxToPaste=True ClearURLOnDownload=False SaveCustomArgs=2 ClearClipboardOnDownload=False [Saved] downloadType=0 downloadArgs= formTrue0=False convertSaveVideoIndex=0 convertSaveAudioIndex=1 convertType=1 convertCustom= videoQuality=0 audioQuality=0 VideoFormat=0 AudioFormat=0 AudioVBRQuality=0 BatchFormX=-999999 BatchFormY=-999999 MainFormSize=268,360 SettingsFormSize=344,425 [Settings] extensionsName= extensionsShort= LanguageFile=

Thanks a lot for helping....

[lazka]

same here

[lazka]

Moving ffmpeg.exe to the same directory as youtube-dl-gui.exe fixes things (it still complains that it is NULL; but uses it anyway). It doesn't work if it's in a subdirectory for some reason

[Trollheimer]

Thanks very much! This is the solution!!!

[murrty]

I don't know if anyone still runs into this issue, but I fixed a lot of verification. It's probably easier to drop it into the same folder, but I can't replicate the error. If you still have this issue with the latest version (2.26), open a new issue.