No such file or directory: 'ffprobe'

[manu2504]

Hello, and thanks for this project, which sounds really helpful. Except that I've to fix several errors to make it work. Latest error was:

warn("Couldn't find ffprobe or avprobe - defaulting to ffprobe, but may not work", RuntimeWarning)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/manu/sw-projects/transcribe.py", line 3, in <module>
    text_output_dir, metadata_output_dir = vid2cleantxt.transcribe.transcribe_dir(
  File "/Users/manu/sw-projects/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/vid2cleantxt/transcribe.py", line 663, in transcribe_dir
    transcribe_video_whisper(
  File "/Users/manu/sw-projects/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/vid2cleantxt/transcribe.py", line 263, in transcribe_video_whisper
    chunk_directory = prep_transc_pydub(
  File "/Users/manu/sw-projects/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/vid2cleantxt/audio2text_functions.py", line 116, in prep_transc_pydub
    vid_audio = AudioSegment.from_file(load_path)
  File "/Users/manu/sw-projects/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pydub/audio_segment.py", line 728, in from_file
    info = mediainfo_json(orig_file, read_ahead_limit=read_ahead_limit)
  File "/Users/manu/sw-projects/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pydub/utils.py", line 274, in mediainfo_json
    res = Popen(command, stdin=stdin_parameter, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 971, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 1847, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'ffprobe'

Does someone know how to fix that?

[pszemraj]

Hi! Thanks for reaching out. Do you have ffmpeg installed on your system? There may be an issue with the install because ffprobe is from that.

Try running ffmpeg --help in your console. If that gives you issues, i would recommend (re)installing as recommended on their site https://ffmpeg.org/

[manu2504]

ffmpeg wasn't installed globally on my system (which ffmpeg), but it was installed locally in my venv (pip install ffmpeg: already installed). I installed it with homebrew (brew install ffmpeg) and it worked. Thanks.

[pszemraj]

Glad to hear! ffmpeg can be tricky, I've been in similar situations