FFMPEG error

[kartikeybharadwaj]

Hi Guys,

So thing is my university has uploaded a bunch of videos on MS Streams. When I am trying to download any video lecture using destreamer, I am getting below error.

[FATAL ERROR] FFmpeg is missing!
Destreamer requires a fairly recent release of FFmpeg to download videos

PFA screenshot for refrence.

Regards

[lukaarma]

You need to download ffmpeg and place it on your path or in the Destreamer folder
You can look at the README for more info

[kartikeybharadwaj]

Took these steps :

1. download the static file on ffmped
2. upzip, rename the file name to ffmped, put it in the root file (destreamer/)
3. run export PATH=./ffmepg/bin/:$PATH in terminal

Still getting below error :

[FATAL ERROR] FFmpeg is missing!
Destreamer requires a fairly recent release of FFmpeg to download videos

PFA screenshot.

Regards

[lukaarma]

try with export PATH=$PATH:"./ffmepg/bin/" please

[lukaarma]

Was this solved @kartikeybharadwaj ?

[rohit404404]

i am facing same issue. even after copying ffmpeg to root folder and adding path variable , i still see ffmpeg is missing.

no idea whats wrong.

also, above export command fails with invalid semicolon error

[kartikeybharadwaj]

Was this solved @kartikeybharadwaj ?

Hey sorry for the late update. The issue is still not resolved.

Regards

[lukaarma]

Are you running on windows using git bash right?
Could you try to follow this guide or this one to add ffmpeg to your path and then try using powershell?

EDIT: If you are using bash you MUST have ffmpeg on you path because of a bug we have (see #146) but if you use powershell it's ok to have ffmpeg only in Destreamer root folder and it will work

[rohit404404]

I have finally got it working. I had taken BTBN copy of FFMpeg and seems that was issue. When I took it from GYAN. it worked.

However, PowerShell processed the 46 minutes file from stream and when it finally downloaded there was only 5MB file under videos and it did not play

[lukaarma]

@rohit404404 could you please try again and let me know if the issue comes up again

[rohit404404]

@lukaarma Ok, I was stupid. Documentation says video will be saved under /videos by default. Which i assumed will be system media Videos folder. I happen to check under root folder, just to be sure. and found another videos folder where file was successfully downloaded and i could play it as well.

Thank you very much!!

[lukaarma]

I'll make the docs clearer!
Happy to help :D

[lukaarma]

Are you running on windows using git bash right?
Could you try to follow this guide or this one to add ffmpeg to your path and then try using powershell?

EDIT: If you are using bash you MUST have ffmpeg on you path because of a bug we have (see #146) but if you use powershell it's ok to have ffmpeg only in Destreamer root folder and it will work

Did this help @kartikeybharadwaj?

Anyway this is duplicate of #146, so I'll close it. Move the discussion there if you need more help

[amnotabot]

@lukaarma Hi I'm new here thanks for the help.

I get different error , tried all suggested actions above, still get the same error, regardless of how I install ffmpeg and of the terminal I use

[FATAL ERROR] The FFmpeg version currently installed is too old!
Destreamer requires a fairly recent release of FFmpeg to download videos

Any ideas please?