Yt-dlg only downloads youtube videos as .webm files, or before reinstalling yt-dlg, as .m4a files, even when choosing the .mp3 file type option

[IoanPaleru]

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Bug report

If the problem occurs when downloading a URL please provide the full verbose output as follows:

1. Restart yt-dlg
2. Go to Options > Extra tab
3. Enable Debug youtube-dl
4. Go to Options > Advanced tab and Clear your log content
5. Try to download the URL
6. Copy the whole log content and insert it between the ``` part below

2024-11-16 13:43:13,442-DEBUG-Worker_1-[debug] Command-line config: ['--newline', '-i', '-o', 'C:\\Users\\User\\Downloads\\%(title)s.%(ext)s', '-x', '--audio-format', 'mp3', '-v', '--ignore-config', '--hls-prefer-native', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_XLOBDo_Y']
2024-11-16 13:43:13,442-DEBUG-Worker_1-[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out cp1252 (No VT), error cp1252 (No VT), screen cp1252 (No VT)
2024-11-16 13:43:13,442-DEBUG-Worker_1-[debug] yt-dlp version [email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp [197d0b03b] (win_exe)
2024-11-16 13:43:13,442-DEBUG-Worker_1-[debug] Python 3.10.11 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1t  7 Feb 2023)
2024-11-16 13:43:13,446-DEBUG-Worker_1-[debug] exe versions: none
2024-11-16 13:43:13,446-DEBUG-Worker_1-[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.21.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2024.08.30, curl_cffi-0.5.10, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.3, sqlite3-3.40.1, urllib3-2.2.3, websockets-13.1
2024-11-16 13:43:13,446-DEBUG-Worker_1-[debug] Proxy map: {}
2024-11-16 13:43:13,446-DEBUG-Worker_1-[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets, curl_cffi
2024-11-16 13:43:13,446-DEBUG-Worker_1-[debug] Loaded 1838 extractors
2024-11-16 13:43:13,446-DEBUG-Worker_1-[debug] [youtube] Extracting signature function js_0ccfa671_105
2024-11-16 13:43:13,446-DEBUG-Worker_1-[debug] Loading youtube-sigfuncs.js_0ccfa671_105 from cache
2024-11-16 13:43:13,446-DEBUG-Worker_1-[debug] Loading youtube-nsig.0ccfa671 from cache
2024-11-16 13:43:13,450-DEBUG-Worker_1-[debug] [youtube] Decrypted nsig GTO-geSm1hOzEnC => eEhmXkOtdDvleQ
2024-11-16 13:43:13,450-DEBUG-Worker_1-[debug] Loading youtube-nsig.0ccfa671 from cache
2024-11-16 13:43:13,450-DEBUG-Worker_1-[debug] [youtube] Decrypted nsig tKa9PgVlhXzbNzm => d95wDJY6E6exdw
2024-11-16 13:43:13,450-DEBUG-Worker_1-[debug] Sort order given by extractor: quality, res, fps, hdr:12, source, vcodec, channels, acodec, lang, proto
2024-11-16 13:43:13,450-DEBUG-Worker_1-[debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, quality, res, fps, hdr:12(7), source, vcodec, channels, acodec, lang, proto, size, br, asr, vext, aext, hasaud, id
2024-11-16 13:43:13,450-DEBUG-Worker_1-[debug] Invoking http downloader on "https://rr4---sn-gvbxgn-tvf6.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1731804190&ei=vuc4Z8fuKcGkir4PxO6JmAw&ip=2607%3Afea8%3Ae366%3A1000%3Ae850%3Abc8e%3A8a90%3A2fb3&id=o-ALMJTlxyDvfhZJeBn5-aW6P-fDxbvIvnlzwAv_-i-fxX&itag=251&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D&met=1731782590%2C&mh=yF&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-gvbxgn-tvf6%2Csn-gvbxgn-tt1ee&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=4&pl=41&rms=au%2Cau&gcr=ca&initcwndbps=1748750&spc=qtApAahtpOqU8raQ85Ob7-njmorWRFCi_PWE2qiGd09ikUc&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=audio%2Fwebm&rqh=1&gir=yes&clen=4934666&dur=295.861&lmt=1700456040073261&mt=1731782244&fvip=4&keepalive=yes&fexp=51299154%2C51312688%2C51326932&c=IOS&txp=4532434&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Cgcr%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Crqh%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AJfQdSswRQIhANWNH5eu6D-wx9zooHU2VPt06WQVfZ48eOLjKFt8NUaaAiBvXsXtowj3ohu6feSYIkrfLzxoo34DAJDCzDk1zXT3Bw%3D%3D&lsparams=met%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Crms%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AGluJ3MwRQIhAO869JY1Td5Q9peNbrX_d1pbRLcBDJ8Eh6w0LUOf-5k2AiA0zBH55u0GpHprTcqXWcCYQjF8vJQqMmDN6EjpkgvdLQ%3D%3D"
2024-11-16 13:43:13,450-DEBUG-Worker_1-[debug] File locking is not supported. Proceeding without locking
2024-11-16 13:43:13,450-DEBUG-Worker_1-ERROR: ffprobe and ffmpeg not found. Please install or provide the path using --ffmpeg-location
2024-11-16 13:43:13,450-DEBUG-Worker_1-Traceback (most recent call last):
2024-11-16 13:43:13,450-DEBUG-Worker_1-  File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 3701, in run_pp
2024-11-16 13:43:13,450-DEBUG-Worker_1-  File "yt_dlp\postprocessor\common.py", line 23, in run
2024-11-16 13:43:13,454-DEBUG-Worker_1-  File "yt_dlp\postprocessor\common.py", line 128, in wrapper
2024-11-16 13:43:13,454-DEBUG-Worker_1-  File "yt_dlp\postprocessor\ffmpeg.py", line 494, in run
2024-11-16 13:43:13,454-DEBUG-Worker_1-  File "yt_dlp\postprocessor\ffmpeg.py", line 242, in get_audio_codec
2024-11-16 13:43:13,454-DEBUG-Worker_1-yt_dlp.utils.PostProcessingError: ffprobe and ffmpeg not found. Please install or provide the path using --ffmpeg-location
2024-11-16 13:43:13,454-DEBUG-Worker_1-Child process exited with non-zero code: 1

What operating system do you use ?

Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 22H2 19045.5131

List of actions to perform to reproduce the problem:

1. Open yt-dlg.exe.
2. Add a URL to download an .mp3 file from a youtube video.
3. Close yt-dlg.exe.

What is the expected behaviour ?

Yt-dlg should download a youtube URL as an .mp3 file if that's the selected download file type, and save it to the computer.

What happens instead ?

Yt-dlg downloads and saves a youtube URL as a .webm file, or as .m4a files if I put "--audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 128 -f 'bestaudio[asr=44100]'" in the options, extra settings, even though I selected .mp3 files as the download file type.

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Feature request (request for a new functionality)

Please make sure that the requested feature is NOT already in the TODO list

• I've verified and i assure that my requested feature is NOT in the TODO list

What operating system do you use ?

Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 22H2 19045.5131

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Yt-dlg one one of my computers works properly, and downloads files in the correct selected file type, however on another computer, it doesn't download youtube URLs as .mp3 files when that's the selected file type. It only saves them as .webm files, or as .m4a files if I put "--audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 128 -f 'bestaudio[asr=44100]'" in the options, extra settings, even after using the update option. Also, the file status says "error" after downloading the file. I'm using yt-dlg 1.8.5, installed in the default installation directory, and have already selected the update option, and chosen the download file type as .mp3 files. I've already tried reinstalling yt-dlg, but it has the same issue. How do I get it to download .mp3 files, especially with custom audio settings? Is there a way to fix that?

[EdisAganovic]

"ffprobe and ffmpeg not found."

https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html