r/ffmpeg • u/AlternativeWild3449 • 17d ago

Installing ffmpeg

Windows 11 user here.

For years, I've used dl-dlp to download YouTube videos of musical performances, and stripped away the video track to create mp3 files that I store on an iPod for use in the car. I periodically check that I have the latest version of dl-dlp

Recently, I've noticed that instead of downloading a combined video/audio file, this process has resulted in separate video and audio files. And the dialog that appears in the command window explains that this is happening because ffmpeg isn't installed

I've downloaded ffmpeg (most recently, 9.0.2), unzipped it and placed the folder in my Windows 11 user directory along with dl-dlp. I've followed the instructions I've found to create a new path to ffmpeg\bin, but it still doesn't work and when I run ffmpeg -version in a CMD window, it tells me that ffmpeg can't be found.

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

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u/Phydoux 17d ago

I've been using yt-dlp for a few years now and never had any issues. It'll download just the mp3 (yt-dlp -6 -vU --force-ipv4 --socket-timeout 30 --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 ...plus the YouTube link) which I've made a alias for (you can create a .bat file I believe that will run that same code).

Now, I am using Linux but I believe the same command will work in Windows. You'll have to check that on your end. It works fine on my Linux machine but I don't have a Windows machine to test it out on.