From 4aa16a50f57a566f4ead63db261c194af2034a96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Jaime=20Marqui=CC=81nez=20Ferra=CC=81ndiz?= Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 21:22:08 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Log a better error message if ffprobe or avconv are not found (related #1134) --- youtube_dl/PostProcessor.py | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/youtube_dl/PostProcessor.py b/youtube_dl/PostProcessor.py index 4f0a165ba..fddf58606 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/PostProcessor.py +++ b/youtube_dl/PostProcessor.py @@ -100,7 +100,8 @@ class FFmpegExtractAudioPP(FFmpegPostProcessor): self._nopostoverwrites = nopostoverwrites def get_audio_codec(self, path): - if not self._exes['ffprobe'] and not self._exes['avprobe']: return None + if not self._exes['ffprobe'] and not self._exes['avprobe']: + raise PostProcessingError(u'ffprobe or avprobe not found. Please install one.') try: cmd = [self._exes['avprobe'] or self._exes['ffprobe'], '-show_streams', encodeFilename(self._ffmpeg_filename_argument(path))] handle = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stderr=compat_subprocess_get_DEVNULL(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE)