Quickfix: Youtube DL: ffprobe or avprobe not found. Please install one

I’ve been using Youtube DL for a while now.

But lately when trying to download and convert a video, for example when trying to download a Youtube video and convert it to MP3, I got the following error:

ffprobe or avprobe not found. Please install one

Do you have the same problem? Don’t panic.. It’s fixed in no time.

Using chocolatey

I’m going to be using chocolatey for this tutorial. chocolatey is a cool and easy to use package manager that can be used in windows. It allows you to quickly install applications with the “choco” command.

Take a look on their official website if you want to install it.

The commands

First make sure you have the most recent version of youtube-dl installed

choco install youtube-dl

Next, install ffmpeg using chocolatey with the following command

choco install ffmpeg

And that’s it!