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cannot locate the ffmpeg #690

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qwgs opened this issue Feb 4, 2025 · 11 comments
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cannot locate the ffmpeg #690

qwgs opened this issue Feb 4, 2025 · 11 comments

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@qwgs
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qwgs commented Feb 4, 2025

config.json located successfully!
Valid version of Windows found.
You are running OF-DL version 1.8.0
Latest GitHub Release version: 1.8.0
auth.json located successfully!
rules.json located successfully!
The provided path ??C:/New folder/OFDLV1.8.0/ffmpeg.exe does not exist or is not accessible.
Cannot locate FFmpeg; please modify config.json with the correct path. Press any key to exit.

I tried looked at other peoples issue of this never found a solution.

@sim0n00ps
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Why do you have 2 ? At the beginning of the path, try removing those

@qwgs
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qwgs commented Feb 4, 2025

Why do you have 2 ? At the beginning of the path, try removing those

Image as you can see there is nothing beside it.

I did exactly like the video did nothing more nothing less.

@melithine
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If you have ffmpeg.exe in the same folder as OF DL.exe, you can just set the path to "" and it should autodetect it.

@qwgs
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qwgs commented Feb 4, 2025

If you have ffmpeg.exe in the same folder as OF DL.exe, you can just set the path to "" and it should autodetect it.

Tried that didn't work at all..

@melithine
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Can you screenshot where you placed ffmpeg.exe?

@qwgs
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qwgs commented Feb 4, 2025

Image

I'm not stupid please lol.

@melithine
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Do you have FFMPEG_PATH set in auth.json perhaps?

@qwgs
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qwgs commented Feb 4, 2025

Huh how do i do that, there's nothing indicating that!

@melithine
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You don't want to, it's legacy backwards compatibility, but something seems very strange here.

@qwgs
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qwgs commented Feb 6, 2025

yes agreed and i don't know what's the problem with it to be honest...

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qwgs commented Feb 6, 2025

it's not like I don't want to, it's more like I don't know how to lol

You don't want to, it's legacy backwards compatibility, but something seems very strange here.

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