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ffmpeg is installed but ytmdl can't find it.

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Windows 10 Python 3.8 ytmdl will start and attempt to search for a song then drops ==> ffmpeg is not installed. Please install it! It is likely something simple that I am just not seeing.

PS C:\users\user\appdata\local\packages\pythonsoftwarefoundation.python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\localcache\local-packages\python38\Scripts> pip show ffmpeg Name: ffmpeg Version: 1.4 Summary: ffmpeg python package url [https://github.com/jiashaokun/ffmpeg] Home-page: https://github.com/jiashaokun/ffmpeg Author: SkeyJIA Author-email: 363604236@qq.com License: MIT Licence Location: c:\users\user\appdata\local\packages\pythonsoftwarefoundation.python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\localcache\local-packages\python38\site-packages Requires: Required-by:

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Created 3 years ago
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Syndrome1986commented, Jun 19, 2020

If you need testing done let me know. I am happy to try it.

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manthanabccommented, Jul 3, 2020

error this is what shous if tried manuall install pip works but ffmpeg error

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