get-video-duration: Could not find ffprobe executable

I had this issue also, everything worked fine on windows… But when I ran on an azure ubuntu agent I got the error about not finding the ffprobe executable.

I also have @ffmpeg-installer/ffmpeg and fluent-mpeg installed and am ultimately chopping up some cypress videos with ffmpeg commands. I was using get-video-duration in this process.

Incidentally I got a similar message when trying to use ffprobe directly to get the video duration (some maybe the problem lies elsewhere):

var ffmpeg = require('fluent-ffmpeg');

ffmpeg.ffprobe('./input.mp4', function(err, metadata) {
    //console.dir(metadata); // all metadata
    console.log(metadata.format.duration);
});

Ultimately I got around the problem by using a different module, node-video-lib to get video durations and everything is working again (this doesnt use ffmpeg/ffprobe).

I dont know if this helps anybody.

I spent a lot of time trying to resolve it so would love to know what is actually going on here

I bumped get-video-duration down a version and things have been working file. currently running on 3.0.2

My bad, I thought I had published v4.1.0 to NPM already 😓

I just released it

it worked with the last update 👌

My bad, I thought I had published v4.1.0 to NPM already 😓

I just released it

hi @Sumolari is there any chance of publishing v4.1.0 on the npm registry?

Yes, @paintoshi 's method worked for me. In my case I was using this in a Next.js app. I’m also deploying my app with Docker so I just added the following line to my Dockerfile, and then it would move the binary (which I also installed separately from @ffprobe-installer) into the place where the next app looks for it.

RUN mkdir /app/node_modules/next/dist/node_modules
RUN mv /app/node_modules/@ffprobe-installer /app/node_modules/next/dist/node_modules