Error: Containing "ffprobe exec error"
- If you frequently encounter errors containing "ffprobe exec error" characters during execution, it's highly probable that the video name is excessively long or the video's path is too deep. This is especially common with videos downloaded from YouTube, where names can easily reach hundreds of characters. Coupled with a deeply nested folder structure, you'll almost certainly hit Windows' path length limitations.
As shown in the image above, a deep folder hierarchy combined with a long video name will almost certainly result in an error when calling ffprobe
or ffmpeg
to execute commands.
The solution is simple: create an English folder directly under a drive (e.g., D:), rename the video to a simple name, and place it there (e.g., D:/myvideos/1.mp4
). Then try again; the error should be resolved.
- For non-Windows versions, check if ffmpeg is installed. If not, please install ffmpeg. For Windows versions, check if the ffmpeg folder contains
ffprobe.exe
. If not, please downloadffmpeg.exe
andffprobe.exe
and place them in that directory.