I started using yt-dlp a few days ago, so I'm new to the whole thing. I needed to download some videos from youtube, but have them split into chapters.
The command:
yt-dlp --split-chapters URL
seems to be doing the right thing. However, running exactly the same command works for some videos, but for some I get the following error:
ERROR: Postprocessing: ffmpeg not found. Please install or provide the path using --ffmpeg-location 'list' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
I have previously installed ffmpeg and added it to the PATH and it worked fine, and it doesn't make much sense to me that the command would work for certain URLs if ffmpeg wasn't there.
The video for which the error comes up is no different than the one for which the command works. They both have chapters.
Also, I don't really understand this last part of the error message
'list' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file
Does anyone have an idea what might be happening?
Please do let me know if there is something else I should share -- I'll edit the original post!
Thanks a lot!
I've tried running the command on different short (couple mins long) videos that included chapters (just so the download doesn't take a lot of time). It worked for numerous arbitrary videos I found on youtube. The video that I am actually interested in is ~40 min long (suppose that doesn't make any difference), but for this video (or others from this playlist) I run into the mentioned error. Here is the link to the video, if you want to try it out yourself.
