I am getting this “Error: FFmpeg/avconv not found!”

Question

I am trying to create a discord bot, however receive this error every time I try to run a youtube link.

Error: FFmpeg/avconv not found!
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Answer 1

Are you using this method? https://discord.js.org/#/docs/main/stable/class/VoiceConnection?scrollTo=play

As you didn't provide any code...

I had the same issue, that day i did two things, but i don't know which one was the fix.

• Actaullay download FFMPEG http://ffmpeg.org/download.html - put executable (ffmpeg.exe) in project directory EDIT: Don't download source code, download from Get packages & executable files for your OS
• Update node.js to newest version https://nodejs.org/en/

I'm not sure which one of the fixes it was. But now it also works without the file in directory, so I'm kinda confused

Also try requiring ffmpeg-binaries in the js file

Answer 2

try to run this npm i ffmpeg-static

Answer 3

I had a problem with playing stream in Discord.js even thought I installed ffmpeg binaries, so here's a possible fix, atleast in windows if ffmpeg can't be run alone in CMD, then I went to node_modules\prism-media\src\core\FFmpeg.js on line 115 and there is an array of each possible directory of what to use e.g ffmpeg, so I changed from

}, 'ffmpeg', 'avconv', './ffmpeg', './avconv'];

to

}, 'ffmpeg', 'avconv', './ffmpeg', 'C:/ffmpeg/ffmpeg', './avconv'];

and it worked fine for me :)