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How to run ffmpeg in macOS app

March 19, 2019 · 1 min · Khoa Pham

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Issue #178

Install ffmpeg, which installs ffprobe

brew install ffmpeg

Find location of installed ffmpeg

which ffmpeg

Add all executables to project

Get error

unable to obtain file audio codec with ffprobe

Run in verbose mode

ffmpeg -v

Get

[debug] Encodings: locale US-ASCII, fs utf-8, out None, pref US-ASCII [debug] Python version 2.7.10 (CPython) - Darwin-18.2.0-x86_64-i386-64bit [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg present, ffprobe present

Run version of ffprobe

ffprobe --version

Get dylb not found

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/4.1.1/lib/libavdevice.58.dylib

Similar issue https://techglimpse.com/ffprobe-command-error-linux-solution/ Read dylib path https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23777191/dyld-library-not-loaded-when-trying-to-run-fortran-executable-from-objective-c