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Robin
Robin

Reputation: 66

"Error: FFMPEG not found": Error with simple Discord Bot

I'm using Windows (64-bit) with Node.js and npm installed. In my project file, I have run the following commands:

npm init
npm install discord.js --save
npm install ffmpeg --save

Now i just created the code for a basic bot here is the main code. I list here the important:

 if (message.content === '!play' && message.member.roles.has(message.guild.roles.find("name", config.role_name).id)) {
    if (!message.member.voiceChannel) return log("?");
       message.member.voiceChannel.join().then(function (connection){      
       });
 }

Then, in Discord, I say the following:

 [1517932146]  Musik bot loaded
    (node:35760) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection (rejection id: 2): Error: FFMPEG not found

I have already tested the following:

So if you have any ideas then let me know.

Solution

npm i [email protected]

link

Upvotes: 3

Views: 48975

Answers (2)

Sven
Sven

Reputation: 5265

You need to actually install ffmpeg, the ffmpeg module on NPM simply exports a wrapper API for ffmpeg's command-line interface.

You can download ffmpeg's binaries from the website or use a package manager (like apt on Ubuntu, brew on Mac or choco on Windows) which usually takes care of dropping the binaries into a directory that is present in the PATH.

To install on windows using choco. Please ensure you running cmd/windows powershell/ windows terminal as administrator or it will fail here ...

choco install ffmpeg

To install on linux

sudo apt install ffmpeg

Upvotes: 5

Aidan el Goste
Aidan el Goste

Reputation: 379

As far as I can see, you never actually installed ffmpeg. Using the ffmpeg node module won't get you anywhere unless you install the binaries.

You can also use apt, brew or in your case choco which makes things go alot faster. Here is a guide on how to do it in windows.

Once it is installed you will be able to use many node modules such as opusscript and much more.

Upvotes: 1

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