Could not find ffprobe executable

I had this issue also, everything worked fine on windows… But when I ran on an azure ubuntu agent I got the error about not finding the ffprobe executable.

I also have @ffmpeg-installer/ffmpeg and fluent-mpeg installed and am ultimately chopping up some cypress videos with ffmpeg commands. I was using get-video-duration in this process.

Incidentally I got a similar message when trying to use ffprobe directly to get the video duration (some maybe the problem lies elsewhere):

var ffmpeg = require('fluent-ffmpeg');

ffmpeg.ffprobe('./input.mp4', function(err, metadata) {
    //console.dir(metadata); // all metadata
    console.log(metadata.format.duration);
});

Ultimately I got around the problem by using a different module, node-video-lib to get video durations and everything is working again (this doesnt use ffmpeg/ffprobe).

I dont know if this helps anybody.

I spent a lot of time trying to resolve it so would love to know what is actually going on here

I bumped get-video-duration down a version and things have been working file. currently running on 3.0.2