Support environment variables in `--ffmpeg-location`

Closes #4938
2 years ago · 5736d79172
parent fc2ba496fd
commit 5736d79172
1 changed files with 1 additions and 0 deletions
--- a/yt_dlp/init.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/init.py
@ -920,6 +920,7 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
    # We may need ffmpeg_location without having access to the YoutubeDL instance
    # See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/2191
    if opts.ffmpeg_location:
+        opts.ffmpeg_location = expand_path(opts.ffmpeg_location)
        FFmpegPostProcessor._ffmpeg_location.set(opts.ffmpeg_location)

    with YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl: