[Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'ffmpeg'

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Hi,
I’m trying to host a wav2vec2 fine-tuned model on huggingface with a custom pipeline following this template

However, when trying to test the model from the Hosted inference API, I got this error
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘ffmpeg’

I’m using these meta data on the model card

tags:

  • automatic-speech-recognition
    library_name: generic
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Hi! And welcome to the community.
Did you install FFMpeg in your environment?

e.g. pip install ffmpeg

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Hi and thanks for your reply.

I tried to add the ffmpeg to the requirements.txt file but still same error. Is there a way to specify system install not Python package as I believe ffmpeg needs to be installed to the OS hosting the inference API.

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Yes you are right. It’s been a while since I had this issue.

So, python ffmpeg-python package doesn’t install ffmpeg itself. You have to install it manually on your machine. Take a look here:
Download FFmpeg

Another solution, and the one I ultimately chose, is to install ffmpeg on a win machine using choco. One of these two solutions should solve the issue for you.

choco install ffmpeg

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Thanks. The issue is not in my machine I’m trying to host it to the HF repo. See the template above to get what I mean.