From 76590bb04327e8972ad8b46197b227c4358ca05c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gabe Kangas <gabek@real-ity.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 22:02:05 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Validate explicitly provided ffmpeg path. Closes #490

---
 config/config.go | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/config/config.go b/config/config.go
index a65d15799..3229c1bb4 100644
--- a/config/config.go
+++ b/config/config.go
@@ -193,7 +193,11 @@ func (c *config) GetMaxNumberOfReferencedSegmentsInPlaylist() int {
 
 func (c *config) GetFFMpegPath() string {
 	if c.FFMpegPath != "" {
-		return c.FFMpegPath
+		if err := verifyFFMpegPath(c.FFMpegPath); err == nil {
+			return c.FFMpegPath
+		} else {
+			log.Errorln(c.FFMpegPath, "is an invalid path to ffmpeg.  Will try to use a copy in your path, if possible.")
+		}
 	}
 
 	// First look to see if ffmpeg is in the current working directory