diff --git a/packages/playwright-core/src/server/registry/index.ts b/packages/playwright-core/src/server/registry/index.ts
index fad5db00e0..7a53860f96 100644
--- a/packages/playwright-core/src/server/registry/index.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright-core/src/server/registry/index.ts
@@ -762,6 +762,7 @@ export class Registry {
 
     const ffmpeg = descriptors.find(d => d.name === 'ffmpeg')!;
     const ffmpegExecutable = findExecutablePath(ffmpeg.dir, 'ffmpeg');
+    console.log(ffmpegExecutable)
     this._executables.push({
       type: 'tool',
       name: 'ffmpeg',
diff --git a/packages/playwright-core/src/server/registry/oopDownloadBrowserMain.ts b/packages/playwright-core/src/server/registry/oopDownloadBrowserMain.ts
index d764fe2d9f..1badbcb701 100644
--- a/packages/playwright-core/src/server/registry/oopDownloadBrowserMain.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright-core/src/server/registry/oopDownloadBrowserMain.ts
@@ -150,7 +150,13 @@ async function downloadAndExtractBrotli(options: DownloadParams) {
   await pipeline(
       response,
       createBrotliDecompress(),
-      tarFs.extract(options.browserDirectory)
+      tarFs.extract(options.browserDirectory, {
+        map(header: { name: string }) {
+          // manually-created ffmpeg archive has files nested in subdirectory
+          if (header.name.startsWith('ffmpeg-'))
+            header.name = header.name.substring(header.name.indexOf('/'));
+        }
+      })
   );
 
   if (downloadedBytes !== totalBytes)