Update distl-whisper deps (#3568)

Author: aleksandr-mokrov

notebooks/distil-whisper-asr/distil-whisper-asr.ipynb

@@ -70,10 +70,19 @@
    },
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
-    "%pip install -q \"transformers==4.57.6\" \"torch==2.8\" \"onnx!=1.16.2\" --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu\n",
-    "%pip install -q \"git+https://github.com/huggingface/optimum-intel.git\"\n",
-    "%pip install -q \"openvino>=2025.1.0\" \"datasets<4.0.0\" \"gradio>=4.19,<6\" \"librosa\" \"soundfile\" \"torchcodec\"\n",
-    "%pip install -q \"nncf>=2.16.0\" \"jiwer\"\n",
+    "%pip install -q \"openvino>=2025.1.0\" \"nncf>=2.16.0\"\n",
+    "%pip install -q \"git+https://github.com/huggingface/optimum-intel.git\" \"transformers==4.57.6\" \"torch==2.8\" \"onnx!=1.16.2\" \"datasets<4.0.0\" \"jiwer\" \"gradio>=4.19,<6\" \"librosa\" \"soundfile\" \"torchcodec\" --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu\n",
+    "\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# transformers' ASR pipeline imports torchcodec whenever it is installed, but torchcodec needs\n",
+    "# system-wide \"full-shared\" FFmpeg libraries. If they are missing (typical on CI), importing it\n",
+    "# raises at runtime and breaks the pipeline. Probe it here and, if it can't load, remove it so the\n",
+    "# pipeline falls back to soundfile/librosa decoding.\n",
+    "try:\n",
+    "    import torchcodec  # noqa: F401\n",
+    "except Exception:\n",
+    "    %pip uninstall -q -y torchcodec\n",
+    "\n",
     "\n",
     "import requests\n",
     "from pathlib import Path\n",