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Copying ffmpeg to C:\Windows\System32 doesn't seem to be the correct way to install it.
> Download ffmpeg (the download file name is: ffmpeg-master-latest-win64-gpl-shared.zip), extract all files in bin directory(excluding the bin directory itself) to C:\Windows\System32 (or other directories located in PATH) Copying ffmpeg to C:\Windows\System32 doesn't seem to be the correct way to install it.
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Is there anyone here that has used it for an extended period of time? Would be interested to see if it’s actually helpful.
I used to use Google Desktop back when it existed for its viewed web page search feature mostly. It was pretty handy.
> Download ffmpeg (the download file name is: ffmpeg-master-latest-win64-gpl-shared.zip), extract all files in bin directory(excluding the bin directory itself) to C:\Windows\System32 (or other directories located in PATH) Copying ffmpeg to C:\Windows\System32 doesn't seem to be the correct way to install it.
I hope this becomes hardware feature soon on laptops -- where we dont need to sacrifice the main CPU/memory/storage to have this functionality.
Whoa, very cool project, I would be keen to try it out if it worked on Linux.
> Download ffmpeg (the download file name is: ffmpeg-master-latest-win64-gpl-shared.zip), extract all files in bin directory(excluding the bin directory itself) to C:\Windows\System32 (or other directories located in PATH) Copying ffmpeg to C:\Windows\System32 doesn't seem to be the correct way to install it.
Yeah just add the bin directory to the %path%. A lot of things have installed it to their own directory in appdata or program files.
This is the windows way. In the early days (Windows 95/98) it was indeed common practice to put shared dlls and exes in C:\Windows or C:\Windows\System32, but without central oversight this was a nightmare: version conflicts were rampant, and uninstallers didn't know what could be safely removed. Everyone switched to installing everything into the program's install dir, and the world was much better off.
Some poweruser tooling gets fancy by checking if ffmpeg is installed systemwide, and if not downloads it to the programs appdata folder. But that exposes you to versioning issues if that version is too old or too new