I need to recode some rips that I made from a DVD collection. I want to use a different set of options to make my rips smalled. I am not looking to distribute torrents or put my legal rips anywhere except on a USB flash drive. So, after searching the internet, I found out about FFDSHOW. sounded like the perfect solution for what I wanted to do. So, I found the download page on the main ffdshow website, and I downloaded a Windows "full build" file 7zip'd from the git hub site. I had absolutely no problem at all. the name pf the file is ffmpeg-2021-03-09-git-c35e456f54-full_build.7z.
I looked through the archive, and couldn't find ANY install.* or setup.* so I extracted the archive. I'm trying to read through the doc folder, but even though this "full build" was bui;t specifically for Windows, there is absolutely NOTHING about how to move the list of required files into the system or system32 directories. There is ABSOLUTELY nothing about setting up a "Programs" or "Program Files " subfolder or "Program Files(x86)" folder. There is absolutely NOTHING about putting all of the package together where a PATH could find the files correctly. This is a FULL BUILD package and there is nothing about putting the FULL BUILD package into the path! There is absolutely NOTHING even from a previous version of Windows 3.1/95/XT AT... NOTHING at all about placing FFMPEG onto any Windows environment so that the executables will be found. You talk about the options for the command line... but you don't mention putting ANY file where Windows can actually find the executable or any lib file or absolutely ANYTHING about placing FFMPEG on a windows system so that a windows user can get the tool to work. It would be normal to open cmd, do a CD to where your workfiles are, and then run FFMPEG from the commandline by typing "ffmpeg {optionlist}" but there is no COPYING. in your 7zip file. Can I get some hints on makimg Windows do some of the work that it was built to do out-of-the-box? some standard environment variables to use when executing? Something? Thank you for your help on trying to figure out how to copy/move the files from under "C:\Users\Barry\Downloads\ffmpeg-2021-03-09-git-c35e456f54-full_build to maybe "C:\Windows\System" or "C:\Windows\System32"? ok... was "ffmpeg-2021-03-09-git-c35e456f54-full_build" built for 32-bit or 64-bit? Probably 32-bit, but I don't even know from looking at anything yet inluded in the 7zip file. these are questions that i need answered before I csn even execute any of the 4 tools included in the build in the bin/ folder. -- Barry Smith c *in process* e bnsmith...@gmail.com w1 https://bit.ly/3drRKmL w2 http://bit.ly/l8QJup _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".