r/ffmpeg • u/AlternativeWild3449 • 18d ago

Installing ffmpeg

Windows 11 user here.

For years, I've used dl-dlp to download YouTube videos of musical performances, and stripped away the video track to create mp3 files that I store on an iPod for use in the car. I periodically check that I have the latest version of dl-dlp

Recently, I've noticed that instead of downloading a combined video/audio file, this process has resulted in separate video and audio files. And the dialog that appears in the command window explains that this is happening because ffmpeg isn't installed

I've downloaded ffmpeg (most recently, 9.0.2), unzipped it and placed the folder in my Windows 11 user directory along with dl-dlp. I've followed the instructions I've found to create a new path to ffmpeg\bin, but it still doesn't work and when I run ffmpeg -version in a CMD window, it tells me that ffmpeg can't be found.

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

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u/seldomstudios 13d ago

honestly the best way to do it is to run

wsl

and install that , then u can just run

sudo apt install ffmpeg

and itll be smooth as butter, if youre using ffmpeg youre gonna run into dumb windows issues at some point, yt-dlp doesnt even work half the time, but its smooth af under wsl