A command line window will appear as shown here. Go to Run, type cmd and press the Enter key. It is important to note that you should keep the folder name and drive the same to avoid any problems in executing commands to perform conversions. You can download a free zip extractor called 7-zip from here.Īfter extracting the files, select all of the files, create a folder in C drive named FFmpegTool and paste all the files in this folder as shown below. For this purpose, you should have a zip extractor installed. Once you have downloaded FFmpeg, you’ll have to extract the files from the.

Under the heading of ‘System Information’, you can easily find the name of the OS and the version being used (32-bit or 64-bit). To verify if your OS is 32-bit or 64-bit, click on the Start icon on the left side of your desktop then type Run in search bar and in run write the command of dxdiag and press the Enter key. The download option highlighted in green is for 32-bit Windows OS while the other option in red is for 64-bit Windows OS. Once you’ve done that locate the download option, as shown below. To download the tool, click here to go to the webpage. From the very first step of downloading the program to cropping an audio file, this tutorial aims to help you cover the basics, so that you can play around more later on.

Not everyone knows how to use it though and for that purpose, I’ve come up with this guide on how to use FFmpeg for Windows OS. It is available for Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems.

The good thing about this tool is that it is absolutely free to use. FFmpeg is a very powerful and great command line tool used for performing various conversion operations on audio and video files.

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