FFmpeg on Windows

[FileHandler]

Thanks for the detailed write-up, rbon, it's good to know about UCRT...

ditto +1

[freakazoid]

Useful article on the practicalities of (voice) audio processing, mainly using FFmpeg:

Most of us can get reasonably close to “professional” sounding recordings without much effort or money. In this post I’m going to break this down into two parts: recording and processing. My experience is that most of us eventually work out some recording techniques, but many fewer dive into processing. I’m going to show how one can use widely available command-line tools to process recordings, producing good quality mixes...

@ https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2024/recording_and_processing_spoken_word.html

Thanks Midas for this link. From someone that has dabbled a bit with audio, this was a nice read on how to optimize your recording and using ffmpeg to improve the audio quality.

[Midas]

Topic update: FFmpeg v7.1 released 2024-09-27 (release announcement at https://ffmpeg.org/#pr7.1; changelog https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.gi ... /Changelog).

The official Windows binaries repos are:

https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/
https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/releases

For stable non-free autobuilds the main source is still Animouse repo (last updated 2024-10-05):

https://github.com/AnimMouse/ffmpeg-stable-autobuild

Animouse's summary builds page is also an excellent resource to help decide on what version one should get:

https://www.animmouse.com/p/ffmpeg-binaries/

[Midas]

Here's an extra tidbit I was totally sleeping on -- integrated FFmpeg audio processing normalization capabilities, thanks to Mulder's media savvy:

Dynamic Audio Normalizer is available as an audio filter in FFmpeg, a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.

@ http://muldersoft.com/docs/dyauno_readme.html#ffmpeg-integration-usage