Open a browser on your computer and head over to the FFmpeg website. Once you’re there, click on the Download button and download the Windows version of the tool to your computer. It’ll be downloaded as a ZIP archive on your computer. You need to extract the contents of the archive by right-clicking on it and selecting the Extract Here option. The decompressed folder will become available in the same directory. You’ll want to put the newly extracted FFmpeg folder into the root directory of your C drive. It’s because sometimes while cleaning up the Downloads folder, you may accidentally end-up deleting this program on your machine. When the folder is copied over to the root folder of the C drive, right-click on the folder, select Rename, and enter ffmpeg as the new name. It’ll make it easier for you to add its path for command-line usage.
The FFmpeg tool has been successfully installed on your Windows 10 computer. What you now need to do is add its path to a system utility so it can be used from your Command Prompt windows. If you don’t add the path, you’ll need to refer to the ffmpeg folder’s full path each time you want to use it from your Command Prompt or PowerShell windows. But once you’ve added the path, you then only need to enter the name of the utility, which is ffmpeg, and that should do the job for you.
It’s pretty easy to add paths on a Windows 10 computer. Launch the Cortana search box, search for Edit the system environment variables, and click on it when you see it in the search results. A dialog box will open with various options in it.
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