One of the gaps in my online course on Video Quality Metrics and my upcoming course on metrics at Streaming Media West was the ability to compute VMAF using FFmpeg on Wind. I’ll leave this post up for historical purposes, but the newer post is the one that you should use. To learn how to do this, check out the blog post Lesson of the Week: Computing VMAF with FFmpeg on Windows. Now the Zeranoe version does include VMAF support all you need to do is download the models and run the correct command strings. Note that FFmpeg is open source, so developers can use the FFmpeg source code for their own projects, as long as they provide the right attribution.Author’s note: When this post was written, the Zeranoe FFmpeg Windows download didn’t include VMAF, so you had to either download this version or compile your own. The available codecs can be listed using the ffmpeg -codecs command: The folder structure contains ffmpeg.exe in the bin folder, which can be executed from the command line and supports a variety of parameters, as revealed by ffmpeg -help: This FFmpeg build was configured with the following:ĭone! You are now ready to use FFmpeg on Windows. Download and unzip the static package from. While some Linux distributions (e.g., Ubuntu, Gentoo, Slackware, Arch Linux, OpenSuSE) include FFmpeg, Windows users have to install additional packages to setup FFmpeg: MinGW/MSYS or cygwin or a special version of the gcc compiler with related tools or MSVC.įor those who find compiling FFmpeg tedious can use FFmpeg builds. FFmpeg is a comprehensive-and for some the de facto standard-software library collection for video conversion on Linux and BSD platforms.

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