FFmpeg Windows Help Many sites provide guides for building FFmpeg on Windows and releases of Win32 FFmpeg binaries. They are all very good. This site is not meant to replace them. But even with such great guides, many people still do everything wrong, or only one tiny little thing, and then they go to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list asking for help. Since they'll be asking questions that might have already been solved, they will not be greeted in a friendly manner. This site is meant to provide an exhaustive guide that leaves no room for errors on building FFmpeg on Windows. FFmpeg on Windows Wiki This wiki provides guides for building FFmpeg statically, building FFmpeg dlls, using FFmpeg dlls in your programs, building FFplay and some more stuff... FFmpeg Windows Help Forum This forum provides a flame-free place for discussing FFmpeg on Windows. FFmpeg Win32 Unofficial Builds Here you'll find Win32 MinGW builds of FFmpeg SVN (with FFplay). Both static and shared. Both in .tar.bz2 and .zip format. The shared packages contain the libs needed to use with MSVC++. FFmpeg Windows Links This site provides links to other sites about FFmpeg for Windows. These include guides for building, guides for using (also with other languages, such as C#), binary releases, etc.