Enabling FFmpeg in the Command Line
Click the Start button and right-click on Computer. Select Properties
from the right-click menu. In the System window, click on the
“Advanced system settings” link in the left frame.
Click the Environmental Variables button in the System Properties
window. It will be located at the bottom of the window.
Select the PATH entry in the "User variables" section. This is located
in the first frame in the Environmental Variables window. Click the
Edit button. In the “Variable value” field, enter ;c:\ffmpeg\bin after
anything that's already written there. If you copied it to a different
drive, change the drive letter. Click OK to save your changes. If
anything is entered incorrectly in this screen, it could cause Windows
to be unable to boot properly. If there is no PATH entry in the "User
variables" setting, click the New button and create one. Enter PATH
for the variable name. This method will enable FFmpeg for the current
user. Other Windows users will not be able to run it from the command
line. To enable it for everyone, enter ;c:\ffmpeg\bin in the PATH
entry in "System variables". Be very careful not to delete anything
that is already in this variable.
Open the command prompt. Enter the command “ffmpeg –version”. If the
command prompt returns the version information for FFmpeg, then the
installation was successful, and FFmpeg can be accessed from any
folder in the command prompt.
If you receive a “libstdc++ -6 is
missing” error, you may need to install the Microsoft Visual C++
Redistributable Package, which is available for free from Microsoft.