Right-click on the folder which you renamed to FFmpeg and select copy.Now, open This PC on your computer and open Local Disk C or your default Windows installation.In here, right-click in an empty area and select Paste which will copy the FFmpeg folder in the Windows Drive.This step is important as if the FFmpeg are not placed in this exact location, Command Prompt will not be able to successfully run the FFmpeg commands. The next step required for the installation process is to enable FFmpeg in Command Prompt via Advanced System Settings.To do this, first, open This PC on your computer and open Properties from the option in the upper left corner of your screen.
In here, click on Advanced System Settings from the left side panel on your screen.Once you are inside the Advanced System Settings, click on the Environment Variables option under the Advanced.Now, double-click on Path under the Variable (User variables section) column which will allow you to Edit Environment Variable path of your PC.After that, click on New and type C:\FFmpeg\bin and click on OK to save your changes.On Windows 7 and Windows 8, you will need to add “ ” semicolon at the end of the directory path.Here is how it will look after you make changes.That’s it, close the environment variable windows and you are ready to use FFmpeg.
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The above steps that you just performed were meant to add the FFmpeg files to your system path which your Windows 10 can use to locate the FFmpeg executable when you invoke it via command prompt. Now you have to check whether the whole installation process was successful or not.