How to install ffmpeg after downloading the zip file?

Hi Sailors,

How are you?

I haven’t tried installing FFMPEG on a Windows server, however, I found this guide on how to do it which seems to get the builds from the same site where you got it from:
Installing FFMPEG on Windows Server/

Looks like you don’t need to execute the file, but rather point to it with the environment variables.

In order to convert files to mp4 format you would need to have the appropriate codecs for audio and video, for example, aac and libx264. When you compile FFMPEG, you need to make sure these are enabled:

--enable-libfdk-aac
 --enable-libx264

The above libraries usually don’t come enabled by default, so you might need to add them to FFMPEG.

Regarding uploading videos over 5MB, you would need to increase file upload limit. You can either check php.ini settings for upload_max_filesize and post_max_size and increase the values accordingly, or you could also put the following into your .htaccess if your hosting allows for that:

php_value post_max_size 30M
php_value upload_max_filesize 30M

Hope it helps.

Best regards,
Alex

Thank you for your reply and info. The installation looks a bit technical. I have to think about it before committing.