[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Microsoft store

[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Microsoft store

[Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel]

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Hello everyone

We have been contacted by Microsoft.

Whats your oppinion about putting one or both the current community builds, that we link
to, on the Microsoft store?

thx

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Rewriting code that is poorly written but fully understood is good.
Rewriting code that one doesnt understand is a sign that one is less smart
than the original author, trying to rewrite it will not make it better.

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[FFmpeg-devel] Re: [RFC] Microsoft store

[James Almer via ffmpeg-devel]

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On 11/11/2025 8:15 PM, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> Hello everyone
> 
> We have been contacted by Microsoft.
> 
> Whats your oppinion about putting one or both the current community builds, that we link
> to, on the Microsoft store?

Do they serve applications that only run on the command line? Because 
they surely are not talking about the libraries on their own, knowing 
their store is not a package manager.

> 
> thx
> 
> 
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[FFmpeg-devel] Re: [RFC] Microsoft store

[Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel]

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Hi James

On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 08:19:25PM -0300, James Almer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> On 11/11/2025 8:15 PM, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> > Hello everyone
> > 
> > We have been contacted by Microsoft.
> > 
> > Whats your oppinion about putting one or both the current community builds, that we link
> > to, on the Microsoft store?
> 
> Do they serve applications that only run on the command line? Because they
> surely are not talking about the libraries on their own, knowing their store
> is not a package manager.

They build a prototype page for us even. And that shows screenshoots
of ffmpeg command line commands

thx

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do not grow wealth, 10 years later, almost the same people who where wealthy
will be wealthy again, the same people who where poor will be poor again.

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[FFmpeg-devel] Re: [RFC] Microsoft store

[Christopher Degawa via ffmpeg-devel]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel <
ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote:

> Hi James
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 08:19:25PM -0300, James Almer via ffmpeg-devel
> wrote:
>
> > Do they serve applications that only run on the command line? Because
> they
> > surely are not talking about the libraries on their own, knowing their
> store
> > is not a package manager.
>
> They build a prototype page for us even. And that shows screenshoots
> of ffmpeg command line commands


I believe there is a precedent with Python and even Linux distributions
running under WSL, such as Ubuntu. As far as I recall, they install them
under "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WindowsApps" and prepend PATH with the
location. I recall seeing many online issues regarding running python.exe,
since Microsoft stubbed the binary there that just pulled up the Microsoft
Store page for python.
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[FFmpeg-devel] Re: [RFC] Microsoft store

[Gyan Doshi via ffmpeg-devel]

On 2025-11-12 04:45 am, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> We have been contacted by Microsoft.
>
> Whats your oppinion about putting one or both the current community builds, that we link
> to, on the Microsoft store?

My builds are already available through their winget package manager but 
the maintenance work is carried out by a volunteer. I have no objection 
for my builds on MS Store, if they can use the winget packages.

Regards,
Gyan

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[FFmpeg-devel] Re: [RFC] Microsoft store

[compn via ffmpeg-devel]

On 2025-11-11 15:15, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:

> Hello everyone
> 
> We have been contacted by Microsoft.
> 
> Whats your oppinion about putting one or both the current community 
> builds, that we link
> to, on the Microsoft store?

its better for people to get ffmpeg direct from microsoft than some 
random ffmpeg-crypto-spyware website when they use a search engine and 
ffmpeg.org is not the first link. since google and bing allow ads and 
not everyone runs ad-blockers.

agree.

-compn
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