installr (version 0.15.3)

install.FFmpeg: Downloads and installs FFmpeg for windows

Description

Allows the user to downloads the latest version of FFmpeg for Windows. IMPORTANT NOTE: The user (YOU) are responsible for unpacking the 7zip file into the relevant directory. All that this function does is to download the 7zip file and "run" it.

Usage

install.FFmpeg(page_with_download_url = "http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/",
  ...)

Arguments

page_with_download_url

the URL of the FFmpeg download page.

...

extra parameters to pass to install.URL

Details

FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec - the leading audio/video codec library. See the documentation for a complete feature list and the Changelog for recent changes. This function downloads current releases and NOT the Development Snapshots. This function is useful for saveVideo() in the {animation} package.

References

• FFmpeg homepage:http://FFmpeg.org/

Examples

install.FFmpeg() # installs the latest version of FFmpeg