[Libav-user] The newly released ffmpeg2.2 cannot work on Windows XP, can it?

[Jan Ehrhardt]

Carl Eugen Hoyos in gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.libav.user (Tue, 1 Apr 2014
10:18:40 +0000 (UTC)):
>In this case, the issue is known, either x265 or xp 
>have to be dropped, see:
>http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1889

The latest ffmpeg.exe and ffplay.exe from Zeranoe do not give me any
errors on XP SP3, fully patched.

ffmpeg version N-62039-gc00f368 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg
developers
  built on Apr  1 2014 23:38:04 with gcc 4.8.2 (GCC)
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-w32threads
--enable-avisynth --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r
--enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libbluray
--enable-libcaca --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgsm --enable-libilbc
--enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb
--enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus
--enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libsoxr
--enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame
--enable-libvidstab --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libvo-amrwbenc
--enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libx264
--enable-libx265 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-zlib
  libavutil      52. 71.100 / 52. 71.100
  libavcodec     55. 56.107 / 55. 56.107
  libavformat    55. 36.100 / 55. 36.100
  libavdevice    55. 11.100 / 55. 11.100
  libavfilter     4.  3.100 /  4.  3.100
  libswscale      2.  5.102 /  2.  5.102
  libswresample   0. 18.100 /  0. 18.100
  libpostproc    52.  3.100 / 52.  3.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile
options] outfi
le}...

Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'

Question for the OP: do you always get the error or only in specific
cases (like transcoding to or from x265)?

Jan