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by Pathogen-David 1020 days ago
> But what do you mean by "random person's site"? It's ffmpeg.org - is that not a reliable source?

The concern is that FFmpeg does not provide Windows binaries for themselves, they link to someone else who does.

You could argue that those providers are fine since they're implicitly being endorsed by FFmpeg, but it's not super clear whether they're trustworthy people involved in FFmpeg or randos that opened a GitHub issue saying "Hey I'm providing Windows binaries for people if they want them!"

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Oh I see I didn't notice the additional links popping up on hover. Oof, that's not great.
they also link to this repository: https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds