Now about what I was going on about GPL license etc I am sorry to say I cannot provide the source for this build, I would love to be able to but the vendor that distributed this executable in their closed source commercial product did not respond to my requests for the source code for the build environment under the GPLv3 license terms at all. I have a build of 4.1 FFMPEG.EXE gleaned from a differnt Chinese developers video converter product that has been modifed to remove the Windows 7 and above dependancies but keeping the main functionality so can be used as a drop in replacement for this programs incompatible ffconver.exe TK, further to that discovery that their renamed FFMPEG.EXE to ffconver.exe that is NOT vista or XP compatable but just a bog standard Windows 7 or above ripoff of official open source repository. and the %temp% folder for storing intermediate files if any are needed during conversion? You should not be forcing users to run your program with admin rights just because you can't be bothered to put your user specific settings and registration databases in teh correct places so your program complies with Microsofts best practices and do not force the end user to give your process admin rights eveery time they want to use it. db files containing the settings and registration data and the seperate log file. I would love to hear why they feel in this day and age they feel it appropriate to design and build a very simple GUI on top of ffmpeg open source software and design it in such a way that this little GUI program demands to have elevated rights!!!!!! have you never heard of %AppData% for storing the two. ![]() Ah I see what it's doing, it is using the older XP and vista compatible ffmpeg DLL's for video to video cutting and converting but to convert to GIF it is using the windows 7 and above ffconver.exe presumably because they could not get the older DLL's to handle conversion to GIF properly. I thought it might have used the avcodec-56.dll which are older ffmpeg libraries than the staticly built ffconver.exe but no it seems not. so looks like the System Requirements of this that do include both XP and Vista are in error. is that Adoreshares "other" name? When I just did a trial convertion of part of an mpg video to a GIF file it threw an error because to do the conversion it spawn ffconver.exe which is built with dependancies only available in windows 7 and above. not sure why that is in the installer if this program is supposed to be equally functional on Windows 10 or XP! Or why it is digitally signed by Tenorshare Co.,Ltd. The program ffconver.exe is built for windows 7 and above. ![]() ![]()
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