
zip files detailed above, the basic process (currently) would likely be to use a script (or scripts) to:Įxtract just the elements from that page. I cannot see any way in which I could automate the following tasks Īssuming you do not wish to use the "latest" Git version.

So you are likely stuck examining HTML for recent versions. Unfortunately, for regular non-Git release versions (what I assume you mean by "current stable version"), there doesn't seem to be an equivalent automatically updated file that I could find. Particularly, you can also substitute shared (for shared libraries) or dev (for dev versions) in place of static in the URLs above to access those Git builds as well. Note that statically-linked builds aren't the only available builds. If you are happy with statically-linked versions, you can get them from: zip files for its most recent Git builds, licensed under the GPL 3.0 (I believe these are updated every few days). Please forgive me if I miss anything or cover something you already know. This information was up-to-date as of July 2020. Note that in the answer below, I am focusing on the FFmpeg builds provided by Zeranoe. (Please don't tell me to use Chocolately.) This is not the case with FFmpeg, which is really strange to me. I've just gone through the same thing with ExifTool, but at least they had a simple URL to display the current latest version, and had a predictable URL scheme for the Windows ZIP file containing the binaries. I frankly don't understand why they can't use a simple "1.2.3" scheme, but I guess I will just check if my current version is different from whatever has been determined to be the latest stable version, rather than trying to "compare" them as integers or sane version strings. It seems like "N-94664-g0821bc4eee" is my current version. It outputs this: ffmpeg version N-94664-g0821bc4eee Copyright (c) 2000-2019 the FFmpeg developers

Determine the URL to the Windows archive for this current stable version.Determine which is the current stable version of FFmepg.I have carefully studied both of those pages now and I cannot see any way in which I could automate the following tasks:


This is the official download page for FFmpeg:
