I have never had any trouble with FFmpeg on Windows. Even building it from source or building programs that use it is pretty foolproof with MSYS2. FFmpeg also h

I have never had any trouble with FFmpeg on Windows. Even building it from source or building programs that use it is pretty foolproof with MSYS2. FFmpeg also has Windows specific features like DXVA for video decoding and (recently) Schannel for TLS. It seems like this library is specifically for integrating FFmpeg with the built-in classes for video playback in Windows Store apps, but you don't have to use those classes to use FFmpeg on Windows.