libmagic on windows

Since ffmpeg does not run on Windows Ubuntu (due to subprocesses failing), I tried to run it on bare Windows.

libmagic on windows is difficult to install, and it’s absence causes video conversion to fail. e.g.:

 FrameSamplingConverter().transform(video)

I found a project to compile libmagic dll’s from scratch: https://github.com/nscaife/file-windows Carefully running the build script line by line (to catch errors that require installing further dependencies, such as autoconf) resulted in the desired dlls.

@tyarkoni to test that these dlls work I need you to copy them from C:/Users/aid338/file_windows64 to C:/Windows/System32

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adelavegacommented, Jan 10, 2017

I did that actually, just still takes a while. But looks like it worked and didnt’ crash anything in Windows!

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adelavegacommented, Jan 11, 2017

Update: tried various codecs (mpeg1, mpeg2, h264 w/o b-frames), and all resulted in similar, if worse performance. I think without dropping the resolution this will stay about the same.

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