How to build and install opencv on windows 10 to recognize your custom ffmpeg

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The easiest way is to use a CMake script, see

Error: 'Your platform doesn't suppport hardware accelerated AV1 decoding.' when i use 'cv2.VideoCapture'

To build against FFmpeg and get AV1 decoding you need to: Build or dowload and extract a build of FFMpeg to <FFMPEG_BUILD>. I would suggest simply downloading from here and depending on your license requirements you will want to download either ffmpeg-n5.0.1-7-g7389a49fd3-win64-gpl-shared-5.0.zip or ffmpeg-n5.0.1-7-g7389a49fd3-win64-lgpl-shared-5.0.zip Create a cmake directory <FFMPEG_BUILD>/cmake. Save the cmake script (ffmpeg-config.cmake) mentioned in the below post to that directory. …

note you may need to update the script used in the post for the latest version of FFMpeg.