You know about building FFMPEG, right ?
Some libraries are optional, and are at the discretion of
the builder. For example, something like ascii art support
is not likely to be compiled in by tech bros. You have
to watch ./configure like a hawk, to catch all the missing
devs and be careful to add them.
In Ubuntu, there are enough dev-libs, you can switch on
the dev-libs you want, and build it as you wish. That's
how I managed to add NVDEC and NVENC to it. The FOSS community
is forbidden by their religion to do that, but they will leave
a bottle of wine in the alley for those who like to drink :-)
All the materials I needed to do a build, were present. Just
took some hours of work. This is unlike the previous distro version,
where the materials were not ready-to-use, and I ran "into a
brick wall" before done.
If the one you downloaded is missing something, you can fix that.
Building FFMPEG is the kind of thing you do on rainy days :-)
It's about as much fun as sanding drywall.
WinXP FFMPEG goes up to at least 3.3.3, and the next rev after
that seemed to be 4.x and things went to hell for a while
after that. And WinXP was then off the table, and it eventually
settled down again. So if you're picking versions, you'd be
looking somewhere between 3.3.3 and 4.x as the last available.
On WinXP, I wasn't downloading those weekly - I would check
maybe once a year or two years for versions to use. That's
why my resolution on the numbers is poor.
Paul