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5 == Required Programs ==
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7 1. [[VLC Media Player>>https://www.videolan.org/vlc/]] - required for playback of just about any kind of video content you can imagine
Drunk Monkey 5.1 8 1. [[7-zip>>https://www.7-zip.org]] - you will need this to extract the contents of the FFmpeg files, which are stored as a 7z archive.  Mac OSX will use [[Keka>>https://www.keka.io/en/]]
Drunk Monkey 1.1 9 1. [[FFmpeg>>http://ffmpeg.org/download.html]] - the ultimate Swiss Army Knife multitool of multimedia encoding/decoding
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11 == Installation ==
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13 1. VLC installs are straight forward.  Run the installer and you're done.
14 1. FFmpeg is a bit more complicated, and it depends on your platform.
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Drunk Monkey 1.2 22 === Windows ===
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Drunk Monkey 5.1 24 1. Run the VLC installer
25 1. Install 7-zip
26 1. Extract the contents of the FFmpeg zip file into a suitable directory.  I going to use C:\Local\ffmpeg\ as my FFmpeg installation location for this example.  You should see something similar to this:
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Drunk Monkey 1.2 34 === Mac OSX ===
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36 1. Install VLC
37 1. Install Keka
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42 == Video Capture ==
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