Using ffMPEG on Windows with only the DLL's?

Question

What I actually want is to store frames of a video into a char array, using ffMPEG.
Constraint is to use only MSVC. Not allowed to use the Windows building tweak due to

Answer 1

Use the public interface of ffmpeg from

ffmpegdir/include/libavcodec/
ffmpegdir/include/libavformat/
etc.

for example, to open a file for reading, use avformat_open_input from ffmpegdir/include/libavformat/avformat.h

AVFormatContext * ctx= NULL;
int err = avformat_open_input(&ctx, file_name, NULL, NULL);

You can get the latest builds of ffmpeg from http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/

Public header files can be found in dev builds (http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/win32/dev/).

UPD: Here is a working example (no additional static linking)

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <windows.h>
#include <libavformat/avformat.h>

typedef int (__cdecl *__avformat_open_input)(AVFormatContext **, const char *, AVInputFormat *, AVDictionary **);
typedef void (__cdecl *__av_register_all)(void);

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
    const char * ffp = "f:\\Projects\\Temp\\testFFMPEG\\Debug\\avformat-54.dll";
    HINSTANCE hinstLib = LoadLibraryA(ffp);
    __avformat_open_input __avformat_open_input_proc  = (__avformat_open_input)GetProcAddress(hinstLib, "avformat_open_input");

    __av_register_all __av_register_all_proc = (__av_register_all)GetProcAddress(hinstLib, "av_register_all");
    __av_register_all_proc();

    ::AVFormatContext * ctx = NULL;
    int err = __avformat_open_input_proc(&ctx, "g:\\Media\\The Sneezing Baby Panda.flv", NULL, NULL);
    return 0;
  }