🛑 Are you installing Dragonfly 3 but you want to keep your existing Dragonfly 2?
Please:
- follow the steps below to install Dragonfly 3
- at the end of the Dragonfly 3 installation process please download Gstreamer Mingw from this link and unzip the file inside C:\ so that Dragonfly 2 will be able to find the binaries needed inside
C:\gstreamer\1.0\mingw_x86_64\bin
The steps just described are needed because the Gstreamer Msvc executable which is required by Dragonfly 3, deletes automatically the Mingw Gstreamer files!
Installation steps
Install Gstreamer
Download Gstreamer from this link
During the installation process:
- select CUSTOM.
- click on “GStreamer 1.0” and choose “ENTIRE FEATURES WILL BE INSTALLED ON LOCAL DRIVE“.
- press the ‘Browse…’ button.
- change the Folder name to
C:\gstreamer_msvc\
then press OK and continue with the installation.
Add Gstreamer to the environment variables
- Click on the Windows logo in the top left corner and typing “Environment Variables” and then click the Edit the system environment variables link shown by Windows.
- Click Environment Variables.
- In the section System Variables:
- if the
Path
environment variable exists, select it, click Edit. - if the
Path
environment variable does not exist, click New.
- if the
- In the Edit System Variable (or New System Variable) window, insert the path to the gstreamer binaries:
C:\gstreamer_msvc\1.0\msvc_x86_64\bin
- Click OK. Close all remaining windows by clicking OK.
Download Dragonfly
Click here to receive the installation executable of Dragonfly.
How to uninstall Dragonfly
- To uninstall Dragonfly, go to Control Panel -> Uninstall a program, and select Dragonfly.
- To remove the Dragonfly service manually, launch the following command from the application directory
dragonflyapp.exe -r