Help me get started with ffmpeg

I've looked through the documentation on the web site and it is written as if you already know how to use it, in other words it might as well be in Chinese. With that being said, I downloaded it, now what? There开发者_StackOverflow中文版 is no exe, it looks like it needs to be compiled... How do I do that?

I've made about 30 different google searches on getting started with it but no luck.

I've never had this much trouble working with a third party component.

I got it working from an answer in another question:

<cfexecute 
name="c:\pathto\ffmpeg\ffmpeg.exe"
arguments="-itsoffset -4  -i #sourcevideo# -vcodec mjpeg -vframes 1 -an -f rawvideo -s 320x240 #thumbnaildestination" />

Thanks to Jason for pointing me to the autobuilds link. I was scratching my head trying to figure out what to do with the files.