I have just downloaded the latest version of blender and tried to install using the installer for windows 64bit with no success.
The installation process looks fine with no error messages, but when I go to open blender I receive a system error message as followed.
The program can’t start because avcodec-57.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
I have looked into the program files where blender is installed and have found the following: avcodec-55.dll / avdevice-55.dll / avformat-55.dll
I then downloaded the new blender 2.78b zip file and found similar files, one of which was the missing .dll file as followed: avcodec-57.dll / avdevice-57.dll / avformat-57.dll
is there any way I can recover and fix blender without having to copy these files over manually, I don’t really want to mess with .dll files if I can because I know it can make things bad from worse. Any help is much appreciated, thank you.