staxrip/Docs/Introduction/Installation.md

Documentation / Introduction / Installation

StaxRip is a portable application, meaning that it has no installer. You only need to extract StaxRip's folder from the downloaded archive, using 7-zip or any archiver compatible with the 7-zip 7z format.

⚠️ For the destination you should choose a location where you, as the user who executes StaxRip, have write permissions to avoid issues with some tools.

Once the folder is extracted, you are ready to go and start StaxRip.exe from inside the folder you have extracted.

StaxRip includes portable versions of AviSynth+, VapourSynth, and Python. Therefore, installation of these tools is not required.

At this point you are done with the installation and ready for the First Start.

Caution

Windows 7 users can use StaxRip only partly. The following tools are included and don't have official Windows 7 support anymore. In case you don't want to upgrade your system, you can replace these tools with an older, compatible, version, which should work, but of course with some limited usability:

• StaxRip itself - The Blu-ray ISO image opening and mounting feature requires at least Windows 8 to work.
• MKVToolNix - Latest working version is reported to be v64.0. Last (complete) working StaxRip version is StaxRip v2.10.0 (2021-10-06) including MKVToolNix v61.0 - Nevertheless mkvtoolnix-64-bit-68.0.0-revision-001-g6a55c58d2 is reported to work, you can download it here: https://mkvtoolnix.download/windows/continuous/64-bit/68.0.0/
• Python - Needed for VapourSynth. Last Windows 7 compatible version was used in StaxRip v2.25.0 (2023-08-02). As of now using VapourSynth R71 it could be possible to downgrade Python to v3.8.* that is Windows 7 compatible, but requires experienced users.

Alternatively you can download an old StaxRip release, but then you don't benefit from new functions and bug fixes.

⚠️ Note: In neither case this is supported in any way.