diff --git a/recipes/ffmpeg/all/conanfile.py b/recipes/ffmpeg/all/conanfile.py
index 3867ed6aa0b52..f0de3dbc26e49 100644
--- a/recipes/ffmpeg/all/conanfile.py
+++ b/recipes/ffmpeg/all/conanfile.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from conan import ConanFile, conan_version
+from conan import ConanFile
 from conan.errors import ConanInvalidConfiguration
 from conan.tools.apple import is_apple_os
 from conan.tools.build import cross_building
@@ -198,6 +198,7 @@ class FFMpegConan(ConanFile):
         "disable_filters": None,
         "enable_filters": None,
     }
+    short_paths = True
 
     @property
     def _settings_build(self):
@@ -354,10 +355,6 @@ def validate(self):
                 raise ConanInvalidConfiguration("FFmpeg '{}' option requires '{}' option to be enabled".format(
                     dependency, "' or '".join(features)))
 
-        if Version(self.version) >= "6.1" and conan_version.major == 1 and is_msvc(self) and self.options.shared:
-            # Linking fails with "Argument list too long" for some reason on Conan v1
-            raise ConanInvalidConfiguration("MSVC shared build is not supported for Conan v1")
-
         if Version(self.version) == "7.0.1" and self.settings.build_type == "Debug":
             # FIXME: FFMpeg fails to build in Debug mode with the following error:
             # ld: libavcodec/libavcodec.a(vvcdsp_init.o): in function `ff_vvc_put_pixels2_8_sse4':