aac, mp3 won't play

[simoncn]

(20-03-2015 00:47)riboge Wrote:  I was already using a static version but downloaded a slighter newer version. I also replaced avicap32.dll and msvfw32.dll which also was missing from winsxs folder, but still no playing of aac file. Running ffmpeg.exe in task manager brings no error message now but nothing else is visible after doing it--still no play.

FFmpeg probably needs some other DLLs to do the transcoding that aren't needed to just start and display its summary screen. I'm surprised that this would happen with a static build, as I thought this contains all necessary dependencies within the ffmpeg.exe file. Perhaps there are some required DLLs missing on Wserver2012r2 that are present on a regular Windows 7 system.

You coud do some further debugging by running the same ffmpeg commad that MinimServer is using to do transcoding. For mp3:wav24 transcoding, the command to use is:

ffmpeg -analyzeduration 0 -f mp3 -request_sample_fmt flt -i "your-test-file.mp3" -f s24le -acodec pcm_s24le -sample_fmt s32 - >NUL:

with your-test-file.mp3 rplaced by the full path to any MP3 file. Does this show up some more missing DLLs?