aac, mp3 won't play

[riboge]

(20-03-2015 10:00)simoncn Wrote:  

(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?

I wish you could copy/paste into the command window. Typing that command without errors is quite daunting while not likely to reveal much. I am guessing since I could play mp3s before the latest versions but also before I reverted from core mode to gui mode to install a new hdd with relaxed permissions and then had to rerun Audiophile optimizer after returning to core mode that something(s) were damaged or lost in that process which caused the loss of mp3 play. I will try redoing the mode changes and rerunning AO to see if that helps first.