Re: No AAC audio on MP4 files UMS (10.5) Rev.2 - SOLVED?
Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 8:54 am
Up until recently, I was able to play MP4's with AAC audio tracks without issues. Now, these same MP4's play the video fine, but NO AAC audio. Note that I can play these same MP4's without issue with VLC. I'm fairly certain that it's not my Denon (AVR-X1500H) receiver as I have a few AAC audio only files that do play. As it is, just about all these files are DL's are from YouTube, including my own UL's/DL's), most of the content being tutorials, ham radio related, old PD classic movies, etc. Again, all these files DID recently work, then all of a sudden, ALL stopped playing back AAC audio. All my other files are Dolby Digital of various kinds, and all work fine.
Is there some transcoding option (which I don't see) that will take the AAC soundtrack and re-encode it in AC3 (Dolby Digital), or just about any other audio format, other than AAC?
One thing is, I've re/installed various versions of UMS, in addition to the legacy PS3 Media Server, and Mezzmo, again, all these used to work, but NONE are now on AAC soundtracks. I also loaded the K-Lite Codec Pack, just for S&G's, but still no joy. As I can't quantify when this started, I don't know if it was after the latest Win10-64 update (20H2), as I usually don't watch these MP4's that often.
I use the Western Digital WD-TV player to watch all my Media Server content.
The attached logs show that I did two short streams, first with "Aladdin.mp4" (with its 5.1 AAC soundtrack), and a re-rendered version, "Aladdin AC3.mp4" (using Vidcoder) of the original AAC file, re-encoded in AC3. "Aladdin.mp4" file plays video/audio fine in VLC. In addition, below is a snapshot of VLC's reporting of its codec data.
I did look at the log UMS log files, and did not see any apparent indication of a streaming error, but I may not be looking in the right places.
To reiterate, these MP4 AAC video files did play normally in the past with UMS/PS3-MP/Mezzmo, but not now. Any help would be very gratefully appreciated.
Thanks, Bill
Is there some transcoding option (which I don't see) that will take the AAC soundtrack and re-encode it in AC3 (Dolby Digital), or just about any other audio format, other than AAC?
One thing is, I've re/installed various versions of UMS, in addition to the legacy PS3 Media Server, and Mezzmo, again, all these used to work, but NONE are now on AAC soundtracks. I also loaded the K-Lite Codec Pack, just for S&G's, but still no joy. As I can't quantify when this started, I don't know if it was after the latest Win10-64 update (20H2), as I usually don't watch these MP4's that often.
I use the Western Digital WD-TV player to watch all my Media Server content.
The attached logs show that I did two short streams, first with "Aladdin.mp4" (with its 5.1 AAC soundtrack), and a re-rendered version, "Aladdin AC3.mp4" (using Vidcoder) of the original AAC file, re-encoded in AC3. "Aladdin.mp4" file plays video/audio fine in VLC. In addition, below is a snapshot of VLC's reporting of its codec data.
I did look at the log UMS log files, and did not see any apparent indication of a streaming error, but I may not be looking in the right places.
To reiterate, these MP4 AAC video files did play normally in the past with UMS/PS3-MP/Mezzmo, but not now. Any help would be very gratefully appreciated.
Thanks, Bill