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Playing a live-recorded FLV in Media Player Classic has no sound

I have some live-recorded FLV’s from Flash using Speex codec in Wowza’s “content” folder. I want to play them in Media Player Classic or VLC. The video works, but I don’t get any audio. I know the audio is there because I’m able to replay and hear it via Wowza streaming, but I need to replay it outside of Flash.

I’ve already tried installing K-Lite Codec Pack Full and enabling AMR in ffdshow audio decoder as the FAQ recommends, but still no good. (Although I can’t tell if ffdshow is actually being used.) Any idea how to get the audio working?

Here’s the warning Media Player Classic gives me:

C:\Users\Geofflee\Desktop\134492.flv::Audio
Media Type 0:
--------------------------
Audio: 0x7073 16000Hz mono
AM_MEDIA_TYPE: 
majortype: MEDIATYPE_Audio {73647561-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
subtype: Unknown GUID Name {20787073-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
formattype: FORMAT_WaveFormatEx {05589F81-C356-11CE-BF01-00AA0055595A}
bFixedSizeSamples: 1
bTemporalCompression: 0
lSampleSize: 256000
cbFormat: 18
WAVEFORMATEX:
wFormatTag: 0x7073
nChannels: 1
nSamplesPerSec: 16000
nAvgBytesPerSec: 0
nBlockAlign: 0
wBitsPerSample: 0
cbSize: 0 (extra bytes)
pbFormat:
0000: 73 70 01 00 80 3e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 sp..€>..........
0010: 00 00                                           ..
Media Type 1:
--------------------------
Audio
AM_MEDIA_TYPE: 
majortype: MEDIATYPE_Audio {73647561-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
subtype: Unknown GUID Name {AFBC2343-3DCB-4047-9655-E1E62A61B1C5}
formattype: Unknown GUID Name {35189950-CAC9-4C8D-819D-B6FAEE15DD9D}
bFixedSizeSamples: 1
bTemporalCompression: 0
lSampleSize: 256000
cbFormat: 24
WAVEFORMATEXFFMPEG:
nCodecId: 0x15026
WAVEFORMATEX:
wFormatTag: 0x7073
nChannels: 1
nSamplesPerSec: 16000
nAvgBytesPerSec: 0
nBlockAlign: 0
wBitsPerSample: 0
cbSize: 0 (extra bytes)
pbFormat:
0000: 26 50 01 00 73 70 01 00 80 3e 00 00 00 00 00 00 &P..sp..€>......
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00                         ........

I appear to get farther with VLC, which actually shows the following under Codec Details, but still no sound, and the Statistics show 0 audio blocks and 0 audio buffers decoded:

Stream 0
  Type: Video
  Codec: Flash Video (FLV1)
  Resolution: 320x240
  Frame rate: 1000
Stream 1
  Type: Audio
  Codec: Speex Audio (spx )
  Channels: 1
  Sample rate: 16000 Hz
  Bits per sample: 16

It would be easiest to transcode. Take a look at this article for suggestions:

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-encode-video-on-demand-content

Richard