# NousResearch/hermes-agent · ffmpeg crash on Windows causing blocking failures

## Open now

- 1 issue, 3 PRs open on GitHub.
- #130064: Windows Server 2016: ffmpeg (BtbN win32-x64 9.0.1) crashes with "Entry Point Not Found: SetThreadDescription", blocking update completion and causing automatic rollback
- PR #130068: fix(pm): make ffmpeg failures non-blocking
- PR #130073: fix(pm): decode known NTSTATUS exit codes in --version probe failures
- PR #142838: fix(pm): treat ffmpeg as a host gap on Windows Server 2016 (#130064)

A Windows Server 2016 compatibility issue where ffmpeg crashes due to a missing API entry point, plus related fixes to make ffmpeg probe failures non-blocking and improve error code decoding for diagnostics.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 3 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.50`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Open related issues

- #130064: Windows Server 2016: ffmpeg (BtbN win32-x64 9.0.1) crashes with "Entry Point Not Found: SetThreadDescription", blocking update completion and causing automatic rollback

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#130068: fix(pm): make ffmpeg failures non-blocking**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `stale_abandoned`; implication `active`; refs `24215e43e5`
  - files: `pm/packages.py`, `tests/pm/test_ffmpeg_resolution.py`
- **#130073: fix(pm): decode known NTSTATUS exit codes in --version probe failures**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `pm/package.py`, `tests/pm/test_probe_ntstatus.py`
- **#142838: fix(pm): treat ffmpeg as a host gap on Windows Server 2016 (#130064)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `pm/packages.py`, `tests/pm/test_ffmpeg_windows_host_gap.py`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`