Serviio

I realize this is not strictly an ffmpeg forum, but:
(before I take this q. elsewhere, ...)

Is there some difference in 0.6.2 and ffmpeg affecting MKV files?

I noticed that some MKV files with MPEG 2 video stopped working. (ffmpeg.exe dated 1/31/2012).

The same files work fine with 0.6.2 and an older version of ffmpeg.exe dated 9/25/2011.

They also work fine with a patched version of ffmpeg posted by Cerberus in the Panasonic Forum.

There is a post to 0.6.2, ffmpeg and MKV here, which may be related:

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=5182

There is not much information in the serviio log, but invoking ffmpeg.exe dated 1/31/2011 from the command line with the same arguments does show errors.

Can someone here throw me a crumb (b/f I waste too much time on this) ?

to answer your question simply YES there is a difference, to be more specific there is ongoing issues with ffmpeg and MKV that teh team over at ffmpeg are working on and as you see form the daily build i gave you are starting to work though it and fix but theres nothing we can do from a serviio point of view until they fix the issues, there is now later daily build availible that may fix other issues, but you would have to try them.

http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=win_ffmpeg

OK, got that.

Will I run into any issues from Serviio if I try other/later ffmpeg builds?

What I mean is, does Serviio expect some kind of specific build of ffmpeg?

nope you shoudl be fine unles ffmpeg make a massive change that was havent expected but thats very unlikely.

They do have a habit of occasionally changing some of the syntax which will impact Serviio (e.g. at one point they changed 'dca' to 'dts'). It's a bit of a lottery using your own newer version of FFmpeg.