MKV problems on Samsung 46D

Hi!

I just reinstalled Serviio after a disk crash and now I cant get my MKV-files to run on my Samsung UE46D6207. It worked before.
I installed Serviio GUI and I can see that it detects the TV and that the setting is Samsung TV / player (C/D/E/F-series) so that should be fine.
From inside my TV I can browse the files and when I press "information", it shows the MKV-files has mime type video/mpeg...
When successfully playing these files from the Samsung AllShare application, the mime type is video/x-mkv. So I guess I found the cause of the error???

I've taken a quick look at the /etc/serviio/profiles.xml and (I think I've) found that it should be giving it mime type video/x-mkv. So why isn't it?

  Code:

...
<Profile id="7" name="Samsung TV / player (C/D/E/F-series)" extendsProfileId="1">
...
        <MediaFormatProfiles>
            <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/x-mkv">MATROSKA</MediaFormatProfile>
            <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/x-msvideo" name="">AVI</MediaFormatProfile>
            <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="audio/x-flac">FLAC</MediaFormatProfile>
        </MediaFormatProfiles>
...


Could it be that Serviio doesn't realize that it is a MATROSKA file even though its file ends with .mkv?
I am now trying to run Serviio 1.3.1 and before I ran 1.1. This worked on my old installation...

Any advice is appreciated. I don't want to try to edit the profiles-file before getting your input.

Thanks!

This is the log from when I try to play an .mkv file:

  Code:

2013-12-02 07:29:04,794 WARN  [ProcessExecutor] Process /usr/bin/ffmpeg has a return code of 1! This is a possible error. Detailed output follows.
ffmpeg version 0.8.9-6:0.8.9-1, Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the Libav developers
built on Nov  3 2013 00:54:50 with gcc 4.7.2
*** THIS PROGRAM IS DEPRECATED ***
This program is only provided for compatibility and will be removed in a future release. Please use avconv instead.
Expected number for threads but found: auto
2013-12-02 07:29:14,785 ERROR [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Error while processing resource, sending back 500 error. Message: Transcoded file '/tmp/Serviio/transcoding-temp-9168-7-GINAL.stf' cannot be found, FFmpeg execution probably failed
java.io.IOException: Transcoded file '/tmp/Serviio/transcoding-temp-9168-7-ORIGINAL.stf' cannot be found, FFmpeg execution probably failed
        at org.serviio.delivery.resource.transcode.FileBasedTranscodingDeliveryStrategy.createInputStream(FileBasedTranscodingDeliveryStrategy.java:47)
        at org.serviio.delivery.resource.transcode.AbstractTranscodingDeliveryEngine.retrieveTranscodedResource(AbstractTranscodingDeliveryEngine.java:134)
        at org.serviio.delivery.resource.AbstractDeliveryEngine.deliver(AbstractDeliveryEngine.java:110)
        at org.serviio.delivery.MediaResourceRetrievalStrategy.retrieveResource(MediaResourceRetrievalStrategy.java:153)
        at org.serviio.delivery.GETMethodProcessor.retrieveResource(GETMethodProcessor.java:121)
        at org.serviio.delivery.GETMethodProcessor.buildDeliveryContainer(GETMethodProcessor.java:48)
        at org.serviio.delivery.AbstractMethodProcessor.handleRequest(AbstractMethodProcessor.java:100)
        at org.serviio.delivery.ResourceDeliveryProcessor.deliverContent(ResourceDeliveryProcessor.java:81)
        at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.ResourceTransportRequestHandler.handleRequest(ResourceTransportRequestHandler.java:86)
        at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.AbstractRequestHandler.handle(AbstractRequestHandler.java:61)
        at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.doService(HttpService.java:293)
        at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.ServiioHttpService.doService(ServiioHttpService.java:77)
        at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.handleRequest(HttpService.java:212)
        at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.WebServer$WorkerThread.run(WebServer.java:192)


In there it say something about ffmpeg not working properly.
When playing mpegs it works though... And nothing is written to the log...

Any ideas of what I should do?

PS. This is probably not a Samsung issue. Is it possible to move this trhread to a different part of the forum?

[DenyAll]

I think you need to update your ffmpeg. It looks like the version you are using is old and doesn't support the options that Serviio is now using.

Ok. Do you know how?

I run a head-less Linux Debian (wheezy) server.
I've updated the sources.list to include all public packages before installing serviio according to this page:
http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=howto:linux:install:debian
Everything is up to date.

In this instruction linked below there's a note saying:

Beware that Debian has decided to switch to libav http://www.libav.org. If you decide to use ffmpeg from deb-multimedia.org you can no longer use libav and programs relying on it.

I think this is why the log says that ffmpeg is deprecated.

Is it possible to run Serviio with libav instead? Is there a howto for this?

[zip]

No, has to be FFmpeg. You might have to build it from sources.

It seems like most issues are due to ffmpeg.

I struggled with this guide to do the build from source: Ubuntu Compilation Guide
On my second attempt and some creative rearranging, I finally got it to work.

Thanks for your great support! You are doing an excelent job.