Sony BDP MKV Playback Crippled After Recent Updates

[Aaron407]

I hate to say it, but the recent updates have absolutely crippled playback on my Sony BDP-S370. I believe it was after updating to 2.6.5 (maybe earlier) that things fell apart. With 2.5, I was able to effectively play mkv files on the player using the Sony BDP NTSC profile. Now, even with the update to 2.6.7, playback often won't start and the player says it's an unsupported format. Other times the player completely locks up and reboots, something that never happened before the recent string of updates. Other times it will start playing, but it starts getting extremely choppy in video and audio after awhile (particularly if I fast forward part of the file), even when it's only streaming. If I pause for a few seconds then resume, it will play smoothly for a few seconds, then get choppy again. I have rebooted every network device I have, cleared all of the Mezzmo devices, turned on detection only by IP, tried all different Sony player profiles, etc. Things are still working terribly. Some files that are h.264 MKV's are now being detected as DivX files on the player (presumably due to how Mezzmo is handling the files).

As an example, this file is being detected as DivX when using the Sony BDP NTSC profile:

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ffmpeg version N-40693-gc457a29 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
built on May 15 2012 12:57:14 with gcc 4.6.2
configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --arch=x86 --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32- --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-zlib --disable-postproc --prefix=/home/peter/ffmpeg/build/gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-runtime-cpudetect --extra-cflags=-I/home/peter/cc/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/peter/cc/lib --pkg-config=pkg-config --disable-w32threads
libavutil 51. 51.100 / 51. 51.100
libavcodec 54. 21.101 / 54. 21.101
libavformat 54. 5.100 / 54. 5.100
libavdevice 53. 4.100 / 53. 4.100
libavfilter 2. 73.100 / 2. 73.100
libswscale 2. 1.100 / 2. 1.100
libswresample 0. 11.100 / 0. 11.100
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'F:\Misc\Newsgroup Downloads\TV\Game of Thrones\Season 02\Game of Thrones - S02E02 - The Night Lands.mkv':
Metadata:
creation_time : 2012-04-11 09:59:21
Duration: 00:55:59.85, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 6384 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1280x714, SAR 1:1 DAR 640:357, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc (default)
Metadata:
title : HBO Feed
Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 384 kb/s (default)
Metadata:
title : Audiotrack
At least one output file must be specified


---> DB Level Info: 41, 100
---> Frame rate: 23.98
---> Aspect ratio: 640:357


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At this point I'm just going to revert back to 2.5 and cross my fingers, but hopefully this is something that can be addressed. Normally I would be happy to take some logs of what's happening, but I have a kid that will be born anytime now and I need to get functionality back to the BDP before a glut of company arrives.

Am I the only one who has had this issue? There was another nasty issue I notices as well where a new device called "Mezzmo" popped into the device list, called up the same static IP address as the BDP, but carried the MAC address of the media server computer itself. I had high hopes after fixing that issue that things would work again, but not dice...

EDIT: Can you tell me where I can find v2.5.0 to reinstall?