VLC unable to convert movie

[ajmas]

I am wanting to slowly migrate all the movies I have to MPEG4 (AAC/H264), since currently I have a mishmash of different formats. From my experience VLC is not always capable of converting movies that is capable of playing back. In cases like that should I open a bug ticket?

Some examples:

Format: Quicktime movie (from camera) mp4v/ulaw
Result:

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main: thread 2690178912: mutex_lock failed at misc/variables.c:805 (22:Invalid argument) main: thread 2690178912: mutex_unlock failed at misc/variables.c:811 (22:Invalid argument) ffmpeg: cannot open encoder stream_out_transcode: cannot find encoder ((null)) stream_out_transcode: cannot create audio chain main: cannot create packetizer output (ulaw)

Format: WMV WMV3/wma2
Result:

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main: thread 2690178912: mutex_lock failed at misc/variables.c:805 (22:Invalid argument) main: thread 2690178912: mutex_unlock failed at misc/variables.c:811 (22:Invalid argument) ffmpeg: cannot open encoder stream_out_transcode: cannot find encoder ((null)) stream_out_transcode: cannot create audio chain main: cannot create packetizer output (ulaw) main: cannot add a new stream (unsupported while muxing to this format) main: cannot create packetizer output (wma2)

In fact often enough it is the sound that fails to be converted.

EDIT: using 0.8.6c

EDIT: Looks like ffmpeg SVN-r9102 seems to do a better job, so there version included with VLC is probably outdated. Any ideas when vlc will get the latest ffmpeg changes?