Never said one script working means another will, the point was that PHPMotion is working means that at least a version of mencoder/mplayer were working.

You could be right that mplayer/mencoder are not the latest version, since it was installed a while ago, will try this, thanks. However this might cause problems in our PHPMotion. Is there a way to revert back to v2.6 from v2.7? a downgrade script lol?