WOO-HOOOO! Finally - my last post actually clued me in to the problem, because it was the first time I noticed that it wasn't grabbing the video duration. So that told me the problem had to do with ffmpeg. I basically did a MAKE DISTCLEAN on everything and re-compiled. Everything seems to be running fine now, got a really nice wmv, checking out other codecs now.

For me the issue was that several of these long instructional pages have you configure ffmpeg with --disable-mmx instructions, which kills several of the ffmpeg functions. I think that's what happened. I recompiled without that, and it worked fine.

Appreciate having this forum even just to dope things out :)

Perhaps you should add a category called "Pre-Requisites Support" and include forums for "audio codecs", "ffmpeg", "mplayer/mencoder", "ruby / flvtool2", and "ffmpeg-php" so we can discuss the various issues with each of those programs, without having to hunt and peck through all the other threads.

Stil say I can't believe this program and all this support is only $10. I'm getting ready to buy my fourth license....