They get the:
/usr/bin/mencoder '/home/nylive/public_html/xxxx/share/video/blahblah.mp4' -o /home/nylive/public_html/xxxx/share/flvideo/1199057031307049785.flv -of lavf -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=56 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vbitrate=500:mbd=2:mv0:trell:v4mv:cbp:l ast_pred=3 -srate 22050 -lavfopts i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_fram es -vf harddup

old verison of the thing working on command line. But I get an unreachable page when manually re-starting the encoding process in the admin and doing a cron. I will probably start the updates tomorrow and see if they did anything that makes it work, but all the sites were working fine and then just stopped. I will test with different files today and get back to you.