you need to build the latest ffmpeg with x264 and qt-faststart, you will also need to install php-cli 

tested on Linux mint 9, 32bit, apache2 php, php-cli latest ffmpeg linux builds and qt-faststart
read here how to build these tools
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=786095


you need to chmod 777 /var/www/thumbs

and uploads, and tmp 

next you need to just click on upload, only remote url enabled for now

when download completes ! click on star encoder, thats about it you can go do something else it will still encode 

you can contact me on alexander.alisani@gmail.com 

if you need help !

oh yes, inside tools, you need to chmod 755 or 777 all the h264.sh theora.sh thumbs.sh 

if you want to add FTP support just look into the sh scripts and install cURL for php, from there you need to read the cURL FTP tutorial 

sidenote, for some reason, you need to refresh page to reencode or redownload files, disable cache in your browser i think that should fix the issue
 
