Ok, so the problem is that VLC can't find the encoder codecs. It complains that it "cannot find encoder MPEG Audio layer 1/2/3" and "cannot find encoder MPEG-4 Video" ... "Your FFMPEG installation is crippled. Please check with your FFMPEG packager. This is NOT a VLC media player issue."

Ok, what's the missing step here? I compiled ffmpeg just like in the link, it didn't complain about missing codecs, you saw the output from ffmpeg in my previous post, it said that stuff was enabled... Sigh...