As fallow-up to previous post (link).

After toying with fresh ffmpeg-php 0.6.0 I kept getting error:
Fatal error: failed to convert frame to gd image

Problem lies in broken function _php_avframe_to_gd_image in ffmpeg_frame.c, in the base ffmpeg-php package.
To fix this problem download this patch file and apply it to ffmpeg_frame.c like so:

cd /path/to/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0/
wget http://hazaah.com/download/ffmpeg_frame.c.patch
patch -p0 ffmpeg_frame.c < ffmpeg_frame.c.patch

Reinstall [...]

This howto is written for Ubuntu 8.10 and is verified to work on 8.2.2009.
I found numerous tutorials on this subject out there but they all failed me, but combination of them all was successful. So fallowing is made from 10 different tutorials.
And for all those who will ask why not just apt-get php5-ffmpeg, answer is [...]