This may have been resolved here somewhere but I couldn't find it.
The timestamp font on remote web browsers was garbled and unreadable on both linux and windows workstations.
The solution for me was to leave the MPEG_LIVE_FORMAT and MPEG_REPLAY_FORMAT fields blank in "Option/Images" as opposed to "swf".
Hope this helps somebody who is evaluating what I believe to be one of the best open source programs in the world.
-p