*** LIBRARY *** To compile the library do: cmake . make sudo make install To customize the installation prefix use cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr/local *** TRANSCODE plugins *** You need to have the transcode sources installed. The best choice it to download the same version you have in your distribution. Youi don't need to compile transcode itself. Download from http://tcforge.berlios.de/ or http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10094. Then you need to adapt the transcode/CMakeLists.txt and change the variable > set(TRANSCODE_ROOT path/to/transcode) cd transcode/cmake make . install.sh *** FFMPEG *** You need to configure ffmpeg with --enable-libvidstab