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• install dependencies, in this case for SUSE Linux 11.4 x64:

yast -i libdvdread-devel libmpeg2-devel libmp3lame-devel

• download transcode

wget http://download.berlios.de/tcforge/transcode-1.1.0.tar.bz2
bunzip2 transcode-1.1.0.tar.bz2
tar xvf transcode-1.1.0.tar
cd transcode-1.1.0
./configure && make && make install

See also

• transcode man page