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Compiling Transcode 1.1.6 and 1.2 in OS X

(express post, too much time spent on this but too much work spent to let it slip without benefitting someone else) 1.1.6 is not released, had to be hg-cloned. In fact, the repository looks like the 1.1.6 tag was at some moment added but then deleted?? That branch also has the latest video stabilization, no idea yet if it is also in 1.2 Can be compiled. Get the hg repository via hg itself, not one of the zip/bz/etc packaged from the website since the compilation scripts expect to find the .hg files. Read the README and INSTALL, you'll need to create the configure yourself (easy, just read) I am using MacPorts, and even installed the included Transcode 1.1.5, so all the requirements are already installed. Most of the expected work was about configuring tne non-macports transcode to use the /opt dirtree. (Incidentally: 1.1.5 has horribly mismatched documentation, I have had to resort to using strings and source code to understand what some of the utils were supposed to