A recent version (1.2 or later) of the GNOME environment.
nasm and automake-1.5 or later to compile.
A Unix OS with GNU development and DVD support (UDF or ISO9660), like linux 2.4
libdvdcss-1.2.2 for handling DVD data.
libdvdread-0.9.3 for parsing DVD disk info.
For mpeg2 and a52 decoding, install both libmpeg2 0.2.1 and liba52
avifile 0.7.22 or later for divx;-) encoding.
Image Magick for the ImageMagick filter.
libXML2.
gcc 3.2.x to compile.
libmpeg2 0.3.1