I installed Aquatcl 8.5 and not the latest 8.6b1
   
   svn co https://mediatools.cs.ucl.ac.uk/repos/mmedia/common/trunk common

    cd common/src

   ./configure

   make

 

Get ffmpeg-0.5 from:

  http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.5.tar.bz2

 

Get x264-snapshot-20090531-2245 snapshot:

   http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/x264-snapshot-20090531-2245.tar.bz2

 

Checkout vic mpeg4 branch (but ensure common and vic-mpeg4 are sibling folders, i.e. at the same path depth):

   svn co https://frostie.cs.ucl.ac.uk/repos/mmedia/vic/branches/mpeg4 vic-mpeg4

 

Then do the following:

  cd vic-mpeg4

  tar xvjf ../ffmpeg-0.5.tar.bz2

  tar xvjf ../x264-snapshot-20090531-2245.tar.bz2

  ln -s ffmpeg-0.5 ffmpeg

  ln -s x264-snapshot-20090410-2245 x264

 ./configure --enable-gpl  --with-x264ver=x264-snapshot-20090410-2245

 (cd ffmpeg; make)

 make