Installation of ProjectX (for dvd conversion, transcode, install)

Got compiled version of projectx from doom9.net (has the JAR file: ProjectX.jar).
Unpacked it to ~/tmp3
You don't need to compile projectx if you have the .jar file.

Fedora java environment doesn't work well with non-trivial java apps:

""""I can't speak to the specifics of Ubuntu or ProjectX, but I know that on
most Linux distributions any JDK/JRE that's labeled "free" is gcj or
kaffe or some such. I have seen very few nontrivial applications work
correctly with any of those. My first choice would be the IBM JRE,
second would be the Sun JRE (from java.sun.com, not the Blackdown
version).

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/

http://java.sun.com/
"""
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Got JRE from sun.com: jre-1_5_0_06-linux-i586.bin
This is a self-extracting archive.
Unpacked it to a tmp dir: ~/tmp_jre

cd ~/tmp_jre/jre1.5.0_06/bin
# ./java -jar ~/tmp3/ProjectX_Source_0.90.3/ProjectX.jar

...and the ProjectX gui appeared :)