problem installing x264

[jzheng at soe.ucsc.edu]

Thanks. The workaround works for me. I was able to install x264 and ffmpeg
with +x264 variant.

If there is anything I can do to help figure out why MacPorts/curl doesn't
download x264, just let me know.

Jian



> Yes: MacPorts uses curl, not wget.
>
> I don't see why wget would be able to connect but curl would not.
>
> You can put the manually-downloaded file into /opt/local/var/macports/
> distfiles/x264 for now and you should be able to install. This is a
> workaround, obviously, and we should still figure out why MacPorts
> couldn't download it itself.
>
>
> On Dec 11, 2007, at 11:21, jzheng at soe.ucsc.edu wrote:
>
>> I can wget the snapshot, but not curl. When I curl, I got: curl: (7)
>> couldn't connect to host. Do you know which mechanism is used by port?
>>
>>
>>> It looks like the file is still in the videolan repository as I just
>>> pulled it down to test, are you able to wget
>>> 'ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/x264-
>>> snapshot-20070411-2245.tar.bz2'
>>> or curl
>>> 'ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/x264-
>>> snapshot-20070411-2245.tar.bz2'
>>> -o x264-snapshot-20070411-2245.tar.bz2
>>>
>>>
>>> jzheng at soe.ucsc.edu wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm having problem installing x264. It seems the process cannot
>>>> fetch a
>>>> copy of x264. However I can go to the ftp site and ftp a copy
>>>> without
>>>> any problem.
>>>>
>>>> --->  Fetching x264
>>>> --->  Attempting to fetch x264-snapshot-20070411-2245.tar.bz2 from
>>>> ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/
>>>> --->  Attempting to fetch x264-snapshot-20070411-2245.tar.bz2 from
>>>> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/x264
>>>> --->  Attempting to fetch x264-snapshot-20070411-2245.tar.bz2 from
>>>> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/
>>>> --->  Attempting to fetch x264-snapshot-20070411-2245.tar.bz2 from
>>>> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/x264
>>>> Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed
>>>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone had this problem?
>