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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 >>> >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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? > _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
