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The raw portfile for x264 20080108 is located here:
http://x264.darwinports.com/dports/multimedia/x264/Portfile
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# $Id: Portfile 32922 2008-01-15 05:04:30Z acho macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0
Name: x264
Version: 20080108
Category: multimedia
Platform: darwin
Maintainers: acho macports.org
Description: x264 - a free h264/avc encoder
Long Description: x264 is a free library for encoding H264/AVC video streams. The code is written by Laurent Aimar, Eric Petit(OS X), Min Chen (vfw/nasm), Justin Clay(vfw), Måns Rullgård and Loren Merritt from scratch. It is released under the terms of the GPL license.
Homepage: http://www.videolan.org/x264.html
master_sites ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/
distname ${name}-snapshot-${version}-2245
checksums sha1 12b9bb1b9121fe3668011e833e49ce86b2afc25f
use_bzip2 yes

depends_build bin:svn:subversion

configure.args --enable-pthread --enable-pic


destroot.args DIR_INSTALL=${destroot}${prefix}

build.target default

Variant: ssse3 {
depends_build-append port:yasm
}

Variant: G5 {
configure.cflags-append "-mcpu=970 -mtune=970 -mpowerpc64 -mpowerpc-gpopt -fast -mabi=altivec -maltivec"
}

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/x264
%  sudo port install x264  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching x264
--->  Verifying checksum for x264
--->  Extracting x264
--->  Configuring x264
--->  Building x264 with target all

--->  Staging x264 into destroot

--->  Installing x264

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using x264 with these commands:

%  man x264
%  apropos x264
%  which x264
%  locate x264

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