Dirac version 1.0.2 - How to Download and Install on Mac OS X
Saturday the 21st of November, 2009

    version 1.0.2

      View the most recent changes for the dirac port at: dirac.darwinports.com/diff
      Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for dirac.
      The raw portfile for dirac 1.0.2 is located here:
      http://dirac.darwinports.com/dports/multimedia/dirac/Portfile
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      # -*- coding: utf-8; mode: tcl; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- vim:fenc=utf-8:ft=tcl:et:sw=4:ts=4:sts=4
      The dirac Portfile 57375 2009-09-10 08:16:41Z ryandesign macports.org $

      PortSystem 1.0

      Name: dirac
      Version: 1.0.2
      Category: multimedia
      Maintainers: devans
      Platform: darwin
      Homepage: http://diracvideo.org/
      Master Sites: sourceforge http://diracvideo.org/download/dirac-research

      Description: Dirac is a general-purpose video codec aimed at resolutions from QCIF (176x144) to HDTV (1920x1080) progressive or interlaced.

      Long Description: Dirac is a general-purpose video codec aimed at resolutions from QCIF (176x144) to HDTV (1920x1080) progressive or interlaced. It uses wavelets, motion compensation and arithmetic coding and aims to be competitive with other state of the art codecs.

      universal_variant no

      Checksums: md5 a57c2c5e58062d437d9ab13dffb28f0f sha1 895aaad832a54b754e58f77c87d38c0c37752b0b rmd160 0af65c4216230b5418667081cecb7bdcdc853d2e

      Patch Files: patch-Makefile.in.diff

      depends_lib port:cppunit

      test.run yes

      Variant: doc description {Build Dirac reference documentation} {
      patchfiles patch-doc-Makefile.in.diff
      depends_build-append port:doxygen path:bin/dot:graphviz path:bin/latex:texlive
      }

      livecheck.type regex
      livecheck.url http://diracvideo.org/download/dirac-research/
      livecheck.regex "${name}-(\\d+(?:\\.\\d+)*)${extract.suffix}"

    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/dirac
      % sudo port install dirac
      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 dirac
      ---> Verifying checksum for dirac
      ---> Extracting dirac
      ---> Configuring dirac
      ---> Building dirac with target all
      ---> Staging dirac into destroot
      ---> Installing dirac
    - 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 dirac with these commands:
      %  man dirac
      % apropos dirac
      % which dirac
      % locate dirac

     Where to find more information:

    Darwin Ports



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