diff --git a/media-libs/x264/x264-20191217.recipe b/media-libs/x264/x264-20191217.recipe
index 8a320a0db..6609ecfcf 100644
--- a/media-libs/x264/x264-20191217.recipe
+++ b/media-libs/x264/x264-20191217.recipe
@@ -1,21 +1,23 @@
 SUMMARY="An encoder for x264 h.264/AVC"
 DESCRIPTION="x264 is a h.264/AVC encoder library."
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html"
-COPYRIGHT="2003-2017 VideoLan.org"
+COPYRIGHT="2003-2019 VideoLan.org"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
 REVISION="1"
-SOURCE_URI="https://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/x264-snapshot-$portVersion-2245.tar.bz2"
-CHECKSUM_SHA256="0bb67d095513391e637b3b47e8efc3ba4603c3844f1b4c2690f4d36da7763055"
-SOURCE_DIR="x264-snapshot-$portVersion-2245"
+srcGitRev="1771b556ee45207f8711744ccbd5d42a3949b14c"
+SOURCE_URI="https://github.com/mirror/x264/archive/$srcGitRev.tar.gz"
+SOURCE_FILENAME="x264-$portVersion-$srcGitRev.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="745a2a355a4a7ecd389ec438735e2c5b5d1e4b3277352761a1c0d4f5ae4f8cd9"
+SOURCE_DIR="x264-$srcGitRev"
 
 ARCHITECTURES="!x86_gcc2 x86 x86_64"
 SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="x86"
 
-libVersion="157"
+libVersion="159"
 libVersionCompat="$libVersion compat >= ${libVersion}"
 
 PROVIDES="
-	x264$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion compat >= 20140308
+	x264$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
 	cmd:x264$secondaryArchSuffix
 	lib:libx264$secondaryArchSuffix = $libVersionCompat
 	"
@@ -24,7 +26,7 @@ REQUIRES="
 	"
 
 PROVIDES_devel="
-	x264${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel = $portVersion compat >= 20140308
+	x264${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel = $portVersion
 	devel:libx264$secondaryArchSuffix = $libVersionCompat
 	"
 REQUIRES_devel="