diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/ffmpegx-depends/x264/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/ffmpegx-depends/x264/package.mk
index e7255f4b20..5d59e63993 100644
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/ffmpegx-depends/x264/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/ffmpegx-depends/x264/package.mk
@@ -17,12 +17,14 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="x264"
-PKG_VERSION="snapshot-20170524-2245-stable"
+PKG_VERSION="snapshot-20171015-2245"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html"
-PKG_URL="ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
+PKG_URL="https://download.videolan.org/x264/snapshots/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
+PKG_SECTION="multimedia"
 PKG_LONGDESC="x264"
+PKG_AUTORECONF="no"
 
 pre_configure_target() {
   cd $PKG_BUILD