diff --git a/multimedia/xine-ui/xine-ui.conf b/multimedia/xine-ui/xine-ui.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..730352a4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/multimedia/xine-ui/xine-ui.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+#
+# Filename: package/.../xine-ui/xine-ui.conf
+# Copyright (C) 2011 The OpenSDE Project
+#
+# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. A copy of the
+# GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING.
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+# lirc support
+if ! pkginstalled -f lirc; then
+	var_append extraconfopt ' ' "--disable-lirc"
+else
+	# by default xine-ui is trying to figure out LIRC_CFLAGS and LIRC_LIBS
+	# via pkg-config but upstream is not officially shipping .pc files
+	var_append configprefix ' ' 'LIRC_CFLAGS="-I$( pkgprefix -r includedir lirc )"'
+	var_append configprefix ' ' 'LIRC_LIBS="-L$( pkgprefix -r libdir lirc ) -llirc_client"'
+fi
diff --git a/multimedia/xine-ui/xine-ui.desc b/multimedia/xine-ui/xine-ui.desc
index 07cc6190d..5854ffa51 100644
--- a/multimedia/xine-ui/xine-ui.desc
+++ b/multimedia/xine-ui/xine-ui.desc
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 [COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 [COPY]
 [COPY] Filename: package/.../xine-ui/xine-ui.desc
-[COPY] Copyright (C) 2006 - 2009 The OpenSDE Project
+[COPY] Copyright (C) 2006 - 2011 The OpenSDE Project
 [COPY] Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
 [COPY] Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
 [COPY]
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 0.99.5
+[V] 0.99.6
 [P] X -----5---9 163.200
 
-[D] 2617170871 xine-ui-0.99.5.tar.gz http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xine/
+[D] 1193679750 xine-ui-0.99.6.tar.bz2 http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xine/