diff --git a/package/stf/avview/avview.conf b/package/stf/avview/avview.conf
index f63e95430..eecd0eb22 100644
--- a/package/stf/avview/avview.conf
+++ b/package/stf/avview/avview.conf
@@ -20,5 +20,24 @@
 # 
 # --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
-var_append confopt " " "--with-ffmpeg=/usr/src/ffmpeg"
+# Do the same configuration as the ffmpeg package...
+. $base/package/rene/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.conf
 
+# and include the same patches
+patchfiles="$base/package/*/ffmpeg/*.patch"
+
+build_avview () {
+	# package avview needs the compiled sources
+	var_append confopt " " "--with-ffmpeg=`dirs -l`"
+	tar $taropt $archdir/avview-${ver}.tar.bz2
+	cd avview-$ver
+	patchfiles="$base/package/*/avview/*.patch"
+	apply_patchfiles
+	eval $configprefix bash ./configure $confopt
+	eval make
+	eval make install
+}
+
+postmake=build_avview
+makeinstopt=""
+createdocs=0
diff --git a/package/stf/avview/avview.desc b/package/stf/avview/avview.desc
index c1a682bb2..bb1a1208f 100644
--- a/package/stf/avview/avview.desc
+++ b/package/stf/avview/avview.desc
@@ -37,8 +37,10 @@
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
 [V] 0.80.3
+[O] ffmpeg_ver=0.4.9-pre1
 #[V] 2004-01-07
 [P] X -?---5---9 180.500
 
+[D] 2478774124 ffmpeg-0.4.9-pre1.tar.gz http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ffmpeg/
 [D] 824434359 avview-0.80.3.tar.gz http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gatos/
 #[D] X avview-cvs-2004-01-07.tar.bz2 cvs://pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gatos::avview/!2004-01-07/