diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/ffmpeg_svn_snapshot/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/ffmpeg_svn_snapshot/default.nix
index 90978eb2908b..980b04a9d612 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/ffmpeg_svn_snapshot/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/ffmpeg_svn_snapshot/default.nix
@@ -1,17 +1,11 @@
-{stdenv, fetchsvn}:
+{stdenv, fetchurl}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "ffmpeg-svn-2007-12-04";
-  src = fetchsvn {
-    url = svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ;
-    rev = "11164";
-    #sha256 = "95658455e466aeab5a302ddd6e7b2f79f620d4495012add46028a548e6c364b2";
-    sha256 = "c97b0cd791f8408cfc69452ff7afbf00d34b367e493dfbcae830fba99c229189";
+  name = "ffmpeg-svn-pre-r11901";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/ffmpeg-svn-r11901.tar.bz2;
+    sha256 = "0l5207gnfaz57pvlxpxyjphyz0mp9plnxzd0aghy0nz3hmqh4rs7";
   };
-  /*fetchurl {
-    url = http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-export-snapshot.tar.bz2;
-    sha256 = "040a35f0c004323af14329c09ad3cff8d040e2cf9797d97cde3d9d83d02b4d87";
-  };*/
   # !!! Hm, what are the legal consequences of --enable-gpl?
   configureFlags = "--enable-shared --enable-pp --enable-gpl --disable-ffserver --disable-ffplay";
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 8b2d9b7674fc..cc227696bf37 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2123,14 +2123,13 @@ rec {
   };
 
   ffmpeg_svn = import ../development/libraries/ffmpeg_svn_snapshot {
-    inherit fetchsvn stdenv;
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv;
   };
 
   fftw = import ../development/libraries/fftw {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv builderDefs stringsWithDeps;
   };
 
-
   fltk20 = (import ../development/libraries/fltk) {
     inherit mkDerivationByConfiguration x11 lib;
     inherit fetchurl stdenv mesa mesaHeaders libpng libjpeg zlib ;