diff --git a/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-2.3.recipe b/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-2.3.recipe
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f168aa693
--- /dev/null
+++ b/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-2.3.recipe
@@ -0,0 +1,160 @@
+SUMMARY="Audio and video recording, conversion, and streaming library."
+DESCRIPTION="FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert \
+and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec - the leading audio/video \
+codec library."
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.ffmpeg.org"
+LICENSE="
+	GNU LGPL v2.1
+	GNU GPL v2
+	"
+COPYRIGHT="
+	2000-2003 Fabrice Bellard
+	2003-2014 the FFmpeg developers
+	"
+SRC_URI="http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-2.3.tar.bz2"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="6b3dbb64e20951480bfd64bcbe305f6ee9031e5fccfd3b3e94cc5055525f809e"
+REVISION="1"
+ARCHITECTURES="x86 ?x86_64"
+if [ $effectiveTargetArchitecture != x86_gcc2 ]; then
+    # x86_gcc2 is fine as primary target architecture as long as we're building
+    # for a different secondary architecture.
+    ARCHITECTURES="$ARCHITECTURES x86_gcc2"
+else
+    ARCHITECTURES="$ARCHITECTURES !x86_gcc2"
+fi
+SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="x86"
+
+PATCHES="ffmpeg-2.3.patch"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	ffmpeg$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion compat >= 2.3
+	cmd:ffmpeg = $portVersion compat >= 2.3
+	cmd:ffprobe = $portVersion compat >= 2.3
+	cmd:ffserver = $portVersion compat >= 2.3
+	lib:libavutil$secondaryArchSuffix = 52.92.100 compat >= 52
+	lib:libavcodec$secondaryArchSuffix = 55.69.100 compat >= 55
+	lib:libavformat$secondaryArchSuffix = 55.47.100 compat >= 55
+	lib:libavdevice$secondaryArchSuffix = 55.13.100 compat >= 55
+	lib:libavfilter$secondaryArchSuffix = 4.10.100 compat >= 4
+	lib:libswscale$secondaryArchSuffix = 2.6.100 compat >= 2
+	lib:libswresample$secondaryArchSuffix = 0.19.100 compat >= 0
+	lib:libpostproc$secondaryArchSuffix = 52.3.100 compat >= 52
+	"
+
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku$secondaryArchSuffix >= $haikuVersion
+	lib:libbz2$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libogg$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libspeex$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libtheoradec$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libtheoraenc$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libvorbis$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libvorbisenc$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libvpx$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libz$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	devel:libbz2$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libogg$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libspeex$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libtheora$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libvorbis$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libvpx$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libz$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	haiku${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel >= $haikuVersion
+	cmd:gcc$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:ld$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:awk
+	cmd:make
+	cmd:perl
+	cmd:pkg_config$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:texi2html
+	cmd:yasm
+	"
+
+GLOBAL_WRITABLE_FILES="
+	settings/ffserver.conf
+	"
+
+PROVIDES_devel="
+	ffmpeg${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel = $portVersion compat >= 2.3
+	devel:libavutil$secondaryArchSuffix = 52.92.100 compat >= 52
+	devel:libavcodec$secondaryArchSuffix = 55.69.100 compat >= 55
+	devel:libavformat$secondaryArchSuffix = 55.47.100 compat >= 55
+	devel:libavdevice$secondaryArchSuffix = 55.13.100 compat >= 55
+	devel:libavfilter$secondaryArchSuffix = 4.10.100 compat >= 4
+	devel:libswscale$secondaryArchSuffix = 2.6.100 compat >= 2
+	devel:libswresample$secondaryArchSuffix = 0.19.100 compat >= 0
+	devel:libpostproc$secondaryArchSuffix = 52.3.100 compat >= 52
+	"
+
+REQUIRES_devel="
+	ffmpeg$secondaryArchSuffix == $portVersion base
+	"
+
+PATCH()
+{
+	# patch hard-coded config file path
+	sed -i "s,/etc/ffserver.conf,$sysconfDir/ffserver.conf," \
+		ffserver.c \
+		doc/ffserver.texi
+
+	# patch hard-coded paths to perl
+	sed -i "s,/usr/bin/perl,$portPackageLinksDir/cmd~perl/bin/perl," \
+		doc/Doxyfile \
+		doc/texi2pod.pl
+}
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	# not an autotools configure
+	./configure \
+		--prefix=$prefix \
+		--bindir=$prefix/bin \
+		--datadir=$dataDir/$portName \
+		--incdir=$includeDir \
+		--libdir=$libDir \
+		--shlibdir=$libDir \
+		--mandir=$manDir \
+		--disable-debug \
+		--enable-shared \
+		--enable-libvorbis \
+		--enable-libspeex \
+		--enable-libtheora \
+		--enable-libvpx
+
+	make $jobArgs CFLAGS="-fno-PIC -std=c99"
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	make install
+	
+#	rm -f $prefix/bin/ffprobe
+		# TODO: Determine and fix what is wrong with ffprobe! The executable
+		# seems to be broken. The NEEDED entries in the dynamic section look
+		# weird and the runtime loader fails relocating with "Operation not
+		# allowed".
+
+	prepareInstalledDevelLibs \
+		libavcodec \
+		libavdevice \
+		libavfilter \
+		libavformat \
+		libavutil \
+		libswresample \
+		libswscale
+	fixPkgconfig
+
+	# include the documented ffserver.conf
+	mkdir -p $docDir
+	cp doc/ffserver.conf $docDir
+
+	# devel package
+	packageEntries devel \
+		$developDir
+}
diff --git a/media-video/ffmpeg/patches/ffmpeg-2.3.patch b/media-video/ffmpeg/patches/ffmpeg-2.3.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3772ad52f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/media-video/ffmpeg/patches/ffmpeg-2.3.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From b44fcd01d625972a8a4ee18cb72be1d0bd4cde38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Augustin Cavalier <waddlesplash@gmail.com>
+Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 15:54:14 -0400
+Subject: [PATCH] configure: remove invalid option. From a StackOverflow post.
+
+---
+ configure | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/configure b/configure
+index 4ed43a0..6a81e3b 100755
+--- a/configure
++++ b/configure
+@@ -4297,7 +4297,7 @@ void foo(void) { __asm__ volatile ("" ::); }
+ EOF
+ 
+ _restrict=
+-for restrict_keyword in restrict __restrict__ __restrict; do
++for restrict_keyword in __restrict__ __restrict; do
+     check_cc <<EOF && _restrict=$restrict_keyword && break
+ void foo(char * $restrict_keyword p);
+ EOF
+-- 
+1.8.3.4
+