diff --git a/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_legacy-0.10.14.recipe b/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_legacy-0.10.14.recipe
index 2f9e0dd35..a0fac87be 100644
--- a/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_legacy-0.10.14.recipe
+++ b/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_legacy-0.10.14.recipe
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ COPYRIGHT="2000-2003 Fabrice Bellard
 SOURCE_URI="http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.10.14.tar.bz2"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="1ef77533f3803b8630403df413005c1c41b18c50b16895815182fd70d2f833bb"
 REVISION="1"
+SOURCE_DIR="ffmpeg-$portVersion"
 ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 !x86 !x86_64"
 SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 !x86"
 PATCHES="ffmpeg-0.10.14-gcc2.patch"
diff --git a/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_legacy-0.11.5.recipe b/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_legacy-0.11.5.recipe
index c74aaca04..3b3deee47 100644
--- a/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_legacy-0.11.5.recipe
+++ b/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_legacy-0.11.5.recipe
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ COPYRIGHT="2000-2003 Fabrice Bellard
 SOURCE_URI="http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.11.5.tar.bz2"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="9492991f44d6757080f457c0aef83e68884dbfb925666806c7f7ea0389e5b8c0"
 REVISION="2"
+SOURCE_DIR="ffmpeg-$portVersion"
 # WARNING: although this can be built with gcc2, the resulting binaries will
 # crash when decoding h263 or h264 videos in MediaPlayer. So gcc2 is stuck with
 # ffmpeg version 0.10. Do not unmark this as broken until the runtime issues are