diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/xvidcap/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/video/xvidcap/default.nix
index 784af50a6eeb..9d7f8a6ac992 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/xvidcap/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/video/xvidcap/default.nix
@@ -1,18 +1,19 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, perl, perlXMLParser, pkgconfig, gtk
-, scrollkeeper, libglade, libXmu, libXext}:
+, scrollkeeper, libglade, libXmu, libX11, libXext, gettext, lame, libXfixes, libXdamage}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "xvidcap-1.1.4p1";
+  name = "xvidcap-1.1.7";
   
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = mirror://sourceforge/xvidcap/xvidcap-1.1.4p1.tar.gz;
-    md5 = "35a038dba807f6e09f1d9dd2bc0c5719";
+    url = mirror://sourceforge/xvidcap/xvidcap-1.1.7.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "0p8rhpyhxgy37crf1xk1046z4p663jg7ww776jw92pld3s024ihm";
   };
-  
-  buildInputs = [perl perlXMLParser pkgconfig gtk scrollkeeper libglade libXmu];
+
+  patches = [ ./xlib.patch ];
+  buildInputs = [perl perlXMLParser pkgconfig gtk scrollkeeper libglade libXmu gettext lame libXdamage libXfixes libXext libX11];
 
   # !!! don't know why this is necessary
-  NIX_LDFLAGS = "-rpath ${libXext}/lib";
+  NIX_LDFLAGS = "-lXext -lX11 -lz -lgcc_s";
 
   meta = { 
     description = "screencast video catpuring tool";
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 3c10ed0fdbe0..d08c0824071f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7048,10 +7048,10 @@ let
   };
 
   xvidcap = import ../applications/video/xvidcap {
-    inherit fetchurl stdenv perl perlXMLParser pkgconfig;
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv perl perlXMLParser pkgconfig gettext lame;
     inherit (gtkLibs) gtk;
     inherit (gnome) scrollkeeper libglade;
-    inherit (xlibs) libXmu libXext;
+    inherit (xlibs) libXmu libXext libXfixes libXdamage libX11;
   };
 
   # doesn't compile yet - in case someone else want's to continue ..