diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/4.x.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/4.x.nix
index 15c8d46b6131..58609a9186d6 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/4.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/4.x.nix
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 , enableVtk ? false
 , vtk
 , enableFfmpeg ? true
-, ffmpeg_3
+, ffmpeg
 , enableGStreamer ? true
 , gst_all_1
 , enableTesseract ? false
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     ++ lib.optional enableTIFF libtiff
     ++ lib.optional enableWebP libwebp
     ++ lib.optionals enableEXR [ openexr ilmbase ]
-    ++ lib.optional enableFfmpeg ffmpeg_3
+    ++ lib.optional enableFfmpeg ffmpeg
     ++ lib.optionals (enableFfmpeg && stdenv.isDarwin)
       [ VideoDecodeAcceleration bzip2 ]
     ++ lib.optionals enableGStreamer (with gst_all_1; [ gstreamer gst-plugins-base ])