diff --git a/packages/waypipe/build.sh b/packages/waypipe/build.sh
index f657d93f32..2b0edb0550 100644
--- a/packages/waypipe/build.sh
+++ b/packages/waypipe/build.sh
@@ -3,16 +3,20 @@ TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="A proxy for Wayland clients"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="MIT"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION="0.9.2"
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
+TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=2
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/-/archive/v${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}/waypipe-v${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.bz2
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=ef0783ba95abb950cb0e876e1d186de77905759ed7406ec23973f46cab96b5ee
 TERMUX_PKG_AUTO_UPDATE=true
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libandroid-spawn, liblz4, libwayland, zstd"
-TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="ffmpeg, libwayland-protocols, scdoc"
+TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="libwayland-protocols, scdoc"
+# confusing preprocessor feature matrix in waypipe:
+# https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/-/blob/a04f6e3573f19ec7d7a7ef74b3fd1ee52400a2f7/src/video.c#L28-L77
+# -Dwith_dmabuf=disabled appears to cause -Dwith_video=enabled to have no effect,
+# preventing the compilation of any calls to FFmpeg API.
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="
 -Dman-pages=enabled
 -Dwerror=false
--Dwith_video=enabled
+-Dwith_video=disabled
 -Dwith_dmabuf=disabled
 -Dwith_lz4=enabled
 -Dwith_zstd=enabled