diff --git a/packages/multimedia/libmpeg2/meta b/packages/multimedia/libmpeg2/meta
index 1632bb06e5..0ec1a58a6b 100644
--- a/packages/multimedia/libmpeg2/meta
+++ b/packages/multimedia/libmpeg2/meta
@@ -12,3 +12,5 @@ PKG_SECTION="multimedia"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="libmpeg2: The MPEG Library - version 2"
 PKG_LONGDESC="The MPEG Library is a collection of C routines to decode MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 movies and dither them in a variety of colour schemes."
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+
+PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"