diff --git a/packages/mediacenter/xbmc/patches/12.2.0/xbmc-990.25-XB21eb522.patch b/packages/mediacenter/xbmc/patches/12.2.0/xbmc-990.25-XB21eb522.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8581ec7d63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/mediacenter/xbmc/patches/12.2.0/xbmc-990.25-XB21eb522.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff -Naur xbmc-12.2.0/lib/libdvd/libdvdread/src/dvd_reader.c xbmc-12.2.0.patch/lib/libdvd/libdvdread/src/dvd_reader.c
+--- xbmc-12.2.0/lib/libdvd/libdvdread/src/dvd_reader.c	2013-05-02 17:00:11.000000000 +0200
++++ xbmc-12.2.0.patch/lib/libdvd/libdvdread/src/dvd_reader.c	2013-06-18 07:08:23.973913805 +0200
+@@ -423,6 +423,9 @@
+               /* Also WIN32 does not have symlinks, so we don't need this bit of code. */
+ 
+ 	/* Resolve any symlinks and get the absolut dir name. */
++#if defined(_XBMC) /* for XBMC, only do symlink resolution for (real) non-xbmc-VFS paths */
++	if ( path[0] == '/' )
++#endif // _XBMC
+ 	{
+ 	    char *new_path;
+ 	    int cdir = open( ".", O_RDONLY );