diff --git a/package/motion/Config.in b/package/motion/Config.in
index 7a2e5dbea1..c926498825 100644
--- a/package/motion/Config.in
+++ b/package/motion/Config.in
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_MOTION
 	bool "motion"
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # fork()
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_FFMPEG
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_FFMPEG_SWSCALE
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_JPEG
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBMICROHTTPD
 	help
diff --git a/package/motion/motion.mk b/package/motion/motion.mk
index 773544e346..8919cbef6a 100644
--- a/package/motion/motion.mk
+++ b/package/motion/motion.mk
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 MOTION_VERSION = 5c8ac5282b3e980270555c1d2c6f710829a2856e
 MOTION_SITE = $(call github,Motion-Project,motion,$(MOTION_VERSION))
 MOTION_AUTORECONF = YES
+MOTION_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf ffmpeg jpeg libmicrohttpd
 MOTION_CONF_OPTS = --without-pgsql \
                    --without-sqlite3 \
                    --without-mysql \