diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/conf/layer.conf b/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/conf/layer.conf
index e05a652..38aab8d 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/conf/layer.conf
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/conf/layer.conf
@@ -29,6 +29,6 @@
 # cause compatibility issues with other layers
 LAYERVERSION_multimedia-layer = "1"
 
-LAYERDEPENDS_multimedia-layer = "core"
+LAYERDEPENDS_multimedia-layer = "core meta-python"
 
 LAYERSERIES_COMPAT_multimedia-layer = "thud warrior"
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-connectivity/gupnp/gssdp.inc b/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-connectivity/gupnp/gssdp.inc
deleted file mode 100644
index 23f17ed..0000000
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-connectivity/gupnp/gssdp.inc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-SUMMARY = "Resource discovery and announcement over SSDP"
-DESCRIPTION = "GSSDP implements resource discovery and announcement over SSDP (Simpe Service Discovery Protocol)."
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=3bf50002aefd002f49e7bb854063f7e7"
-DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 libsoup-2.4"
-
-inherit autotools pkgconfig gobject-introspection vala
-
-# Copy vapigen.m4 so that it doesn't get removed by vala class
-# (normally this would be the right thing to do, but in gssdp the vapigen.m4 has only a custom macro)
-do_configure_prepend() {
-        cp -f ${S}/m4/vapigen.m4 ${S}/m4/vapigen-custom.m4 || true
-}
-
-PACKAGECONFIG ??= "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'x11', 'gtk', '', d)}"
-PACKAGECONFIG[gtk] = "--with-gtk,--without-gtk,gtk+"
-
-PACKAGES =+ "gssdp-tools"
-
-FILES_gssdp-tools = "${bindir}/gssdp* ${datadir}/gssdp/*.glade"
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-connectivity/gupnp/gssdp_1.0.2.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-connectivity/gupnp/gssdp_1.0.2.bb
index b60d1ea..6088ef1 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-connectivity/gupnp/gssdp_1.0.2.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-connectivity/gupnp/gssdp_1.0.2.bb
@@ -1,9 +1,24 @@
-require gssdp.inc
-
-inherit gtk-doc
-
-PACKAGECONFIG[gtk] = "--with-gtk,--without-gtk,gtk+3"
+SUMMARY = "Resource discovery and announcement over SSDP"
+DESCRIPTION = "GSSDP implements resource discovery and announcement over SSDP (Simpe Service Discovery Protocol)."
+LICENSE = "LGPLv2"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=3bf50002aefd002f49e7bb854063f7e7"
+DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 libsoup-2.4"
 
 SRC_URI = "${GNOME_MIRROR}/${BPN}/1.0/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.xz"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "b30c9a406853c6a3a012d151d6e7ad2c"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "a1e17c09c7e1a185b0bd84fd6ff3794045a3cd729b707c23e422ff66471535dc"
+
+inherit autotools pkgconfig gobject-introspection vala gtk-doc
+
+# Copy vapigen.m4 so that it doesn't get removed by vala class
+# (normally this would be the right thing to do, but in gssdp the vapigen.m4 has only a custom macro)
+do_configure_prepend() {
+        cp -f ${S}/m4/vapigen.m4 ${S}/m4/vapigen-custom.m4 || true
+}
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'x11', 'gtk', '', d)}"
+PACKAGECONFIG[gtk] = "--with-gtk,--without-gtk,gtk+3"
+
+PACKAGES =+ "gssdp-tools"
+
+FILES_gssdp-tools = "${bindir}/gssdp* ${datadir}/gssdp/*.glade"
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-connectivity/rygel/rygel_0.37.0.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-connectivity/rygel/rygel_0.37.0.bb
index 4869d86..0adc721 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-connectivity/rygel/rygel_0.37.0.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-connectivity/rygel/rygel_0.37.0.bb
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 RDEPENDS_${PN} = "gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-playback shared-mime-info"
 RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "rygel-plugin-media-export"
 
-GNOME_COMPRESS_TYPE = "xz"
 SRC_URI[archive.md5sum] = "f897167ad82e2e741582f2c393a76843"
 SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "dfd3d885da3ac383ba0cfbf119995f4a0c2bca2cc8f8cfcd3df10cfec8f35cd7"
 
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-multimedia/fluidsynth/fluidsynth_git.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-multimedia/fluidsynth/fluidsynth_git.bb
index 4f600a2..ba1ef6b 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-multimedia/fluidsynth/fluidsynth_git.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-multimedia/fluidsynth/fluidsynth_git.bb
@@ -20,3 +20,4 @@
 PACKAGECONFIG[pulseaudio] = "-Denable-pulseaudio=ON,-Denable-pulseaudio=OFF,pulseaudio"
 PACKAGECONFIG[portaudio] = "-Denable-portaudio=ON,-Denable-portaudio=OFF,portaudio-v19"
 PACKAGECONFIG[profiling] = "-Denable-profiling=ON,-Denable-profiling=OFF"
+PACKAGECONFIG[readline] = "-Denable-readline=ON,-Denable-readline=OFF,readline"
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-multimedia/libao/libao_1.2.0.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-multimedia/libao/libao_1.2.0.bb
index 4c0976e..0513461 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-multimedia/libao/libao_1.2.0.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-multimedia/libao/libao_1.2.0.bb
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
 }
 
 PACKAGECONFIG ?= "${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'alsa pulseaudio', d)}"
-PACKAGECONFIG[esound] = "--enable-esd,--disable-esd,esound"
 PACKAGECONFIG[alsa] = "--enable-alsa,--disable-alsa,alsa-lib"
 PACKAGECONFIG[pulseaudio] = "--enable-pulse,--disable-pulse,pulseaudio"
 FILES_${BPN}-ckport = "${libdir}/ckport"
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-multimedia/tremor/tremor_20150107.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-multimedia/tremor/tremor_20180319.bb
similarity index 64%
rename from meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-multimedia/tremor/tremor_20150107.bb
rename to meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-multimedia/tremor/tremor_20180319.bb
index 937894a..beeb23a 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-multimedia/tremor/tremor_20150107.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-multimedia/tremor/tremor_20180319.bb
@@ -5,20 +5,14 @@
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=db1b7a668b2a6f47b2af88fb008ad555 \
                     file://os.h;beginline=3;endline=14;md5=5c0af5e1bedef3ce8178c89f48cd6f1f"
 DEPENDS = "libogg"
-SRCDATE = "${PV}"
-PR = "r1"
 
-# SVN support for upstream version check isn't implemented yet
-RECIPE_UPSTREAM_VERSION = "20150107"
-RECIPE_UPSTREAM_DATE = "Jan 07, 2015"
-CHECK_DATE = "Aug 12, 2015"
-
-SRC_URI = "svn://svn.xiph.org/trunk;module=Tremor;rev=19427;protocol=http \
+SRC_URI = "git://git.xiph.org/tremor.git;protocol=https \
            file://obsolete_automake_macros.patch;striplevel=0 \
            file://tremor-arm-thumb2.patch \
 "
+SRCREV = "7c30a66346199f3f09017a09567c6c8a3a0eedc8"
 
-S = "${WORKDIR}/Tremor"
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
 inherit autotools pkgconfig
 
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-multimedia/vlc/vlc.inc b/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-multimedia/vlc/vlc.inc
index 9bbc668..5c38be3 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-multimedia/vlc/vlc.inc
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-multimedia/vlc/vlc.inc
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 
 DEPENDS = "coreutils-native fribidi libtool libgcrypt libgcrypt-native \
-   dbus dbus-glib libxml2 gnutls \
+   dbus libxml2 gnutls \
    tremor faad2 ffmpeg flac fluidsynth alsa-lib \
    lua-native lua libidn \
    avahi jpeg xz libmodplug mpeg2dec \
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
 PACKAGECONFIG[dv1394] = "--enable-dv1394,--disable-dv1394,libraw1394 libavc1394"
 PACKAGECONFIG[svg] = "--enable-svg,--disable-svg,librsvg"
 PACKAGECONFIG[svgdec] = "--enable-svgdec,--disable-svgdec,librsvg cairo"
-PACKAGECONFIG[notify] = "--enable-notify,--disable-notify, libnotify gtk+"
+PACKAGECONFIG[notify] = "--enable-notify,--disable-notify, libnotify gtk+3"
 PACKAGECONFIG[fontconfig] = "--enable-fontconfig,--disable-fontconfig, fontconfig"
 PACKAGECONFIG[freetype] = "--enable-freetype,--disable-freetype, freetype"
 PACKAGECONFIG[dvdread] = "--enable-dvdread,--disable-dvdread, libdvdread libdvdcss"
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-support/libmediaart/libmediaart.inc b/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-support/libmediaart/libmediaart.inc
index 57dca9c..c7b368d 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-support/libmediaart/libmediaart.inc
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/recipes-support/libmediaart/libmediaart.inc
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
 
 DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 gdk-pixbuf"
 
-GNOME_COMPRESS_TYPE = "xz"
-
 inherit gnomebase gtk-doc gobject-introspection
 
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-qt --enable-gdkpixbuf"