diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/liba52/liba52/buildcleanup.patch b/meta/recipes-multimedia/liba52/liba52/buildcleanup.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5168100
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/liba52/liba52/buildcleanup.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+It makes much more sense to control our own CFLAGS and avoiding fPIC breaks
+some arches too. Assume we know what we're doing and remove all the messing 
+around.
+
+RP 23/2/10
+
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [configuration]
+
+Index: a52dec-0.7.4/configure.in
+===================================================================
+--- a52dec-0.7.4.orig/configure.in	2010-02-23 14:51:50.000000000 +0000
++++ a52dec-0.7.4/configure.in	2010-02-23 14:52:36.000000000 +0000
+@@ -14,62 +14,6 @@
+ AC_PROG_CC
+ AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL
+ 
+-if test x"$GCC" = x"yes"; then
+-
+-    dnl GCC-specific flags - try to optimize them sometime
+-    dnl -Wall -Werror moved to the end to not disturb the configure script
+-
+-    dnl -O3
+-    changequote(<<,>>)
+-    OPT_CFLAGS=`echo "$CFLAGS"|sed "s/-O[0-9]*//g"`
+-    changequote([,])
+-    OPT_CFLAGS="$OPT_CFLAGS -O3"
+-    AC_TRY_CFLAGS([$OPT_CFLAGS],[CFLAGS=$OPT_CFLAGS])
+-
+-    dnl -fomit-frame-pointer
+-    OPT_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fomit-frame-pointer"
+-    AC_TRY_CFLAGS([$OPT_CFLAGS],[CFLAGS=$OPT_CFLAGS])
+-
+-    dnl arch-specific flags
+-    case "$host" in
+-    i?86-* | k?-*)
+-	case "$host" in
+-	i386-*) OPT_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -mcpu=i386";;
+-	i486-*) OPT_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -mcpu=i486";;
+-	i586-*) OPT_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -mcpu=pentium";;
+-	i686-*) OPT_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -mcpu=pentiumpro";;
+-	k6-*)   OPT_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -mcpu=k6";;
+-	esac
+-	AC_TRY_CFLAGS([$OPT_CFLAGS],[CFLAGS=$OPT_CFLAGS]);;
+-    sparc-* | sparc64-*)
+-	OPT_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -mtune=ultrasparc"
+-	AC_TRY_CFLAGS([$OPT_CFLAGS],[CFLAGS=$OPT_CFLAGS]);;
+-    mips-sgi-irix6.*)	dnl do we need to be that specific ?
+-	OPT_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -mabi=64"
+-	AC_TRY_CFLAGS([$OPT_CFLAGS],[CFLAGS=$OPT_CFLAGS]);;
+-    esac
+-elif test x"$CC" = x"tcc" -a x"`$CC -version 2>&1 | grep TenDRA`" != x""; then
+-    dnl TenDRA portability checking compiler
+-    TENDRA=yes
+-    CFLAGS="-Xp -Yansi -f`pwd`/include/tendra.h -DELIDE_CODE"
+-    enable_mlib=no
+-    enable_oss=no
+-    enable_solaris_audio=no
+-elif test x"$CC" = x"icc" -a x"`$CC -V 2>&1 | grep Intel`" != x""; then
+-    dnl Intel C++ compiler
+-    CFLAGS="-g -O3 -unroll -ip"
+-else
+-    dnl non-gcc flags - we probably need exact configuration triplets here.
+-    case "$host" in
+-    mips-sgi-irix6.*)
+-	OPT_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -64"
+-	AC_TRY_CFLAGS([$OPT_CFLAGS],[CFLAGS=$OPT_CFLAGS]);;
+-    sparc-sun-solaris*)
+-	OPT_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -xCC -fast -xO5"
+-	AC_TRY_CFLAGS([$OPT_CFLAGS],[CFLAGS=$OPT_CFLAGS]);;
+-    esac
+-fi
+-
+ dnl Checks for libtool - this must be done after we set cflags
+ AC_DISABLE_SHARED
+ AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL
+Index: a52dec-0.7.4/liba52/configure.incl
+===================================================================
+--- a52dec-0.7.4.orig/liba52/configure.incl	2010-02-23 14:51:44.000000000 +0000
++++ a52dec-0.7.4/liba52/configure.incl	2010-02-23 14:51:59.000000000 +0000
+@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
+ AC_SUBST([LIBA52_CFLAGS])
+ AC_SUBST([LIBA52_LIBS])
+ 
+-dnl avoid -fPIC when possible
+-LIBA52_CFLAGS="$LIBA52_CFLAGS -prefer-non-pic"
+-
+ AC_ARG_ENABLE([double],
+     [  --enable-double         use double-precision samples])
+ if test x"$enable_double" = x"yes"; then
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/liba52/liba52_0.7.4.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/liba52/liba52_0.7.4.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..94b66b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/liba52/liba52_0.7.4.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+SUMMARY = "ATSC A/52 surround sound stream decoder"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://liba52.sourceforge.net/"
+LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3 \
+			file://include/a52.h;beginline=1;endline=12;md5=81152ceb3562bf20a60d1b6018175dd1"
+SECTION = "libs"
+PR = "r4"
+
+inherit autotools
+
+SRC_URI = "http://liba52.sourceforge.net/files/a52dec-${PV}.tar.gz \
+           file://buildcleanup.patch"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "caa9f5bc44232dc8aeea773fea56be80"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "a21d724ab3b3933330194353687df82c475b5dfb997513eef4c25de6c865ec33"
+S = "${WORKDIR}/a52dec-${PV}"
+
+EXTRA_OECONF = " --enable-shared "
+
+PACKAGES =+ "a52dec a52dec-doc"
+
+FILES_a52dec = " ${bindir}/* "
+FILES_a52dec-doc = " ${mandir}/man1/* "