diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libvmaf/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libvmaf/default.nix
index 82c76f7ea37..fb494909c83 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libvmaf/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libvmaf/default.nix
@@ -1,33 +1,28 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, autoconf, automake, intltool, libtool, pkgconfig }:
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, meson, ninja }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "libvmaf";
-  version = "1.3.15";
+  version = "1.5.1";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "netflix";
     repo = "vmaf";
     rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256="10kgcdf06hzhbl5r7zsllq88bxbyn282hfqx5i3hkp66fpq896d2";
+    sha256 = "10fw53k9k4aq4p2qi5qkfjfnhldw4p5bbmxggf8220gfa95nvyl3";
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoconf automake intltool libtool pkgconfig ];
+  sourceRoot = "source/libvmaf";
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ meson ninja ];
   outputs = [ "out" "dev" ];
   doCheck = true;
 
-  postFixup = ''
-    substituteInPlace "$dev/lib/pkgconfig/libvmaf.pc" \
-      --replace "includedir=/usr/local/include" "includedir=$dev"
-  '';
-
-  makeFlags = [ "INSTALL_PREFIX=${placeholder "out"}" ];
-
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = "https://github.com/Netflix/vmaf";
     description = "Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion (VMAF)";
-    platforms = platforms.linux;
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
     license = licenses.asl20;
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.cfsmp3 ];
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.cfsmp3 maintainers.marsam ];
   };
 
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 04eacccf2c1..1d10df86f7c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -11378,7 +11378,6 @@ in
     frei0r = if stdenv.isDarwin then null else frei0r;
     game-music-emu = if stdenv.isDarwin then null else game-music-emu;
     libjack2 = if stdenv.isDarwin then null else libjack2;
-    libvmaf = if stdenv.isDarwin then null else libvmaf;
     libmodplug = if stdenv.isDarwin then null else libmodplug;
     openal = if stdenv.isDarwin then null else openal;
     libmfx = if stdenv.isDarwin then null else intel-media-sdk;