diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/3.x.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/3.x.nix
index a65e978f981..33b1cd18757 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/3.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/3.x.nix
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 , enableGtk2      ? false, gtk2
 , enableGtk3      ? false, gtk3
 , enableVtk       ? false, vtk
-, enableFfmpeg    ? false, ffmpeg_3
+, enableFfmpeg    ? false, ffmpeg
 , enableGStreamer ? false, gst_all_1
 , enableTesseract ? false, tesseract, leptonica
 , enableTbb       ? false, tbb
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     ++ lib.optional enableTIFF libtiff
     ++ lib.optional enableWebP libwebp
     ++ lib.optionals enableEXR [ openexr ilmbase ]
-    ++ lib.optional enableFfmpeg ffmpeg_3
+    ++ lib.optional enableFfmpeg ffmpeg
     ++ lib.optionals (enableFfmpeg && stdenv.isDarwin)
                      [ VideoDecodeAcceleration bzip2 ]
     ++ lib.optionals enableGStreamer (with gst_all_1; [ gstreamer gst-plugins-base ])