diff --git a/pkgs/tools/graphics/swfdec/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/graphics/swfdec/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1c3c0f3b451
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/graphics/swfdec/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl
+, cairo, pango, glib, liboil, zlib, gstreamer, gst-plugins-base
+, gst-plugins-good , gtk2, libsoup, alsaLib, pkgconfig
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+  pname = "swfdec";
+  version = "0.8.4";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/download/swfdec/0.8/swfdec-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "00nqrd0fzf0g76rn80d7h56n6hxv7x1x6k89zj45bj564lzwc3vs";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    cairo glib liboil pango zlib gstreamer gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good
+    gtk2 libsoup alsaLib pkgconfig
+  ];
+  
+  postInstall = ''
+    mkdir "$out/bin"
+    cp tools/.libs/swfdec-extract "$out/bin"
+    cp tools/.libs/dump "$out/bin/swfdec-dump"
+    cp player/.libs/swfplay "$out/bin/swfplay"
+  '';
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  meta = {
+    inherit version;
+    description = "Decoder/renderer for Macromedia Flash animations";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.lgpl21 ;
+    maintainers = [stdenv.lib.maintainers.raskin];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+    homepage = https://swfdec.freedesktop.org/wiki/;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 0282ecd24de..e1ca6dc9fcb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4976,6 +4976,8 @@ with pkgs;
     inherit (perlPackages) LWP URI HTMLParser HTTPServerSimple Parent;
   };
 
+  swfdec = callPackage ../tools/graphics/swfdec {};
+
   svnfs = callPackage ../tools/filesystems/svnfs { };
 
   svtplay-dl = callPackage ../tools/misc/svtplay-dl { };