diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/mplayer/libplacebo_7.349.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/mplayer/libplacebo_7.349.0.bb
index 8fed859d64..6431ab3dcf 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/mplayer/libplacebo_7.349.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/mplayer/libplacebo_7.349.0.bb
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[vulkan] =  "-Dvulkan=enabled,-Dvulkan=disabled,vulkan-loader shade
 PACKAGECONFIG[glslang] = "-Dglslang=enabled,-Dglslang=disabled,glslang"
 PACKAGECONFIG[opengl] = "-Dopengl=enabled,-Dopengl=disabled"
 PACKAGECONFIG[lcms] = "-Dlcms=enabled,-Dlcms=disabled,lcms"
-PACKAGECONFIG[demos] = "-Ddemos=true,-Ddemos=false,ffmpeg libsdl2 libsdl2-image"
+PACKAGECONFIG[demos] = "-Ddemos=true,-Ddemos=false,ffmpeg virtual/libsdl2 libsdl2-image"
 
 EXTRA_OEMESON = "-Dvulkan-registry=${STAGING_DATADIR}/vulkan/registry/vk.xml"