diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/vlc/vlc_1.1.11.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/vlc/vlc_1.1.11.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fb69e05de5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/vlc/vlc_1.1.11.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# This recipe packages vlc as a library as well, so qt4 dependencies
+# can be avoided when only the library is installed.
+
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=ed7e492ee44e70125a5d42e118354a13"
+
+require vlc.inc
+
+# work around build failure
+EXTRA_OECONF += " --enable-libxml2=no"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "a64846d6f21ea179ae8e8bfb6f9447fe"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "682560be08b82bedfaf30d8a611d80093c5883c1de72fcbcf05715b8e9f4e1cb"
+
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/vlc/vlc_1.1.4.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/vlc/vlc_1.1.4.1.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index 84897b04db..0000000000
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/vlc/vlc_1.1.4.1.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-# This recipe packages vlc as a library as well, so qt4 dependencies
-# can be avoided when only the library is installed.
-
-require vlc.inc
-
-PR = "r1"
-
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "ce17c335b38b322949694313173fcd49"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "61c9ea30a17ea40c6ccbfd507026e5c83ad9e0691f221d3667c8e49696d7c2aa"
-