diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libav/libav.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libav/libav.inc
index 9d3f3b6dc2..c8277f9bdb 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libav/libav.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libav/libav.inc
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Libav is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libav.org/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-PRIORITY = "optional"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 
 # Provides ffmpeg compat, see http://libav.org/about.html