diff --git a/multimedia/gst1-libav/Makefile b/multimedia/gst1-libav/Makefile
index b4ae09a7d..dce722c93 100644
--- a/multimedia/gst1-libav/Makefile
+++ b/multimedia/gst1-libav/Makefile
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=gst1-libav
-PKG_VERSION:=1.17.1
+PKG_VERSION:=1.17.2
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=gst-libav-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.xz
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-libav
-PKG_HASH:=9d8d73a7944f776199c7648b3b7330f940b10dc4e08a6509185ae43cb456cb1f
+PKG_HASH:=5c8768e308b547b237700d4003c3a5622eb361914d69ec43b480f1c23ea31752
 PKG_BUILD_DIR:=$(BUILD_DIR)/gst-libav-$(PKG_VERSION)
 
 PKG_MAINTAINER:=W. Michael Petullo <mike@flyn.org> \
diff --git a/multimedia/gst1-libav/patches/010-distutils.patch b/multimedia/gst1-libav/patches/010-distutils.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2ad4627c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/multimedia/gst1-libav/patches/010-distutils.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+--- a/meson.build
++++ b/meson.build
+@@ -188,5 +188,5 @@ plugins = []
+ subdir('ext/libav')
+ subdir('docs')
+ 
+-python3 = import('python').find_installation()
++python3 = 'python3'
+ run_command(python3, '-c', 'import shutil; shutil.copy("hooks/pre-commit.hook", ".git/hooks/pre-commit")')