diff --git a/srcpkgs/vlc/patches/flac-1.3.0.patch b/srcpkgs/vlc/patches/flac-1.3.0.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 04d0cc92173..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/vlc/patches/flac-1.3.0.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-flac-1.3.0 pkgconfig files do use -I<includedir> and not -I<includedir>/FLAC.
-
---- modules/codec/flac.c.orig	2013-06-04 11:22:58.984909594 +0200
-+++ modules/codec/flac.c	2013-06-04 11:23:09.463977489 +0200
-@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@
- #include <vlc_codec.h>
- #include <vlc_aout.h>
- 
--#include <stream_decoder.h>
--#include <stream_encoder.h>
-+#include <FLAC/stream_decoder.h>
-+#include <FLAC/stream_encoder.h>
- 
- #include <vlc_block_helper.h>
- #include <vlc_bits.h>
diff --git a/srcpkgs/vlc/template b/srcpkgs/vlc/template
index 6404b5f71bb..c70dc668028 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/vlc/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/vlc/template
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 # Template file for 'vlc'
 pkgname=vlc
-version=2.0.7
-revision=2
+version=2.0.8a
+revision=1
+wrksrc="vlc-${version/a/}"
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--disable-gme --disable-libtar --enable-jack
  --disable-telepathy --disable-lua --disable-live555 --disable-fluidsynth
@@ -10,8 +11,8 @@ short_desc="VideoLan Client"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/"
 license="GPL-2"
-distfiles="http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/$version/vlc-$version.tar.xz"
-checksum=243107d59e4bd0b942cb4ce10292eab8233394f8109ff4fde44e64d0ee745314
+distfiles="http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/${version/a/}/vlc-$version.tar.xz"
+checksum=05215f34c487723c84ebb54ab43b836fc70fb466326f7c601847141a499034d2
 long_desc="
  VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player supporting most
  audio and video formats (H.264, Ogg, DivX, MKV, TS, MPEG-2, mp3, MPEG-4,