diff --git a/srcpkgs/ffmpeg/template b/srcpkgs/ffmpeg/template
index f9e8207e75..180f2e10d3 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/ffmpeg/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/ffmpeg/template
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 # Template file for 'ffmpeg'
 pkgname=ffmpeg
-version=2.7.2
-revision=2
+version=2.8
+revision=1
 short_desc="Decoding, encoding and streaming software"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
 license="GPL-3"
 homepage="http://www.ffmpeg.org"
 distfiles="${homepage}/releases/ffmpeg-${version}.tar.bz2"
-checksum=7ceb7550ad628c526fa6c9ff23fdfb687a62f54d90c4a730998d8c2b417b9ef2
+checksum=9565236404d3515aab754283c687c0a001019003148bf7f708e643608c0690b8
 
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config perl yasm"
 makedepends="zlib-devel bzip2-devel freetype-devel alsa-lib-devel libXfixes-devel
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ do_configure() {
 		--enable-postproc --enable-opencl ${_args}
 }
 do_build() {
+	rm ${XBPS_WRAPPERDIR}/strip
 	make ${makejobs}
 	make doc/ff{mpeg,play,server}.1
 }