diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/dvdauthor/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/video/dvdauthor/default.nix
index daf785b7139f..721368ae390a 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/dvdauthor/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/video/dvdauthor/default.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 { lib
 , stdenv
 , fetchurl
-, imagemagick
+, autoreconfHook
 , libdvdread
 , libxml2
 , freetype
@@ -15,20 +15,18 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "dvdauthor";
-  version = "0.7.1";
+  version = "0.7.2";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://sourceforge/dvdauthor/dvdauthor-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1s8zqlim0s3hk5sbdsilip3qqh0yv05l1jwx49d9rsy614dv27sh";
+    hash = "sha256-MCCpLen3jrNvSLbyLVoAHEcQeCZjSnhaYt/NCA9hLrc=";
   };
 
-  buildInputs = [ libpng freetype libdvdread libxml2 zlib fribidi imagemagick flex bison ];
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
+  buildInputs = [ libpng freetype libdvdread libxml2 zlib fribidi flex bison ];
 
-  patches = [
-    ./dvdauthor-0.7.1-automake-1.13.patch
-    ./dvdauthor-0.7.1-mga-strndup.patch
-    ./dvdauthor-imagemagick-0.7.0.patch
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    pkg-config
+    autoreconfHook
   ];
 
   meta = with lib; {
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/dvdauthor/dvdauthor-0.7.1-automake-1.13.patch b/pkgs/applications/video/dvdauthor/dvdauthor-0.7.1-automake-1.13.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 786f0c968556..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/dvdauthor/dvdauthor-0.7.1-automake-1.13.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- dvdauthor/configure.ac~	2013-01-04 08:27:40.713197029 +0800
-+++ dvdauthor/configure.ac	2013-01-04 08:27:53.273525273 +0800
-@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
- AC_INIT(DVDAuthor,0.7.1,dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net)
- 
--AM_CONFIG_HEADER(src/config.h)
-+AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(src/config.h)
- AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(autotools)
- 
- AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/dvdauthor/dvdauthor-0.7.1-mga-strndup.patch b/pkgs/applications/video/dvdauthor/dvdauthor-0.7.1-mga-strndup.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5f77a68081a4..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/dvdauthor/dvdauthor-0.7.1-mga-strndup.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-Index: dvdauthor/src/dvdvml.l
-===================================================================
---- dvdauthor/src/dvdvml.l
-+++ dvdauthor/src/dvdvml.l      2014-09-14 19:36:05.098847465 +0000
-@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
-  * USA
-  */
- 
-+#include "config.h"
- #include "compat.h" /* needed for bool */
- #include "dvdvm.h"
- #include "dvdvmy.h"
-Index: dvdauthor/src/dvdvmy.y
-===================================================================
---- dvdauthor/src/dvdvmy.y
-+++ dvdauthor/src/dvdvmy.y      2014-09-14 19:36:28.251618378 +0000
-@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
-  * USA
-  */
- 
-+#include "config.h"
- #include "compat.h" /* needed for bool */
- #include "dvdvm.h"
- 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/dvdauthor/dvdauthor-imagemagick-0.7.0.patch b/pkgs/applications/video/dvdauthor/dvdauthor-imagemagick-0.7.0.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 52b6cc44cd59..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/dvdauthor/dvdauthor-imagemagick-0.7.0.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- dvdauthor/configure.ac.orig	2010-10-23 04:26:49.000000000 +0200
-+++ dvdauthor/configure.ac	2010-10-24 14:37:45.489064778 +0200
-@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
- 
- usemagick=0
- 
--AC_CHECK_PROGS(MAGICKCONFIG, [Magick-config])
-+AC_CHECK_PROGS(MAGICKCONFIG, [MagickCore-config])
- if test -n "$MAGICKCONFIG"; then
-     ac_save_CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS"
-     ac_save_LIBS="$LIBS"