diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/mlv-app/aarch64-flags.patch b/pkgs/applications/video/mlv-app/aarch64-flags.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4d26bfdd39d0..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/mlv-app/aarch64-flags.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/platform/qt/MLVApp.pro b/platform/qt/MLVApp.pro
-index ebdc552..3e37573 100644
---- a/platform/qt/MLVApp.pro
-+++ b/platform/qt/MLVApp.pro
-@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ win32{
-
- # Linux
- linux-g++*{
--    QMAKE_CFLAGS += -O3 -fopenmp -msse4.1 -mssse3 -msse3 -msse2 -msse -std=c99 -ftree-vectorize
-+    QMAKE_CFLAGS += -O3 -fopenmp -std=c99 -ftree-vectorize
-     QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += -fopenmp -std=c++11 -ftree-vectorize
-     LIBS += -lgomp
- }
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/mlv-app/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/video/mlv-app/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index d008e08f3d2b..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/mlv-app/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
-{
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  lib,
-  mkDerivation,
-  qmake,
-  qtbase,
-  qtmultimedia,
-  stdenv,
-}:
-
-mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "mlv-app";
-  version = "1.14";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "ilia3101";
-    repo = "MLV-App";
-    rev = "QTv${version}";
-    sha256 = "sha256-RfZXHmWSjZBxNFwQ/bzHppsLS0LauURIdnkAzxAIBcU=";
-  };
-
-  patches = lib.optionals stdenv.hostPlatform.isAarch64 [
-    # remove optimization flags with x86 only instruction sets
-    ./aarch64-flags.patch
-  ];
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    runHook preInstall
-    install -Dm555 -t $out/bin                mlvapp
-    install -Dm444 -t $out/share/applications mlvapp.desktop
-    install -Dm444 -t $out/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps RetinaIMG/MLVAPP.png
-    runHook postInstall
-  '';
-
-  qmakeFlags = [ "MLVApp.pro" ];
-
-  preConfigure = ''
-    export HOME=$TMPDIR
-    cd platform/qt/
-  '';
-
-  buildInputs = [
-    qtmultimedia
-    qtbase
-  ];
-
-  dontWrapQtApps = true;
-
-  preFixup = ''
-    wrapQtApp "$out/bin/mlvapp"
-  '';
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [
-    qmake
-  ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "All in one MLV processing app that is pretty great";
-    homepage = "https://mlv.app";
-    license = licenses.gpl3;
-    maintainers = [ ];
-    platforms = platforms.linux;
-    mainProgram = "mlvapp";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ml/mlv-app/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ml/mlv-app/package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9be0365f2bd9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ml/mlv-app/package.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  stdenv,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  fetchpatch,
+  libsForQt5,
+  writableTmpDirAsHomeHook,
+  ffmpeg-headless,
+  nix-update-script,
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
+  pname = "mlv-app";
+  version = "1.15";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "ilia3101";
+    repo = "MLV-App";
+    rev = "QTv${finalAttrs.version}";
+    hash = "sha256-boYnIGDowV4yRxdE98U5ngeAwqi5HTRDFh5gVwW/kN8=";
+  };
+
+  patches = [
+    (fetchpatch {
+      url = "https://github.com/ilia3101/MLV-App/commit/b7643b1031955f085ade30e27974ddd889a4641f.patch";
+      hash = "sha256-DQkoB+fjshWDLzKouhEQXzpqn78WL+eqo5oTfE9ltEk=";
+    })
+  ];
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace platform/qt/MainWindow.cpp \
+      --replace-fail '"ffmpeg"' '"${lib.getExe ffmpeg-headless}"'
+  '';
+
+  qmakeFlags = [ "MLVApp.pro" ];
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    cd platform/qt/
+  '';
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    libsForQt5.wrapQtAppsHook
+    libsForQt5.qmake
+    writableTmpDirAsHomeHook
+  ];
+  buildInputs = [
+    libsForQt5.qtmultimedia
+    libsForQt5.qtbase
+  ];
+
+  dontWrapQtApps = true;
+
+  preFixup = ''
+    wrapQtApp "$out/bin/mlvapp"
+  '';
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    runHook preInstall
+    install -Dm555 -t $out/bin                mlvapp
+    install -Dm444 -t $out/share/applications mlvapp.desktop
+    install -Dm444 -t $out/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps RetinaIMG/MLVAPP.png
+    runHook postInstall
+  '';
+
+  updateScript = nix-update-script { };
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "All in one MLV processing app that is pretty great";
+    homepage = "https://mlv.app";
+    downloadPage = "https://github.com/ilia3101/MLV-App";
+    changelog = "https://github.com/ilia3101/MLV-App/releases/tag/QTv${finalAttrs.version}";
+    license = lib.licenses.gpl3Only;
+    maintainers = [ ];
+    platforms = [ "x86_64-linux" ];
+    mainProgram = "mlvapp";
+  };
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 5e79fba3425e..c6a299750d88 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -10477,8 +10477,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   mlt = darwin.apple_sdk_11_0.callPackage ../development/libraries/mlt { };
 
-  mlv-app = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/video/mlv-app { };
-
   mpeg2dec = libmpeg2;
 
   msoffcrypto-tool = with python3.pkgs; toPythonApplication msoffcrypto-tool;