diff --git a/es-core/src/components/VideoFFmpegComponent.cpp b/es-core/src/components/VideoFFmpegComponent.cpp
index f52e4d5fb..885b65746 100644
--- a/es-core/src/components/VideoFFmpegComponent.cpp
+++ b/es-core/src/components/VideoFFmpegComponent.cpp
@@ -1281,8 +1281,13 @@ void VideoFFmpegComponent::startVideoStream()
         bool hwDecoding = false;
 #endif
 
+#if LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MAJOR > 56
+        mVideoStreamIndex = av_find_best_stream(mFormatContext, AVMEDIA_TYPE_VIDEO, -1, -1,
+                                                const_cast<const AVCodec**>(&mHardwareCodec), 0);
+#else
         mVideoStreamIndex =
             av_find_best_stream(mFormatContext, AVMEDIA_TYPE_VIDEO, -1, -1, &mHardwareCodec, 0);
+#endif
 
         if (mVideoStreamIndex < 0) {
             LOG(LogError) << "VideoFFmpegComponent::startVideoStream(): "
diff --git a/es-core/src/components/VideoFFmpegComponent.h b/es-core/src/components/VideoFFmpegComponent.h
index f648276bd..eb14f3c63 100644
--- a/es-core/src/components/VideoFFmpegComponent.h
+++ b/es-core/src/components/VideoFFmpegComponent.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ extern "C" {
 #include <libavfilter/buffersink.h>
 #include <libavfilter/buffersrc.h>
 #include <libavformat/avformat.h>
+#include <libavutil/channel_layout.h>
 #include <libavutil/imgutils.h>
 }