diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/mythtv/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/video/mythtv/default.nix
index a4fe07b2d053..2bc635d510eb 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/mythtv/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/video/mythtv/default.nix
@@ -1,22 +1,32 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, which, qt4, x11, pulseaudio, fftwSinglePrec
 , lame, zlib, mesa, alsaLib, freetype, perl, pkgconfig
 , libX11, libXv, libXrandr, libXvMC, libXinerama, libXxf86vm, libXmu
+, yasm, libuuid, taglib, libtool, autoconf, automake, file
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "mythtv-0.24.2";
+  name = "mythtv-${version}";
+  version = "0.27.4";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mythtv/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "14mkyf2b26pc9spx6lg15mml0nqyg1r3qnq8m9dz3110h771y2db";
+    url = "https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/archive/v${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0nrn4fbkkzh43n7jgbv21i92sb4z4yacwj9yj6m3hjbffzy4ywqz";
   };
 
+  sourceRoot = "${name}/mythtv";
+
   buildInputs = [
     freetype qt4 lame zlib x11 mesa perl alsaLib pulseaudio fftwSinglePrec
     libX11 libXv libXrandr libXvMC libXmu libXinerama libXxf86vm libXmu
+    libuuid taglib
   ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig which yasm libtool autoconf automake file ];
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig which ];
-
-  patches = [ ./settings.patch ];
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = "https://www.mythtv.org/";
+    description = "Open Source DVR";
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+    meta.platforms = platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.titanous ];
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/mythtv/settings.patch b/pkgs/applications/video/mythtv/settings.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ec1e70097921..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/mythtv/settings.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
-index 05db819..383036d 100644
---- a/Makefile
-+++ b/Makefile
-@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ i18n/Makefile: i18n/i18n.pro
- locales/Makefile: locales/locales.pro
- 
- $(addsuffix /Makefile,$(QT_SUBDIRS)): %/Makefile :
--	cd $*; $(QMAKE) QMAKE=$(QMAKE) -o $(@F) $(<F)
-+	cd $*; $(QMAKE) QMAKE=$(QMAKE) PREFIX=${PREFIX} -o $(@F) $(<F)
- 
- $(SUBDIRS): $(addsuffix /Makefile,$(SUBDIRS)) version.cpp
- 	$(MAKE) -C $@