diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/xavs/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/xavs/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..adace96afad8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/xavs/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchsvn }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "xavs-${version}";
+  version = "55";
+
+  src = fetchsvn {
+    url = "https://svn.code.sf.net/p/xavs/code/trunk";
+    rev = "${version}";
+    sha256 = "0drw16wm95dqszpl7j33y4gckz0w0107lnz6wkzb66f0dlbv48cf";
+  };
+
+  patchPhase = ''
+    patchShebangs configure
+    patchShebangs config.sub
+    patchShebangs version.sh
+    patchShebangs tools/countquant_xavs.pl
+    patchShebangs tools/patcheck
+    patchShebangs tools/regression-test.pl
+    patchShebangs tools/xavs-format
+  '';
+
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--enable-pic"
+    "--enable-shared"
+    # Bug preventing compilation with assembly enabled
+    "--disable-asm"
+  ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "AVS encoder and decoder";
+    homepage    = http://xavs.sourceforge.net/;
+    license     = licenses.lgpl2;
+    platforms   = platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ codyopel ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index f36af7e8432b..f0c98ce6c2ff 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7472,6 +7472,8 @@ let
   xapianBindings10 = callPackage ../development/libraries/xapian/bindings/1.0.x.nix {  # TODO perl php Java, tcl, C#, python
   };
 
+  xavs = callPackage ../development/libraries/xavs { };
+
   Xaw3d = callPackage ../development/libraries/Xaw3d { };
 
   xbase = callPackage ../development/libraries/xbase { };