diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/spotify/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/spotify/default.nix
index 2c821ec6b4c8..a0a17a93e1fa 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/spotify/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/spotify/default.nix
@@ -134,8 +134,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
       ln -s ${nspr.out}/lib/libnspr4.so $libdir/libnspr4.so
       ln -s ${nspr.out}/lib/libplc4.so $libdir/libplc4.so
 
-      ln -s ${ffmpeg.out}/lib/libavcodec.so* $libdir
-      ln -s ${ffmpeg.out}/lib/libavformat.so* $libdir
+      ln -s ${ffmpeg.lib}/lib/libavcodec.so* $libdir
+      ln -s ${ffmpeg.lib}/lib/libavformat.so* $libdir
 
       rpath="$out/share/spotify:$libdir"
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/renpy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/renpy/default.nix
index 07c917473cc4..d5505009a070 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/renpy/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/renpy/default.nix
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   ]);
 
   RENPY_DEPS_INSTALL = lib.concatStringsSep "::" (map (path: path) [
-    SDL2 SDL2.dev libpng ffmpeg.out freetype glew.dev libGLU libGL fribidi zlib
+    SDL2 SDL2.dev libpng ffmpeg.lib freetype glew.dev libGLU libGL fribidi zlib
   ]);
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;