diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/flac/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/flac/default.nix
index 5dd993b0ef8..d4214729485 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/flac/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/flac/default.nix
@@ -1,25 +1,19 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, libogg }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "flac-1.2.1";
+  name = "flac-1.3.0";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = mirror://sourceforge/flac/flac-1.2.1.tar.gz;
-    sha256 = "1pry5lgzfg57pga1zbazzdd55fkgk3v5qy4axvrbny5lrr5s8dcn";
+    url = "http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/flac/${name}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "1p0hh190kqvpkbk1bbajd81jfbmkyl4fn2i7pggk2zppq6m68bgs";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ libogg ];
 
-  patches =
-    [ # Fix for building on GCC 4.3.
-      (fetchurl {
-        url = "http://sourceforge.net/p/flac/patches/_discuss/thread/9d4c7504/d8ea/attachment/flac-1.2.1-gcc-4.3-includes.patch";
-        sha256 = "1m6ql5vyjb2jlp5qiqp6w0drq1m6x6y3i1dnl5ywywl3zd36k0mr";
-      })
-    ];
+  doCheck = true; # takes lots of time but will be run rarely (small build-time closure)
 
   meta = {
-    homepage = http://flac.sourceforge.net;
+    homepage = http://xiph.org/flac/;
     description = "Library and tools for encoding and decoding the FLAC lossless audio file format";
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/vlc/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/video/vlc/default.nix
index 3c96cd13418..7b74cfcdb11 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/vlc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/video/vlc/default.nix
@@ -10,13 +10,18 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "vlc-${version}";
-  version = "2.0.6";
+  version = "2.0.7";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/${version}/${name}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "0qqrpry41vawihhggcx00vibbn73hxdal1gim1qnrqrcbq1rik1i";
+    sha256 = "052kfkpd0r2fwkyz97qhz2a368xqxa905qacrd1bkl2bkvahfc94";
   };
 
+  postPatch = /* flac 1.3.0 fix */ ''
+    sed -i -e 's:stream_decoder.h:FLAC/stream_decoder.h:' modules/codec/flac.c
+    sed -i -e 's:stream_encoder.h:FLAC/stream_encoder.h:' modules/codec/flac.c
+  '';
+
   buildInputs =
     [ xz bzip2 perl zlib a52dec libmad faad2 ffmpeg alsaLib libdvdnav libdvdnav.libdvdread
       libbluray dbus fribidi qt4 libvorbis libtheora speex lua5 libgcrypt