diff --git a/libreoffice.changes b/libreoffice.changes
index f1e26b7..57d59b9 100644
--- a/libreoffice.changes
+++ b/libreoffice.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jan  9 14:15:08 UTC 2014 - tchvatal@suse.com
+
+- Drop the vlc dep on 12.3 and older.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jan  8 14:52:28 UTC 2014 - tchvatal@suse.com
 
diff --git a/libreoffice.spec b/libreoffice.spec
index 531c34e..e8511de 100644
--- a/libreoffice.spec
+++ b/libreoffice.spec
@@ -200,7 +200,11 @@ BuildRequires:  ucpp
 BuildRequires:  unixODBC-devel
 BuildRequires:  unzip
 BuildRequires:  vigra-devel
+# vlc is only on 13.1 and later
+# Drop this condition when 12.3 is out of support
+%if 0%{?suse_version} > 01230
 BuildRequires:  vlc-devel
+%endif
 BuildRequires:  xml-commons-apis
 BuildRequires:  xorg-x11
 BuildRequires:  xorg-x11-fonts
@@ -905,7 +909,9 @@ export NOCONFIGURE=yes
         --enable-scripting-javascript \
         --enable-telepathy \
         --enable-opengl \
+%if 0%{?suse_version} > 01230
         --enable-vlc \
+%endif
         --enable-neon \
         --with-system-ucpp \
         --disable-ccache