diff --git a/vlc-2.1.5-fix-skins2-default-skin-creation.patch b/vlc-2.1.5-fix-skins2-default-skin-creation.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cd88f32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vlc-2.1.5-fix-skins2-default-skin-creation.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+Author: Stefan Seyfried <seife+obs@b1-systems.com>
+
+New tar defaults create PAX archives which have two problems:
+* VLC cannot read them
+* they contain atime and thus the build time
+Avoid this by passign "--format=ustar" to tar when creating skins2/default.vlt
+
+Index: b/share/Makefile.am
+===================================================================
+--- a/share/Makefile.am
++++ b/share/Makefile.am
+@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ skins2/default.vlt: $(skins2_default_vlt
+ 	mkdir -p skins2
+ 	(cd "$(srcdir)/skins2"; find default -print0 | \
+ 		LC_ALL=C sort -z | \
+-		tar cvv --exclude .svn --no-recursion --null -T -) | \
++		tar cvv --format=ustar --exclude .svn --no-recursion --null -T -) | \
+ 	gzip -n > skins2/default.vlt
+ 
+ #
+Index: b/share/Makefile.in
+===================================================================
+--- a/share/Makefile.in
++++ b/share/Makefile.in
+@@ -1757,7 +1757,7 @@ skins2/default.vlt: $(skins2_default_vlt
+ 	mkdir -p skins2
+ 	(cd "$(srcdir)/skins2"; find default -print0 | \
+ 		LC_ALL=C sort -z | \
+-		tar cvv --exclude .svn --no-recursion --null -T -) | \
++		tar cvv --format=ustar --exclude .svn --no-recursion --null -T -) | \
+ 	gzip -n > skins2/default.vlt
+ 
+ .lua.luac:
diff --git a/vlc.changes b/vlc.changes
index 7de75ae..69a7fbd 100644
--- a/vlc.changes
+++ b/vlc.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Nov  9 16:06:10 UTC 2014 - seife+obs@b1-systems.com
+
+- fix skins2 defaut.vlt generation with newer tar defaults (and
+  remove the embedded build date from it on the way)
+  vlc-2.1.5-fix-skins2-default-skin-creation.patch
+- remove buildhost hostname from the binary to avoid republishing
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Oct 30 06:08:06 UTC 2014 - olaf@aepfle.de
 
diff --git a/vlc.spec b/vlc.spec
index 6445f88..497c099 100644
--- a/vlc.spec
+++ b/vlc.spec
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ Version:        2.1.5
 Release:        0
 Url:            http://www.videolan.org/
 Source:         http://download.videolan.org/%{name}/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
+# PATCH-FIX-OPENSUSE vlc-2.1.5-fix-skins2-default-skin-creation.patch -- see description in patch header 
+Patch1:         vlc-2.1.5-fix-skins2-default-skin-creation.patch
 Patch3:         0001-no-return-in-non-void.patch
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 BuildRequires:  Mesa-devel
@@ -297,6 +299,7 @@ for gnome-vfs2.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch1 -p1
 %patch3 -p1
 rm -rf contrib
 # fix builddate info
@@ -407,6 +410,8 @@ export CXXFLAGS="%{optflags} -L%{_libdir}/live -Wno-return-type $smbclient"
   --enable-xvideo                       \
   --with-default-font=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/FreeSerifBold.ttf \
   --with-default-monospace-font=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/FreeMono.ttf
+# we don't need no VLC_COMPILE_HOST `hostname -f` in the binary...
+sed -i -e 's/^#define VLC_COMPILE_HOST.*/#define VLC_COMPILE_HOST "obs-build"/' config.h
 make %{?_smp_mflags} V=1
 
 %install