diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/3.x.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/3.x.nix
index a9b3c85d3965..bcb3bde5ad7d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/3.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/3.x.nix
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 , enableTesseract ? false, tesseract, leptonica
 , enableDocs      ? false, doxygen, graphviz-nox
 
-, AVFoundation, Cocoa, QTKit
+, AVFoundation, Cocoa, QTKit, VideoDecodeAcceleration, bzip2
 }:
 
 let
@@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     ++ lib.optionals enableEXR [ openexr ilmbase ]
     ++ lib.optional enableJPEG2K jasper
     ++ lib.optional enableFfmpeg ffmpeg
+    ++ lib.optionals (enableFfmpeg && stdenv.isDarwin)
+                     [ VideoDecodeAcceleration bzip2 ]
     ++ lib.optionals enableGStreamer (with gst_all_1; [ gstreamer gst-plugins-base ])
     ++ lib.optional enableEigen eigen
     ++ lib.optional enableOpenblas openblas
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 7e602c00e26c..a219d00abf26 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -10295,7 +10295,7 @@ with pkgs;
   opencv3 = callPackage ../development/libraries/opencv/3.x.nix {
     enableCuda = config.cudaSupport or false;
     cudatoolkit = cudatoolkit8;
-    inherit (darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks) AVFoundation Cocoa QTKit;
+    inherit (darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks) AVFoundation Cocoa QTKit VideoDecodeAcceleration;
   };
 
   # this ctl version is needed by openexr_viewers