diff --git a/package/ffmpeg/0008-libavcodec-arm-mlpdsp_armv5te-fix-label-format-to-wo.patch b/package/ffmpeg/0008-libavcodec-arm-mlpdsp_armv5te-fix-label-format-to-wo.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 178ffbc33b..0000000000
--- a/package/ffmpeg/0008-libavcodec-arm-mlpdsp_armv5te-fix-label-format-to-wo.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
-From 4c688845a50f7dce3af9afebe60f0f7a493c4f07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
-Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2024 11:32:00 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] libavcodec/arm/mlpdsp_armv5te: fix label format to work with
- binutils 2.43
-MIME-Version: 1.0
-Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8
-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
-
-binutils 2.43 has stricter validation for labels[1] and results in errors
-when building ffmpeg for armv5:
-
-src/libavcodec/arm/mlpdsp_armv5te.S:232: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `0'
-
-Remove the leading zero in the "01" label to resolve this error.
-
-[1] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=226749d5a6ff0d5c607d6428d6c81e1e7e7a994b
-
-Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
-Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
-(cherry picked from commit 654bd47716c4f36719fb0f3f7fd8386d5ed0b916)
-
-Upstream: http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=4c688845a50f7dce3af9afebe60f0f7a493c4f07
-
-Signed-off-by: Bernd Kuhls <bernd@kuhls.net>
----
- libavcodec/arm/mlpdsp_armv5te.S | 6 +++---
- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/libavcodec/arm/mlpdsp_armv5te.S b/libavcodec/arm/mlpdsp_armv5te.S
-index 4f9aa485fd..d31568611c 100644
---- a/libavcodec/arm/mlpdsp_armv5te.S
-+++ b/libavcodec/arm/mlpdsp_armv5te.S
-@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ A .endif
-   .endif
- 
-         // Begin loop
--01:
-+1:
-   .if TOTAL_TAPS == 0
-         // Things simplify a lot in this case
-         // In fact this could be pipelined further if it's worth it...
-@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ A .endif
-         str     ST0, [PST, #-4]!
-         str     ST0, [PST, #4 * (MAX_BLOCKSIZE + MAX_FIR_ORDER)]
-         str     ST0, [PSAMP], #4 * MAX_CHANNELS
--        bne     01b
-+        bne     1b
-   .else
-     .if \fir_taps & 1
-       .set LOAD_REG, 1
-@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ T       orr     AC0, AC0, AC1
-         str     ST3, [PST, #-4]!
-         str     ST2, [PST, #4 * (MAX_BLOCKSIZE + MAX_FIR_ORDER)]
-         str     ST3, [PSAMP], #4 * MAX_CHANNELS
--        bne     01b
-+        bne     1b
-   .endif
-         b       99f
- 
--- 
-2.30.2
-
diff --git a/package/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.hash b/package/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.hash
index 630bd70c56..50498a6ba9 100644
--- a/package/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.hash
+++ b/package/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  3b624649725ecdc565c903ca6643d41f33bd49239922e45c9b1442c63dca4e38  ffmpeg-6.1.2.tar.xz
+sha256  f0b2b07c7014b7aa8c4689095b83a49a85d41887049fc5302543aec0bef7d066  ffmpeg-n6.1.2-27-ge16ff06adb-git4.tar.gz
 sha256  8177f97513213526df2cf6184d8ff986c675afb514d4e68a404010521b880643  COPYING.GPLv2
 sha256  b634ab5640e258563c536e658cad87080553df6f34f62269a21d554844e58bfe  COPYING.LGPLv2.1
 sha256  cb48bf09a11f5fb576cddb0431c8f5ed0a60157a9ec942adffc13907cbe083f2  LICENSE.md
diff --git a/package/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.mk b/package/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.mk
index 799201c820..5c00ba2dff 100644
--- a/package/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.mk
+++ b/package/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.mk
@@ -4,10 +4,12 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-FFMPEG_VERSION = 6.1.2
-FFMPEG_SOURCE = ffmpeg-$(FFMPEG_VERSION).tar.xz
-FFMPEG_SITE = https://ffmpeg.org/releases
+# Update FFMPEG_CPE_ID_VERSION if needed
+FFMPEG_VERSION = n6.1.2-27-ge16ff06adb
+FFMPEG_SITE = https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
+FFMPEG_SITE_METHOD = git
 FFMPEG_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
+FFMPEG_CPE_ID_VERSION = 6.1.2
 
 FFMPEG_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1+, libjpeg license
 FFMPEG_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE.md COPYING.LGPLv2.1