diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 3d6349462..2dc38f0fa 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Sipwise Development Team <support@sipwise.com>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5),
                iptables-dev (>= 1.4),
+               libavformat-dev,
+               libavcodec-dev,
+               libavutil-dev,
                libcurl4-openssl-dev | libcurl4-gnutls-dev | libcurl3-openssl-dev | libcurl3-gnutls-dev,
                libevent-dev (>= 2.0),
                libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.30),
diff --git a/recording-daemon/.gitignore b/recording-daemon/.gitignore
index 8577790bc..16889cdce 100644
--- a/recording-daemon/.gitignore
+++ b/recording-daemon/.gitignore
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 core
 core.*
 .ycm_extra_conf.pyc
+rtpengine-recording
diff --git a/recording-daemon/Makefile b/recording-daemon/Makefile
index cd38772d0..5341fe470 100644
--- a/recording-daemon/Makefile
+++ b/recording-daemon/Makefile
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ CFLAGS+=	-D_GNU_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE
 CFLAGS+=	`pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0`
 CFLAGS+=	`pkg-config --cflags gthread-2.0`
 #CFLAGS+=	`pcre-config --cflags`
+CFLAGS+=	`pkg-config --cflags libavcodec`
+CFLAGS+=	`pkg-config --cflags libavformat`
+CFLAGS+=	`pkg-config --cflags libavutil`
 
 ifeq ($(DBG),yes)
 CFLAGS+=	-D__DEBUG=1
@@ -18,6 +21,9 @@ LDFLAGS=	-lm
 LDFLAGS+=	`pkg-config --libs glib-2.0`
 LDFLAGS+=	`pkg-config --libs gthread-2.0`
 #LDFLAGS+=	`pcre-config --libs`
+LDFLAGS+=	`pkg-config --libs libavcodec`
+LDFLAGS+=	`pkg-config --libs libavformat`
+LDFLAGS+=	`pkg-config --libs libavutil`
 
 ifneq ($(DBG),yes)
   DPKG_BLDFLGS=	$(shell which dpkg-buildflags 2>/dev/null)
diff --git a/recording-daemon/main.c b/recording-daemon/main.c
index 9ce523d0d..cbad04ee3 100644
--- a/recording-daemon/main.c
+++ b/recording-daemon/main.c
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 #include <glib.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <signal.h>
+#include <libavformat/avformat.h>
+#include <libavcodec/avcodec.h>
 #include "log.h"
 #include "epoll.h"
 #include "inotify.h"
@@ -32,6 +34,9 @@ static void signals(void) {
 
 
 static void setup(void) {
+	av_register_all();
+	avcodec_register_all();
+	avformat_network_init();
 	signals();
 	metafile_setup();
 	epoll_setup();
diff --git a/recording-daemon/stream.c b/recording-daemon/stream.c
index 686be84f2..3900177ed 100644
--- a/recording-daemon/stream.c
+++ b/recording-daemon/stream.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <limits.h>
 #include <fcntl.h>
+#include <libavformat/avformat.h>
 #include "metafile.h"
 #include "epoll.h"
 #include "log.h"
@@ -88,6 +89,15 @@ void stream_open(metafile_t *mf, unsigned long id, char *name) {
 		return;
 	}
 
+	stream->avinf = av_find_input_format("rtp");
+	ilog(LOG_DEBUG, "avinf %p", stream->avinf);
+
+	stream->avfctx = avformat_alloc_context();
+	unsigned char *buf = av_malloc(1024); // ?
+	stream->avfctx->pb = avio_alloc_context(buf, 1024, 1, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+	int ret = avformat_open_input(&stream->avfctx, "", stream->avinf, NULL);
+	ilog(LOG_DEBUG, "ret %i avfctx %p", ret, stream->avfctx);
+
 	// add to epoll
 	stream->handler.ptr = stream;
 	stream->handler.func = stream_handler;
diff --git a/recording-daemon/types.h b/recording-daemon/types.h
index ada38263e..2fabc61e1 100644
--- a/recording-daemon/types.h
+++ b/recording-daemon/types.h
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <glib.h>
 #include <pcre.h>
+#include <libavformat/avformat.h>
 
 
 typedef struct handler_s handler_t;
@@ -22,6 +23,8 @@ struct stream_s {
 	unsigned long id;
 	int fd;
 	handler_t handler;
+	AVInputFormat *avinf;
+	AVFormatContext *avfctx;
 };
 typedef struct stream_s stream_t;