diff --git a/home/gyroflow/package/default.nix b/home/gyroflow/package/default.nix
index a35bdf43..b2885866 100644
--- a/home/gyroflow/package/default.nix
+++ b/home/gyroflow/package/default.nix
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@
           hash = "sha256-kEjKlFSa02sa2NvFyoFl1EWL4TuLeFsmYOY0/dYykrg=";
         })
         ./crash-dump.patch
+        ./mdk-log.patch
       ];
       src = src-unpatched;
     };
@@ -175,19 +176,9 @@
     FFMPEG_DIR="${ffmpeg.dev}";
 
     installPhase = ''
-      CARGO_TARGET="target/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/"
-      FFMPEG_DIR=${ffmpeg.lib}
-
       mkdir -p "$out"
-      mkdir -p "$out/lib"
-
-      cp -f "$CARGO_TARGET/libmdk.so.0" "$out/lib/"
-      cp -f "$CARGO_TARGET/libmdk-braw.so" "$out/lib/"
-      cp -f "$CARGO_TARGET/libmdk-r3d.so" "$out/lib/"
-
-      cp -f "$CARGO_TARGET/gyroflow" "$out/"
+      cp -f "target/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/gyroflow" "$out/"
       strip "$out/gyroflow"
-
       cp -rf "${lens-profiles}" "$out/camera_presets"
     '';
   };
@@ -244,8 +235,9 @@ in stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation {
 
       # does not find drivers without this
       export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/run/opengl-driver/lib:/run/opengl-driver/lib/dri:/run/opengl-driver/lib/vdpau:${libva.out}/lib"
-      # video acceleration in preview only works with this set
-      export MDK_DECODERS=VAAPI
+
+      # our build crashes on exit so this silences the excessive crash dumps
+      cd /var/empty
 
       exec -a "$0" "${gyroflow-unwrapped}/gyroflow" "$@"
     ''} $out/bin/gyroflow
diff --git a/home/gyroflow/package/mdk-log.patch b/home/gyroflow/package/mdk-log.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5b3351d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/home/gyroflow/package/mdk-log.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/src/util.rs b/src/util.rs
+index 8bcbd2e0..7e51865f 100644
+--- a/src/util.rs
++++ b/src/util.rs
+@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ pub fn init_logging() {
+                 .init().unwrap();
+         }
+     } else {
+-        let log_config = [ "mp4parse", "wgpu", "naga", "akaze", "ureq", "rustls", "mdk" ]
++        let log_config = [ "mp4parse", "wgpu", "naga", "akaze", "ureq", "rustls" ]
+             .into_iter()
+             .fold(ConfigBuilder::new(), |mut cfg, x| { cfg.add_filter_ignore_str(x); cfg })
+             .build();