diff --git a/multimedia/x265/x265.SlackBuild b/multimedia/x265/x265.SlackBuild
index 1c812dcbf0..7d14fc6628 100644
--- a/multimedia/x265/x265.SlackBuild
+++ b/multimedia/x265/x265.SlackBuild
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
 rm -rf $SRCNAM-$PRGNAM-$REVISION
-tar xvf $CWD/$SRCNAM-$PRGNAM-$REVISION.tar.bz2
+tar xvf $CWD/$SRCNAM-$PRGNAM-$REVISION.tar.bz2 || tar xvf $CWD/$VERSION.tar.bz2
 cd $SRCNAM-$PRGNAM-$REVISION
 chown -R root:root .
 find -L . \