diff --git a/libraries/libmatroska/libmatroska.SlackBuild b/libraries/libmatroska/libmatroska.SlackBuild
index df556ce3b6..bf81b38847 100644
--- a/libraries/libmatroska/libmatroska.SlackBuild
+++ b/libraries/libmatroska/libmatroska.SlackBuild
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 # ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=libmatroska
-VERSION=${VERSION:-1.4.2}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-1.4.8}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
 rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
-tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.bz2
+tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.?z*
 cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
 find -L . \
diff --git a/libraries/libmatroska/libmatroska.info b/libraries/libmatroska/libmatroska.info
index 76d9a83cf7..1ab9dd3f9c 100644
--- a/libraries/libmatroska/libmatroska.info
+++ b/libraries/libmatroska/libmatroska.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="libmatroska"
-VERSION="1.4.2"
+VERSION="1.4.8"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/source.html"
-DOWNLOAD="http://dl.matroska.org/downloads/libmatroska/libmatroska-1.4.2.tar.bz2"
-MD5SUM="f8fe42003e072a42a19ed40405f9efdb"
+DOWNLOAD="http://dl.matroska.org/downloads/libmatroska/libmatroska-1.4.8.tar.xz"
+MD5SUM="45ffda84badb4e3da5d8f2535e54d511"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="libebml"