diff --git a/multimedia/dvdauthor/dvdauthor.SlackBuild b/multimedia/dvdauthor/dvdauthor.SlackBuild
index 147310017e..d014590f23 100644
--- a/multimedia/dvdauthor/dvdauthor.SlackBuild
+++ b/multimedia/dvdauthor/dvdauthor.SlackBuild
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ VERSION=0.6.14
 ARCH=${ARCH:-i486}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-2}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
+
 CWD=$(pwd)
 TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
 PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM
@@ -36,8 +37,13 @@ PDOCS="AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING INSTALL NEWS README TODO"
 
 if [ "$ARCH" = "i486" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
 elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
+elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
 fi
 
 rm -rf $PKG
@@ -53,6 +59,7 @@ CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 ./configure \
   --prefix=/usr \
+  --libdir=/usr/lib$LIBDIRSUFFIX \
   --sysconfdir=/etc \
   --localstatedir=/var \
   --mandir=/usr/man \
@@ -74,4 +81,4 @@ mkdir -p $PKG/install
 cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
 
 cd $PKG
-/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.tgz
+/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
diff --git a/multimedia/dvdauthor/dvdauthor.info b/multimedia/dvdauthor/dvdauthor.info
index 12c6947bc4..34359b108b 100644
--- a/multimedia/dvdauthor/dvdauthor.info
+++ b/multimedia/dvdauthor/dvdauthor.info
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ PRGNAM="dvdauthor"
 VERSION="0.6.14"
 HOMEPAGE="http://dvdauthor.sf.net"
 DOWNLOAD="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/dvdauthor/dvdauthor-0.6.14.tar.gz"
+DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM="bd646b47950c4091ffd781d43fd2c5e9"
+MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 MAINTAINER="Brian Reichert"
 EMAIL="rignes@pobox.com"
-APPROVED="BP{k},rworkman"
+APPROVED="BP{k},rworkman,pprkut"