diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/MPlayer/builder.sh b/pkgs/applications/video/MPlayer/builder.sh
index d6dd2d7cb834..2a4a7506ae38 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/MPlayer/builder.sh
+++ b/pkgs/applications/video/MPlayer/builder.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ postUnpack=postUnpack
 configureFlags="\
  --with-win32libdir=$win32codecs \
  --with-reallibdir=$win32codecs \
- --enable-runtime-cpudetection"
+ --enable-runtime-cpudetection \
+ --enable-x11 --with-x11incdir=/no-such-dir --with-x11libdir=/no-such-dir
+ $configureFlags"
 
 postInstall() {
     cp -p ../font-arial-iso-8859-1/font-arial-18-iso-8859-1/* $out/share/mplayer/font
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/MPlayer/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/video/MPlayer/default.nix
index 117294315e70..e04952e02546 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/MPlayer/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/video/MPlayer/default.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
-{ alsaSupport ? false, xvSupport ? true, theoraSupport ? false
+{ alsaSupport ? false, xvSupport ? true, theoraSupport ? false, cacaSupport ? false
 , stdenv, fetchurl, x11, freetype, zlib
-, alsa ? null, libXv ? null, libtheora ? null}:
+, alsa ? null, libXv ? null, libtheora ? null, libcaca ? null
+}:
 
 assert alsaSupport -> alsa != null;
 assert xvSupport -> libXv != null;
 assert theoraSupport -> libtheora != null;
+assert cacaSupport -> libcaca != null;
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "MPlayer-1.0pre7";
@@ -28,5 +30,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     (if alsaSupport then alsa else null)
     (if xvSupport then libXv else null)
     (if theoraSupport then libtheora else null)
+    (if cacaSupport then libcaca else null)
   ];
+
+  configureFlags = if cacaSupport then "--enable-caca" else "--disable-caca";
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcaca/builder.sh b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcaca/builder.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4c6535a43218
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcaca/builder.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+source $stdenv/setup
+
+configureFlags="--disable-x11 --disable-imlib2 --disable-doc"
+export NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE="-I$ncurses/include/ncurses -I$ncurses/include $NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE"
+
+genericBuild
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcaca/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcaca/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4c6e80940ad7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcaca/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, ncurses}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "libcaca-0.9";
+  builder = ./builder.sh;
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://sam.zoy.org/libcaca/libcaca-0.9.tar.bz2;
+    md5 = "c7d5c46206091a9203fcb214abb25e4a";
+  };
+  inherit ncurses;
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ncurses];
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix b/pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix
index bd1e65ba841b..a8810079a37e 100644
--- a/pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix
@@ -721,6 +721,10 @@ rec {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv ncurses;
   };
 
+  libcaca = (import ../development/libraries/libcaca) {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv ncurses;
+  };
+
   libsigsegv = (import ../development/libraries/libsigsegv) {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv;
   };
@@ -1279,11 +1283,12 @@ rec {
   };
 
   MPlayer = (import ../applications/video/MPlayer) {
-    inherit fetchurl stdenv freetype x11 zlib libtheora;
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv freetype x11 zlib libtheora libcaca;
     inherit (xlibs) libXv;
     alsaSupport = true;
     alsa = alsaLib;
     theoraSupport = true;
+    cacaSupport = true;
   };
 
   MPlayerPlugin = (import ../applications/networking/browsers/mozilla-plugins/mplayerplug-in) {