diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index ac8df86ae7..bd53240d8a 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "ext/codecparsers"]
 	path = ext/codecparsers
 	url = https://gitorious.org/vaapi/gstreamer-codecparsers.git
-[submodule "ext/videoutils"]
-	path = ext/videoutils
-	url = https://gitorious.org/vaapi/gstreamer-videoutils.git
 [submodule "ext/libvpx/upstream"]
 	path = ext/libvpx/upstream
 	url = https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libvpx
diff --git a/ext/Makefile.am b/ext/Makefile.am
index 9915e4a6e7..1444152870 100644
--- a/ext/Makefile.am
+++ b/ext/Makefile.am
@@ -52,26 +52,5 @@ videoparsers_source_h = \
 
 EXTRA_DIST += $(videoparsers_source_h:%.h=$(videoparsers_srcdir)/%.h)
 
-videoutils_srcdir = \
-	$(top_srcdir)/ext/videoutils/gst-libs/gst/video
-
-videoutils_source_c = \
-	gstvideodecoder.c	\
-	gstvideoencoder.c	\
-	gstvideoutils.c		\
-	video.c			\
-	$(NULL)
-
-EXTRA_DIST += $(videoutils_source_c:%.c=$(videoutils_srcdir)/%.c)
-
-videoutils_source_h = \
-	gstvideodecoder.h	\
-	gstvideoencoder.h	\
-	gstvideoutils.h		\
-	video.h			\
-	$(NULL)
-
-EXTRA_DIST += $(videoutils_source_h:%.h=$(videoutils_srcdir)/%.h)
-
 # Extra clean files so that maintainer-clean removes *everything*
 MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = Makefile.in
diff --git a/ext/videoutils b/ext/videoutils
deleted file mode 160000
index f56f0ca70e..0000000000
--- a/ext/videoutils
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit f56f0ca70eaa39dc8f66f61e991094b385ed71ff