diff --git a/gstreamer.spec.in b/gstreamer.spec.in
index 66d2e8072e..907aab9818 100644
--- a/gstreamer.spec.in
+++ b/gstreamer.spec.in
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Summary: 	GStreamer streaming media framework runtime
 Group: 		Applications/Multimedia
 License: 	LGPL
 URL:		http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
-Source: 	http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/gstreamer-%{version}.tar.bz2
+Source: 	http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/gstreamer-%{version}.tar.xz
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 
 BuildRequires: 	glib2-devel >= %{_glib2}