diff --git a/extra/vlc/PKGBUILD b/extra/vlc/PKGBUILD
index 2f118d258..34a555c24 100644
--- a/extra/vlc/PKGBUILD
+++ b/extra/vlc/PKGBUILD
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ _vlcver=3.0.11.1
 # optional fixup version including hyphen
 _vlcfixupver=
 pkgver=${_vlcver}${_vlcfixupver//-/.r}
-pkgrel=2
+pkgrel=3
 pkgdesc='Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player'
 url='https://www.videolan.org/vlc/'
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ build() {
   export CFLAGS+=" -I/usr/include/samba-4.0"
   export CPPFLAGS+=" -I/usr/include/samba-4.0"
   export CXXFLAGS+=" -std=c++11"
+  # upstream doesn't support lua 5.4 yet: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/25036
   export LUAC=/usr/bin/luac5.2
   export LUA_LIBS="$(pkg-config --libs lua5.2)"
   export RCC=/usr/bin/rcc-qt5
diff --git a/extra/vlc/lua53_compat.patch b/extra/vlc/lua53_compat.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index aeff7b2fd..000000000
--- a/extra/vlc/lua53_compat.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-commit 41caaa08cde60c4fec4bf2e5f9610e2a1b9e6a23
-Author: Vinson Lee <vlee@freedesktop.org>
-Date:   Thu Feb 5 14:48:53 2015 -0800
-
-    lua: Define LUA_COMPAT_APIINTCASTS for Lua >= 5.3.0 compatibility.
-    
-    In Lua 5.3.0, luaL_checkint was deprecated.
-    
-    This patch fixes this build error with Lua 5.3.0.
-    
-    lua/demux.c: In function ‘vlclua_demux_peek’:
-    lua/demux.c:55:5: error: implicit declaration of function ‘luaL_checkint’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
-         int n = luaL_checkint( L, 1 );
-         ^
-    
-    Signed-off-by: Vinson Lee <vlee@freedesktop.org>
-    Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>
-
-diff --git a/modules/lua/vlc.h b/modules/lua/vlc.h
-index efd94f1..85c7fc1 100644
---- a/modules/lua/vlc.h
-+++ b/modules/lua/vlc.h
-@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
- #include <vlc_stream.h>
- #include <vlc_demux.h>
- 
-+#define LUA_COMPAT_APIINTCASTS
- #define LUA_COMPAT_MODULE
- #include <lua.h>        /* Low level lua C API */
- #include <lauxlib.h>    /* Higher level C API */