diff --git a/package/mpv/Config.in b/package/mpv/Config.in
index 81b1e24b5f..6811497d73 100644
--- a/package/mpv/Config.in
+++ b/package/mpv/Config.in
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_MPV
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_FFMPEG_ARCH_SUPPORTS
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9 # C11/stdatomic.h
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_ATOMIC
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_ALSA_LIB_MIXER if BR2_PACKAGE_ALSA_LIB
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_ALSA_LIB_PCM if BR2_PACKAGE_ALSA_LIB
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBICONV if !BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_FFMPEG
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_FFMPEG_SWSCALE
diff --git a/package/mpv/mpv.mk b/package/mpv/mpv.mk
index ff77f248e5..f9250070d1 100644
--- a/package/mpv/mpv.mk
+++ b/package/mpv/mpv.mk
@@ -39,8 +39,7 @@ else
 MPV_CONF_OPTS += --enable-libmpv-shared --disable-libmpv-static
 endif
 
-# ALSA support requires pcm+mixer
-ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_ALSA_LIB_MIXER)$(BR2_PACKAGE_ALSA_LIB_PCM),yy)
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_ALSA_LIB),y)
 MPV_CONF_OPTS += --enable-alsa
 MPV_DEPENDENCIES += alsa-lib
 else