diff --git a/router/Cargo.toml b/router/Cargo.toml
index 36adf79c1d4..3d636a1838d 100644
--- a/router/Cargo.toml
+++ b/router/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ async-stream = "0.3.5"
 axum = { version = "0.7", features = ["json"] }
 axum-tracing-opentelemetry = "0.16"
 clap = { version = "4.4.5", features = ["derive", "env"] }
-ffmpeg-next = "7.1.0"
+ffmpeg-next = { version = "7.1.0", optional = true }
 futures = "0.3.28"
 hf-hub = { workspace = true }
 itertools = "0.10"
@@ -77,4 +77,4 @@ default = ["ngrok"]
 ngrok = ["dep:ngrok"]
 google = []
 kserve = []
-video = []
+video = ["ffmpeg-next"]