diff --git a/libavformat/flvdec.c b/libavformat/flvdec.c
index 6295f1a567..bf91fbbc78 100644
--- a/libavformat/flvdec.c
+++ b/libavformat/flvdec.c
@@ -230,6 +230,12 @@ static int flv_read_header(AVFormatContext *s,
 
     url_fskip(&s->pb, 4);
     flags = get_byte(&s->pb);
+    /* old flvtool cleared this field */
+    /* FIXME: better fix needed */
+    if (!flags) {
+        flags = FLV_HEADER_FLAG_HASVIDEO | FLV_HEADER_FLAG_HASAUDIO;
+        av_log(s, AV_LOG_WARNING, "Broken FLV file, which says no streams present, this might fail\n");
+    }
 
     if(flags & FLV_HEADER_FLAG_HASVIDEO){
         st = av_new_stream(s, 0);