diff --git a/dev-python/mautrix/mautrix-0.19.2.ebuild b/dev-python/mautrix/mautrix-0.19.2.ebuild
index 75042c9213..c8fc1efb61 100644
--- a/dev-python/mautrix/mautrix-0.19.2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/mautrix/mautrix-0.19.2.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=8
 DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
 PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{9..10} )
 
-inherit distutils-r1
+inherit distutils-r1 optfeature
 
 DESCRIPTION="A Python 3 asyncio Matrix framework"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/mautrix/python/"
@@ -35,3 +35,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 
 distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	optfeature "media transcoding" media-video/ffmpeg
+}