diff --git a/src/src.pro b/src/src.pro
index 90ee29ff5..ecfd7c2ca 100644
--- a/src/src.pro
+++ b/src/src.pro
@@ -170,8 +170,9 @@ macx {
 
     } else {
 
-        contains(DEFINES, "GC_VIDEO_NONE") {
+        contains(DEFINES, "GC_VIDEO_NONE")|contains(DEFINES, "GC_VIDEO_QT5") {
 
+            # GC_VIDEO_QT5 will enable Qt5 video support, otherwise
             # we have a blank videowindow, it will do nothing
             HEADERS += Train/VideoWindow.h
             SOURCES += Train/VideoWindow.cpp
diff --git a/travis/osx/before_script.sh b/travis/osx/before_script.sh
index a240dbbf9..245722a4c 100755
--- a/travis/osx/before_script.sh
+++ b/travis/osx/before_script.sh
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ sed -i "" "s|#\(LMFIT_INSTALL =\).*|\1 /usr/local|" src/gcconfig.pri
 sed -i "" "s|#\(DEFINES += GC_HAVE_LION*\)|\1|" src/gcconfig.pri
 sed -i "" "s|#\(HTPATH = ../httpserver.*\)|\1 |" src/gcconfig.pri
 sed -i "" "s|#\(DEFINES += GC_WANT_ROBOT.*\)|\1 |" src/gcconfig.pri
-##sed -i "" "s|\(DEFINES += GC_VIDEO_NONE.*\)|#\1 |" src/gcconfig.pri ## we want this for now XXX till AVKit fixup
-##sed -i "" "s|#\(DEFINES += GC_VIDEO_QUICKTIME.*\)|\1 |" src/gcconfig.pri ## QT is deprecated, don't build with it.
+sed -i "" "s|\(DEFINES += GC_VIDEO_NONE.*\)|#\1 |" src/gcconfig.pri
+sed -i "" "s|#\(DEFINES += GC_VIDEO_QT5.*\)|\1 |" src/gcconfig.pri ## we want this for now till AVKit fixup
 ##Issues with c++11 and stdlib on travis and dependencies
 sed -i "" "s|#\(DEFINES += GC_WANT_R.*\)|\1 |" src/gcconfig.pri
 echo "QMAKE_CFLAGS_RELEASE += -mmacosx-version-min=10.7 -arch x86_64" >> src/gcconfig.pri