diff --git a/gnu/packages/video.scm b/gnu/packages/video.scm
index fdc8b02a5a8eb8ee3eaea85f61c8a2c578e1ffa0..7a30cb4005e1275f3a29c30dd83c0ff3eda8511e 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/video.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/video.scm
@@ -713,6 +713,12 @@ (define-public ffmpeg
 
          "--enable-runtime-cpudetect"
 
+         ;; The HTML pages take 7.2 MiB
+         "--disable-htmlpages"
+
+         ;; The static libraries are 23 MiB
+         "--disable-static"
+
          ;; Runtime cpu detection is not implemented on
          ;; MIPS, so we disable some features.
          "--disable-mips32r2"