diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index bbb0bc7f6..40c0c7bd4 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ before_install:
   - sudo apt-get upgrade -y -qq
   - sudo apt-get install -y -qq apache2 mysql-server php5 php5-mysql build-essential libmysqlclient-dev libssl-dev libbz2-dev libpcre3-dev libdbi-perl libarchive-zip-perl libdate-manip-perl libdevice-serialport-perl libmime-perl libpcre3 libwww-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libsys-mmap-perl yasm subversion automake autoconf libjpeg-turbo8-dev libjpeg-turbo8 apache2-mpm-prefork libapache2-mod-php5 php5-cli libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev libvpx-dev libx264-dev 2>&1 > /dev/null
 install:
-  - git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git 
+  - git clone --depth=10 --branch=master git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git 
   - cd ffmpeg 
   - ./configure --enable-shared --enable-swscale --enable-gpl  --enable-libx264 --enable-libvpx --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora 
   - make -j `grep processor /proc/cpuinfo|wc -l`