diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 6369cb0e6..65e7bed95 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -23,9 +23,11 @@ env:
 compiler:
   - gcc
   - clang
+services:
+  - mysql
 before_install:
   - sudo apt-get update -qq
-  - sudo apt-get install -y libpolkit-gobject-1-dev zlib1g-dev 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 libwww-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libsys-mmap-perl yasm automake autoconf cmake libjpeg-turbo8-dev apache2-mpm-prefork libapache2-mod-php5 php5-cli libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev libvpx-dev libx264-dev libvlccore-dev libvlc-dev
+  - sudo apt-get install -y libpolkit-gobject-1-dev zlib1g-dev apache2 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 libwww-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libsys-mmap-perl yasm automake autoconf cmake libjpeg-turbo8-dev apache2-mpm-prefork libapache2-mod-php5 php5-cli libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev libvpx-dev libx264-dev libvlccore-dev libvlc-dev
 install:
   - git clone -b n3.0 --depth=1 git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
   - cd ffmpeg