diff --git a/media-libs/libao/Manifest b/media-libs/libao/Manifest
--- a/media-libs/libao/Manifest
+++ b/media-libs/libao/Manifest
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 AUX libao-0.8.8-alsa09-buffertime-milliseconds.patch 554 RMD160 51acd081458003d7f20684332da47ce7788ff1a9 SHA1 9ce59b6a2f580c80600af253073fbaf24ef0c6c2 SHA256 1694623dd0ff83a1782368181dc6181db080c89aee61018253444a48a461e9f6
+AUX libao-0.8.8-bigendianfix-fedora.patch 406 RMD160 19ba456ffc967da97356bcd79592a555fef9fba5 SHA1 061f6ef992c7c59978dba31217404e4b18d3c3f4 SHA256 cdfbc21a54246f29c780b35173b8aa634ddd36dcad37adb917c15cf4d52e2c26
 DIST libao-0.8.8.tar.gz 405619 RMD160 50b9f1e8c22e59ba9fa3d8e635509b8a4a528974 SHA1 d6e867bbfc4361346db8e505c51271e4162ae7c4 SHA256 e52e05af6b10f42d2ee9845df1a581bf2b352060eabf7946aee0a600c3878954
-EBUILD libao-0.8.8.ebuild 1184 RMD160 2ad91963d31757ca08dc2d5cd467fd9b69770602 SHA1 2e186d1e29867658a111f66746938fbbfb12492f SHA256 499d2dc089618b9ea653a6969bdd9e8e701a4357099b05459379af78b0e2260b
+EBUILD libao-0.8.8.ebuild 1238 RMD160 50c5ec2bb54a5d21277e7aaa5b6ec96f262e7737 SHA1 3ad1beeeba94d2aff028e10cad606634bd1c6dfe SHA256 44f6715c2272598aa7240f14905911efcb295d4a8ac52820c1b8fcf4c3fa0c18
 MISC ChangeLog 11496 RMD160 9f39208f7de733db40f85b53bfc5ed944305c3b1 SHA1 b6137246e8fbfda6385ddc330952118da9e80887 SHA256 a925f5301fa4da9d61a532d96e7fee68db642a88a431f867fd106af5d6899462
 MISC metadata.xml 158 RMD160 6842e2189a50bd8a98e84802c38180ac1421c00e SHA1 703cea5a2109d41f7c87993c1f01d418a4c85174 SHA256 dfb5b47e6836db39fb187301dfcff1c2605e91d13d21db160806a563d8c75f9b
diff --git a/media-libs/libao/files/libao-0.8.8-bigendianfix-fedora.patch b/media-libs/libao/files/libao-0.8.8-bigendianfix-fedora.patch
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/media-libs/libao/files/libao-0.8.8-bigendianfix-fedora.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- libao-0.8.8/src/plugins/pulse/ao_pulse.c.orig	2007-05-24 10:19:07.000000000 +0100
++++ libao-0.8.8/src/plugins/pulse/ao_pulse.c	2008-07-05 21:44:47.000000000 +0100
+@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
+     const char *fn;
+     struct pa_simple *s;
+     static const struct pa_sample_spec ss = {
+-        .format = PA_SAMPLE_S16LE,
++        .format = PA_SAMPLE_S16NE,
+         .rate = 44100,
+         .channels = 2
+     };
diff --git a/media-libs/libao/libao-0.8.8.ebuild b/media-libs/libao/libao-0.8.8.ebuild
--- a/media-libs/libao/libao-0.8.8.ebuild
+++ b/media-libs/libao/libao-0.8.8.ebuild
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 
 src_prepare() {
 	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-alsa09-buffertime-milliseconds.patch
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-bigendianfix-fedora.patch
+
 	elibtoolize
 }