diff --git a/lfs/vdr b/lfs/vdr
index 9f36bdc8f..a3eebfacd 100644
--- a/lfs/vdr
+++ b/lfs/vdr
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ PAK_VER    = 12
 
 DEPS       = vdr_streamdev
 
+CXXFLAGS  += -std=c++11
+
 MAKE_OPTIONS = \
 	PREFIX=/usr \
 	BINDIR=/usr/bin \
@@ -99,6 +101,8 @@ $(TARGET) : $(patsubst %,$(DIR_DL)/%,$(objects))
 	@$(PREBUILD)
 	@rm -rf $(DIR_APP) && cd $(DIR_SRC) && tar jxf $(DIR_DL)/$(DL_FILE)
 
+	cd $(DIR_APP) && patch -Np1 < $(DIR_SRC)/src/patches/vdr-2.4-gcc-11.patch
+
 	# Compile main package.
 	cd $(DIR_APP) && make $(MAKE_OPTIONS) $(MAKETUNING) vdr include-dir
 
diff --git a/src/patches/vdr-2.4-gcc-11.patch b/src/patches/vdr-2.4-gcc-11.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1c56b5a83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/patches/vdr-2.4-gcc-11.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From 46b480c798c2d5f4acb8874f25e5129f2cf7f224 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Klaus Schmidinger <vdr@tvdr.de>
+Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:30:59 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Fixed checking the return value of the Open() call in
+ cFileName::SetOffset()
+
+diff --git a/recording.c b/recording.c
+index 810ef80..1fc34cd 100644
+--- a/recording.c
++++ b/recording.c
+@@ -3025,8 +3025,8 @@ cUnbufferedFile *cFileName::SetOffset(int Number, off_t Offset)
+            }
+         // found a non existing file suffix
+         }
+-     if (Open() >= 0) {
+-        if (!record && Offset >= 0 && file && file->Seek(Offset, SEEK_SET) != Offset) {
++     if (Open()) {
++        if (!record && Offset >= 0 && file->Seek(Offset, SEEK_SET) != Offset) {
+            LOG_ERROR_STR(fileName);
+            return NULL;
+            }
+-- 
+2.26.2
+