diff --git a/media-plugins/obs-vkcapture/Manifest b/media-plugins/obs-vkcapture/Manifest
index 9d103e1c5cbb0..dce8f13f3cbc9 100644
--- a/media-plugins/obs-vkcapture/Manifest
+++ b/media-plugins/obs-vkcapture/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST obs-vkcapture-1.5.3.tar.gz 61087 BLAKE2B 969ecb51e5403a23d6ac16af8cd51d422f621e2392c93e93f353fd6bd596a76d0a4ba7e586931beed6578fb0d61c5efed58fa3ce1fb58f64b021bc240d7b597e SHA512 fdc3e1dd3d86b2ef6e5721e235abad4e45a3b03ad386f237c6bcf168f23f125e2cf2a4d10d040a53fadb5633a426d13d3152080ebc70fbbccf49cfb1d9f385fb
 DIST obs-vkcapture-1.5.5.tar.gz 62059 BLAKE2B 066a0b31dc472ff8c46a20a994d852711bc88b7e0aa0863e6c9b3b885917d7e42af2fe95a6977925c4b0b05e80da359964bd867160600868eb5b5d8c95cbe411 SHA512 6cdc876db1e3cbb147bcc835b9ee076fc4c81b8495a59b7abdbedaacf6d70a9661de71d077be0773be72ba0c8b1a5d0a05708e7282fbafa9fd4d3cab94a38d5e
diff --git a/media-plugins/obs-vkcapture/obs-vkcapture-1.5.3-r1.ebuild b/media-plugins/obs-vkcapture/obs-vkcapture-1.5.3-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 586be92c87737..0000000000000
--- a/media-plugins/obs-vkcapture/obs-vkcapture-1.5.3-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,77 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-inherit cmake-multilib
-
-DESCRIPTION="OBS Linux Vulkan/OpenGL game capture"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/nowrep/obs-vkcapture"
-
-if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]] ; then
-	inherit git-r3
-	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/nowrep/obs-vkcapture.git"
-else
-	SRC_URI="https://github.com/nowrep/obs-vkcapture/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64"
-fi
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-SLOT="0"
-IUSE="X wayland"
-
-REQUIRED_USE="|| ( X wayland )"
-
-COMMON_DEPENDS="
-	>=media-video/obs-studio-30.2.0
-	>=media-libs/libglvnd-1.7.0[X=,${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
-	X? (
-		x11-libs/libxcb:=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
-	)
-	wayland? (
-		>=dev-libs/wayland-1.22.0
-	)
-"
-DEPEND="${COMMON_DEPENDS}
-	>=media-libs/vulkan-loader-1.3[X=,wayland=,${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
-	media-libs/vulkan-layers[X=,wayland=,${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
-	dev-util/vulkan-headers
-	wayland? (
-		>=dev-util/wayland-scanner-1.22.0
-	)
-	X? (
-		x11-libs/libX11
-	)
-"
-RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPENDS}"
-
-QA_SONAME="
-	/usr/lib/libVkLayer_obs_vkcapture.so
-	/usr/lib64/libVkLayer_obs_vkcapture.so
-"
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	if [[ $(</sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset) != Y ]] 2>/dev/null; then
-		elog "This plugin needs nvidia-drm with modeset configured properly"
-		elog "to capture windows. To enable, edit /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf"
-		elog "and uncomment the nvidia-drm options to enable modeset."
-		elog
-	fi
-
-	elog "This plugin can only capture the game window if you add one of the"
-	elog "following launcher options to the game (Steam as an example):"
-	elog "  - OBS_VKCAPTURE=1 %command% (recommended, Vulkan)"
-	elog "  - obs-gamecapture %command% (generic, OpenGL and Vulkan)"
-	elog
-	elog "HINT: This may currently not work on wayland with"
-	elog "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers[kernel-open]"
-}
-
-multilib_src_configure() {
-	if ! multilib_is_native_abi; then
-		local mycmakeargs+=(
-			-DBUILD_PLUGIN=OFF
-		)
-	fi
-	cmake_src_configure
-}