diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 413c02fae8..b7f0acdc0a 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1138,6 +1138,7 @@ HAVE_LIST="
     symver
     symver_asm_label
     symver_gnu_asm
+    sysconf
     sysctl
     sys_mman_h
     sys_param_h
@@ -2858,6 +2859,7 @@ check_func  strerror_r
 check_func  strptime
 check_func  strtok_r
 check_func  sched_getaffinity
+check_func  sysconf
 check_func  sysctl
 check_func_headers io.h setmode
 check_func_headers lzo/lzo1x.h lzo1x_999_compress
diff --git a/libavcodec/pthread.c b/libavcodec/pthread.c
index 73d96fca1a..400abf4f6c 100644
--- a/libavcodec/pthread.c
+++ b/libavcodec/pthread.c
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/sysctl.h>
 #endif
+#if HAVE_SYSCONF
+#include <unistd.h>
+#endif
 
 #include "avcodec.h"
 #include "internal.h"
@@ -177,6 +180,10 @@ static int get_logical_cpus(AVCodecContext *avctx)
     ret = sysctl(mib, 2, &nb_cpus, &len, NULL, 0);
     if (ret == -1)
         nb_cpus = 0;
+#elif HAVE_SYSCONF && defined(_SC_NPROC_ONLN)
+    nb_cpus = sysconf(_SC_NPROC_ONLN);
+#elif HAVE_SYSCONF && defined(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
+    nb_cpus = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN);
 #endif
     av_log(avctx, AV_LOG_DEBUG, "detected %d logical cores\n", nb_cpus);
     return FFMIN(nb_cpus, MAX_AUTO_THREADS);