diff --git a/include/vlc_timestamp_helper.h b/include/vlc_timestamp_helper.h
index ddb87f451a..ca5014f5bf 100644
--- a/include/vlc_timestamp_helper.h
+++ b/include/vlc_timestamp_helper.h
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
 #ifndef VLC_TIMESTAMP_H
 #define VLC_TIMESTAMP_H 1
 
+#include <vlc_tick.h>
+
 /* Implementation of a circular buffer of timestamps with overwriting
  * of older values. MediaCodec has only one type of timestamp, if a
  * block has no PTS, we send the DTS instead. Some hardware decoders