diff --git a/gnu/packages/video.scm b/gnu/packages/video.scm
index b3926af8bb..0188d15914 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/video.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/video.scm
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2020 Vinicius Monego <monego@posteo.net>
 ;;; Copyright © 2020 Brett Gilio <brettg@gnu.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2020 Alexandru-Sergiu Marton <brown121407@posteo.ro>
+;;; Copyright © 2020 Ivan Kozlov <kanichos@yandex.ru>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -2987,11 +2988,39 @@ tools, XML authoring components, and an extensible plug-in based API.")
                (base32
                 "1bkqlrizx0j2rd6ybam2x17bjrpwzl4v4szmnzm3cmixis3w3npr"))))
     (build-system gnu-build-system)
+    ;; Separate graphical tools in order to save almost 1 GiB on the closure
+    ;; for the common case.
+    (outputs '("out" "gui"))
     (arguments
      '(#:configure-flags
        (list (string-append "--with-udevdir="
                             (assoc-ref %outputs "out")
-                            "/lib/udev"))))
+                            "/lib/udev"))
+       #:phases
+       (modify-phases %standard-phases
+         (add-after 'install 'split
+           (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
+             (let ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out"))
+                   (gui (assoc-ref outputs "gui")))
+               (mkdir-p (string-append gui "/bin"))
+               (mkdir-p (string-append gui "/share/man/man1"))
+               (mkdir-p (string-append gui "/share/applications"))
+               (for-each
+                (lambda (prog)
+                  (for-each
+                   (lambda (file)
+                     (rename-file (string-append out file)
+                                  (string-append gui file)))
+                   (list
+                    (string-append "/bin/" prog)
+                    (string-append "/share/man/man1/" prog ".1")
+                    (string-append "/share/applications/" prog ".desktop"))))
+                '("qv4l2" "qvidcap"))
+               (copy-recursively (string-append out "/share/icons")
+                                 (string-append gui "/share/icons"))
+               (delete-file-recursively (string-append out "/share/icons"))
+               (rmdir (string-append out "/share/applications"))
+               #t))))))
     (native-inputs
      `(("perl" ,perl)
        ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))