diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 1ba590b440..2585cfb60f 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "common"]
         path = common
         url = git://anongit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/common
+[submodule "gst-libs/ext/libav"]
+	path = gst-libs/ext/libav
+	url = git://git.libav.org/libav.git
diff --git a/gst-libs/ext/libav b/gst-libs/ext/libav
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000..151cd4f982
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gst-libs/ext/libav
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 151cd4f98225c0c5cab8fb29e1dbc0719f7f67e3