diff --git a/doc/APIchanges b/doc/APIchanges
index 047b9bdc37..432acdc009 100644
--- a/doc/APIchanges
+++ b/doc/APIchanges
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ libavutil:     2012-10-22
 
 API changes, most recent first:
 
+2014-xx-xx - xxxxxxx - lavu 53.03.01 - opt.h
+  Deprecate unused AV_OPT_FLAG_METADATA.
+
 2014-02-xx - xxxxxxx - lavd 55.10.100 - avdevice.h
   Add avdevice_list_devices() and avdevice_free_list_devices()
 
diff --git a/libavutil/opt.h b/libavutil/opt.h
index 14faa6e066..56b0e0f6ba 100644
--- a/libavutil/opt.h
+++ b/libavutil/opt.h
@@ -282,7 +282,9 @@ typedef struct AVOption {
     int flags;
 #define AV_OPT_FLAG_ENCODING_PARAM  1   ///< a generic parameter which can be set by the user for muxing or encoding
 #define AV_OPT_FLAG_DECODING_PARAM  2   ///< a generic parameter which can be set by the user for demuxing or decoding
+#if FF_API_OPT_TYPE_METADATA
 #define AV_OPT_FLAG_METADATA        4   ///< some data extracted or inserted into the file like title, comment, ...
+#endif
 #define AV_OPT_FLAG_AUDIO_PARAM     8
 #define AV_OPT_FLAG_VIDEO_PARAM     16
 #define AV_OPT_FLAG_SUBTITLE_PARAM  32
diff --git a/libavutil/version.h b/libavutil/version.h
index 7bc12612fb..3d2509719c 100644
--- a/libavutil/version.h
+++ b/libavutil/version.h
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 
 #define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MAJOR  52
 #define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MINOR  64
-#define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MICRO 100
+#define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MICRO 101
 
 #define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_INT   AV_VERSION_INT(LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MAJOR, \
                                                LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MINOR, \
@@ -134,6 +134,9 @@
 #ifndef FF_API_INTFLOAT
 #define FF_API_INTFLOAT                 (LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MAJOR < 54)
 #endif
+#ifndef FF_API_OPT_TYPE_METADATA
+#define FF_API_OPT_TYPE_METADATA        (LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MAJOR < 54)
+#endif
 
 /**
  * @}