diff --git a/doc/APIchanges b/doc/APIchanges
index e8ea0129ea..cbdfc9bc03 100644
--- a/doc/APIchanges
+++ b/doc/APIchanges
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ libavutil:     2014-08-09
 
 API changes, most recent first:
 
+2015-xx-xx - xxxxxxx - lavu 54.9.0
+  Add AV_PIX_FMT_QSV for QSV hardware acceleration.
+
 2015-02-xx - xxxxxxx - lavc 56.21.102
   Deprecate VIMA decoder.
 
diff --git a/libavutil/pixdesc.c b/libavutil/pixdesc.c
index d52e9b672b..41bbe5d236 100644
--- a/libavutil/pixdesc.c
+++ b/libavutil/pixdesc.c
@@ -1900,6 +1900,10 @@ const AVPixFmtDescriptor av_pix_fmt_descriptors[AV_PIX_FMT_NB] = {
         .name = "vda",
         .flags = AV_PIX_FMT_FLAG_HWACCEL,
     },
+    [AV_PIX_FMT_QSV] = {
+        .name = "qsv",
+        .flags = AV_PIX_FMT_FLAG_HWACCEL,
+    },
 };
 
 static const char *color_range_names[AVCOL_RANGE_NB] = {
diff --git a/libavutil/pixfmt.h b/libavutil/pixfmt.h
index 73d4cc987a..e6270ef692 100644
--- a/libavutil/pixfmt.h
+++ b/libavutil/pixfmt.h
@@ -247,7 +247,11 @@ enum AVPixelFormat {
     AV_PIX_FMT_GBRAP_LIBAV,        ///< planar GBRA 4:4:4:4 32bpp
     AV_PIX_FMT_GBRAP16BE_LIBAV,    ///< planar GBRA 4:4:4:4 64bpp, big-endian
     AV_PIX_FMT_GBRAP16LE_LIBAV,    ///< planar GBRA 4:4:4:4 64bpp, little-endian
-
+    /**
+     *  HW acceleration through QSV, data[3] contains a pointer to the
+     *  mfxFrameSurface1 structure.
+     */
+    AV_PIX_FMT_QSV,
 
 #ifndef AV_PIX_FMT_ABI_GIT_MASTER
     AV_PIX_FMT_RGBA64BE=0x123,  ///< packed RGBA 16:16:16:16, 64bpp, 16R, 16G, 16B, 16A, the 2-byte value for each R/G/B/A component is stored as big-endian
diff --git a/libavutil/version.h b/libavutil/version.h
index 73bf398dff..355eef344c 100644
--- a/libavutil/version.h
+++ b/libavutil/version.h
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
  */
 
 #define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MAJOR  54
-#define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MINOR  18
+#define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MINOR  19
 #define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MICRO 100
 
 #define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_INT   AV_VERSION_INT(LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MAJOR, \