Add AV1 video decoding support through libaom

Signed-off-by: Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>
Signed-off-by: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/general.texi b/doc/general.texi
index 0c92761a49..e066b42187 100644
--- a/doc/general.texi
+++ b/doc/general.texi
@@ -16,6 +16,14 @@ for more formats. None of them are used by default, their use has to be
 explicitly requested by passing the appropriate flags to
 @command{./configure}.
 
+@section Alliance for Open Media libaom
+
+Libav can make use of the libaom library for AV1 decoding.
+
+Go to @url{http://aomedia.org/} and follow the instructions for
+installing the library. Then pass @code{--enable-libaom} to configure to
+enable it.
+
 @section OpenCORE and VisualOn libraries
 
 Spun off Google Android sources, OpenCore, VisualOn and Fraunhofer
@@ -617,6 +625,8 @@ following image formats are supported:
 @item Autodesk Animator Flic video  @tab     @tab  X
 @item Autodesk RLE           @tab     @tab  X
     @tab fourcc: AASC
+@item AV1                    @tab     @tab  E
+    @tab Supported through external library libaom
 @item AVS (Audio Video Standard) video  @tab     @tab  X
     @tab Video encoding used by the Creature Shock game.
 @item Beam Software VB       @tab     @tab  X