diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 43cc76d0..b68fbbb5 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -49,3 +49,6 @@
 [submodule "ffmpeg"]
 	path = ffmpeg
 	url = https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg
+[submodule "dav1d"]
+	path = dav1d
+	url = https://github.com/videolan/dav1d.git
diff --git a/dav1d b/dav1d
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..7b433e07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dav1d
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 7b433e077298d0f4faf8da6d6eb5774e29bffa54