diff --git a/doc/APIchanges b/doc/APIchanges
index 50b5f0bb53..0fb3f1e3d7 100644
--- a/doc/APIchanges
+++ b/doc/APIchanges
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ libavutil:     2021-04-27
 
 API changes, most recent first:
 
+2022-01-04 - xxxxxxxxxx - lavu 57.16.100 - frame.h
+  Add AV_FRAME_DATA_DOVI_METADATA.
+
 2022-01-03 - 70f318e6b6c - lavf 59.13.100 - avformat.h
   Add AVFMT_EXPERIMENTAL flag.
 
diff --git a/libavutil/dovi_meta.c b/libavutil/dovi_meta.c
index 7bd08f6c54..9c50da561e 100644
--- a/libavutil/dovi_meta.c
+++ b/libavutil/dovi_meta.c
@@ -33,3 +33,28 @@ AVDOVIDecoderConfigurationRecord *av_dovi_alloc(size_t *size)
 
     return dovi;
 }
+
+typedef struct AVDOVIMetadataInternal {
+    AVDOVIMetadata metadata;
+    AVDOVIRpuDataHeader header;
+    AVDOVIDataMapping mapping;
+    AVDOVIColorMetadata color;
+} AVDOVIMetadataInternal;
+
+AVDOVIMetadata *av_dovi_metadata_alloc(size_t *size)
+{
+    AVDOVIMetadataInternal *dovi = av_mallocz(sizeof(AVDOVIMetadataInternal));
+    if (!dovi)
+        return NULL;
+
+    if (size)
+        *size = sizeof(*dovi);
+
+    dovi->metadata = (struct AVDOVIMetadata) {
+        .header_offset  = offsetof(AVDOVIMetadataInternal, header),
+        .mapping_offset = offsetof(AVDOVIMetadataInternal, mapping),
+        .color_offset   = offsetof(AVDOVIMetadataInternal, color),
+    };
+
+    return &dovi->metadata;
+}
diff --git a/libavutil/dovi_meta.h b/libavutil/dovi_meta.h
index 299911d434..3d11e02bff 100644
--- a/libavutil/dovi_meta.h
+++ b/libavutil/dovi_meta.h
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 
 #include <stdint.h>
 #include <stddef.h>
+#include "rational.h"
 
 /*
  * DOVI configuration
@@ -67,4 +68,169 @@ typedef struct AVDOVIDecoderConfigurationRecord {
  */
 AVDOVIDecoderConfigurationRecord *av_dovi_alloc(size_t *size);
 
+/**
+ * Dolby Vision RPU data header.
+ *
+ * @note sizeof(AVDOVIRpuDataHeader) is not part of the public ABI.
+ */
+typedef struct AVDOVIRpuDataHeader {
+    uint8_t rpu_type;
+    uint16_t rpu_format;
+    uint8_t vdr_rpu_profile;
+    uint8_t vdr_rpu_level;
+    uint8_t chroma_resampling_explicit_filter_flag;
+    uint8_t coef_data_type; /* informative, lavc always converts to fixed */
+    uint8_t coef_log2_denom;
+    uint8_t vdr_rpu_normalized_idc;
+    uint8_t bl_video_full_range_flag;
+    uint8_t bl_bit_depth; /* [8, 16] */
+    uint8_t el_bit_depth; /* [8, 16] */
+    uint8_t vdr_bit_depth; /* [8, 16] */
+    uint8_t spatial_resampling_filter_flag;
+    uint8_t el_spatial_resampling_filter_flag;
+    uint8_t disable_residual_flag;
+} AVDOVIRpuDataHeader;
+
+enum AVDOVIMappingMethod {
+    AV_DOVI_MAPPING_POLYNOMIAL = 0,
+    AV_DOVI_MAPPING_MMR = 1,
+};
+
+/**
+ * Coefficients of a piece-wise function. The pieces of the function span the
+ * value ranges between two adjacent pivot values.
+ */
+#define AV_DOVI_MAX_PIECES 8
+typedef struct AVDOVIReshapingCurve {
+    uint8_t num_pivots;                         /* [2, 9] */
+    uint16_t pivots[AV_DOVI_MAX_PIECES + 1];    /* sorted ascending */
+    enum AVDOVIMappingMethod mapping_idc[AV_DOVI_MAX_PIECES];
+    /* AV_DOVI_MAPPING_POLYNOMIAL */
+    uint8_t poly_order[AV_DOVI_MAX_PIECES];     /* [1, 2] */
+    int64_t poly_coef[AV_DOVI_MAX_PIECES][3];   /* x^0, x^1, x^2 */
+    /* AV_DOVI_MAPPING_MMR */
+    uint8_t mmr_order[AV_DOVI_MAX_PIECES];      /* [1, 3] */
+    int64_t mmr_constant[AV_DOVI_MAX_PIECES];
+    int64_t mmr_coef[AV_DOVI_MAX_PIECES][3/* order - 1 */][7];
+} AVDOVIReshapingCurve;
+
+enum AVDOVINLQMethod {
+    AV_DOVI_NLQ_NONE = -1,
+    AV_DOVI_NLQ_LINEAR_DZ = 0,
+};
+
+/**
+ * Coefficients of the non-linear inverse quantization. For the interpretation
+ * of these, see ETSI GS CCM 001.
+ */
+typedef struct AVDOVINLQParams {
+    uint16_t nlq_offset;
+    uint64_t vdr_in_max;
+    /* AV_DOVI_NLQ_LINEAR_DZ */
+    uint64_t linear_deadzone_slope;
+    uint64_t linear_deadzone_threshold;
+} AVDOVINLQParams;
+
+/**
+ * Dolby Vision RPU data mapping parameters.
+ *
+ * @note sizeof(AVDOVIDataMapping) is not part of the public ABI.
+ */
+typedef struct AVDOVIDataMapping {
+    uint8_t vdr_rpu_id;
+    uint8_t mapping_color_space;
+    uint8_t mapping_chroma_format_idc;
+    AVDOVIReshapingCurve curves[3]; /* per component */
+
+    /* Non-linear inverse quantization */
+    enum AVDOVINLQMethod nlq_method_idc;
+    uint32_t num_x_partitions;
+    uint32_t num_y_partitions;
+    AVDOVINLQParams nlq[3]; /* per component */
+} AVDOVIDataMapping;
+
+/**
+ * Dolby Vision RPU colorspace metadata parameters.
+ *
+ * @note sizeof(AVDOVIColorMetadata) is not part of the public ABI.
+ */
+typedef struct AVDOVIColorMetadata {
+    uint8_t dm_metadata_id;
+    uint8_t scene_refresh_flag;
+
+    /**
+     * Coefficients of the custom Dolby Vision IPT-PQ matrices. These are to be
+     * used instead of the matrices indicated by the frame's colorspace tags.
+     * The output of rgb_to_lms_matrix is to be fed into a BT.2020 LMS->RGB
+     * matrix based on a Hunt-Pointer-Estevez transform, but without any
+     * crosstalk. (See the definition of the ICtCp colorspace for more
+     * information.)
+     */
+    AVRational ycc_to_rgb_matrix[9]; /* before PQ linearization */
+    AVRational ycc_to_rgb_offset[3]; /* input offset of neutral value */
+    AVRational rgb_to_lms_matrix[9]; /* after PQ linearization */
+
+    /**
+     * Extra signal metadata (see Dolby patents for more info).
+     */
+    uint16_t signal_eotf;
+    uint16_t signal_eotf_param0;
+    uint16_t signal_eotf_param1;
+    uint32_t signal_eotf_param2;
+    uint8_t signal_bit_depth;
+    uint8_t signal_color_space;
+    uint8_t signal_chroma_format;
+    uint8_t signal_full_range_flag; /* [0, 3] */
+    uint16_t source_min_pq;
+    uint16_t source_max_pq;
+    uint16_t source_diagonal;
+} AVDOVIColorMetadata;
+
+/**
+ * Combined struct representing a combination of header, mapping and color
+ * metadata, for attaching to frames as side data.
+ *
+ * @note The struct must be allocated with av_dovi_metadata_alloc() and
+ *       its size is not a part of the public ABI.
+ */
+
+typedef struct AVDOVIMetadata {
+    /**
+     * Offset in bytes from the beginning of this structure at which the
+     * respective structs start.
+     */
+    size_t header_offset;   /* AVDOVIRpuDataHeader */
+    size_t mapping_offset;  /* AVDOVIDataMapping */
+    size_t color_offset;    /* AVDOVIColorMetadata */
+} AVDOVIMetadata;
+
+static av_always_inline AVDOVIRpuDataHeader *
+av_dovi_get_header(const AVDOVIMetadata *data)
+{
+    return (AVDOVIRpuDataHeader *)((uint8_t *) data + data->header_offset);
+}
+
+static av_always_inline AVDOVIDataMapping *
+av_dovi_get_mapping(const AVDOVIMetadata *data)
+{
+    return (AVDOVIDataMapping *)((uint8_t *) data + data->mapping_offset);
+}
+
+static av_always_inline AVDOVIColorMetadata *
+av_dovi_get_color(const AVDOVIMetadata *data)
+{
+    return (AVDOVIColorMetadata *)((uint8_t *) data + data->color_offset);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Allocate an AVDOVIMetadata structure and initialize its
+ * fields to default values.
+ *
+ * @param size If this parameter is non-NULL, the size in bytes of the
+ *             allocated struct will be written here on success
+ *
+ * @return the newly allocated struct or NULL on failure
+ */
+AVDOVIMetadata *av_dovi_metadata_alloc(size_t *size);
+
 #endif /* AVUTIL_DOVI_META_H */
diff --git a/libavutil/frame.c b/libavutil/frame.c
index 0912ad9131..8997c85e35 100644
--- a/libavutil/frame.c
+++ b/libavutil/frame.c
@@ -729,6 +729,7 @@ const char *av_frame_side_data_name(enum AVFrameSideDataType type)
     case AV_FRAME_DATA_FILM_GRAIN_PARAMS:           return "Film grain parameters";
     case AV_FRAME_DATA_DETECTION_BBOXES:            return "Bounding boxes for object detection and classification";
     case AV_FRAME_DATA_DOVI_RPU_BUFFER:             return "Dolby Vision RPU Data";
+    case AV_FRAME_DATA_DOVI_METADATA:               return "Dolby Vision Metadata";
     }
     return NULL;
 }
diff --git a/libavutil/frame.h b/libavutil/frame.h
index 3f295f6b9e..18e239f870 100644
--- a/libavutil/frame.h
+++ b/libavutil/frame.h
@@ -189,11 +189,18 @@ enum AVFrameSideDataType {
     AV_FRAME_DATA_DETECTION_BBOXES,
 
     /**
-     * Dolby Vision RPU data, suitable for passing to x265
+     * Dolby Vision RPU raw data, suitable for passing to x265
      * or other libraries. Array of uint8_t, with NAL emulation
      * bytes intact.
      */
     AV_FRAME_DATA_DOVI_RPU_BUFFER,
+
+    /**
+     * Parsed Dolby Vision metadata, suitable for passing to a software
+     * implementation. The payload is the AVDOVIMetadata struct defined in
+     * libavutil/dovi_meta.h.
+     */
+    AV_FRAME_DATA_DOVI_METADATA,
 };
 
 enum AVActiveFormatDescription {
diff --git a/libavutil/version.h b/libavutil/version.h
index ca5d34d681..d257e5438d 100644
--- a/libavutil/version.h
+++ b/libavutil/version.h
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
  */
 
 #define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MAJOR  57
-#define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MINOR  15
+#define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MINOR  16
 #define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MICRO 100
 
 #define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_INT   AV_VERSION_INT(LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MAJOR, \