diff --git a/libavformat/avformat.h b/libavformat/avformat.h
index 04fad94219..2adcae27d7 100644
--- a/libavformat/avformat.h
+++ b/libavformat/avformat.h
@@ -892,6 +892,7 @@ typedef struct AVStream {
 
 AVRational av_stream_get_r_frame_rate(const AVStream *s);
 void       av_stream_set_r_frame_rate(AVStream *s, AVRational r);
+struct AVCodecParserContext *av_stream_get_parser(const AVStream *s);
 
 #define AV_PROGRAM_RUNNING 1
 
diff --git a/libavformat/utils.c b/libavformat/utils.c
index 3280a0d214..4cb0adfdfe 100644
--- a/libavformat/utils.c
+++ b/libavformat/utils.c
@@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ static int64_t wrap_timestamp(AVStream *st, int64_t timestamp)
 
 MAKE_ACCESSORS(AVStream, stream, AVRational, r_frame_rate)
 
+struct AVCodecParserContext *av_stream_get_parser(const AVStream *st)
+{
+    return st->parser;
+}
+
 /* an arbitrarily chosen "sane" max packet size -- 50M */
 #define SANE_CHUNK_SIZE (50000000)