diff --git a/contrib/src/libav/rules.mak b/contrib/src/libav/rules.mak
index 6ac57aa5394f96eb975f2e412faa00ff8a539c5b..9f51348681994dbd37c46a7e4ca89b7e7927d935 100644
--- a/contrib/src/libav/rules.mak
+++ b/contrib/src/libav/rules.mak
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-#Libav 11-1 (git version packaged for ubuntu  14.10)
-LIBAV_HASH := f851477889ae48e2f17073cf7486e1d5561b7ae4
+LIBAV_HASH := v12.1
 LIBAV_URL := https://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=snapshot;h=$(LIBAV_HASH);sf=tgz
 
 ifndef HAVE_LINUX