diff --git a/doc/APIchanges b/doc/APIchanges
index 090e513cd4..5a0989de8e 100644
--- a/doc/APIchanges
+++ b/doc/APIchanges
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ libavutil:     2012-10-22
 
 API changes, most recent first:
 
+2014-07-30 - xxxxxxx - lavu 52.94.100 - frame.h
+  Add av_frame_side_data_name()
+
 2014-07-xx - xxxxxxx - lavu 53.19.0 - avstring.h
   Make name matching function from lavf public as av_match_name().
 
diff --git a/libavutil/frame.c b/libavutil/frame.c
index fdfbc46753..2c62922db9 100644
--- a/libavutil/frame.c
+++ b/libavutil/frame.c
@@ -672,3 +672,17 @@ void av_frame_remove_side_data(AVFrame *frame, enum AVFrameSideDataType type)
         }
     }
 }
+
+const char *av_frame_side_data_name(enum AVFrameSideDataType type)
+{
+    switch(type) {
+    case AV_FRAME_DATA_PANSCAN:         return "AVPanScan";
+    case AV_FRAME_DATA_A53_CC:          return "ATSC A53 Part 4 Closed Captions";
+    case AV_FRAME_DATA_STEREO3D:        return "Stereoscopic 3d metadata";
+    case AV_FRAME_DATA_MATRIXENCODING:  return "AVMatrixEncoding";
+    case AV_FRAME_DATA_DOWNMIX_INFO:    return "Metadata relevant to a downmix procedure";
+    case AV_FRAME_DATA_REPLAYGAIN:      return "AVReplayGain";
+    case AV_FRAME_DATA_DISPLAYMATRIX:   return "3x3 displaymatrix";
+    }
+    return NULL;
+}
diff --git a/libavutil/frame.h b/libavutil/frame.h
index a39c8d07ff..c57eb552e2 100644
--- a/libavutil/frame.h
+++ b/libavutil/frame.h
@@ -727,6 +727,11 @@ AVFrameSideData *av_frame_get_side_data(const AVFrame *frame,
  */
 void av_frame_remove_side_data(AVFrame *frame, enum AVFrameSideDataType type);
 
+/**
+ * @return a string identifying the side data type
+ */
+const char *av_frame_side_data_name(enum AVFrameSideDataType type);
+
 /**
  * @}
  */
diff --git a/libavutil/version.h b/libavutil/version.h
index 0c69a7893b..42e2db51d4 100644
--- a/libavutil/version.h
+++ b/libavutil/version.h
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
  */
 
 #define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MAJOR  52
-#define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MINOR  93
+#define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MINOR  94
 #define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MICRO 100
 
 #define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_INT   AV_VERSION_INT(LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MAJOR, \