diff --git a/doc/Makefile b/doc/Makefile
index 17dc332e37..4c89d7f5c4 100644
--- a/doc/Makefile
+++ b/doc/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 DOCLIBS-$(CONFIG_AVUTIL)  += libavutil
 DOCLIBS-$(CONFIG_AVCODEC) += libavcodec
+DOCLIBS-$(CONFIG_AVFILTER) += libavfilter
 
 MANPAGES    = $(PROGS-yes:%=doc/%.1)    $(DOCLIBS-yes:%=doc/%.3)
 PODPAGES    = $(PROGS-yes:%=doc/%.pod)  $(DOCLIBS-yes:%=doc/%.pod)
diff --git a/doc/libavfilter.texi b/doc/libavfilter.texi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..051ecad2ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/libavfilter.texi
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+\input texinfo @c -*- texinfo -*-
+
+@settitle Libavfilter Documentation
+@titlepage
+@center @titlefont{Libavfilter Documentation}
+@end titlepage
+
+@top
+
+@contents
+
+@chapter Description
+@c man begin DESCRIPTION
+
+The libavfilter library provides a generic audio/video filtering
+framework containing several filters, sources and sinks.
+
+@c man end DESCRIPTION
+
+@include filters.texi
+
+@ignore
+
+@setfilename libavfilter
+@settitle multimedia filtering library
+
+@c man begin SEEALSO
+ffmpeg(1), ffplay(1), ffprobe(1), ffserver(1), libavutil(3), libavcodec(3)
+@c man end
+
+@c man begin AUTHORS
+See Git history (git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg)
+@c man end
+
+@end ignore
+
+@bye