diff --git a/libavformat/id3v2.c b/libavformat/id3v2.c
index 6c216ba7a2..e46174d7c7 100644
--- a/libavformat/id3v2.c
+++ b/libavformat/id3v2.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 #endif
 
 #include "libavutil/avstring.h"
+#include "libavutil/bprint.h"
 #include "libavutil/dict.h"
 #include "libavutil/intreadwrite.h"
 #include "avio_internal.h"
@@ -1224,3 +1225,50 @@ end:
     av_freep(&chapters);
     return ret;
 }
+
+int ff_id3v2_parse_priv_dict(AVDictionary **metadata, ID3v2ExtraMeta **extra_meta)
+{
+    ID3v2ExtraMeta *cur;
+    int dict_flags = AV_DICT_DONT_OVERWRITE | AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_KEY | AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_VAL;
+
+    for (cur = *extra_meta; cur; cur = cur->next) {
+        if (!strcmp(cur->tag, "PRIV")) {
+            ID3v2ExtraMetaPRIV *priv = cur->data;
+            AVBPrint bprint;
+            char * escaped, * key;
+            int i, ret;
+
+            if ((key = av_asprintf(ID3v2_PRIV_METADATA_PREFIX "%s", priv->owner)) == NULL) {
+                return AVERROR(ENOMEM);
+            }
+
+            av_bprint_init(&bprint, priv->datasize + 1, AV_BPRINT_SIZE_UNLIMITED);
+
+            for (i = 0; i < priv->datasize; i++) {
+                if (priv->data[i] < 32 || priv->data[i] > 126 || priv->data[i] == '\\') {
+                    av_bprintf(&bprint, "\\x%02x", priv->data[i]);
+                } else {
+                    av_bprint_chars(&bprint, priv->data[i], 1);
+                }
+            }
+
+            if ((ret = av_bprint_finalize(&bprint, &escaped)) < 0) {
+                av_free(key);
+                return ret;
+            }
+
+            if ((ret = av_dict_set(metadata, key, escaped, dict_flags)) < 0) {
+                av_free(key);
+                av_free(escaped);
+                return ret;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    return 0;
+}
+
+int ff_id3v2_parse_priv(AVFormatContext *s, ID3v2ExtraMeta **extra_meta)
+{
+    return ff_id3v2_parse_priv_dict(&s->metadata, extra_meta);
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/libavformat/id3v2.h b/libavformat/id3v2.h
index 5e64ead096..9de0bee374 100644
--- a/libavformat/id3v2.h
+++ b/libavformat/id3v2.h
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@
 #define ID3v2_FLAG_ENCRYPTION  0x0004
 #define ID3v2_FLAG_COMPRESSION 0x0008
 
+#define ID3v2_PRIV_METADATA_PREFIX "id3v2_priv."
+
 enum ID3v2Encoding {
     ID3v2_ENCODING_ISO8859  = 0,
     ID3v2_ENCODING_UTF16BOM = 1,
@@ -167,6 +169,19 @@ int ff_id3v2_parse_apic(AVFormatContext *s, ID3v2ExtraMeta **extra_meta);
  */
 int ff_id3v2_parse_chapters(AVFormatContext *s, ID3v2ExtraMeta **extra_meta);
 
+/**
+ * Parse PRIV tags into a dictionary. The PRIV owner is the metadata key. The
+ * PRIV data is the value, with non-printable characters escaped.
+ */
+int ff_id3v2_parse_priv_dict(AVDictionary **d, ID3v2ExtraMeta **extra_meta);
+
+/**
+ * Add metadata for all PRIV tags in the ID3v2 header. The PRIV owner is the
+ * metadata key. The PRIV data is the value, with non-printable characters
+ * escaped.
+ */
+int ff_id3v2_parse_priv(AVFormatContext *s, ID3v2ExtraMeta **extra_meta);
+
 extern const AVMetadataConv ff_id3v2_34_metadata_conv[];
 extern const AVMetadataConv ff_id3v2_4_metadata_conv[];
 
diff --git a/libavformat/id3v2enc.c b/libavformat/id3v2enc.c
index 14de76ac06..d5e358c8b6 100644
--- a/libavformat/id3v2enc.c
+++ b/libavformat/id3v2enc.c
@@ -96,6 +96,63 @@ static int id3v2_put_ttag(ID3v2EncContext *id3, AVIOContext *avioc, const char *
     return len + ID3v2_HEADER_SIZE;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Write a priv frame with owner and data. 'key' is the owner prepended with
+ * ID3v2_PRIV_METADATA_PREFIX. 'data' is provided as a string. Any \xXX
+ * (where 'X' is a valid hex digit) will be unescaped to the byte value.
+ */
+static int id3v2_put_priv(ID3v2EncContext *id3, AVIOContext *avioc, const char *key, const char *data)
+{
+    int len;
+    uint8_t *pb;
+    AVIOContext *dyn_buf;
+
+    if (!av_strstart(key, ID3v2_PRIV_METADATA_PREFIX, &key)) {
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+    if (avio_open_dyn_buf(&dyn_buf) < 0)
+        return AVERROR(ENOMEM);
+
+    // owner + null byte.
+    avio_write(dyn_buf, key, strlen(key) + 1);
+
+    while (*data) {
+        if (av_strstart(data, "\\x", &data)) {
+            if (data[0] && data[1] && av_isxdigit(data[0]) && av_isxdigit(data[1])) {
+                char digits[] = {data[0], data[1], 0};
+                avio_w8(dyn_buf, strtol(digits, NULL, 16));
+            } else {
+                // '\x' wasn't followed by two hex digits. Just write out
+                // whatever the 2-4 characters were.
+                avio_write(dyn_buf, "\\x", 2);
+                if (data[0]) {
+                    avio_w8(dyn_buf, data[0]);
+                    if (data[1])
+                        avio_w8(dyn_buf, data[1]);
+                }
+            }
+            data += 2;
+        } else {
+            avio_write(dyn_buf, data++, 1);
+        }
+    }
+
+    len = avio_close_dyn_buf(dyn_buf, &pb);
+
+    avio_wb32(avioc, MKBETAG('P', 'R', 'I', 'V'));
+    if (id3->version == 3)
+        avio_wb32(avioc, len);
+    else
+        id3v2_put_size(avioc, len);
+    avio_wb16(avioc, 0);
+    avio_write(avioc, pb, len);
+
+    av_free(pb);
+
+    return len + ID3v2_HEADER_SIZE;
+}
+
 static int id3v2_check_write_tag(ID3v2EncContext *id3, AVIOContext *pb, AVDictionaryEntry *t,
                                  const char table[][4], enum ID3v2Encoding enc)
 {
@@ -186,6 +243,13 @@ static int write_metadata(AVIOContext *pb, AVDictionary **metadata,
             continue;
         }
 
+        if ((ret = id3v2_put_priv(id3, pb, t->key, t->value)) > 0) {
+            id3->len += ret;
+            continue;
+        } else if (ret < 0) {
+            return ret;
+        }
+
         /* unknown tag, write as TXXX frame */
         if ((ret = id3v2_put_ttag(id3, pb, t->key, t->value, MKBETAG('T', 'X', 'X', 'X'), enc)) < 0)
             return ret;
diff --git a/libavformat/utils.c b/libavformat/utils.c
index 3d733417e1..c15b8cc818 100644
--- a/libavformat/utils.c
+++ b/libavformat/utils.c
@@ -637,6 +637,8 @@ int avformat_open_input(AVFormatContext **ps, const char *filename,
                 goto fail;
             if ((ret = ff_id3v2_parse_chapters(s, &id3v2_extra_meta)) < 0)
                 goto fail;
+            if ((ret = ff_id3v2_parse_priv(s, &id3v2_extra_meta)) < 0)
+                goto fail;
         } else
             av_log(s, AV_LOG_DEBUG, "demuxer does not support additional id3 data, skipping\n");
     }
