diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
index 4bddbaa4aa..705259ed2a 100644
--- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h
+++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 #include "libavutil/cpu.h"
 
 #define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR 52
-#define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MINOR 92
+#define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MINOR 93
 #define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MICRO  0
 
 #define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_INT  AV_VERSION_INT(LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR, \
@@ -2744,6 +2744,15 @@ typedef struct AVCodecContext {
      * - decoding: unused
      */
     int lpc_passes;
+
+    /**
+     * Number of slices.
+     * Indicates number of picture subdivisions. Used for parallelized
+     * decoding.
+     * - encoding: Set by user
+     * - decoding: unused
+     */
+    int slices;
 } AVCodecContext;
 
 /**
diff --git a/libavcodec/libvpxenc.c b/libavcodec/libvpxenc.c
index 77a3bbf2a0..4e16c723f2 100644
--- a/libavcodec/libvpxenc.c
+++ b/libavcodec/libvpxenc.c
@@ -310,6 +310,7 @@ static av_cold int vp8_init(AVCodecContext *avctx)
     av_log(avctx, AV_LOG_DEBUG, "vpx_codec_control\n");
     codecctl_int(avctx, VP8E_SET_CPUUSED,           cpuused);
     codecctl_int(avctx, VP8E_SET_NOISE_SENSITIVITY, avctx->noise_reduction);
+    codecctl_int(avctx, VP8E_SET_TOKEN_PARTITIONS,  av_log2(avctx->slices));
 
     //provide dummy value to initialize wrapper, values will be updated each _encode()
     vpx_img_wrap(&ctx->rawimg, VPX_IMG_FMT_I420, avctx->width, avctx->height, 1,
diff --git a/libavcodec/libx264.c b/libavcodec/libx264.c
index 8387f41286..7ce04a62cc 100644
--- a/libavcodec/libx264.c
+++ b/libavcodec/libx264.c
@@ -294,6 +294,8 @@ static av_cold int X264_init(AVCodecContext *avctx)
 
     x4->params.b_interlaced   = avctx->flags & CODEC_FLAG_INTERLACED_DCT;
 
+    x4->params.i_slice_count  = avctx->slices;
+
     if (avctx->flags & CODEC_FLAG_GLOBAL_HEADER)
         x4->params.b_repeat_headers = 0;
 
diff --git a/libavcodec/options.c b/libavcodec/options.c
index 6969d429ee..ef7573c794 100644
--- a/libavcodec/options.c
+++ b/libavcodec/options.c
@@ -425,6 +425,7 @@ static const AVOption options[]={
 {"levinson", NULL, 0, FF_OPT_TYPE_CONST, AV_LPC_TYPE_LEVINSON, INT_MIN, INT_MAX, A|E, "lpc_type"},
 {"cholesky", NULL, 0, FF_OPT_TYPE_CONST, AV_LPC_TYPE_CHOLESKY, INT_MIN, INT_MAX, A|E, "lpc_type"},
 {"lpc_passes", "number of passes to use for Cholesky factorization during LPC analysis", OFFSET(lpc_passes), FF_OPT_TYPE_INT, -1, INT_MIN, INT_MAX, A|E},
+{"slices", "number of slices, used in parallelized decoding", OFFSET(slices), FF_OPT_TYPE_INT, 0, 0, INT_MAX, V|E},
 {NULL},
 };