diff --git a/libavformat/subtitles.c b/libavformat/subtitles.c
index 7f4bdef45e..67624fcf32 100644
--- a/libavformat/subtitles.c
+++ b/libavformat/subtitles.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ void ff_text_init_avio(void *s, FFTextReader *r, AVIOContext *pb)
         }
     }
     if (s && (r->type == FF_UTF16LE || r->type == FF_UTF16BE))
-        av_log(s, AV_LOG_WARNING,
+        av_log(s, AV_LOG_INFO,
                "UTF16 is automatically converted to UTF8, do not specify a character encoding\n");
 }