diff --git a/.github/workflows/msrv.yml b/.github/workflows/msrv.yml
index 24e528025..62d978f55 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/msrv.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/msrv.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,18 @@ on:
 jobs:
   msrv_stable:
     name: msrv_stable
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        build: [ ubuntu, macos, windows ]
+        include:
+          - build: ubuntu
+            os: ubuntu-latest
+          - build: macos
+            os: macos-latest
+          - build: windows
+            os: windows-latest
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     continue-on-error: true
     steps:
       - name: checkout_repo
@@ -28,9 +39,84 @@ jobs:
       - name: install_nasm
         uses: ilammy/setup-nasm@v1
 
+      - name: feature_dav1d_setup
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.9'
+
+      - name: feature_dav1d_pip
+        run: |
+          pip install -U pip
+          pip install -U wheel setuptools
+          pip install -U meson ninja
+
+      - name: feature_dav1d_build_david_ubuntu
+        if: ${{ matrix.build == 'ubuntu' }}
+        env:
+          DAV1D_DIR: libdav1d
+          LIB_PATH: lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
+        run: |
+          git clone --branch 1.5.0 --depth 1 https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d.git
+          cd dav1d
+          meson build -Dprefix=$HOME/$DAV1D_DIR -Denable_tools=false -Denable_examples=false --buildtype release
+          ninja -C build
+          ninja -C build install
+          echo "PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/$DAV1D_DIR/$LIB_PATH/pkgconfig" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/$DAV1D_DIR/$LIB_PATH" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - name: feature_dav1d_build_david_macos
+        if: ${{ matrix.build == 'macos' }}
+        env:
+          DAV1D_DIR: libdav1d
+          LIB_PATH: lib
+        run: |
+          git clone --branch 1.5.0 --depth 1 https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d.git
+          cd dav1d
+          meson build -Dprefix=$HOME/$DAV1D_DIR -Denable_tools=false -Denable_examples=false --buildtype release
+          ninja -C build
+          ninja -C build install
+          echo "PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/$DAV1D_DIR/$LIB_PATH/pkgconfig" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/$DAV1D_DIR/$LIB_PATH" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - uses: ilammy/msvc-dev-cmd@v1
+        if: ${{ matrix.build == 'windows' }}
+
+      - name: feature_dav1d_build_david_windows_env
+        if: ${{ matrix.build == 'windows' }}
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          echo "PKG_CONFIG=c:\build\bin\pkg-config.exe" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "PKG_CONFIG_PATH=C:\build\lib\pkgconfig" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "C:\build\bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
+
+      - name: feature_dav1d_build_david_windows_pkg_config
+        if: ${{ matrix.build == 'windows' }}
+        run: |
+          git clone --branch meson-glib-subproject --depth 1 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/tpm/pkg-config.git
+          cd pkg-config
+          meson build -Dprefix=C:\build --buildtype release
+          ninja -C build
+          ninja -C build install
+
+      - name: feature_dav1d_build_david_windows
+        if: ${{ matrix.build == 'windows' }}
+        run: |
+          git clone --branch 1.5.0 --depth 1 https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d.git
+          cd dav1d
+          meson build -Dprefix=C:\build -Denable_tools=false -Denable_examples=false --buildtype release
+          ninja -C build
+          ninja -C build install
+
       - name: run_cargo_msrv_verify
         run: cargo msrv verify --output-format json
 
       - name: run_cargo_msrv_on_verify_failure
         if: ${{ failure() }}
         run: cargo msrv find --output-format json
+
+      - name: run_cargo_msrv_verify
+        run: cargo msrv verify --features dav1d --output-format json
+
+      - name: run_cargo_msrv_on_verify_failure
+        if: ${{ failure() }}
+        run: cargo msrv find --features dav1d --output-format json
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2bee5db78..dd0e6ef82 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -27,11 +27,11 @@ changes.
 
 ### Notable dependency updates
 
-- Updated [image](https://github.com/image-rs/image) to 0.25.2
+- Updated [image](https://github.com/image-rs/image) to 0.25.5
 
 ### Disabled
 
-- Disabled AVIF decoder for now due to cross-platform compilation issues (dav1d-rs).
+- Disabled AVIF decoder by default due to cross-platform compilation issues (enable on compile time using feature "dav1d"; requires libdav1d to be present).
 
 ## [0.22.4] - 2023-09-17
 
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 7e82db31e..54f4ba2f9 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -24,6 +24,18 @@ version = "2.0.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "512761e0bb2578dd7380c6baaa0f4ce03e84f95e960231d1dec8bf4d7d6e2627"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "ahash"
+version = "0.8.11"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e89da841a80418a9b391ebaea17f5c112ffaaa96f621d2c285b5174da76b9011"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+ "once_cell",
+ "version_check",
+ "zerocopy",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "aho-corasick"
 version = "1.1.3"
@@ -103,6 +115,19 @@ version = "1.4.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ace50bade8e6234aa140d9a2f552bbee1db4d353f69b8217bc503490fc1a9f26"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "av-data"
+version = "0.4.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "fca67ba5d317924c02180c576157afd54babe48a76ebc66ce6d34bb8ba08308e"
+dependencies = [
+ "byte-slice-cast",
+ "bytes",
+ "num-derive",
+ "num-rational",
+ "num-traits",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "av1-grain"
 version = "0.2.3"
@@ -138,6 +163,21 @@ version = "1.3.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "bef38d45163c2f1dde094a7dfd33ccf595c92905c8f8f4fdc18d06fb1037718a"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "bitflags"
+version = "2.6.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b048fb63fd8b5923fc5aa7b340d8e156aec7ec02f0c78fa8a6ddc2613f6f71de"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "bitreader"
+version = "0.3.11"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "886559b1e163d56c765bc3a985febb4eee8009f625244511d8ee3c432e08c066"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "bitstream-io"
 version = "2.6.0"
@@ -175,6 +215,12 @@ version = "3.16.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "79296716171880943b8470b5f8d03aa55eb2e645a4874bdbb28adb49162e012c"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "byte-slice-cast"
+version = "1.2.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c3ac9f8b63eca6fd385229b3675f6cc0dc5c8a5c8a54a59d4f52ffd670d87b0c"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "bytemuck"
 version = "1.21.0"
@@ -193,6 +239,12 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "8f1fe948ff07f4bd06c30984e69f5b4899c516a3ef74f34df92a2df2ab535495"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "bytes"
+version = "1.9.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "325918d6fe32f23b19878fe4b34794ae41fc19ddbe53b10571a4874d44ffd39b"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "cc"
 version = "1.2.6"
@@ -228,7 +280,7 @@ checksum = "a0610544180c38b88101fecf2dd634b174a62eef6946f84dfc6a7127512b381c"
 dependencies = [
  "ansi_term",
  "atty",
- "bitflags",
+ "bitflags 1.3.2",
  "strsim",
  "textwrap",
  "unicode-width",
@@ -300,6 +352,28 @@ dependencies = [
  "typenum",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "dav1d"
+version = "0.10.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0d4b54a40baf633a71c6f0fb49494a7e4ee7bc26f3e727212b6cb915aa1ea1e1"
+dependencies = [
+ "av-data",
+ "bitflags 2.6.0",
+ "dav1d-sys",
+ "static_assertions",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "dav1d-sys"
+version = "0.8.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6ecb1c5e8f4dc438eedc1b534a54672fb0e0a56035dae6b50162787bd2c50e95"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "system-deps",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "digest"
 version = "0.10.7"
@@ -337,6 +411,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "zune-inflate",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "fallible_collections"
+version = "0.4.9"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a88c69768c0a15262df21899142bc6df9b9b823546d4b4b9a7bc2d6c448ec6fd"
+dependencies = [
+ "hashbrown 0.13.2",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "fdeflate"
 version = "0.3.7"
@@ -408,7 +491,7 @@ version = "0.8.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "93e3af942408868f6934a7b85134a3230832b9977cf66125df2f9edcfce4ddcc"
 dependencies = [
- "bitflags",
+ "bitflags 1.3.2",
  "ignore",
  "walkdir",
 ]
@@ -429,6 +512,15 @@ version = "0.12.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "8a9ee70c43aaf417c914396645a0fa852624801b24ebb7ae78fe8272889ac888"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "hashbrown"
+version = "0.13.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "43a3c133739dddd0d2990f9a4bdf8eb4b21ef50e4851ca85ab661199821d510e"
+dependencies = [
+ "ahash",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "hashbrown"
 version = "0.14.5"
@@ -475,9 +567,11 @@ dependencies = [
  "bytemuck",
  "byteorder-lite",
  "color_quant",
+ "dav1d",
  "exr",
  "gif",
  "image-webp",
+ "mp4parse",
  "num-traits",
  "png",
  "qoi",
@@ -692,6 +786,20 @@ dependencies = [
  "simd-adler32",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "mp4parse"
+version = "0.17.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "63a35203d3c6ce92d5251c77520acb2e57108c88728695aa883f70023624c570"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitreader",
+ "byteorder",
+ "fallible_collections",
+ "log",
+ "num-traits",
+ "static_assertions",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "nalgebra"
 version = "0.32.6"
@@ -939,7 +1047,7 @@ version = "0.17.16"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "82151a2fc869e011c153adc57cf2789ccb8d9906ce52c0b39a6b5697749d7526"
 dependencies = [
- "bitflags",
+ "bitflags 1.3.2",
  "crc32fast",
  "fdeflate",
  "flate2",
@@ -1339,6 +1447,12 @@ version = "1.13.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "3c5e1a9a646d36c3599cd173a41282daf47c44583ad367b8e6837255952e5c67"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "static_assertions"
+version = "1.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a2eb9349b6444b326872e140eb1cf5e7c522154d69e7a0ffb0fb81c06b37543f"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "strsim"
 version = "0.8.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e42319cf1..c1037f703 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ keywords = ["image", "converter", "cli", "front-end", "image-cli"]
 categories = ["multimedia::images", "command-line-utilities"]
 
 edition = "2021"
-rust-version = "1.79"
+rust-version = "1.80"
 
 [package.metadata.release]
 tag-prefix = ""
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ yare = "3"
 default = ["imageproc-ops", "nasm"]
 imageproc-ops = ["sic_core/imageproc-ops", "sic_cli_ops/imageproc-ops", "sic_image_engine/imageproc-ops", "sic_parser/imageproc-ops"]
 nasm = ["sic_core/nasm"]
+dav1d = ["sic_core/dav1d"]
 
 output-test-images = []
 
diff --git a/crates/sic_core/Cargo.toml b/crates/sic_core/Cargo.toml
index bbe06d6da..cbcdbe9bf 100644
--- a/crates/sic_core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/sic_core/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ repository = "https://github.com/foresterre/sic"
 readme = "../../README.md"
 
 edition = "2021"
-rust-version = "1.61"
+rust-version = "1.80"
 
 [dependencies]
 image = { version = "0.25.5", features = ["rayon"] }
@@ -18,4 +18,5 @@ thiserror = "2"
 
 [features]
 nasm = ["image/nasm"]
+dav1d = ["image/avif-native"]
 imageproc-ops = ["imageproc", "ab_glyph"]
diff --git a/deny.toml b/deny.toml
index 623f6ff23..66f35065d 100644
--- a/deny.toml
+++ b/deny.toml
@@ -25,3 +25,7 @@ expression = "BSD-3-Clause"
 license-files = [
     { path = "LICENSE.md", hash = 0xf0600744 },
 ]
+
+[[licenses.exceptions]]
+allow = ["MPL-2.0"]
+name = "mp4parse"