diff --git a/subprojects/gst-docs/markdown/plugin-development/advanced/allocation.md b/subprojects/gst-docs/markdown/plugin-development/advanced/allocation.md
index a421b4134f..8165629e45 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-docs/markdown/plugin-development/advanced/allocation.md
+++ b/subprojects/gst-docs/markdown/plugin-development/advanced/allocation.md
@@ -693,6 +693,10 @@ params = gst_structure_new ("video-meta",
     "padding-bottom", G_TYPE_UINT, align.padding_bottom,
     "padding-left", G_TYPE_UINT, align.padding_left,
     "padding-right", G_TYPE_UINT, align.padding_right,
+    "stride-align0", G_TYPE_UINT, align->stride_align[0],
+    "stride-align1", G_TYPE_UINT, align->stride_align[1],
+    "stride-align2", G_TYPE_UINT, align->stride_align[2],
+    "stride-align3", G_TYPE_UINT, align->stride_align[3],
     NULL);
 ```
   3. *v4l2h264enc*: when handling the `ALLOCATION` query (`propose_allocation()`),
@@ -722,6 +726,10 @@ if (gst_query_find_allocation_meta (query, GST_VIDEO_META_API_TYPE, &video_idx))
     gst_structure_get_uint (s, "padding-bottom", &align.padding_bottom);
     gst_structure_get_uint (s, "padding-left", &align.padding_left);
     gst_structure_get_uint (s, "padding-right", &align.padding_right);
+    gst_structure_get_uint (s, "stride-align0", &align.stride_align[0]);
+    gst_structure_get_uint (s, "stride-align1", &align.stride_align[1]);
+    gst_structure_get_uint (s, "stride-align2", &align.stride_align[2]);
+    gst_structure_get_uint (s, "stride-align3", &align.stride_align[3]);
 
     gst_video_info_from_caps (&info, caps);
 
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/gst-libs/gst/video/gstvideometa.h b/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/gst-libs/gst/video/gstvideometa.h
index da6dc440de..56d91513f2 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/gst-libs/gst/video/gstvideometa.h
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/gst-libs/gst/video/gstvideometa.h
@@ -72,8 +72,12 @@ typedef struct _GstVideoCropMeta GstVideoCropMeta;
  * - padding-bottom (uint): extra pixels on the bottom
  * - padding-left (uint): extra pixels on the left side
  * - padding-right (uint): extra pixels on the right side
- * The padding fields have the same semantic as #GstVideoMeta.alignment
- * and so represent the paddings requested on produced video buffers.
+ * - stride-align0 (uint): stride align requirements for plane 0
+ * - stride-align1 (uint): stride align requirements for plane 1
+ * - stride-align2 (uint): stride align requirements for plane 2
+ * - stride-align3 (uint): stride align requirements for plane 3
+ * The padding and stride-align fields have the same semantic as #GstVideoMeta.alignment
+ * and so represent the paddings and stride-align requested on produced video buffers.
  *
  * Since 1.24 it can be serialized using gst_meta_serialize() and
  * gst_meta_deserialize().