diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/docs/gst_plugins_cache.json b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/docs/gst_plugins_cache.json
index 4aa6cb8133..ad4e603832 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/docs/gst_plugins_cache.json
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/docs/gst_plugins_cache.json
@@ -27086,7 +27086,7 @@
         "url": "Unknown package origin"
     },
     "vpx": {
-        "description": "VP8 plugin",
+        "description": "VP8/VP9 video encoding and decoding based on libvpx",
         "elements": {
             "vp8dec": {
                 "author": "David Schleef <ds@entropywave.com>, Sebastian Dröge <sebastian.droege@collabora.co.uk>",
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/ext/vpx/plugin.c b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/ext/vpx/plugin.c
index 1887aee70e..2c1bc3220c 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/ext/vpx/plugin.c
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/ext/vpx/plugin.c
@@ -54,5 +54,5 @@ plugin_init (GstPlugin * plugin)
 GST_PLUGIN_DEFINE (GST_VERSION_MAJOR,
     GST_VERSION_MINOR,
     vpx,
-    "VP8 plugin",
+    "VP8/VP9 video encoding and decoding based on libvpx",
     plugin_init, VERSION, "LGPL", GST_PACKAGE_NAME, GST_PACKAGE_ORIGIN)