diff --git a/srcpkgs/gstreamer-vaapi/template b/srcpkgs/gstreamer-vaapi/template
index 2ed2525092b..45b7e6bf9f4 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/gstreamer-vaapi/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/gstreamer-vaapi/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'gstreamer-vaapi'
 pkgname=gstreamer-vaapi
-version=0.5.3
+version=0.5.5
 revision=1
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
 makedepends="libXrandr-devel libva-devel>=1:1.1.0
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-3"
 homepage="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/releases/gstreamer-vaapi/"
 distfiles="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/releases/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.bz2"
-checksum=9f8647381514c6cadef7c15cc3a89f79c3dd2a3dcc2bfad66ff89cffea393bcb
+checksum=eb89c46d61ec129ae397e4284a6938dbabea5f1733ea8d51ee4a10f198059700
 long_desc="
  ${pkgname} is a collection of GStreamer plugins and helper libraries that
  allow hardware accelerated video decoding through VA-API."
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ gstreamer1-vaapi_package() {
 
 gstreamer-vaapi-devel_package() {
 	depends="${sourcepkg}-${version}_${revision}"
-	short_desc="VA-API plugins for GStreamer (0.10.x) -- development files"
+	short_desc="VA-API plugins for GStreamer (0.10.x) - development files"
 	pkg_install() {
 		vmove "usr/include/*-0.10*"
 		vmove "usr/lib/pkgconfig/*-0.10*"