diff --git a/libavutil/pixfmt.h b/libavutil/pixfmt.h
index dbd24701f5..546eb44440 100644
--- a/libavutil/pixfmt.h
+++ b/libavutil/pixfmt.h
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ enum AVPixelFormat {
     /**@{*/
     AV_PIX_FMT_VAAPI_MOCO, ///< HW acceleration through VA API at motion compensation entry-point, Picture.data[3] contains a vaapi_render_state struct which contains macroblocks as well as various fields extracted from headers
     AV_PIX_FMT_VAAPI_IDCT, ///< HW acceleration through VA API at IDCT entry-point, Picture.data[3] contains a vaapi_render_state struct which contains fields extracted from headers
-    AV_PIX_FMT_VAAPI_VLD,  ///< HW decoding through VA API, Picture.data[3] contains a vaapi_render_state struct which contains the bitstream of the slices as well as various fields extracted from headers
+    AV_PIX_FMT_VAAPI_VLD,  ///< HW decoding through VA API, Picture.data[3] contains a VASurfaceID
     /**@}*/
     AV_PIX_FMT_VAAPI = AV_PIX_FMT_VAAPI_VLD,
 #else