diff --git a/packages/multimedia/libva/package.mk b/packages/multimedia/libva/package.mk
index 2f312eb4f5..8c040aae48 100644
--- a/packages/multimedia/libva/package.mk
+++ b/packages/multimedia/libva/package.mk
@@ -17,15 +17,15 @@
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 PKG_NAME="libva"
-PKG_VERSION="1.7.3"
+PKG_VERSION="1.8.1"
 PKG_ARCH="x86_64"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
-PKG_SITE="http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi"
-PKG_URL="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/releases/$PKG_NAME/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
+PKG_SITE="https://01.org/linuxmedia"
+PKG_URL="https://github.com/01org/libva/releases/download/$PKG_VERSION/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain libX11 libXext libXfixes libdrm mesa glu"
 PKG_SECTION="multimedia"
-PKG_SHORTDESC="libva: The main motivation for VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) is to enable hardware accelerated video decode/encode at various entry-points (VLD, IDCT, Motion Compensation etc.) for the prevailing coding standards today (MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ASP/H.263, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, and VC-1/VMW3)."
-PKG_LONGDESC="The main motivation for VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) is to enable hardware accelerated video decode/encode at various entry-points (VLD, IDCT, Motion Compensation etc.) for the prevailing coding standards today (MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ASP/H.263, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, and VC-1/VMW3). Extending XvMC was considered, but due to its original design for MPEG-2 MotionComp only, it made more sense to design an interface from scratch that can fully expose the video decode capabilities in today's GPUs."
+PKG_SHORTDESC="Libva is an implementation for VA-API (VIdeo Acceleration API)."
+PKG_LONGDESC="Libva is an open source software library and API specification to provide access to hardware accelerated video decoding/encoding and video processing."
 
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
 PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"
@@ -39,11 +39,3 @@ PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="--disable-silent-rules \
                            --disable-wayland \
                            --disable-dummy-driver \
                            --with-drivers-path=/usr/lib/va"
-
-post_makeinstall_target() {
-  rm -rf $INSTALL/usr/bin
-  if [ "$DEVTOOLS" = yes ]; then
-    mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/bin
-      cp test/vainfo/.libs/vainfo $INSTALL/usr/bin
-  fi
-}