diff --git a/media-libs/libsdl/libsdl-1.2.15.recipe b/media-libs/libsdl/libsdl-1.2.15.recipe
index dc4a603f6..dee7ebf21 100644
--- a/media-libs/libsdl/libsdl-1.2.15.recipe
+++ b/media-libs/libsdl/libsdl-1.2.15.recipe
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-SUMMARY="Simple Direct Media Layer"
-DESCRIPTION="Simple Direct Media Layer" 
+SUMMARY="Simple Direct Media Layer is a cross-platform media development library"
+DESCRIPTION="Simple Direct Media Layer is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics via OpenGL." 
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.libsdl.org/" 
 SRC_URI="http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-1.2.15.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_MD5="9d96df8417572a2afb781a7c4c811a85"
diff --git a/media-libs/smjpeg/smjpeg-0.2.1.recipe b/media-libs/smjpeg/smjpeg-0.2.1.recipe
index 09aa66b8e..d9c671645 100644
--- a/media-libs/smjpeg/smjpeg-0.2.1.recipe
+++ b/media-libs/smjpeg/smjpeg-0.2.1.recipe
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-SUMMARY="smjpeg"
-DESCRIPTION="smjpeg" 
+SUMMARY="smjpeg is an implementation of the smjpeg decoding library."
+DESCRIPTION="smjpeg is an implementation of the smjpeg decoding library, which runs on just about any platform.  It comes with one sample deoder, smjpeg_decode (console, no UI)." 
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.icculus.org/smjpeg" 
 SRC_URI="svn://svn.icculus.org/smjpeg/trunk/"
 LICENSE="GNU LGPL v2"
diff --git a/media-libs/smpeg/smpeg-0.4.5.recipe b/media-libs/smpeg/smpeg-0.4.5.recipe
index 9229a4fb0..8c758a6eb 100644
--- a/media-libs/smpeg/smpeg-0.4.5.recipe
+++ b/media-libs/smpeg/smpeg-0.4.5.recipe
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY="smpeg is an mpeg decoing library."
-DESCRIPTION="smpeg is an mpeg decoding library, which runs on just about any platform.  It comes with a sample decoder, plaympeg."
+DESCRIPTION="SMPEG is short for the SDL MPEG library originally developed by Loki Software.  SMPEG uses MPEG-1 standard as a video display library, rather than MPEG-2, since only the MPEG-1 standard is unencumbered with software patents in the United States."
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.icculus.org/smpeg" 
 SRC_URI="svn://svn.icculus.org/smpeg/tags/release_0_4_5"
 LICENSE="GNU LGPL v2"
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ INSTALL()
 	packageEntries devel \
 		$developDir $binDir/smpeg-config \
 		$dataDir
-
 }
 
 # ----- devel package -------------------------------------------------------