diff --git a/sys/nvdec/gstnvdec.c b/sys/nvdec/gstnvdec.c
index 71396b69de..2bc44d24e3 100644
--- a/sys/nvdec/gstnvdec.c
+++ b/sys/nvdec/gstnvdec.c
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ gst_nvdec_class_init (GstNvDecClass * klass)
       &gst_nvdec_src_template);
 
   gst_element_class_set_static_metadata (element_class, "NVDEC video decoder",
-      "Decoder/Video", "NVDEC video decoder",
+      "Codec/Decoder/Video/Hardware", "NVDEC video decoder",
       "Ericsson AB, http://www.ericsson.com");
 
   video_decoder_class->start = GST_DEBUG_FUNCPTR (gst_nvdec_start);
diff --git a/sys/nvenc/gstnvh264enc.c b/sys/nvenc/gstnvh264enc.c
index 7d61b644bd..366fb21136 100644
--- a/sys/nvenc/gstnvh264enc.c
+++ b/sys/nvenc/gstnvh264enc.c
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ gst_nv_h264_enc_class_init (GstNvH264EncClass * klass)
 
   gst_element_class_set_static_metadata (element_class,
       "NVENC H.264 Video Encoder",
-      "Codec/Encoder/Video",
+      "Codec/Encoder/Video/Hardware",
       "Encode H.264 video streams using NVIDIA's hardware-accelerated NVENC encoder API",
       "Tim-Philipp Müller <tim@centricular.com>\n"
       "Matthew Waters <matthew@centricular.com>");
diff --git a/sys/nvenc/gstnvh265enc.c b/sys/nvenc/gstnvh265enc.c
index 2feb3007ae..0a67a35672 100644
--- a/sys/nvenc/gstnvh265enc.c
+++ b/sys/nvenc/gstnvh265enc.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ gst_nv_h265_enc_class_init (GstNvH265EncClass * klass)
 
   gst_element_class_set_static_metadata (element_class,
       "NVENC HEVC Video Encoder",
-      "Codec/Encoder/Video",
+      "Codec/Encoder/Video/Hardware",
       "Encode HEVC video streams using NVIDIA's hardware-accelerated NVENC encoder API",
       "Tim-Philipp Müller <tim@centricular.com>, "
       "Matthew Waters <matthew@centricular.com>, "