diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
index 79535458a9..4865d0bb4b 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
@@ -5828,7 +5828,8 @@ This can be used to change the aspect ratio with '\-ovc copy'.
 .
 .TP
 .B \-frameno-file <filename> (DEPRECATED)
-Name of the file for special audio-only first pass encoding mode
+Specify the Name of the statistics file for a special audio-only
+first pass encoding mode.
 .br
 .I NOTE:
 Using this mode will most likely give you A-V sync.