diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
index 7e7dbe11be..18b4f10b67 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
@@ -9872,7 +9872,7 @@ This option will be ignored if used with the telecine option.
 .TP
 .B telecine
 Enables 3:2 pulldown soft telecine mode: The muxer will make the
-video stream look like it was encoded at 30000/1001.
+video stream look like it was encoded at 30000/1001 fps.
 It only works with MPEG-2 video when the output framerate is
 24000/1001 fps, convert it with \-ofps if necessary.
 Any other framerate is incompatible with this option.