diff --git a/DOCS/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/mplayer.1
index 8a6a25a0f8..84f6ab088d 100644
--- a/DOCS/mplayer.1
+++ b/DOCS/mplayer.1
@@ -458,12 +458,14 @@ Convert the given subtitle (specified with the -sub switch) to MPlayer's
 subtitle format, MPsub. Dumps a dump.mpsub file to current directory.
 .TP
 .B \-screenw\ pixels
-This is for TV-out users! Here you should set the horizontal resolution of your
-Matrox framebuffer. Needed for fullscreen playing on -vo mga,vesa,x11 ONLY !
+If you use an output driver which can't know the resolution of the screen
+(mga/fbdev/x11 and/or TVout) this is where you can specify the horizontal
+resolution.
 .TP
 .B \-screenh\ pixels
-This is for TV-out users! Here you should set the vertical resolution of your
-Matrox framebuffer. Needed for fullscreen playing on -vo mga,vesa,x11 ONLY !
+If you use an output driver which can't know the resolution of the screen
+(mga/fbdev/x11 and/or TVout) this is where you can specify the vertical
+resolution.
 .TP
 .B \-cache\ kbytes
 See it below, in the ALPHA/BETA CODE section.