diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst
index b3a8e95500..7a66b0f798 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/options.rst
+++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst
@@ -824,10 +824,11 @@ Video
     Set framedropping mode used with ``--framedrop`` (see skiploopfilter for
     available skip values).
 
-``--vd-lavc-threads=<0-16>``
+``--vd-lavc-threads=<N>``
     Number of threads to use for decoding. Whether threading is actually
-    supported depends on codec. 0 means autodetect number of cores on the
-    machine and use that, up to the maximum of 16 (default: 0).
+    supported depends on codec (default: 0). 0 means autodetect number of cores
+    on the machine and use that, up to the maximum of 16. You can set more than
+    16 threads manually.
 
 
 
diff --git a/video/decode/vd_lavc.c b/video/decode/vd_lavc.c
index 125141b298..1dc6e28694 100644
--- a/video/decode/vd_lavc.c
+++ b/video/decode/vd_lavc.c
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ const struct m_sub_options vd_lavc_conf = {
         OPT_DISCARD("skipidct", skip_idct, 0),
         OPT_DISCARD("skipframe", skip_frame, 0),
         OPT_DISCARD("framedrop", framedrop, 0),
-        OPT_INTRANGE("threads", threads, 0, 0, 16),
+        OPT_INT("threads", threads, M_OPT_MIN, .min = 0),
         OPT_FLAG("bitexact", bitexact, 0),
         OPT_FLAG("check-hw-profile", check_hw_profile, 0),
         OPT_KEYVALUELIST("o", avopts, 0),