diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
index 0d8ca0efba..26dbe59492 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
@@ -9186,11 +9186,11 @@ control the behavior of MPlayer and MEncoder.
 Directory where MPlayer looks for user settings.
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 .TP
-.B MPLAYER_VERBOSE
-Set the initial verbosity level across all message modules.
-The default is 0.  Negative values result in fewer messages
-while positive values result in more.
-See also \-v and \-msglevel above.
+.B MPLAYER_VERBOSE (also see: \-v and \-msglevel)
+Set the initial verbosity level across all message modules
+(by default: 0).
+Negative values result in fewer messages while positive
+values result in more.
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