diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
index 0a07e998b3..6ab65715a2 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
@@ -1057,7 +1057,7 @@ Useful for playback from CD-ROM images or VOB files with junk at the beginning.
 .TP
 .B \-srate <Hz>
 Selects the given output sampling rate, resampling if necessary.
-The type of resampling can be controlled by the -af-adv option.
+The type of resampling can be controlled by the \-af-adv option.
 The default is fast resampling that may cause distortion.
 MEncoder passes this value to LAME for resampling.
 .