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manpage: mention --network-timeout is broken with RTSP

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Not much we can do, too hard to work around.

Fixes #3361.
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@ -3969,6 +3969,16 @@ Network
special value 0 (default) uses the FFmpeg/Libav defaults. If a protocol
is used which does not support timeouts, this option is silently ignored.
.. warning::
This breaks the RTSP protocol, because of inconsistent FFmpeg API
regarding its internal timeout option. Not only does the RTSP timeout
option accept different units (seconds instead of microseconds, causing
mpv to pass it huge values), it will also overflow FFmpeg internal
calculations. The worst is that merely setting the option will put RTSP
into listening mode, which breaks any client uses. Do not use this
option with RTSP URLs.
``--rtsp-transport=<lavf|udp|tcp|http>``
Select RTSP transport method (default: tcp). This selects the underlying
network transport when playing ``rtsp://...`` URLs. The value ``lavf``