diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/tvinput.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/tvinput.xml
index 3639f7e61e..8bbda68e43 100644
--- a/DOCS/xml/en/tvinput.xml
+++ b/DOCS/xml/en/tvinput.xml
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ capturing long TV series, where the video quality isn't so important.
mencoder -tv driver=v4l:width=768:height=576 \
-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=350:vhq:vqmax=31:keyint=300 \
-oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=48 \
- -vf crop=720:540:24:18,pp=tn/lb,scale=384:288 -sws 1 -o output.avi tv://
+ -vf crop=720:540:24:18,pp=lb,scale=384:288 -sws 1 -o output.avi tv://
It's also possible to specify smaller image dimensions in the
option and omit the software scaling but this approach uses the maximum available