diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
index b3b5e17e26..c0af70ae30 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
@@ -3341,9 +3341,9 @@ natural bicubic spline
 .sp 1
 .RS
 .I NOTE:
-For \-sws\ 2 and 7, the sharpness can be set with the scaling parameter (p)
-of \-vf scale (0 (soft) \- 100 (sharp)), for \-sws 9, it specifies the filter
-length (1 \- 10).
+For \-sws\ 2 and 7, sharpness can be set with the scaling parameter
+of \-vf scale (0 (soft) \- 100 (sharp)), for \-sws 9, the scaling
+parameter specifies the filter length (1 \- 10).
 .RE
 .
 .TP
@@ -3611,8 +3611,13 @@ incapable of scaling, it defaults to d_width/\:d_height!
 .br
 -3:   Calculate w/\:h using the other dimension and the original aspect ratio.
 .REss
-.IPs interlaced
+.IPs <interlaced>
 Toggle interlaced scaling.
+.RSss
+0: off (default)
+.br
+1: on
+.REss
 .IPs <chr_drop>
 chroma skipping
 .RSss
@@ -3624,19 +3629,21 @@ chroma skipping
 .br
 3: Use only every 8. input line for chroma.
 .REss
-.IPs <param>
+.IPs "<param>[:<param2>] (also see \-sws)"
+Set some scaling parameters depending on the type of scaler selected
+with \-sws.
 .RSss
 \-sws 2 (bicubic):  B (blurring) and C (ringing)
 .br
-(0.00, 0.60) default
+0.00:0.60 default
 .br
-(0.00, 0.75) VirtualDubs "precise bicubic"
+0.00:0.75 VirtualDubs "precise bicubic"
 .br
-(0.00, 0.50) Catmull-Rom spline
+0.00:0.50 Catmull-Rom spline
 .br
-(0.33, 0.33) Mitchell-Netravali spline
+0.33:0.33 Mitchell-Netravali spline
 .br
-(1.00, 0.00) cubic B-spline
+1.00:0.00 cubic B-spline
 .br
 \-sws 7 (gaussian): sharpness (0 (soft) \- 100 (sharp))
 .br
@@ -6891,7 +6898,7 @@ Here is how it works, and how to use it:
 .br
 The first pass (pass=1) collects statistics on the video and writes them
 to a file.
-You might want to deactivate some CPU-hungry options, appart from the ones
+You might want to deactivate some CPU-hungry options, apart from the ones
 that are on by default.
 .br
 In two pass mode, the second pass (pass=2) reads the stats file and
@@ -6906,6 +6913,7 @@ You can use all encoding options, except very CPU-hungry options.
 The third pass (pass=3) is the same as the second pass, except that it has
 the second pass' stats to work from.
 You can use all encoding options, including CPU-hungry ones.
+.br
 .I
 NOTE:
 Three pass and x264 support being quite recent in MEncoder, we welcome any