diff --git a/DOCS/encoding.rst b/DOCS/encoding.rst
index bc301cfea7..23a89d3163 100644
--- a/DOCS/encoding.rst
+++ b/DOCS/encoding.rst
@@ -90,10 +90,12 @@ As the options for various devices can get complex, profiles can be used.
 
 An example profile file for encoding is provided in
 etc/encoding-example-profiles.conf in the source tree. You can include it into
-your configuration by doing, from the mpv-build directory::
+your configuration by doing::
 
   mkdir -p ~/.mpv
-  echo "include = $PWD/mpv/etc/encoding-example-profiles.conf" >> ~/.mpv/config
+  curl https://raw.github.com/mpv-player/mpv/master/etc/encoding-example-profiles.conf \
+    > ~/.mpv/encoding-profiles.conf
+  echo "include = $HOME/.mpv/encoding-profiles.conf" >> ~/.mpv/config
 
 Refer to the top of that file for more comments - in a nutshell, the following
 options are added by it::