diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml
index 2d84edf7ef..c1d87eb17b 100644
--- a/DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml
+++ b/DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml
@@ -2298,7 +2298,7 @@ The first column contains the codec names that should be passed after the
 </para>
 <informalexample>
 <para>
-An example, with MJPEG compression:
+An example with MJPEG compression:
 <screen>mencoder dvd://2 -o title2.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -oac copy</screen>
 </para>
 </informalexample>
@@ -2339,7 +2339,7 @@ The first column contains the codec names that should be passed after the
 
 <informalexample>
 <para>
-An example, with AC3 compression:
+An example with AC3 compression:
 <screen>mencoder dvd://2 -o title2.avi -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=ac3 -ovc copy</screen>
 </para>
 </informalexample>
diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml
index 66d0294401..8ead7dd5bb 100644
--- a/DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml
+++ b/DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Video codecs:
   </row>
   <row>
     <entry>x264</entry>
-    <entry>x264, MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC), aka H.264 codec</entry>
+    <entry>x264, MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC), AKA H.264 codec</entry>
   </row>
   <row>
     <entry>nuv</entry>
@@ -219,7 +219,8 @@ Example:
 <screen>
 mencoder -of mpeg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video -oac copy <replaceable>other_options</replaceable> <replaceable>media.avi</replaceable> -o <replaceable>output.mpg</replaceable>
 </screen>
-Creating a MPEG-1 file suitable for exchange:
+Creating an MPEG-1 file suitable to be played on system with minimal
+multimedia support, like default Windows installs:
 <screen>
 mencoder -of mpeg -mpegopts format=mpeg1:tsaf:muxrate=2000 -o \
 <replaceable>x.mpg</replaceable> -oac lavc -ovc lavc \