diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
index 85cf49036c..14c77409e3 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
@@ -9767,7 +9767,7 @@ Sony Digital Video container
 .B i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames
 MEncoder cannot assign correct timestamps when there are
 B-frames in the video stream, resulting in broken encodes.
-If you wish to use lavf muxer, you must not let the video codec use
+If you wish to use the lavf muxer, you must not let the video codec use
 B-frames (see the relevant documentation of each codec) and you also
 must specify this option.
 .