manpage: explain behavior of "path" property

This seems to confuse users pretty often, but I'm not going to change
its behavior.

See e.g. #2541.
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@ -860,7 +860,11 @@ Property list
quantities: fps and possibly rounded timestamps.)
``path``
Full path of the currently played file.
Full path of the currently played file. Usually this is exactly the same
string you pass on the mpv command line or the ``loadfile`` command, even
if it's a relative path. If you expect an absolute path, you will have to
determine it yourself, for example by using the ``working-directory``
property.
``media-title``
If the currently played file has a ``title`` tag, use that.