diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
index ec2a39a806..4c20dc6a25 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
@@ -2814,7 +2814,7 @@ sc: Enable soft clipping.
 .IPs pan[=n:l01:l02:..l10:l11:l12:...ln0:ln1:ln2:...]
 Mixes channels arbitrarily, see DOCS/\:HTML/\:en/\:devices.html#audio-dev for details.
 .RSss
-n: number of output channels (1\-6)
+n: number of input channels (1\-6)
 .br
 lij: How much of input channel j is mixed into output channel i.
 .REss