diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
index a521d5bfce..d3d0b7cb9f 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
@@ -9403,7 +9403,7 @@ B-frames in the video stream, resulting in broken encodes.
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 .TP
 .B muxrate
-Nominal bitrate of the multiplex, in units of 50 bytes per second;
+Nominal bitrate of the multiplex, in bits per second;
 currently it is meaningful only for MPEG[12].
 Sometimes raising it is necessary in order to avoid "buffer underflows".
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