diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
index b0a76b3c3d..9f7e71ea17 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
@@ -9266,7 +9266,7 @@ frame will be encoded.
 .RE
 .
 .
-.SS xvfw (\-xvfwopts)
+.SS vfw (\-xvfwopts)
 .
 Encoding with Video for Windows codecs is mostly obsolete unless you wish
 to encode to some obscure fringe codec.
diff --git a/cfg-mencoder.h b/cfg-mencoder.h
index a1e377b56f..db0abb6340 100644
--- a/cfg-mencoder.h
+++ b/cfg-mencoder.h
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ m_option_t ovc_conf[]={
 	"   lavc     - libavcodec codecs - best quality!\n"
 #endif
 #ifdef USE_WIN32DLL
-	"   vfw      - VfW DLLs, currently only AVID is supported.\n"
+	"   vfw      - VfW DLLs, read DOCS/HTML/en/encoding-guide.html.\n"
 	"   qtvideo  - QuickTime DLLs, currently only SVQ1/3 are supported.\n"
 #endif
 #ifdef HAVE_LIBDV095