From bfb3a78964c7f059d175f6512cfcd365a57ca4ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 06:49:22 +0100
Subject: manpage: document that ---ao overrides --audio-device

Fixes #5640.
---
 DOCS/man/options.rst | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'DOCS')

diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst
index 16e4998453..e786b8405d 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/options.rst
+++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst
@@ -1234,7 +1234,9 @@ Audio
     While the option normally takes one of the strings as indicated by the
     methods above, you can also force the device for most AOs by building it
     manually. For example ``name/foobar`` forces the AO ``name`` to use the
-    device ``foobar``.
+    device ``foobar``. However, the ``--ao`` option will strictly force a
+    specific AO. To avoid confusion, don't use ``--ao`` and ``--audio-device``
+    together.
 
     .. admonition:: Example for ALSA
 
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