diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 237009d2d..20c43c81e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Whether to enable the autoupdater. Packagers may want to disable this for their
 Whether to enable client compilation. If set to OFF, DDNet will not depend on Curl, Freetype, Ogg, Opus, Opusfile, and SDL2. Default value is ON.
 
 * **-DVIDEORECORDER=[ON|OFF]** <br>
-Whether to add video recording support using FFmpeg to the client. You can use command `start_video` and `stop_video` to start and stop conversion from demo to mp4. This feature is currently experimental and not enabled by default.
+Whether to add video recording support using FFmpeg to the client. Default value is OFF.
 
 Dependencies needed on debian: `libx264-dev libavfilter-dev libavdevice-dev libavformat-dev libavcodec-extra libavutil-dev`
 
diff --git a/src/engine/client/client.cpp b/src/engine/client/client.cpp
index 64422f7eb..45cec36f1 100644
--- a/src/engine/client/client.cpp
+++ b/src/engine/client/client.cpp
@@ -3393,7 +3393,10 @@ void CClient::Con_StartVideo(IConsole::IResult *pResult, void *pUserData)
 	CClient *pSelf = (CClient *)pUserData;
 
 	if(pSelf->State() != IClient::STATE_DEMOPLAYBACK)
+	{
 		pSelf->m_pConsole->Print(IConsole::OUTPUT_LEVEL_STANDARD, "videorecorder", "Can not start videorecorder outside of demoplayer.");
+		return;
+	}
 
 	if(!IVideo::Current())
 	{