diff --git a/app/src/cli.c b/app/src/cli.c
index ed1970d4..38b56a3a 100644
--- a/app/src/cli.c
+++ b/app/src/cli.c
@@ -687,8 +687,7 @@ static const struct sc_option options[] = {
     {
         .longopt_id = OPT_NO_WINDOW,
         .longopt = "no-window",
-        .text = "Disable scrcpy window. Implies --no-video-playback and "
-                "--no-control.",
+        .text = "Disable scrcpy window. Implies --no-video-playback",
     },
     {
         .longopt_id = OPT_ORIENTATION,
@@ -2759,9 +2758,12 @@ parse_args_with_getopt(struct scrcpy_cli_args *args, int argc, char *argv[],
 #endif
 
     if (!opts->window) {
-        // Without window, there cannot be any video playback or control
+        // Without window, there cannot be any video playback
         opts->video_playback = false;
-        opts->control = false;
+        // Without any other video output control doesn't make sense 
+        if(!opts->record_filename && !v4l2){
+            opts->control = false;
+        }
     }
 
     if (!opts->video) {