diff --git a/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py b/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py
index 012057ecb5..e47e3bf4c7 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ def supports(cls, info_dict):
     def _source_address(self, command_option):
         command_part = []
         source_address = self.ydl.params.get('source_address')
-        if source_address:
+        if source_address is None:
             command_part = [command_option, source_address]
         return command_part
 
diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py
index 5e4a1ad9b2..d5e5759649 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/options.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/options.py
@@ -698,10 +698,9 @@ def _hide_login_info(opts):
     postproc.add_option(
         '--fixup',
         metavar='POLICY', dest='fixup', default='detect_or_warn',
-        help='(experimental) Automatically correct known faults of the file. '
+        help='Automatically correct known faults of the file. '
              'One of never (do nothing), warn (only emit a warning), '
-             'detect_or_warn(check whether we can do anything about it, warn '
-             'otherwise')
+             'detect_or_warn(the default; fix file if we can, warn otherwise)')
     postproc.add_option(
         '--prefer-avconv',
         action='store_false', dest='prefer_ffmpeg',