From 6714bfc83748d14267cdbab1ebfc7ea029d66912 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: diego <diego@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:20:28 +0000
Subject: cvidix tricks, based on a patch by Reimar

git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@20571 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
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 DOCS/xml/en/video.xml | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

(limited to 'DOCS/xml/en/video.xml')

diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml
index e60d335a99..417c073fa7 100644
--- a/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml
+++ b/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml
@@ -1386,6 +1386,17 @@ main goal of this interface is to maximize the speed of video playback.
   <option>-vo mga</option> or <option>-vo fbdev</option>. nVidia cards however
   are able to output truly graphical video on a real text console. See the
   <link linkend="vidix-nvidia">nvidia_vid</link> section for more information.
+  To rid of text on the borders and the blinking cursor, try something like
+  </simpara>
+
+  <screen>setterm -cursor off > /dev/tty9</screen>
+
+  <simpara>
+  (assuming <systemitem>tty9</systemitem> is unused so far) and then
+  switch to <systemitem>tty9</systemitem>.
+  On the other hand, <option>-colorkey 0</option> should give you a video
+  running in the "background", though this depends on the colorkey
+  functionality to work right.
   </simpara></listitem>
 <listitem><simpara>
   You can use VIDIX subdevice which was applied to several video output
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