[MPlayer-DOCS] [PATCH] little cividix trick

[Reimar D?ffinger]

Hello,
Maybe someone can format this stuff properly and include it, I find it
quite funny :-)

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger
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--- DOCS/xml/en/video.xml	(revision 20510)
+++ DOCS/xml/en/video.xml	(working copy)
@@ -1386,6 +1386,11 @@
   <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
+  setterm -cursor off > /dev/tty9 (assuming tty9 is unused so far) and then
+  switch to tty9.
+  On the other hand, -colorkey 0 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