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- You can use standalone video output driver:
-vo xvidix
This driver was developed as X11's front end to VIDIX technology. It
- requires X server and can work only under X server.
+ requires X server and can work only under X server. Note that, as it
+ directly accesses the hardware and circumvents the X driver, pixmaps
+ cached in the graphics card's memory may be corrupted. You can prevent
+ this by limiting the amount of video memory used by X with the XF86Config
+ option "VideoRam" in the device section. You should set this to the amount
+ of memory installed on your card minus 4MB. If you have less than 8MB of
+ video ram, you can use the option "XaaNoPixmapCache" in the screen section
+ instead.
- You can use VIDIX subdevice which was applied to several video output
drivers, such as:
-vo vesa:vidix
(Linux only) and -vo fbdev:vidix