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Re: [LUG] webcams

 

Robin Cornelius wrote:

> cat's job is to concatenate files and print on the standard output,
> /dev/video0 is a video4linux or v4l2 device and you need to access it
> with a sutable program, try xawtv or even mplayer, i think with mplayer
> you just use "mplayer /dev/video0" , if then you get some error messages
> try looking at the syslog "tail /var/log/syslog" and/or the kernel debug
> ring buffer with the "dmesg" command.

It'a basically the smallest example of the same problem. If I use
camstream, I get the same error in a more pretty environment.

Steve

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