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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Webcam ? Help me please...
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meino.cramer@gmx.de ha scritto:
> Thank you for the hint. The programm says "unable to capture image".
> Executing it as root does the same.

Very strange.

> ffmpeg could capture a video stream from my webcam, so the cam is not 
> the problem...

Have you tried good old mplayer ? It can play the stream from your
webcam just fine and it's very configurable.
See:

http://brainwagon.org/2007/01/16/viewing-a-v4l-webcam-with-mplayer/

(first google hit)

m.