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cha0s6983

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Registered: 2009-09-15

Posts: 5

Can't `cat /dev/video`

I've been trying to do this, but I can't find anything to help.

16:24:48 cha0s6983@localhost:/usr/bin$ ls -l /dev/vide*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      6 2009-09-14 23:29 /dev/video -> video0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 2009-09-14 23:29 /dev/video0

16:26:17 cha0s6983@localhost:/usr/bin$ cat /dev/video0
cat: /dev/video0: No such device

vlc and xawtv are showing me a capture screen just fine... my deal is I want to stream the webcam output to stdout, but I just can't figure out how to do it.

Any help very welcome, thanks!

P.S. First post, hi ^^