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Get video stream from webcam in Linux

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http://stackoverflow.com – I'm looking for some general way to get video stream from webcam in Linux and then process and show it in a window. The second part seems simple, but I don't know how to deal with the first one. Is there some API, lib, docs, etc?.. Where to start? (HowTos)

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Submitted by dadebian on 01/27/2013 – Made popular on 01/27/2013

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