On Fri August 8 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > hmmm... I believe its possible, with some cameras, to > > cat /dev/video0 > myvidfile > > and then play it with mplayer. worth a shot.
$ cat /dev/video0>paulsvid cat: /dev/video0*** glibc detected *** cat: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x0995c860 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7ed58f5] /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0xb7ed9360] /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7e922e2] /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7e9062f] /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7e8ffee] /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(dcgettext+0x43)[0xb7e8ef13] /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__strerror_r+0x109)[0xb7edc0a9] /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7f3fd82] /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(error+0x58)[0xb7f40018] cat[0x8049a24] /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0)[0xb7e80450] cat[0x8048c91] ======= Memory map: ======== 08048000-0804f000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 2069686 /bin/cat 0804f000-08050000 rw-p 00006000 08:06 2069686 /bin/cat 0995a000-0997b000 rw-p 0995a000 00:00 0 [heap] b7b00000-b7b21000 rw-p b7b00000 00:00 0 b7b21000-b7c00000 ---p b7b21000 00:00 0 b7ce7000-b7cf3000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1839064 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 b7cf3000-b7cf4000 rw-p 0000b000 08:06 1839064 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 b7cf4000-b7e69000 r--p 00000000 08:06 1773853 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive b7e69000-b7e6a000 rw-p b7e69000 00:00 0 b7e6a000-b7fb2000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 2068498 /lib/i686/cmov/libc-2.7.so b7fb2000-b7fb3000 r--p 00148000 08:06 2068498 /lib/i686/cmov/libc-2.7.so b7fb3000-b7fb5000 rw-p 00149000 08:06 2068498 /lib/i686/cmov/libc-2.7.so b7fb5000-b7fb8000 rw-p b7fb5000 00:00 0 b7fd6000-b7fd8000 rw-p b7fd6000 00:00 0 b7fd8000-b7fd9000 r-xp b7fd8000 00:00 0 [vdso] b7fd9000-b7ff3000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1872512 /lib/ld-2.7.so b7ff3000-b7ff5000 rw-p 00019000 08:06 1872512 /lib/ld-2.7.so bfedf000-bfef4000 rw-p bffeb000 00:00 0 [stack] Aborted [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/videos$ lst total 20 drwxr-xr-x 155 pbc pbc 12288 2008-08-08 17:31 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 0 2008-08-08 17:31 paulsvid drwxr-xr-x 2 pbc pbc 4096 2008-08-08 17:31 . -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]