I have read the archive on this but still don't see a solution. As another post stated /dev/video has: em8300 em8300_ma em8300_mv em8300_sp The device as i know it is /dev/video0 How do I tell mplayer to look for /dev/video0? Xawtv works fine, but heh, it sucks, mplayer I hope would do 'better'.