somagic-capture and vlc

[David]

I've successfully built the userspace driver and am using it with Tiny Core Linux (kernel 3.8.13). I've been testing it with:

somagic-capture | mplayer -vf yadif,screenshot -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo "pal:format=uyvy:fps=25" -aspect 4:3 -

I'm trying it out on a variety of different hardware platforms but soon discovered that the version of mplayer I'm using has been built for more modern processors than are fitted to some of my test platforms.  However vlc works fine on them.  I'm afraid that the ins and outs of video are currently a black art to me. Does anyone know of a similar invocation for vlc that might work? Or maybe can suggest an alternative program that I can use for simple testing?

So far I've managed to discover that invoking with "clvc" might be an option and that a trailing "-" is the usual "read from stdin".  After that I'm a bit lost.

I did wonder about building the kernel mode drivers so that /dev/videoX became available - but that's another story.

Regards

David