ok - thanks It showed me a black image, but dropping the deinterlace did it. Now I have an image with 1-2 sec delay. Can I adjust that to be lower? Here is the cmd that worked: vlc -vvv -I dummy --noaudio --color v4l:/dev/video:norm=ntsc:size=sif:channel=1 --sout '#transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vb=800}:stan...