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Video works for me with the git version. Sound doesn't but that could be due to my misconfiguration since I'm not used to the command line interface (GUI closes whenever i press play in the select capture device dialog).

I think that vlc has configure option that allows it to be run as root.

I have a SAA7134 capture card. It works well with tvtime, mplayer and with vlc-0.9.9a. However with vlc-1.0.0 I get no audio or video output of vlc v4l2:///dev/video0: [0x8efde30] v4l2 demux error: cannot get video input characteristics (Invalid argument) adding width and height arguments does not h...