Playing QuickCam Video Stream with Mplayer

I've been toying with developing a Tk UI for multiple video sources, something like a video surveillance or situational awareness console.

I've made some notable progress embedding mplayer into multiple UI frames using precollected video source files and next needed to integration a 'live' video stream. That required determining the 'secret sauce' of arguments to get mplayer to recognize my QuickCam Express webcam....don't laugh, I've had it for years.

For those of you that are interested, the secret sauce is:

$ mplayer -fps 20 -tv driver=v4l:width=352:height=288:device=/dev/video0:outfmt=bgr24 tv://

Cheers.