Viewing WebCam Video with Mplayer

On a number of occasions I find it useful to view my laptop's camera in real-time using Mplayer. Seems this is accomplishable using the following command:

$ mplayer -fps 15 tv:// -tv  driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0

Cheers.

ImageMagick -- Send Directly To Display

'til recently I've always manipulated images, stored them to a temporary file, then displayed them to confirm the desired results.

I've recently found that this is an unnecessary step, as the output of any command can be sent directly to the display using the 'win:' command directive.

E.g.

$ convert main/trunk/Media/Photos/Cats/Dempsey/DSCF0002.JPG -resize "100x100^" -gravity center -crop 100x100 win:

Cheers.