On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 02:45:00PM -0400, wt at teksavvy.com wrote: > I can use mplayer to display the webcam image. But when I try to use > mencoder to record the webcam stream, it causes a floating point exception. This is probably due to immediatemode, which I think has a different default for mencoder. If you don't need audio try setting it explicitly in the -tv options.