thanks - even though maybe i should've made clear that i'm trying to access a cheapo-USB-webcam, and was kind of looking for a solution along the lines of:

use Device::Webcam;     # pity this on doesn't exist
my $wc = Device::Webcam->init('/dev/video/0', '800x600');
my $jpeg = $wc->capture( format => 'jpeg' );
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hmmm....if i'd actually start a Device::Webcam, that does nothing more than wrap around vidcat on linux (v4l) systems, would that be worth putting on CPAN?

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