capture webcam in VLC media player

With dapper i tried this ... it was posted on the ubuntuforums, and it worked for me...
con: you can not see yourself while recording...

Do this:

Connect your webcam.

Open VLC
File--> OPen capture device
Go to Video4Linux tab
Specify your video device name (mine was /dev/video0)
(My webcam audio doesn't work, so I left audio device as it is)
Norm: Automatic

Check "stream output" box
Click settings
Specify a filename (make sure you have write permissions there - usually a file on desktop or home directory is the best bet)
Unselect "dump raw input" (it must reamain empty)
Encapsulation method: MPEG1
Video codec: mp1v
Audio codec: mpga
"select all elementary streams" should remain empty.

Press OK

Press OK

Now press PLAY button on VLC.
The video should start recording. You can check this while VLC is recording video by right clicking on the recording file and selecting properties (it will show increasing file size).

Notes:
1. You can do an HTTP streaming by a similar method you are able to capture to a file.
2. Powerusers:
Media resource locator:
v4l:// :v4l-vdev="/dev/video0" :v4l-adev="/dev/dsp" :v4l-norm=3 :v4l-frequency=-1
Destination target:
:sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp1v,vb=1024,scale=1}:dupl icate{dst=std{access=file,mux=mpeg1,url="FULL PATH NAME HERE"}}