Can't `cat /dev/video`

I've been trying to do this, but I can't find anything to help.
16:24:48 cha0s6983@localhost:/usr/bin$ ls -l /dev/vide*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2009-09-14 23:29 /dev/video -> video0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 2009-09-14 23:29 /dev/video0
16:26:17 cha0s6983@localhost:/usr/bin$ cat /dev/video0
cat: /dev/video0: No such device
vlc and xawtv are showing me a capture screen just fine... my deal is I want to stream the webcam output to stdout, but I just can't figure out how to do it.
Any help very welcome, thanks!
P.S. First post, hi ^^

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