Emerge xawtv installs the xawtv plugins in /usr/lib instead of /usr/lib/xawtv. Because of this, xawtv fails with the followin messages: This is xawtv-3.83, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.20) WARNING: no plugins found [/usr/lib/xawtv] no video grabber device available If /usr/lib/xawtv is created and the needed libs are copied into it, xawtv just starts normally. It seems like this bug appeared since xawtv 3.83 (this is unconfirmed though)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16599 ***
*** Bug 17503 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***