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A good place to start is with the gui command. A simple graphical user interface will allow various filters to be applied to the video stream.

Other commands include:

$ ml loop    webcam myvid.mp4  # Play video as a continuous loop.
$ ml show    webcam mypic.png  # Show a static image.
$ ml thru    webcam            # Stream the actual webcam.
$ ml edge    webcam            # Show video as detected edges.
$ ml emboss  webcam            # Show video as embossed image.
$ ml contour webcam            # Show video as contours.

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