Streamin Video? Sure, why not

I decided to begin investigating setting up a live webcam server for the soon to exist archerandcicero.com, and the first obvious candidate was webcam-server.
Assuming you have apache going, you can issue an(on ubuntu)

apt-get install webcam-server

which in theory should work.  Not really though for Ubuntu 8.10.  When I tried to fire up webcam server via:

webcam-server -s  -d /dev/video0 -c "Look my webcam! %H:%M:%S"

I received nothing via http://localhost:8888 on my browser :(
Since -s is system daemon mode, -d is the device designation flag, I removed the -s so that I could see any possible errors on the console, and I had this one:

"No supported colour palette found."

Odd, but after some google kung fu I found this link:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webcam-server/+bug/292900
Which led me to issue this command:
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so
Then it worked just fine, I just can't seem to figure out how to get it to reload itself so that it is indeed streaming video.  Odd, not much documentation on this out there. Stay tuned for the how to on that.

In my research in looking for a solution on the prior issue, I cam across HasciiCam.  I think it looks awesome, and would like to use it for my office cam, but the documentation on this is very minimal!  I am beat from a long day of fax server nonsense and working on our custom CMS, so I am calling it a night, but expect an extensive followup on these two video streaming topics.