NAME
uvccapture - USB UVC Video Class snapshot software
SYNOPSIS
uvccapture [options]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the uvccapture command.
The purpose of uvccapture is to capture an image from a USB webcam at a
specified interval, and save it to a JPEG file, no other formats are
supported, imagemagick can handle anything else you might need.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
-h Show summary of options.
-v Verbose output.
-o<filename>
Output filename (default is snap.jpg)
-d<device>
V4L2 Device (default is /dev/video0)
-x<width>
Image Width (must be supported by device) (>960 activates YUYV
capture)
-y<height>
Image Height (must be supported by device) (>720 activates YUYV
capture)
-c<command>
Command to run after each image capture (executed as <command>
<output_filename>)
-t<integer>
Take continuous shots with <integer> seconds between them (0 for
single shot)
-q<percentage>
JPEG Quality Compression Level (activates YUYV capture)
-r Use read instead of mmap for image capture
-w Wait for capture command to finish before starting next capture
-m Toggles capture mode to YUYV capture
-B<integer>
Brightness
-C<integer>
Contrast
-S<integer>
Saturation
SEE ALSO
http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/
AUTHOR
uvccapture was written by Gabriel A. Devenyi <ace@staticwave.ca>. This
software is based of the package luvcview by Laurent Pinchart and
Michel Xhaard.
This manual page was written by Krzysztof Burghardt
<krzysztof@burghardt.pl>, for the Debian project (but may be used by
others).
28th March, 2008