---
name: "motioneye"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "motioneye"
version: "1.2-3"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/motioneye"
---

# motioneye(1)

Motion Eye Camera Utility

## NAME

motioneye — Motion Eye Camera Utility

## SYNOPSIS

**motioneye** \[*COMMAND\]  \[OPTIONS...\]*

## DESCRIPTION

*This manual page documents briefly the*  **motioneye** *command.*

*This manual page was written for the* **Debian** *distribution*  *because the original program does not have a manual page.*

**motioneye**  *is a program that captures images and movies with Sony Vaio*  *PictureBook Motion Eye camera. Motioneye requires the Motion Eye Camera*  *Driver (kernel \> 2.4.7) since it uses the private interface*  *for accessing some extended parameters (camera sharpness, agc, video*  *framerate), the shapshot and the mjpeg capture facilities.*

*motioneye can capture ppm or jpg snapshots or mjpeg compressed video.*

## COMMANDS

*This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax,*  *with long options starting with two dashes (\`-').*

- **-d** **--display**

  *Display camera capture.*

- **-p** **--ppm=FILE**

  *Get camera snapshot (ppm format).*

- **-j** **--jpg=FILE**

  *Get camera snapshot (jpg format).*

- **-m** **--mjpeg=FILE**

  *Get mjpeg video.*

## OPTIONS

- **-a** **--agc=NUM**

  *Camera AGC (0-63) (default 48).*

- **-b** **--brightness=NUM**

  *Camera brightness (0-63) (default 32).*

- **-c** **--colour=NUM**

  *Camera colour (0-63) (default 32).*

- **-C** **--contrast=NUM**

  *Camera contrast (0-63) (default 32).*

- **-D** **--device=FILE**

  *Video device to use (default /dev/video0).*

- **-f** **--framerate=NUM**

  *Framerate (0=every frame, 2=every 2 frames) (0-31) (default 0).*

- **-h** **--hue=NUM**

  *Camera hue (0-63) (default 32).*

- **-P** **--picture=NUM**

  *Camera picture (0-63) (default 0).*

- **-q** **--quality=NUM**

  *JPEG quality (1-10) (default 7).*

- **-s** **--subsample**

  *Subsample the image.*

- **-S** **--sharpness=NUM**

  *Camera sharpness (0-63) (default 32).*

- **-t** **--time=NUM**

  *Number of seconds to capture (default 10).*

- **-w** **--wait**

  *Wait for the start capture with CAPTURE button.*

## SEE ALSO

*xawtv (1).*

## AUTHOR

*motioneye was written by Stelian Pop.*

*This manual page was written by Christophe Le Bars clebars@debian.org for*  *the* **Debian** *system (but may be used by others).  Permission is*  *granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under*  *the terms of the GNU Free Documentation*  *License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free*  *Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover*  *Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.*