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
- -G<integer>
-
Gain
SEE ALSO
http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/
AUTHOR
uvccapture was written by Gabriel A. Devenyi <[email protected]>. This software is based of the package luvcview by Laurent Pinchart and Michel Xhaard.
This manual page was written by Krzysztof Burghardt <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).