---
name: "uvccapture"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "uvccapture"
version: "0.5-5+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/uvccapture"
---

# uvccapture(1)

USB UVC Video Class snapshot software

## 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 \<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).