---
name: "w3camd"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "w3cam"
version: "0.7.2-6.3"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/w3camd"
---

# w3camd(1)

A simple web camera daemon

## NAME

w3camd  - A simple web camera daemon

## SYNOPSIS

**w3camd \[-v\] \[-p port\] \[-h host\] \[-m connections\] \[-s size\] \[-i tv\|comp1\|com1\|s-video \] \[-d \<device\> \]**

## DESCRIPTION

*w3camd* A simple daemon to read from a web camera.

## OPTIONS

        \-v       verbose mode\
         \-p #     port number (default: 8999)\
         \-h host  host name to bind to (default: localhost)\
         \-m #     max connections to serve (default: 10)\
         \-s #x#   size of image\
         \-i input 0=TV, 1=comp1, 2=comp2, 3=s-video\
         \-d dev   camera device, default: /dev/video0

## AUTHOR

Rasca, Berlin \<thron@gmx.de\>\
 http://home.pages.de/~rasca/\
 w3camd is published under the GNU General Public License

This manual page was written by Barry deFreese \<bddebian@comcast.net\> for the  Debian/Ubuntu distributions but may be used by others.