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UVCCAPTURE(1) General Commands Manual UVCCAPTURE(1)

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.

Show summary of options.
Verbose output.
Output filename (default is snap.jpg)
V4L2 Device (default is /dev/video0)
Image Width (must be supported by device) (>960 activates YUYV capture)
Image Height (must be supported by device) (>720 activates YUYV capture)
Command to run after each image capture (executed as <command> <output_filename>)
Take continuous shots with <integer> seconds between them (0 for single shot)
JPEG Quality Compression Level (activates YUYV capture)
Use read instead of mmap for image capture
Wait for capture command to finish before starting next capture
Toggles capture mode to YUYV capture
Brightness
Contrast
Saturation
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).

28th March, 2008