.\" -*- nroff -*- .TH UVCCAPTURE 1 "28th March, 2008" .SH NAME uvccapture \- USB UVC Video Class snapshot software .SH SYNOPSIS .B uvccapture .RI [ options ] .SH DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the .B uvccapture command. .PP The purpose of \fBuvccapture\fP 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. .SH OPTIONS A summary of options is included below. .TP .B \-h Show summary of options. .TP .B \-v Verbose output. .TP .B \-o Output filename (default is snap.jpg) .TP .B \-d V4L2 Device (default is /dev/video0) .TP .B \-x Image Width (must be supported by device) (>960 activates YUYV capture) .TP .B \-y Image Height (must be supported by device) (>720 activates YUYV capture) .TP .B \-c Command to run after each image capture (executed as ) .TP .B \-t Take continuous shots with seconds between them (0 for single shot) .TP .B \-q JPEG Quality Compression Level (activates YUYV capture) .TP .B \-r Use read instead of mmap for image capture .TP .B \-w Wait for capture command to finish before starting next capture .TP .B \-m Toggles capture mode to YUYV capture .TP .B \-B Brightness .TP .B \-C Contrast .TP .B \-S Saturation .TP .B \-G Gain .SH SEE ALSO .BR http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ .SH AUTHOR uvccapture was written by Gabriel A. Devenyi . This software is based of the package luvcview by Laurent Pinchart and Michel Xhaard. .PP This manual page was written by Krzysztof Burghardt , for the Debian project (but may be used by others).