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.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<filename>
Output filename (default is snap.jpg)
.TP
.B \-d<device>
V4L2 Device (default is /dev/video0)
.TP
.B \-x<width>
Image Width (must be supported by device) (>960 activates YUYV capture)
.TP
.B \-y<height>
Image Height (must be supported by device) (>720 activates YUYV capture)
.TP
.B \-c<command>
Command to run after each image capture (executed as <command> <output_filename>)
.TP
.B \-t<integer>
Take continuous shots with <integer> seconds between them (0 for single shot)
.TP
.B \-q<percentage>
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<integer>
Brightness
.TP
.B \-C<integer>
Contrast
.TP
.B \-S<integer>
Saturation
.TP
.B \-G<integer>
Gain
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/
.SH 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.
.PP
This manual page was written by Krzysztof Burghardt <krzysztof@burghardt.pl>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).