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
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).