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avg_showcamera

AVG_SHOWCAMERA(1)						   User Commands						 AVG_SHOWCAMERA(1)

NAME

       avg_showcamera - camera discovery and display tool

SYNOPSIS

       avg_showcamera -l

       avg_showcamera -r

       avg_showcamera -t DRIVER [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

       Query and list attached cameras, reset firewire bus, show video stream.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Show a brief description of the options.

       -l, --dump
	      Dump a list of available cameras to the console.

       -r, --resetbus
	      Reset the firewire bus and free allocated bandwidth.

       -t, --driver DRIVER
	      One of the camera subsystems supported by libavg (supported: firewire, video4linux, directshow).

       -d, --device DEVICE
	      Camera device identifier (depending on the driver, a GUID or device path is expected).

       -u, --unit UNIT
	      Unit number. Used for cameras or other capture devices which deliver several images (e.g. stereo cameras or TV capture cards).

       -w, --width WIDTH
	      Camera image width.

       -e, --height HEIGHT
	      Camera image height.

       -p, --pixelformat PIXELFORMAT
	      Camera pixel format (one of: I8, I16, YUV411, YUV422, YUYV422, RGB, BGR, BAYER8).

       -f, --framerate FRAMERATE
	      Frames per second.

       -8, --fw800
	      Set firewire bus speed to s800 (if supported).

       -s, --noinfo
	      Don't show any info overlayed on the screen.

AUTHOR

       Ulrich von Zadow <coder@c-base.org>

libavg 1.7.0							   November 2011						 AVG_SHOWCAMERA(1)