debian man page for luvcview

LUVCVIEW(1)						      General Commands Manual						       LUVCVIEW(1)

NAME
       luvcview - USB Video Class grabber

SYNOPSIS
       luvcview [options]...

DESCRIPTION
       luvcview is a camera viewer for UVC based webcams. It includes an mjpeg decoder and is able to save the video stream as an AVI file.

OPTIONS
       A summary of options is included below.

       -c     Enable raw frame capturing for the first frame.

       -C     Enable raw frame stream capturing from the start.

       -d /dev/videoX
	      Specify the video device to use.

       -f format
	      Specify the video format to use.

	      jpg or MJPG
		     JPEG format. This is the default if available.

	      yuv or YUYV
		     YUV format.

	      uyvy or UYVY
		     UYV format.

       -g     Grab the images with READ method instead of default MMAP.

       -h     Print a help text and exit.

       -L     Query valid video formats.

       -l     Query valid controls and settings.

       -o outputfile
	      Create an AVI file with the stream received from the video device.

       -r     Read and set control settings from the luvcview.cfg file in the current directory. Such a configuration file can be created by using
	      the F1 key in the interface.

       -s widthxheight
	      Select the image input size.

       -S     Enable raw stream capturing from the start.

AUTHORS
       Laurent Pinchart && Michel Xhaard.

       This manual page was originaly written by Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

								   June 19, 2007						       LUVCVIEW(1)