UVCCAPTURE(1) General Commands Manual UVCCAPTURE(1)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).
28th March, 2008 UVCCAPTURE(1)
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GUVCVIEW(1) General Commands Manual GUVCVIEW(1)NAME
guvcview - GTK+ base UVC Viewer
SYNOPSIS
guvcview
DESCRIPTION
Guvcview is a simple GTK+ interface for capturing and viewing video from devices supported by the Linux UVC driver. It fully supports
video4linux2 so it should work with any driver that supports this API, including the gspca driver.
USAGE
guvcview [options...]
OPTION
-?, --help Print help options
--help-all Print all help options
--help-gtk Print GTK+ options
--version Print version number
Aplication options:
-v, --verbose Prints a lot of debug information
-d, --device=VIDEO_DEVICE Video Device [default: /dev/video0]
-a, --add_ctrls Exits after adding dynamic controls to the uvc driver (needs root/sudo)
-o, --control_only Don't stream video (image controls only)
-r, --capture_method=[1|2] Capture method (1-mmap (default) 2-read)
-g, --config=FILENAME Configuration File
-w, --hwd_acel=[1|0] Hardware accelaration:
(enable(1) | disable(0))
-f, --format=FORMAT Video input format:
mjpg | jpeg | yuyv | yvyu | uyvy | yyuv | yu12 | yv12 | nv12 |
nv21 | nv16 | nv61 | y11p | grey | s501 | s505 | s508 | gbrg |
grbg | ba81 | rggb | bgr3 | rgb3 |
-s, --size=WIDTHxHEIGHT Resolution, default: 640x480
-i, --image=FILENAME Image File
-c, --cap_time=TIME Time elapsed between image captures
-m, --npics=NUMPIC Number of images to capture
-n, --video=FILENAME Video File (capture from start)
-t, --vid_time=TIME Video duration (in seconds)
--exit_on_close Exits guvcview after closing video
-j, --skip=N_FRAMES Number of inital frames to skip
-p, --show_fps=[1|0] Print FPS on video Window:
(enable(1) | disable(0))
-l, --profile=FILENAME Load profile
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Paulo Assis <pj.assis@gmail.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Aug 2009 GUVCVIEW(1)