debian man page for uvccapture

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)