uvccapture(1) 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

AUTHOR

uvccapture was written by Gabriel A. Devenyi <[email protected]>. This software is based of the package luvcview by Laurent Pinchart and Michel Xhaard.

This manual page was written by Krzysztof Burghardt <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).