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).