man uvccapture Command

Man page for apt-get uvccapture Command

Man Page for uvccapture in Linux

This tutorial shows the man page for man uvccapture in linux.

Open terminal with 'su' access and type the command as shown below:
man uvccapture

Result of the Command Execution shown below:

UVCCAPTURE(1)                                                    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
              Output filename (default is snap.jpg)

        d
              V4L2 Device (default is /dev/video0)

        x
              Image  Width  (must be supported by device) (>960 activates YUYV
              capture)

        y
              Image Height (must be supported by device) (>720 activates  YUYV
              capture)

        c
              Command  to  run after each image capture (executed as 
              )

        t
              Take continuous shots with  seconds between them (0 for
              single shot)

        q
              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
              Brightness

        C
              Contrast

        S
              Saturation

SEE ALSO
       http://linux uvc.berlios.de/

AUTHOR
       uvccapture was written by Gabriel A. Devenyi .  This
       software is based of the  package  luvcview  by  Laurent  Pinchart  and
       Michel Xhaard.

       This    manual    page    was    written    by    Krzysztof   Burghardt
       , for the Debian project (but may  be  used  by
       others).



                               28th March, 2008                  UVCCAPTURE(1)

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