Man page for apt-get uvccapture Command
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 withseconds 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)