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

       -G<integer>
              Gain

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)