UVCCAPTURE(1)

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version 0.5 · 2 versions
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💖 UVCCAPTURE(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for uvccapture, living in the General Commands Manual section, and honestly? she's a little icon. let's get into it ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

uvccapture — USB UVC Video Class snapshot software

like. it takes pictures from your webcam. that's the whole vibe. 📸

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

uvccapture [options]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this manual page is gonna give you the briefly rundown of the uvccapture command, bestie. no fluff, all facts. 💅

the whole point of uvccapture? it grabs an image from a USB webcam at a specified interval and saves it to a JPEG file. and that's it — no other formats are supported, sorry queen 😭. if you need something else, imagemagick can handle anything else you might need. she's versatile like that. 🦋

🫶 OPTIONS 🫶

here's the summary of options, no gatekeeping here:

  • -h — Show summary of options. a little help menu moment 👑
  • -v — Verbose output. she's talking a LOT now 💬
  • -o<filename> — Output filename (default is snap.jpg). where your lil pic goes 🍓
  • -d<device> — V4L2 Device (default is /dev/video0). tell her which camera bestie 🎥
  • -x<width> — Image Width (must be supported by device) (>960 activates YUYV capture). don't just pick any number, the device has to support it fr fr
  • -y<height> — Image Height (must be supported by device) (>720 activates YUYV capture). same energy, but vertical 📐
  • -c<command> — Command to run after each image capture (executed as <command> <output_filename>). like a lil post-snap ritual ✨
  • -t<integer> — Take continuous shots with <integer> seconds between them (0 for single shot). 0 means one and done, anything else means she's in her marathon era 🏃‍♀️
  • -q<percentage> — JPEG Quality Compression Level (activates YUYV capture). turn that dial, gorgeous 🎚️
  • -r — Use read instead of mmap for image capture. alternate route, same destination 🛣️
  • -w — Wait for capture command to finish before starting next capture. no cutting in line 🚦
  • -m — Toggles capture mode to YUYV capture. flip the switch, main character 🎛️
  • -B<integer> — Brightness. glow up ☀️
  • -C<integer> — Contrast. give it some depth 💜
  • -S<integer> — Saturation. make it pop 🌈
  • -G<integer> — Gain. volume up, but for light 🔥

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

👑 AUTHOR 👑

uvccapture was written by Gabriel A. Devenyi <ace@staticwave.ca>. and the lore doesn't stop there — this software is based of the package luvcview by Laurent Pinchart and Michel Xhaard. we stan a collaborative origin story 🫶

this manual page was written by Krzysztof Burghardt <krzysztof@burghardt.pl>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). generous queen 💅

ok that's literally everything, no cap. go capture some slay images bestie. periodt. 💖✨

this page is serving 28th March, 2008 energy — the date on the original, and yes, she's been iconic since day one. bye babes! 🎀🦋💜

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