W3CAMD(1)

💖 W3CAMD(1) 💖

okay bestie, this is the manual for w3camd — yes that's the page title, section 1, we're doing this — and it's living its best life at Version 0.7.1. she's little, she's simple, she's a whole web camera daemon. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

w3camd — a simple web camera daemon 🌸

like. that's it. that's the girl. a daemon. for your webcam. simple by design and unbothered about it 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

w3camd [-v] [-p port] [-h host] [-m connections] [-s size] [-i
tv|comp1|com1|s-video ] [-d <device> ]

that's the whole vibe check right there — run w3camd with any of those flags and she's off 💫

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

w3camd — a simple daemon to read from a web camera.

periodt. that's the job. she reads from the camera, she daemonizes, she serves. no drama, no extra lore, just cam things 🎥✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

okay here's the menu, and yes you're ordering from all of it:

• -v — verbose mode. she starts yapping (affectionately) so you can see what's going on 👀
• -p # — port number. default: 8999 🔌
• -h host — host name to bind to. default: localhost 🏠
• -m # — max connections to serve. default: 10 🫶
• -s #x# — size of image. like, the actual dimensions 📐
• -i input — 0=TV, 1=comp1, 2=comp2, 3=s-video 📺 (and in the synopsis she's listed as tv|comp1|com1|s-video, so yeah — those are your input girls)
• -d dev — camera device. default: /dev/video0 🎥

ngl, -p, -h and -m all have defaults, so if you just raw-dog the command with no flags, she's gonna listen on localhost, port 8999, serving 10 connections, pulling from /dev/video0. slay.

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Rasca, Berlin <thron@gmx.de> http://home.pages.de/~rasca/

w3camd is published under the GNU General Public License ⭐ (yes bestie, GPL, we love a license that keeps it free)

This manual page was written by Barry deFreese <bddebian@comcast.net> for the Debian/Ubuntu distributions — but may be used by others. giving "I made this for us but the whole group chat can have it" energy fr fr 🫶

and that's the whole page, we ate and left no crumbs 💖 this manual page is coming to you from GNU, dated Dec 2007 — shoutout to the W3CAMD(1) era, iconic, timeless, still serving 🎀✨ bye bestie!