NAME¶

luvcview - USB Video Class grabber

SYNOPSIS¶

luvcview [ options]...

DESCRIPTION¶

luvcview is a camera viewer for UVC based webcams. It includes an mjpeg decoder and is able to save the video stream as an AVI file.

OPTIONS¶

A summary of options is included below.

-c

Enable raw frame capturing for the first frame.

-C

Enable raw frame stream capturing from the start.

-d /dev/videoX

Specify the video device to use.

-f format

Specify the video format to use.

-g

Grab the images with READ method instead of default MMAP.

-h

Print a help text and exit.

-L

Query valid video formats.

-l

Query valid controls and settings.

-o outputfile

Create an AVI file with the stream received from the video device.

-r

Read and set control settings from the luvcview.cfg file in the current directory. Such a configuration file can be created by using the F1 key in the interface.

-s widthxheight

Select the image input size.

-S

Enable raw stream capturing from the start.

 

AUTHORS¶

Laurent Pinchart && Michel Xhaard. This manual page was originaly written by Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).