LUVCVIEW(1)

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.

    jpg or MJPG
        JPEG format. This is the default if available.

    yuv or YUYV
        YUV format.

    uyvy or UYVY
        UYV format.

-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).