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NAME

guvcview - GTK+ base UVC Viewer

SYNOPSIS

guvcview

DESCRIPTION

Guvcview is a simple GTK+ interface for capturing and viewing video from devices supported by the Linux UVC driver. It fully supports video4linux2 so it should work with any driver that supports this API, including the gspca driver.

USAGE

guvcview [options...]

OPTION

-h, --help Print help

-v, --version

Print version
-w, --verbosity=LEVEL

Set Verbosity level (def: 0)
-d, --device=DEVICE

Set device name (def: /dev/video0)
-c, --capture=METHOD

Set capture method [read | mmap (def)]
-b, --disable_libv4l2

disable calls to libv4l2
-x, --resolution=WIDTHxHEIGHT

Request resolution (e.g 640x480)
-f, --format=FOURCC

Request format (e.g MJPG)
-r, --render=RENDER_API

Select render API (e.g none; sdl)
-m, --render_window=RENDER_WINDOW_FLAGS

Set render window flags (e.g none; full; max)
-a, --audio=AUDIO_API

Select audio API (e.g none; port; pulse)
-k, --audio_device=AUDIO_DEVICE

Select audio device index for selected api (0..N)
-g, --gui=GUI_API

Select GUI API (e.g none; gtk3)
-o, --audio_codec=CODEC

Audio codec [pcm mp2 mp3 aac ac3 vorb]
-u, --video_codec=CODEC

Video codec [raw mjpg mpeg flv1 wmv1 mpg2 mp43 dx50 h264 vp80 theo]
-p, --profile=FILENAME

load control profile
-j, --video=FILENAME

filename for captured video)
-i, --image=FILENAME

filename for captured image)
-y, --video_timer=TIME_IN_SEC

time (double) in sec. for video capture)
-t, --photo_timer=TIME_IN_SEC

time (double) in sec. between captured photos)
-n, --photo_total=TOTAL

total number of captured photos)
-z, --control_panel

Start in control panel mode

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Paulo Assis <pj.assis [AT] gmail.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).