GUVCVIEW(1)                 General Commands Manual                GUVCVIEW(1)

NAME
       guvcview - GTK+ base UVC Viewer

SYNOPSIS
       guvcview

DESCRIPTION
       Guvcview is an application for capturing and viewing video from devices
       supported by the linux kernel video4linux2 interface.


USAGE
       guvcview [options...]


OPTIONS
       -h,--help
              Print help

       -v,--version
              Print version

       -w,--verbosity=LEVEL
              Set Verbosity level (def: 0)

       -d,--device=AUDIO_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)

       -F,--fps=FPS_NUM[/FPS_DENOM]
              Request fps (e.g. 25 ; 7/3; ...)

       -r,--render=RENDER_API
              Select render API (e.g none; sdl; sfml)

       -m,--render_window=RENDER_WINDOW_FLAGS
              Set render window flags (e.g none; full; max; WIDTHxHEIGHT)

       -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; qt6)

       -o,--audio_codec=codecAudio
              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)

       -e,--exit_on_term
              Exit app after video or image capture ends

       -z,--control_panel
              Start in control panel mode


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

                                   May 2024                        GUVCVIEW(1)