.\" .\" Copyright (c) 2010 Jacob Meuser .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above .\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. .\" .\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES .\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF .\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR .\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES .\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" .\" .Dd $Mdocdate: July 23 2010 $ .Dt VIDEO 1 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm video .Nd record or display images from .Xr video 4 .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Bk -words .Op Fl v .Op Fl a Ar adaptor .Op Fl e Ar encoding .Op Fl f Ar file .Op Fl i Ar input .Op Fl o Ar output .Op Fl O Ar output .Op Fl r Ar rate .Op Fl s Ar size .Ek .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm is a utility for reading, writing and displaying streams of raw video frames. By default frames are read from .Ar file and displayed via .Xr Xv 3 . The default .Ar file is .Pa /dev/video . If the .Fl o option is used frames are read from .Ar file and written to .Ar output . If the .Fl i option is used frames are read from .Ar input and displayed via .Xr Xv 3 . If the .Fl O option is used frames are read from .Ar file , written to .Ar output and displayed via .Xr Xv 3 . The brightness, contrast, gain, hue and saturation controls of .Ar file can also be adjusted if .Ar file supports these controls. .Pp The options are as follows: .Bl -tag -width "-a adaptor" .It Fl a Ar adaptor Index of .Xr Xv 3 adaptor to use. The default is 0, the first adaptor reported by .Xr X 7 . .It Fl e Ar encoding Lowercase FOURCC name of video encoding to use. Valid arguments are .Ql uyvy and .Ql yuy2 . The default is .Ql yuy2 unless .Ar file is being used and only supports .Ql yuyv , in which case .Ql yuyv will be used by default. .It Fl f Ar file .Xr video 4 device from which frames will be read. The default is .Pa /dev/video . .It Fl i Ar input File from which frames will be read. If .Ar input is .Ql - , frames will be read from standard input. .It Fl o Ar ouput File to which frames will be written. If .Ar output is .Ql - , frames will be written to standard output. .It Fl O Ar ouput File to which frames will be written. If .Ar output is .Ql - , frames will be written to standard output. In contrast to .Fl o , if this option is used, .Nm will also display the frames via .Xr Xv 3 . .It Fl r Ar rate Rate in frames per second at which to read. Must be an integer greater than 0. If the .Fl r option is not specified, frames will be read as quickly as possible. If reading from a .Xr video 4 device, frames will be read as quickly as they are available from the device, but will be displayed and/or written to .Ar output at the rate specified. This is done because .Xr video 4 does not yet support setting the device frame rate. .It Fl s Ar size Size of frames to read. The format of .Ar size is WxH, where W represents width and H represents height, both expressed as number of pixels. The default is 640x480. If .Ar size does not contain .Ql x , .Ar size is interpreted as only the width. If .Ql x is the first character of .Ar size , the characters following .Ql x are interpreted as the height. If only one of width or height is specified, the other will be calculated using a 4:3 width:height ratio. For example, if given .Ql -s 640 .Nm will use a size of .Ql 640x480 . When reading from a .Xr video 4 device and displaying the frames on an .Xx Xv 3 display, this option also accepts two special strings, .Ql half and .Ql full. If either .Ql half or .Ql full are specified, .Nm will read frames that are no larger than 2/3 the display width and 2/3 the display height. If .Ql full is specified, .Nm will stretch the frame to the full size of the display using .Xr Xv 3 scaling. If .Nm is reading frames from a .Xr video 4 device and the frame size does not match a frame size the device supports, .Nm will use the largest frame size supported by the device that is smaller than the specified size. .It Fl v Verbose mode. Multiple instances of this option are allowed. Each instance increases the level of informational output printed to .Ar stderr . .El .Pp .Nm will quit reading frames and exit nicely if it receives any of the following signals: SIGHUP, SIGINT, SIGKILL, SIGTERM, SIGPIPE. .Pp .Nm responds to certain key presses while it is displaying frames. The keypresses are as follows: .Bl -tag -width "aXX" .It Ic B Increase brightness control of .Ar file . .It Ic b Decrease brghtness control of .Ar file . .It Ic C Increase contrast control of .Ar file . .It Ic c Decrease contrast control of .Ar file . .It Ic f Toggle full-screen display. .It Ic G Increase gain control of .Ar file . .It Ic g Decrease gain control of .Ar file . .It Ic H Increase hue control of .Ar file . .It Ic h Decrease hue control of .Ar file . .It Ic p Toggle new frame display. .It Ic q Quit .Nm . .It Ic r Reset all supported controls of .Ar file to their default value. .It Ic O Start writing to .Ar output . Only meaningful when the .Fl O option is used. .It Ic o Stop writing to .Ar output . Only meaningful when the .Fl O option is used. .It Ic S Increase saturation control of .Ar file . .It Ic s Decrease saturation control of .Ar file . .El .Sh EXAMPLES The following command will read YUY2 encoded, 640 pixel wide and 480 pixel high video frames from .Ar /dev/video and display them using the default .Xr Xv 3 adaptor: .Pp .Dl "$ video" .Pp The following command will read YUY2 encoded, 640 pixel wide and 480 pixel high video frames from .Ar /dev/video and write them to .Ar video.raw at a rate of 15 frames per second: .Pp .Dl "$ video -r 15 -o video.raw" .Pp The following command will read YUY2 encoded, 640 pixel wide and 480 pixel high video frames from .Ar /dev/video , write them to .Ar video.raw and display them using the default .Xr Xv 3 adaptor at a rate of 15 frames per second: .Pp .Dl "$ video -r 15 -O video.raw" .Pp The following command will read YUY2 encoded, 640 pixel wide and 480 pixel high video frames from .Ar video.raw and dsplay them on the default .Xr Xv 3 adaptor at a rate of 15 frames per second: .Pp .Dl "$ video -r 15 -i video.raw" .Pp Note that with the first three commands, if .Ar /dev/video does not support 640x480 pixels sized frames, the largest frame size smaller than 640x480 will be used, and if .Ar /dev/video does not support yuy2 encoding, uyvy will be used. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr video 4