dov4l (1)

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Copyright Folkert van Heusden, 2003

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(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man1/dov4l.1".)

NAME

dov4l - set parameters on a video4linux device

SYNOPSIS

dov4l [options]

options: [-d device] [-f frequency] [-t tuner] [-i inputchannel] [-m mode]

DESCRIPTION

The program dov4l lets you set parameters on a video4linux-device.

OPTIONS

-q

Query capabilities and settings of your video4linux device.

-h

Usage

-d device

Select device. Default is /dev/video0

-f frequency

Set frequency (in Hz!).

-t tuner

Select tuner. Most of the time the default (0) suffices.

-i inputchannel

Select inputchannel. TV cards, for example, sometimes have a tuner and a composite video input-channel. With this parameter you can select one. To get a list of input channels, run dov4l with the -q parameter.

-m mode

Select a mode. Mode can be: PAL, NTSC, SECAM or AUTO.

-b brightness

Set brightness.

-u hue

Set hue.

-c color

Set color.

-n contrast

Set contrast.

-w whiteness

Set whiteness.

-p palette

Set palette.

-s width,height

Set the width/height of the image, separated with a ','. Warning: no spaces around the ','!

SEE ALSO

www.vanheusden.com/dov4l

NOTES

This page describes dov4l as found in the dov4l-0.5 package; other versions may differ slightly. Mail corrections, bugs and additions to folkert@vanheusden.com