.TH RASPIVIDYUV 1
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.SH NAME
raspividyuv \- records unencoded video with the Pi Camera Module
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.SH SYNOPSIS
.SY raspividyuv
.OP \-3d mode
.OP \-3dswap
.OP \-ISO value
.OP \-a flags|text
.OP \-ae size,fg,bg
.OP \-ag value
.OP \-awb mode
.OP \-awbg b,r
.OP \-br value
.OP \-cfx u:v
.OP \-co value
.OP \-cs camera
.OP \-d ms
.OP \-dg value
.OP \-dn screen
.OP \-drc value
.OP \-ev value
.OP \-ex mode
.OP \-f
.OP \-fli mode
.OP \-fps fps
.OP \-gps
.OP \-h size
.OP \-hf
.OP \-i state
.OP \-ifx effect
.OP \-k
.OP \-l
.OP \-md mode
.OP \-mm mode
.OP \-n
.OP \-o filename
.OP \-op opacity
.OP \-p x,y,w,h
.OP \-pts filename
.OP \-roi x,y,w,h
.OP \-rot value
.OP \-s
.OP \-sa value
.OP \-set
.OP \-sh value
.OP \-ss value
.OP \-t ms
.OP \-td on,off
.OP \-v
.OP \-vf
.OP \-w size
.YS
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.SY raspividyuv
.OP \-?
.SY raspividyuv
.OP \-\-help
.YS
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.SH DESCRIPTION
.B raspividyuv
is a command line utility for recording unencoded video frames from the
Raspberry Pi Camera Module (any version), in YUV format by default (see
.BR [YUV] ).
It has numerous options which can be used to customize the recording, the
preview display, or to perform more complex operations like video streaming.
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.SH OPTIONS
The options documented in the following sections are specific to the
.B raspividyuv
utility, or commonly used with it. For full details of the other options (which
are common to all the camera utilities), please refer to the
.BR raspicam (7)
manual page.
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.SH GENERAL OPTIONS
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.TP
.BR \-? ", " \-\-help
Display a concise description of all parameters
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.TP
.BR \-d ", " \-\-demo " [\fIms\fR]"
This options cycles through the range of camera options. No recording is taken,
and the demo will end at the end of the timeout period, irrespective of whether
all the options have been cycled. The time between cycles should be specified
as a millisecond value.
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.TP
.BR \-fps ", " \-\-framerate " \fIfps\fR"
Specifies the frames per second to record. At present, the minimum frame rate
allowed is 2fps, and the maximum is 30fps. This is likely to change in the
future.
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.TP
.BR \-h ", " \-\-height " \fIsize\fR"
Set the video height to
.IR size .
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.TP
.BR \-i ", " \-\-initial " \fIstate\fR"
Define whether the camera will start paused or will immediately start
recording. Valid states are
.I record
or
.IR pause .
Note that if you are using a simple timeout (without
.I \-\-timed
or
.I \-\-keypress
or other options to activate recording), and
.I \-\-initial
is set to
.IR pause ,
no output will be recorded.
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.TP
.BR \-k ", " \-\-keypress
On each press of the Enter key, the recording will be paused or restarted.
Pressing X then Enter will stop recording and close the application. Note that
the timeout value
.RI ( \-t )
will be used to signal the end of recording, but is only checked after each
Enter keypress; so if the system is waiting for a keypress, even if the timeout
has expired, it will still wait for the keypress before exiting.
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.TP
.BR \-l ", " \-\-listen
When using a network connection as the
.IR \-\-output ,
this option will make the sytem wait for a connection from the remote system
before sending data.
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.TP
.BR \-y ", " \-\-luma
Only outputs the luma (Y) channel of the YUV image. This is effectively the
black and white, or intensity, part of the image. See
.B [YUV]
for more information.
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.TP
.BR \-o ", " \-\-output " \fIfilename\fR"
Specify the output filename. If not specified, no file is saved. If the
filename is \(lq\-\(rq, then all output is sent to stdout.
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To connect to a remote IPv4 host, use
.I tcp
or
.I udp
followed by the required IP Address. e.g.
.I tcp://192.168.1.2:1234
or
.IR udp://192.168.1.2:1234 .
.IP
To listen on a TCP port (IPv4) and wait for an incoming connection use the
.I \-\-listen
option, e.g.
.I raspividyuv \-l \-o tcp://0.0.0.0:3333
will bind to all network interfaces,
.I raspividyuv \-l \-o tcp://192.168.1.1:3333
will bind to a local IPv4.
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.TP
.BR \-pts ", " \-\-save-pts " \fIfilename\fR"
Saves timestamp information to the specified file. Useful as an input file to
.BR mkvmerge (1).
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.TP
.BR \-rgb ", " \-\-rgb
This option forces the video to be saved as RGB data with 8 bits per channel,
rather than YUV420.
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Note that the video frames saved in
.B raspividyuv
are padded to a horizontal size divisible by 32, so there may be unused bytes
at the end of each line. Buffers are also padded vertically to be divisible by
16, and in the YUV mode, each plane of Y,U,V is padded in this way.
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.TP
.BR \-s ", " \-\-signal
Sending a
.I USR1
signal to the
.B raspividyuv
process will toggle between recording and paused. This can be done using the
.BR killall (1)
command, as below:
.IP
.EX
killall -USR1 raspividyuv
.EE
.IP
Note that the timeout value will be used to indicate the end of recording, but
is only checked after each receipt of the
.I USR1
signal; so if the system is waiting for a signal, even if the timeout has
expired, it will still wait for the signal before exiting.
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.TP
.BR \-td ", " \-\-timed " \fIon,off\fR"
This options allows the video capture to be paused and restarted at particular
time intervals. Two values are required: the on time and the off time, both
measured in milliseconds. On time is the amount of time the video is captured,
and off time is the amount it is paused. The total runtime of the application
is defined by the timeout option
.RI ( \-t ).
Note that the runtime may go slightly over the timeout setting depending on the
on and off times.
.IP
For example:
.IP
.EX
raspividyuv \-o test.h264 \-t 25000 \-\-timed 2500,5000
.EE
.IP
This will alternate between recording for 2500ms (2.5s), then pausing for
5000ms (5s) gaps, until 25000ms (25s) have elapsed.  The resulting recording
will only be 10s long, since 4 segments of 2.5s = 10s, separated by 3 gaps of
5s = 15s, for a total of 25s:
.IP
.EX
Seconds            1                   2
 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
RRRRR..........RRRRR..........RRRRR..........RRRRR
.EE
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.TP
.BR \-t ", " \-\-timeout " \fIms\fR"
The total length of time that the program will run for. If not specified, the
default is 5000ms (5 seconds). If set to 0, the application will run
indefinitely until stopped with Ctrl-C.
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.TP
.BR \-v ", " \-\-verbose
Outputs debugging/information messages during the program run.
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.SH EXIT STATUS
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.IP 0
Application ran successfully
.RB ( EX_OK )
.IP 64
Bad command line parameter
.RB ( EX_USAGE )
.IP 70
Software or camera error
.RB ( EX_SOFTWARE )
.IP 130
Application terminated by Ctrl-C
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.SH SEE ALSO
.BR raspicam (7),
.BR raspistill (1),
.BR raspivid (1),
.BR raspiyuv (1),
.BR vcgencmd (1),
.B [SOURCE]
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.SH REFERENCES
.TP
.B [SOURCE]
https://www.raspberrypi.org/\:documentation/\:raspbian/\:applications/\:camera.md
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.TP
.B [YUV]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YUV