.TH RASPIVID 1
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.SH NAME
raspivid \- records H264 video with the Pi Camera Module
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.SH SYNOPSIS
.SY raspivid
.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 \-b bps
.OP \-br value
.OP \-c
.OP \-cd name
.OP \-cfx u:v
.OP \-co value
.OP \-cs camera
.OP \-d ms
.OP \-dg value
.OP \-dn screen
.OP \-drc value
.OP \-e
.OP \-ev value
.OP \-ex mode
.OP \-f
.OP \-fl
.OP \-fli mode
.OP \-fps fps
.OP \-g frames
.OP \-gps
.OP \-h size
.OP \-hf
.OP \-i state
.OP \-if type
.OP \-ifx effect
.OP \-ih
.OP \-k
.OP \-l
.OP \-lev level
.OP \-md mode
.OP \-mm mode
.OP \-n
.OP \-o filename
.OP \-op opacity
.OP \-p x,y,w,h
.OP \-pf profile
.OP \-pts filename
.OP \-qp num
.OP \-r filename
.OP \-rf format
.OP \-roi x,y,w,h
.OP \-rot value
.OP \-s
.OP \-sa value
.OP \-set
.OP \-sg ms
.OP \-sh value
.OP \-sl num
.OP \-sn num
.OP \-sp
.OP \-ss value
.OP \-stm
.OP \-t ms
.OP \-td on,off
.OP \-v
.OP \-vf
.OP \-w size
.OP \-wr num
.OP \-x filename
.YS
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.SY raspivid
.OP \-?
.SY raspivid
.OP \-\-help
.YS
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.SH DESCRIPTION
.B raspivid
is a command line utility for recording video from the Raspberry Pi Camera
Module (any version). It has numerous options which can be used to customize
the recording, the preview display, or to perform more complex operations like
circular buffering and video streaming.
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.SH OPTIONS
The options documented in the following sections are specific to the
.B raspivid
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 \-b ", " \-\-bitrate " \fIbps\fR"
Use bits per second, so 10Mbits/s would be
.IR "\-b 10000000" .
For H264, 1080p30 a high quality bitrate would be 15Mbits/s or more.
Maximum bitrate is 25Mbits/s
.RI ( "\-b 25000000" ),
but much over 17Mbits/s won't show noticeable improvement at 1080p30.
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.TP
.BR \-c ", " \-\-circular
Select circular buffer mode. All encoded data is stored in a circular buffer
until a trigger is activated, then the buffer is saved. 
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.TP
.BR \-cd ", " \-\-codec " \fIname\fR"
Specifies the encoder codec to use. Options are
.I H264
and
.IR MJPEG .
H264 can encode up to 1080p, whereas MJPEG can encode upto the sensor size, but
at decreased framerates due to the higher processing and storage requirements. 
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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 \-fl ", " \-\-flush
Forces a flush of output data buffers as soon as video data is written. This
bypasses any OS caching of written data, and can decrease latency.
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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 \-if ", " \-\-irefresh " \fItype\fR"
Sets the H264 intra-refresh type. Possible types are:
.RS
.IP \(bu 2
.I cyclic
.IP \(bu
.I adaptive
.IP \(bu
.I both
.IP \(bu
.I cyclicrows
.RE
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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 \-ih ", " \-\-inline
Forces the stream to include PPS and SPS headers on every I-frame. Needed for
certain streaming cases e.g. Apple HLS. These headers are small, so don't
greatly increase the file size.
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.TP
.BR \-g ", " \-\-intra " \fIframes\fR"
Sets the intra refresh period (GoP) rate for the recorded video. H264 video
uses a complete frame (I-frame) every intra refresh period, from which
subsequent frames are based. This option specifies the number of frames between
each I-frame. Larger numbers here will reduce the size of the resulting video,
and smaller numbers make the stream less error-prone.
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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 \-lev ", " \-\-level " \fIlevel\fR"
Specifies the H264 encoder level to use for encoding. Options are
.IR 4 ,
.IR 4.1 ,
and
.IR 4.2 .
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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 \-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 raspivid \-l \-o tcp://0.0.0.0:3333
will bind to all network interfaces,
.I raspivid \-l \-o tcp://192.168.1.1:3333
will bind to a local IPv4.
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.TP
.BR \-e ", " \-\-penc
Switch on this option to display the preview after compression. This will show
any compression artefacts in the preview window. In normal operation, the
preview will show the camera output prior to being compressed. This option is
not guaranteed to work in future releases.
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.TP
.BR \-pf ", " \-\-profile " \fIprofile\fR"
Sets the H264 profile to be used for the encoding. Options are:
.RS
.IP \(bu 2
.I baseline
.IP \(bu
.I main
.IP \(bu
.I high
.RE
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.TP
.BR \-qp ", " \-\-qp " \fInum\fR"
Sets the initial quantisation parameter for the stream. Varies from
approximately 10 to 40, and will greatly affect the quality of the recording.
Higher values reduce quality and decrease file size. Combine this setting with
a bitrate of 0 to set a completely variable bitrate.
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.TP
.BR \-r ", " \-\-raw " \fIfilename\fR"
Specify the output file name for any raw data files requested.
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.TP
.BR \-rf " ," \-\-raw\-format " \fIformat\fR"
Specify the raw format to be used if raw output is requested. Valid formats are
.IR yuv ,
.IR rgb ,
and
.IR grey .
.I grey
simply saves the Y channel of the YUV image.
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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 \-sg ", " \-\-segment " \fIms\fR"
Rather than creating a single file, the file is split into segments of
approximately the number of milliseconds specified. In order to provide
different filenames, you should add
.I %04d
or similar at the point in the filename where you want a segment count number
to appear e.g:
.IP
.EX
\-\-segment 3000 \-o video%04d.h264
.EE
.IP
will produce video clips of approximately 3000ms (3s) long, named
\(lqvideo0001.h264\(rq, \(lqvideo0002.h264\(rq etc.  The clips should be
seamless (no frame drops between clips), but the accuracy of each clip length
will depend on the intraframe period, as the segments will always start on an
I-frame. They will therefore always be equal or longer to the specified period.
.IP
The most recent version of
.B raspivid
will also allow the file name to be time-based, rather than using a segment
number. For example:
.IP
.EX
\-\-segment 3000 \-o video_%c.h264
.EE
.IP
will produce file names formatted like so:
\(lqvideo_Fri Jul 20 16:23:48 2018.h264\(rq
.IP
There are many different formatting options available - see
.BR strftime (3)
for a full list. Note than the
.I %d
and
.I %u
options are not available, as they are used for the segment number formatting,
and that some combinations may produce invalid file names.
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.TP
.BR \-s ", " \-\-signal
Sending a
.I USR1
signal to the
.B raspivid
process will toggle between recording and paused. This can be done using the
.BR killall (1)
command, as below:
.IP
.EX
killall -USR1 raspivid
.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 \-sl ", " \-\-slices " \fInum\fR"
Sets the number of horizontal slices per frame. The default is 1 (no slices).
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.TP
.BR \-sp ", " \-\-split
When in
.I \-\-signal
or
.I \-\-keypress
mode, each time recording is restarted, a new file is created.
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.TP
.BR \-stm ", " \-\-spstimings
Insert timing information into the SPS block.
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.TP
.BR \-sn ", " \-\-start " \fInum\fR"
When outputting segments (with
.IR \-\-segment ),
this is the initial segment number, giving the ability to resume a previous
recording from a given segment. The default value is 1.
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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
raspivid \-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 \-x ", " \-\-vectors " \fIfilename\fR"
Turns on output of motion vectors from the H264 encoder to the specified file
name.
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.TP
.BR \-v ", " \-\-verbose
Outputs debugging/information messages during the program run.
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.TP
.BR \-wr ", " \-\-wrap " \fInum\fR"
When outputting segments, this is the maximum the segment number can reach
before it's reset to 1, giving the ability to keep recording segments, but
overwriting the oldest one. So if set to 4, in the
.I \-\-segment
example above, the files produced will be \(lqvideo0001.h264\(rq,
\(lqvideo0002.h264\(rq, \(lqvideo0003.h264\(rq, and \(lqvideo0004.h264\(rq.
Once \(lqvideo0004.h264\(rq is recorded, the count will reset to 1, and
\(lqvideo0001.h264\(rq will be overwritten.
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.SH EXIT STATUS
.
.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 EXAMPLES
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Image size and preview settings are the same as for still captures. The default
size for video recording is 1080p (1920x1080).
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.TP
.B raspivid \-t 5000 \-o video.h264
Record a 5s clip with default settings (1080p30).
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.TP
.B raspivid \-t 5000 \-o video.h264 \-b 3500000
Record a 5s clip at a specified bitrate (3.5Mbits/s).
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.TP
.B raspivid \-t 5000 \-o video.h264 \-f 5
Record a 5s clip at a specified framerate (5fps).
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.TP
.B raspivid \-t 5000 \-o \-
Encode a 5s camera stream and send the image data to stdout.
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.TP
.B raspivid \-t 5000 \-o \- > my_file.h264
Encode a 5s camera stream and send the image data to a file.
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.SH SEE ALSO
.BR raspicam (7),
.BR raspistill (1),
.BR raspividyuv (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