Improve default resolution for a Logitech C920 webcam?

Robert Krakora rob.krakora at messagenetsystems.com
Fri Mar 7 06:56:57 PST 2014


Hi Jon,

The C920 can provide H.264 and raw video simultaneously via MJPEG wrapper
(one video device) via the Multiplexed Payload Format described in the
attached specification (*USB Device Class Definition for Video Devices:
H.264 Payload*).  Youness Alaoui, of Collabora, wrote a GStreamer 0.10
plugin for it over two years ago and it was ported to GStreamer 1.0 almost
a year ago.  It can provide H.264 and uncompressed (for video preview)
simultaneously.  I find it odd that Hangouts does not support this veteran
and quite popular camera.  There is also a C930e which came out late last
summer which is supposed to improve on quality.  I have one, but have yet
to have time to mess with it.  However, Paulo Assis has worked with it
quite extensively for his guvcview tool.

Best Regards,

Rob Krakora



On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:32 AM, jonsmirl at gmail.com <jonsmirl at gmail.com>wrote:

> C920 is one of the best webcams on the market. If you aren't getting good
> performance out of it, it is the app that is misbehaving not the webcam.
>
> Having said that in the last few years dual stream cameras have been
> showing up. Those cameras support  two /dev/video devices. One device is
> used to access the stream in uncompressed form for the local preview
> display. The second stream is sent out onto the Internet in h.264 without
> ever being decoded by the local app. Skype supports this camera type and
> gives it Gold certification.
>
> It could be that Hangouts wants one of these newer two-stream cameras.
>  AFAIK there is no way to tell what kind of camera Hangouts wants and most
> questions of this type to Google go unanswered.
>
> With a single stream camera like the C920 Hangouts needs to decode two
> compressed streams simultaneously - the local one from the C920 and the
> remote one. Almost all desktops have plenty of CPU to do this. But instead
> Google could be accessing the uncompressed stream from the C920 and then
> software compressing it with VP8. 800x448 is the largest uncompressed
> stream with 30fps available.  But that is a non-standard size. So next size
> down if 640x480 for uncompressed.
>
> What Hangouts should be doing is access the 720P h.264 stream and decode
> it locally on any desktop with enough CPU power (which is 99% of them).
>
> Here are the C920 formats....
>
> jonsmirl at terra:/work/libav$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video1 --list-formats-ext
> ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT
> Index       : 0
> Type        : Video Capture
>  Pixel Format: 'YUYV'
> Name        : YUV 4:2:2 (YUYV)
> Size: Discrete 640x480
>  Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 160x90
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
>  Size: Discrete 160x120
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 176x144
>  Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 320x180
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
>  Size: Discrete 320x240
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 352x288
>  Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 432x240
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
>  Size: Discrete 640x360
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 800x448
>  Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 800x600
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 864x480
>  Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
>  Size: Discrete 960x720
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 1024x576
>  Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 1280x720
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 1600x896
>  Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 1920x1080
>  Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 2304x1296
> Interval: Discrete 0.500 s (2.000 fps)
>  Size: Discrete 2304x1536
> Interval: Discrete 0.500 s (2.000 fps)
>
> Index       : 1
>  Type        : Video Capture
> Pixel Format: 'H264' (compressed)
> Name        : H.264
>  Size: Discrete 640x480
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 160x90
>  Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 160x120
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
>  Size: Discrete 176x144
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 320x180
>  Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 320x240
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
>  Size: Discrete 352x288
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 432x240
>  Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 640x360
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
>  Size: Discrete 800x448
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 800x600
>  Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 864x480
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
>  Size: Discrete 960x720
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 1024x576
>  Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 1280x720
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
>  Size: Discrete 1600x896
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 1920x1080
>  Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
>
> Index       : 2
> Type        : Video Capture
>  Pixel Format: 'MJPG' (compressed)
> Name        : MJPEG
> Size: Discrete 640x480
>  Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 160x90
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
>  Size: Discrete 160x120
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 176x144
>  Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 320x180
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
>  Size: Discrete 320x240
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 352x288
>  Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 432x240
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
>  Size: Discrete 640x360
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 800x448
>  Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 800x600
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
>  Size: Discrete 864x480
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 960x720
>  Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 1024x576
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
>  Size: Discrete 1280x720
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 1600x896
>  Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
> Size: Discrete 1920x1080
> Interval: Discrete 0.033 s (30.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.042 s (24.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.050 s (20.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.067 s (15.000 fps)
>  Interval: Discrete 0.100 s (10.000 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.133 s (7.500 fps)
> Interval: Discrete 0.200 s (5.000 fps)
>
> jonsmirl at terra:/work/libav$
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Olivier Crête <olivier.crete at collabora.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> You seem to be wrong, I can get 1920x1080 at 5fps as jpeg from my C920,
>> if you want more FPS, you have to use H.264 because the USB bus isn't so
>> fast. I can even run 2 C920s at 1280x720 at 10fps in jpeg mode.
>>
>> Olivier
>>
>> On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 14:13 -0800, Christian Kreibich wrote:
>> > On 03/02/2014 12:33 PM, Stefan Sauer wrote:
>> > > As you can see from the log, the camera is only providing up to
>> 640x480
>> > > as video/x-raw. Even image/jpeg is only produced up to 640x480. Higher
>> > > resolutions are only provided as video/x-h264, which is most likely
>> not
>> > > what most VC apps handle automatically already.
>> >
>> > Yeah, got it. Thanks Stefan.
>> >
>> > (If anyone could recommend cameras to me off-list that work better on
>> > Linux, I'd be grateful. Thanks.)
>> >
>> > -C.
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