Alternatives to the Logitech C920

[Olivier Crête]

Hi,

On Wed, 2020-05-27 at 15:09 +0000, Stuart Marshall wrote:
> Does anybody have suggestions for cameras that work with uvch264src?
> The Logitech C920 is great, but has a limited viewing angle and is
> hard to buy these days. I’ve found a couple cameras (e.g. from ELP)
> that
>  output h264 from hardware, but only work with v4l2src – not with
> uvch264src. I like (and need) the extra controls afforded by
> uvch264src. Would love to hear recommendations for cameras.

As far as I know, the uvch264src element only works with the C920, I
don't know of any other camera that implemented this somewhat strange
specification. It is less relevant these days as we have USB 3.0/3.1
with high enough bandwidth, and we almost all processors include some
kind of hardware H.264 acceleration.


-- 
Olivier Crête
olivier.crete at collabora.com


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