On 05/05/10 16:29, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 11:26 +0700, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
I have a Microdia webcam which finally works without much ado. I have tried out xawtv and luvcview and am not impressed by the quality of the images. When running Skype the picture is sharp and quit good. What kind of video program Skype is using? are there better webcam products than luvcview and xawtv?
The first thing is to see what the camera is really sending. The best app I have found (i.e., it actually runs) is cheese. With that you can see that the camera can provide quality images. It comes with openSUSE 11.2. If the images look good in cheese, then the issue is the app. If the images look bad in cheese, then it is a camera/driver issue. At least this is my experience.
When it comes to skype, and many flash web cam interfaces, it seems the specific resolution used and frame rate are not under user control. I also find this frustrating. Perhaps I have missed something. I can see an excellent image in cheese, but skype is using relative crap. I see this in the skype test window. Of course skype needs to be efficient. But I think there is something wrong as the images look so bad. I am running the current skype beta. Maybe someone else knows where to tell skype (or flash) what resolution/frame rate to use. I suspect, however, that they do not let users specify this.
*/Just tried cheese with my webcam (logitech). Works fine in Skype, doesn't work at all in cheese...? John /* -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org