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Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

From Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)
Date 2020-12-31 17:20 +0100
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On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 10:59:36AM -0500, Celejar wrote:
>I don't know how to evaluate this. But still, if the camera is
>reporting 720p, shouldn't the applications default to that?

The optical quality on most small web cams is so bad that increasing the 
resolution just means significantly more bandwidth is used to produce a 
picture that's visually indistinguishable from the lower resolution 
version. Most video chat applications will downsample a high res image 
anyway, so generating a high res stream is just making more work. There 
are cameras and applications where the increased resolution matter, but 
they're the exception IME.

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Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere) Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-12-30 16:40 +0100
  Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere) didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2020-12-30 20:20 +0100
    Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere) Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-12-31 17:00 +0100
      Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere) Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-12-31 17:20 +0100
        Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere) Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-01-01 16:00 +0100
          Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere) Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2021-01-01 18:50 +0100
            Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere) Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-01-01 22:20 +0100
      Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere) Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-31 18:20 +0100
        Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-01-08 21:20 +0100
          Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere) Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-01-09 00:50 +0100
            Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-01-09 01:20 +0100
              Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere) Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-01-09 02:10 +0100
              Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-09 07:30 +0100
                Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere) David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2021-01-09 13:30 +0100
                Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2021-01-09 15:50 +0100
                Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-01-09 21:30 +0100
  Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere) didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2020-12-30 20:30 +0100
    Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere) Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-12-31 17:00 +0100
  Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere) Eugen Dedu <eugen.dedu@univ-fcomte.fr> - 2020-12-31 22:10 +0100
    Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere) Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-01-01 15:50 +0100

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