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Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

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On Fri, 1 Jan 2021 12:41:38 -0500
Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 09:50:00AM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> >On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 11:13:54 -0500
> >Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> >Very interesting, thanks. Zoom does offer standard HD and even FHD in
> >some cases:
> 
> "Note: Due to recent events with COVID-19, meetings in 720p-quality 
> video are only available to Pro account users or higher, and only for 
> meetings with a maximum of 2 participants; 1080p quality is for 
> special-use cases currently."

Yes - that's what it says on the page that I linked to. And I have a
Pro account at work, and I often have extended one-on-one meetings with
a total of exactly two participants ;)

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115002595343-Video-enhancements#h_01EEEKVD06W1QDZ5GXCS2B9KYN

Celejar

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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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