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On 11/02/2010 01:11 AM, Vaclav Mocek wrote:
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It is a nasty marketing trick. You have 1.3X MP camera and every pixel
has three sub-pixels (red, green, blue). So the total amount of
(sub)pixels is: 3 x 1.3X ~= 5MP. </blockquote>
Of cause 3 x1.3 is not 5MP and I am going to sleep because ....<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4CCF6524.4010903@email.cz" type="cite">Another
trick is that the higher
"resolution" - understand the size of image - is artificially increased
using an interpolation.<br>
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If you need a real 5MP resolution you need a 5MP camera, not 1.3MP,
there is no way, how to cheat it.<br>
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Vaclav M.<br>
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On 11/01/2010 11:55 PM, Manuel Escudero wrote:
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cite="mid:AANLkTimOToma368H1faEchwp9mmw1SgV_gV754acgWXZ@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Hi!</font>
<div><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
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<div><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">As I said before, the last
webcam
I bought was useless it was not Linux fault.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif">I
went
to the Steren Shop and they changed it to me for another webcam, this
time</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif">the
COM-105 one, wich uses other USB Driver and works perfectly with Cheese</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif">by
just
plugging it. </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif">The
cam
also works with my Windows 7 VM very well, but I have a New problem:</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif">In
the
webcam features, it says the cam has a 5MP resolution interpolated, but
in</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif">the
instructions it says the cam has a 1.3 MP Resolution, wich is really
poor for what</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif">I
wanna
do.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif">¿How
can I reach that 5MP Resolution in Linux? ¿What does that mean? </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif">¿Does
this webcam can really record a 5MP Video? ¿How can I do it?</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div>
<div> <font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Thanks!</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif">P.S.
No
matter I use Cheese or the Webcam's recording software for Windows,</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif">the
resolution is very very poor :(</font></div>
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