Another Question About Webcams in F13

Vaclav Mocek little.owl at email.cz
Tue Nov 2 01:35:11 UTC 2010


On 11/02/2010 01:11 AM, Vaclav Mocek wrote:
> 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. 
Of cause 3 x1.3 is not 5MP and I am going to sleep because ....
> Another trick is that the higher "resolution" - understand the size of 
> image - is artificially increased using an interpolation.
>
> If you need a real 5MP resolution you need a 5MP camera, not 1.3MP, 
> there is no way, how to cheat it.
>
> Vaclav M.
>
>
>
> On 11/01/2010 11:55 PM, Manuel Escudero wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> As I said before, the last webcam I bought was useless it was not 
>> Linux fault.
>> I went to the Steren Shop and they changed it to me for another 
>> webcam, this time
>> the COM-105 one, wich uses other USB Driver and works perfectly with 
>> Cheese
>> by just plugging it.
>>
>> The cam also works with my Windows 7 VM very well, but I have a New 
>> problem:
>>
>> In the webcam features, it says the cam has a 5MP resolution 
>> interpolated, but in
>> the instructions it says the cam has a 1.3 MP Resolution, wich is 
>> really poor for what
>> I wanna do.
>>
>> ¿How can I reach that 5MP Resolution in Linux? ¿What does that mean?
>> ¿Does this webcam can really record a 5MP Video? ¿How can I do it?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> P.S. No matter I use Cheese or the Webcam's recording software for 
>> Windows,
>> the resolution is very very poor :(
>>
>> -- 
>> <-Manuel Escudero->
>> Linux User #509052
>> @GWave: jmlevick at googlewave.com <mailto:jmlevick at googlewave.com>
>> @Blogger: http://www.blogxenode.tk/ (Xenode Systems Blog)
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>>
>

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