Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2021-01-09 Thread Brian
On Sat 09 Jan 2021 at 08:19:36 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 09 ian 21, 00:13:06, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 08 Jan 2021 at 16:46:53 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > > > > > This is inappropriate on this list. Please take it elsewhere. Thank you. > > > > The political statement inciting vio

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2021-01-09 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, January 09, 2021 07:25:57 AM David wrote: > Especially on mailing lists where we get to read the > stupid things over and over again. +1 (or more)

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2021-01-09 Thread David
On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 at 17:19, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > If you think something posted on debian-user is in violation of the > Debian Code of Conduct please contact the Debian Community Team. I've always found email signatures to be entirely pointless, except that they help me to identify people to

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2021-01-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 09 ian 21, 00:13:06, Brian wrote: > On Fri 08 Jan 2021 at 16:46:53 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > > > This is inappropriate on this list. Please take it elsewhere. Thank you. > > The political statement inciting violence I responded to is also > inappropriate. That is to be tolerated? A

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2021-01-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 00:13:06 + Brian wrote: > > This is inappropriate on this list. Please take it elsewhere. Thank > > you. > > The political statement inciting violence I responded to is also > inappropriate. That is to be tolerated? Take it elsewhere. -- Does anybody read signatures a

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2021-01-08 Thread Brian
On Fri 08 Jan 2021 at 16:46:53 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 20:10:05 + > Brian wrote: > > > > -- > > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > > > > DT tried the soapbox. It didn't work

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2021-01-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 20:10:05 + Brian wrote: > > -- > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > > DT tried the soapbox. It didn't work out. ... > > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > > Someone who believes in radic

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2021-01-08 Thread Brian
On Thu 31 Dec 2020 at 12:15:13 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: [Snipped Celejar's comments. The only thing added to it is below] > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." DT tried the soapbox. It

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2021-01-01 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 1 Jan 2021 12:41:38 -0500 Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 09:50:00AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > >On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 11:13:54 -0500 > >Michael Stone wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 10:59:36AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > >> >I don't know how to evaluate this. But still, if

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2021-01-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 09:50:00AM -0500, Celejar wrote: On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 11:13:54 -0500 Michael Stone 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?

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2021-01-01 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 11:13:54 -0500 Michael Stone 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

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2021-01-01 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 21:48:33 +0100 Eugen Dedu wrote: > Hi Celejar, > > To find out the capabilities of your camera, you can install v4l-utils > and execute: > v4l2-ctl --list-devices > v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --list-formats > v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --list-formats-ext > Check also the other /de

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2020-12-31 Thread Eugen Dedu
Hi Celejar, To find out the capabilities of your camera, you can install v4l-utils and execute: v4l2-ctl --list-devices v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --list-formats v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --list-formats-ext Check also the other /dev/video* files. Another method is to use qv4l2 (provided by the homo

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2020-12-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 31 December 2020 10:59:36 Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 10:53:37 -0800 (PST) > > didier gaumet wrote: > > Le mercredi 30 décembre 2020 à 16:40:06 UTC+1, Celejar a écrit : > > [...] > > > > > 1) Why does VLC default to the lower resolution? Incidentally, I > > > see that Cheese

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2020-12-31 Thread Michael Stone
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

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2020-12-31 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 10:53:37 -0800 (PST) didier gaumet wrote: > Le mercredi 30 décembre 2020 à 16:40:06 UTC+1, Celejar a écrit : > [...] > > 1) Why does VLC default to the lower resolution? Incidentally, I see > > that Cheese also opens the camera by default at a lower resolution - > > but a di

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2020-12-31 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 11:02:31 -0800 (PST) didier gaumet wrote: > Le mercredi 30 décembre 2020 à 16:40:06 UTC+1, Celejar a écrit : > [...] > > 1) Why does VLC default to the lower resolution? Incidentally, I see > > that Cheese also opens the camera by default at a lower resolution - > > but a di

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2020-12-30 Thread didier gaumet
Le mercredi 30 décembre 2020 à 16:40:06 UTC+1, Celejar a écrit : [...] > 1) Why does VLC default to the lower resolution? Incidentally, I see > that Cheese also opens the camera by default at a lower resolution - > but a different one: 960x540. Why? Is this to save space when recording? to set

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2020-12-30 Thread didier gaumet
Le mercredi 30 décembre 2020 à 16:40:06 UTC+1, Celejar a écrit : [...] > 1) Why does VLC default to the lower resolution? Incidentally, I see > that Cheese also opens the camera by default at a lower resolution - > but a different one: 960x540. Why? Is this to save space when recording? I don't

Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2020-12-30 Thread Celejar
Hi, I'm puzzled by VLC's handling of my webcam. When I open it using default settings, either via the GUI or CLI ('vlc v4l2://'), it opens (according to 'Tools / Media Information / Codec') in 848x480. The camera supports HD, however, and I can get that by 'vlc v4l2://:width=1280:height=720' (or b