[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1804333] Re: Cheese detects only low-res YUYV stream from camera

2019-02-03 Thread Andrew Gerald
Thank you! Cheese should changed to search for and enumerate, or manually select, cameras by /dev/device#, such as for example: $ cheese -d "/dev/video1" Instead of the way it's currently programmed, such as for example: $ cheese -d "Secret Squirrel Webcam" (The contents of the "ID_V4L_PRODUCT

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1804333] Re: Cheese detects only low-res YUYV stream from camera

2019-02-02 Thread Andrew Gerald
Any hope of this being addressed? It makes Cheese essentially useless for multi-stream cameras because a particular stream cannot be selected. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cheese in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1804333] Re: Cheese detects only low-res YUYV stream from camera

2018-11-24 Thread Andrew Gerald
Here's the problem: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cheese/issues/4 Cheese uses "ID_V4L_PRODUCT" to differentiate video devices... My camera and others have multiple video streams which are enumerated as "video0" "video1" "video2" etcetera. In all instances/streams "ID_V4L_PRODUCT" is the same...

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 137981] Re: Cheese : If two v4l devices exist there is no way to choose the correct one

2018-11-24 Thread Andrew Gerald
"-d" option still doesn't work even in v3.30 -- it always uses video0. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cheese in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137981 Title: Cheese : If two v4l devices exist there is no way to

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1804333] Re: Cheese detects only low-res YUYV stream from camera

2018-11-21 Thread Andrew Gerald
I forgot to add that on the Cheese reference page... https://developer.gnome.org/cheese/stable/cheese.html ...under "Invocation: cheese takes a list of options as arguments: Options:" a command line switch is documented that supposedly permits selecting the video device... "--device=DEVICE, -d

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1804333] [NEW] Cheese detects only low-res YUYV stream from camera

2018-11-20 Thread Andrew Gerald
Public bug reported: Cheese v3.30.0 (3.30.0-0ubuntu1) Xubuntu 18.04 LTS Cheese detects and reports/offers/accesses ONLY the resolutions in the YUYV stream, index 1, which results in low-res video and especially (what I use the cam for) still images. Previously, in 16.04 LTS, everything was workin