Thanks Yannick. You are quite right, when I run luvcview -s 176x144 I see the exact same amount of JPEG compression as I do in Ekiga (and zooming in x2 makes it more noticeable still, just like in Ekiga.) So, it's just a UVC thing then, or rather, I assume that it's just the level of JPEG compression that is being applied by the web camera's hardware and out of my control. Fair enough.
So, I assume that the Quickcam Pro900 does indeed apply stronger JPEG compression than the Quickcam Pro5000. Is that correct? (I guess it must be as Ekiga always uses a resolution of 176x144, and the Pro5000 image looks fines for that.) Finally, thank you very much indeed for the tip about the hidden setting in gconf-editor. That's made the local image look MUCH better! Thanks :) (Ironically I did look in gconf-editor before, but I did not notice that the size referred to QCIF and CIF, I stupidly assumed it referred to the ZOOM setting Ekiga. Doh!) Finally, when I make a call to someone else, the CIF image viewed reverts to a QCIF image for the duration of the call. This was for both local and remote images. I guess Ekiga drops down to the lower resolution if the remote user is on the lower resolution. I assume if we both use CIF resolution then Ekiga will remain at CIF resolution during the call too. Is that correct? Thanks again. -- LOCAL Video JPEG compression is too high using Logitech Quickcam Pro9000 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/182411 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
