On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 7:28 AM Steve Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I bought an HD webcam during the pandemic and it's been pretty good except 
> the colours were a bit off. I finally decided to try and do something about 
> it. The app I use most with it (Zoom) doesn't offer any way to tweak the 
> camera settings so, after a search, I found that FFmpeg can do the job. If I 
> run this command:
>
> ffmpeg-5.0.1-full_build\bin\ffmpeg -f dshow -show_video_device_dialog true -i 
> video="HD Web Camera"
>
> I get a dialog that lets me change several settings. Simply dropping the 
> saturation down to about 60 does the trick but the change doesn't stick - I 
> assume Zoom is resetting the camera when it starts up. To avoid having to 
> manually set the saturation as above, it would be great to have a command 
> line to change the setting. I've experimented with:
>
> ffmpeg-5.0.1-full_build\bin\ffmpeg -f dshow -i video="HD Web Camera" -vf 
> eq=saturation=0.6 output
>
> but this runs without changing the appearance in Zoom. I'm guessing that this 
> is because I'm putting the filter in between the camera and "output" rather 
> than changing the device settings directly.
>
> I've dug around in the documentation but find it somewhat overwhelming and 
> don't really know where to start looking. Any pointers gratefully received!

There are some filters that support settings but apparently it's hit or miss
https://stackoverflow.com/a/27931102/32453
you can try the video_device_load and video_device_save params, if
they work it works, otherwise you're kind of stuck.
Good luck!
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