I read about the still image mode before but is it really anything special? 
Some sources indicate that it just grabs a frame from the video stream. The 
request is either made by the webcam software or by pressing a snapshot button. 
Sure I can program but is it worth all the troubles? The main advantage would 
be improved image quality.

Thanks,
Roderick

-----Original Message-----
From:   Brandon Philips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:   Tue 4/15/2008 10:37 PM
To:     Colenbrander, Roderick
Cc:     [email protected]
Subject:        Re: [Linux-uvc-devel] High resolution webcam + USB 1.1 (LX832)

On 12:54 Tue 15 Apr 2008, Colenbrander, Roderick wrote:
> First of all not much webcams offer high resolutions. Logitech has a
> bunch of those (e.g. QPC 9000 Pro / Sphere AF) and most others I found
> from Trust, Hercules seem to use the Microdia chipset which doesn't
> have an opensource driver yet. Does someone have other suggestions for
> webcams that offer good image quality and if possible a high
> resolution?

I can't make any specific recommendations but the Logitech cameras seem
to perform well.

> Another issue is of course that I'm limited to USB 1.1. I don't think
> the bandwidth is much of a problem as I don't need much images and
> don't need them frequently either. Second jpeg compression is fine by
> me (but I would like to be able to adjust the compression parameters).
> Does USB 1.1 somehow limit the resolution of the pictures I can take?
> I can imagine that the buffer size is smaller than the max image it
> can take and that USB2 is fast enough to empty it before data gets
> overwritten.

All of the Logitech cameras I own can do up to 800x600 on USB 1.1.  You
probably won't do much better than that without going to a Hi-Speed bus.

It could be possible to get a higher resolution on 1.1 by using the
STILL_IMAGE_FRAME mode of UVC depending on the camera you use but that
isn't implemented in the Linux UVC driver yet.  If you want to implement
it that would be great :)

Cheers,

        Brandon



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