On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Colenbrander, Roderick wrote: > 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.
It all depends on the hardware. The UVC spec defines several method to capture still images. The most common one, implemented by all the webcams I've tested so far, is to take the next image from the video stream. This won't help improving image quality. Best regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
