Laurent Pinchart <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi Moritz,
> On Monday 22 September 2008, Moritz Barsnick wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 03:03:13 +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>> > > I had a sneaky suspicion my camera was stuck in top quality. Laurent
>> > > Pinchart's comments from March 25th confirmed and were a nice
>> > > blueprint for this patch.
>> > First of all, thanks for the patch.
>> [...]
>>
>> > Great :-) I'll have a look at the code after this weekend, and commit the
>> > changes to SVN.
[...]
>> Has this patch[*] been obsoleted, or forgotten, or perhaps even rejected?
>
> Mostly forgotten actually. I'm working on reviving it, but I first have to 
> implement proper workarounds for webcams that don't implement the 
> GET_MIN/GET_MAX requests on the video probe control properly (and there are 
> many of them). I'll soon post a patch for review/testing on the list, and 
> I'll then work on the JPEG quality patch.
>
>> The recent release of motion mentions this in its CHANGELOG (though I
>> think the patch is unrelated to the named issue):
>> http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/UvcvideoMjpegPatch
>
> That's related. Thanks for the information. I'll contact
> the authors of motion after committing JPEG quality
> support to update their wiki.

How's this going? I recently got a Creative Live! Cam Optia
(ID 041e:4057) and am using it with motion. Although it's
connected to a USB2 port, I'm getting a problem (maybe
caused by a bug in the usb root driver, but that's not the
topic here¹) that causes the device to disappear if I try to
use the full resolution of the camera. As a work-round for
that, I thought I could use MJPEG, but then I hit the
problem this thread is about.

I'm using the latest(?) fedora 9 kernel
(2.6.27.23-78.2.50.fc9.x86_64). F9 is a bit out of date now,
but looking at the uvcvideo repo I couldn't find signs of
the patch having been applied.

It would be useful to me if a patch for this did get
included. In the short term I suppose I could build a
patched version of the module (modulo some change to the
patch to make it apply to the present code), but it would be
much nicer if it made it into the tree.

(Mostly posting to indicate that there is other interest in
this issue).


[1] I can't address the USB root issue as I'm too far from
the camera to unplug it.

Thanks,
  Jón

-- 
Jón Fairbairn                                 [email protected]

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