I attached two C910s to a small linux box, and ran into the 'Failed to submit URB' problem.

When I look at the descriptors for this camera, I think I understand the problem. I'm capturing at 5 Mpixels and I'm trying two cameras.

      VideoStreaming Interface Descriptor:
        bLength                            38
        bDescriptorType                    36
        bDescriptorSubtype                  7 (FRAME_MJPEG)
        bFrameIndex                        28
        bmCapabilities                   0x01
          Still image supported
        wWidth                           2592
        wHeight                          1944
        dwMinBitRate                403107840
        dwMaxBitRate                806215680
        dwMaxVideoFrameBufferSize    10077696
        dwDefaultFrameInterval        1000000
        bFrameIntervalType                  3
        dwFrameInterval( 0)           1000000
        dwFrameInterval( 1)           1333333
        dwFrameInterval( 2)           2000000

The video frame size is set to 10Mb. This is surprisingly large as actual frames captured with MJPEG on this camera are typically 500kb or less. When I checked the descriptor for the uncompressed version of the same frame, it came back with the same value of dwMaxVideoFrameBufferSize (effectively 16 bits per pixel). The values for min/max bit rate are (correctly) calculated from the frame intervals and the buffer size.

Typical JPEG compression gets down to 1 bit per pixel, and 2 bits is very unusual.

What I want to know is what the impact would be of defining a new QUIRK that overrode the frame buffer size for compressed frames and calculated them at (say) 2 bits per pixel?

Do other webcams get this right?

Thanks

Philip

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