Filippo's comment #4 is an excellent description of the technical issues involved in trying to do a "real-time" webcam resolution switch when taking a photo. In fact, some test code I wrote a while back to do just this resulted in just over 5 seconds from the time the "Take a Photo" button was pressed to the point that the reduced-resolution "viewfinder" image was restored. Note that for the entire duration of the process no viewfinder image was available. The result was a completely unacceptable user experience.
The good news is that this problem can be easily worked around in current versions of Cheese by simply setting the default webcam resolution to a lower setting as desired via the Preferences dialog. This allows the user to make the tradeoff between optimal viewfinder performance and photo resolution. -- Cheese: choppy refresh https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252664 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
