Re: Another Question About Webcams in F13

2010-11-02 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 17:55 -0600, Manuel Escudero wrote: > In the webcam features, it says the cam has a 5MP resolution > interpolated, but in the instructions it says the cam has a 1.3 MP > Resolution, wich is really poor for what I wanna do. Interpolated means artificially created resolution.

Re: Another Question About Webcams in F13

2010-11-01 Thread Manuel Escudero
2010/11/1 Vaclav Mocek > On 11/02/2010 01:11 AM, Vaclav Mocek wrote: > > It is a nasty marketing trick. You have 1.3X MP camera and every pixel has > three sub-pixels (red, green, blue). So the total amount of (sub)pixels is: > 3 x 1.3X ~= 5MP. > > Of cause 3 x1.3 is not 5MP and I am going to sl

Re: Another Question About Webcams in F13

2010-11-01 Thread Vaclav Mocek
On 11/02/2010 01:11 AM, Vaclav Mocek wrote: It is a nasty marketing trick. You have 1.3X MP camera and every pixel has three sub-pixels (red, green, blue). So the total amount of (sub)pixels is: 3 x 1.3X ~= 5MP. Of cause 3 x1.3 is not 5MP and I am going to sleep because Another trick is t

Re: Another Question About Webcams in F13

2010-11-01 Thread Vaclav Mocek
It is a nasty marketing trick. You have 1.3X MP camera and every pixel has three sub-pixels (red, green, blue). So the total amount of (sub)pixels is: 3 x 1.3X ~= 5MP. Another trick is that the higher "resolution" - understand the size of image - is artificially increased using an interpolation

Re: Another Question About Webcams in F13

2010-11-01 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Manuel Escudero wrote: > ¿How can I reach that 5MP Resolution in Linux? ¿What does that mean? > ¿Does this webcam can really record a 5MP Video? ¿How can I do it? I'm no expert (and someone can correct me), but my guess is that the hardware is 1.3MP, but the camer

Another Question About Webcams in F13

2010-11-01 Thread Manuel Escudero
Hi! As I said before, the last webcam I bought was useless it was not Linux fault. I went to the Steren Shop and they changed it to me for another webcam, this time the COM-105 one, wich uses other USB Driver and works perfectly with Cheese by just plugging it. The cam also works with my Windows