webcam stuck on 160x120

[Nick Rout]

I am setting up zoneminder on ubuntu 10.04. I have a Philips SPC530NC
webcam which seems to be capable of 640x480, according to advertising
and other info on the web. See by way of example:
http://www.testfreaks.co.uk/webcameras/philips-spc530nc-00/

However the camera doesn't seem capable of doing more than a miserable
160x120 when plugged into my system. All the tools (v4l-info, lucview,
lsusb -v etc) report the width as 160 and the height as 120. However
output from similar commands, eg here:

http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/linux-uvc-devel/2008-October/004146.html

show that people have got the correct resolutions from this device.

Any idea where to go from here?

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[Robin Paulson]

Post by Nick Rout
I am setting up zoneminder on ubuntu 10.04. I have a Philips SPC530NC
webcam which seems to be capable of 640x480, according to advertising
http://www.testfreaks.co.uk/webcameras/philips-spc530nc-00/
However the camera doesn't seem capable of doing more than a miserable
160x120 when plugged into my system. All the tools (v4l-info, lucview,
lsusb -v etc) report the width as 160 and the height as 120. However
http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/linux-uvc-devel/2008-October/004146.html
show that people have got the correct resolutions from this device.
Any idea where to go from here?

perhaps a newer version of video4linux? i.e.the version form the
developers, rather than from the ubuntu repository. of course, that
could add in all sorts of other problems...

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[Nick Rout]

Post by Robin Paulson

Post by Nick Rout
I am setting up zoneminder on ubuntu 10.04. I have a Philips SPC530NC
webcam which seems to be capable of 640x480, according to advertising
http://www.testfreaks.co.uk/webcameras/philips-spc530nc-00/
However the camera doesn't seem capable of doing more than a miserable
160x120 when plugged into my system. All the tools (v4l-info, lucview,
lsusb -v etc) report the width as 160 and the height as 120. However
http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/linux-uvc-devel/2008-October/004146.html
show that people have got the correct resolutions from this device.
Any idea where to go from here?

perhaps a newer version of video4linux? i.e.the version form the
developers, rather than from the ubuntu repository. of course, that
could add in all sorts of other problems...

So what is the version difference between the kernel that's in ubuntu
10.04 and the current v4l2 release?

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