webcam: tweaks to improve image quality?

[Francisco Borges]

Hello Neil and Thomas,

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Neil <hok.krat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Francisco Borges

> There have been some motherboards with some USB 1.1 ports for long
> after the introduction of USB 2.0. This was because some USB 1.1
> devices would not work with USB 2.0 ports apparently, and you may have
> picked an 1.1 port. This only allows for a far slower connection.
>
> If that doesn't work, could you please start capturing with mencoder
> and post the output here? To do this you must start mencoder,
> preferably with the addition of -v:
> If you'd usually use:
>      mencoder video://1 /path/to/target
> you'd have to use now
>      mencoder -v video://1 /path/to/target
> This will help the wizards detect the source

I still haven't succeeded getting mencoder to actually do anything
useful, but I used luvcview to check the available modes for the
camera, and it seems that the highest definition available (with the
current drivers that is) is 640x480. The funny thing is that after
using luvcview I can actually get cheese to run in a decent amount of
frames-per-second.

So now I am wondering if I should return this camera or not, does
anyone knows of a low-cost camera that has Linux support for a
resolution above 640x480?

BTW, thanks a lot for the previous emails!


Cheers,
-- 
Francisco