[Nottingham] Mega-pixel webcams

[Martin]

Martin wrote:
> Martin wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> I've got a webcam working well enough but only at 640x320 even though it
>> is supposed to be a 4 Mpixel sensor...
>>
>> Is there any video software or webcam grab software that can capture the
>> full resolution?
>>
>> Or any webcam-software combinations that do that?
>>
>> Or is there some magic trick to use the webcam like a camera?
> 
> OK, I'm stumped for the webcam I've got.
> 
> After sorting out the shenanigans between what is V4L and V4L2, it works
> fine but only advertises up to a resolution of 640x480 (VGA). And it is
> very definitely using USB2.
> 
> It doesn't appear when xsane scans for devices.
> 
> So, how do you get to see more than just 300k pixels of the supposed 4M
> pixels?!
> 
> It uses the gspca_sn9c20x module driver.

Mmmm... Not looking good...

A comment from 2/12/2008:

"I mean V4L2 API: you can get stream, but you can't get snapshots.
Btw, USB 2.0 is a requirement for sn9c20x-based cams"

And 14/09/2009:

[GIT PATCHES for 2.6.32] V4L/DVB updates
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@vger.kernel.org/msg09739.html

V4L/DVB (12707): gspca - sn9c20x: Add SXGA support to MT9M111

which suggests the driver for 2.6.32 will give 1280x1024 pixels
(1.3Mpixels) streamed.

Ofcourse, I'm on 2.6.31...


Jim... Have you got hold of some proprietary drivers or some such that
are doing something different?


Anyone: Any known good mega-pixel webcams that do give full resolution
snapshots for linux?

Cheers,
Martin

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