Re: Selecting webcam resolutions

[James Liggett <jrliggett cox net>]

On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 14:49 +0100, daniel g. siegel wrote:
> thanks a lot for your patch! i tried it right now and you did a really
> nice work.
> 
> just two things i saw:
> 
> - it doesnt seem to work with videotestsrc, which is displayed when no
> camera is attached. we should probably add a workaround here
I'm looking into it...I can't believe I didn't try this :(
> 
> - the resolution chooser should probably go into the menu on the top
I'll work on this one after I figure out the videotestsrc
problem...should be an easy fix.
> 
> i would really like to include this patch into gnome 2.22, so could you
> have a look at those two things and i will ask for a feature freeze
> break for that patch.
I'm glad you think this is that important--thanks a lot :-)
> 
> could you open a bug in the bugzilla system and we go then from there?
> thanks!
Filed bug 512342: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512342
> 
> > 
> > I'm really not sure how we could solve this problem. I would say to try
> > threading it, but in my experience MT GTK is a *real* pain. Or should we
> > just cap recording resolution at say, 1024x768, as I saw was suggested
> > on Bugzilla someplace? 
> > 
> 
> yeah, i think that would be the easiest way for now, as processing a
> video, which has a larger resolution than 800x600 _could_ be too much
> for a cpu
Should we consideer this a separate bug? 

Thanks,
James