low resolution (320x240) by default

patjak / facetimehd

Reverse engineered Linux driver for the FacetimeHD (Broadcom 1570) PCIe webcam

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low resolution (320x240) by default #19

Closed toaster closed 8 years ago

toaster commented 8 years ago

I got the driver working under Gentoo with kernel 4.3.3 and Firmware 1.43.0. The resolution is low by default and the only way to get a higher one is via mplayer tv:// -tv width=1280:height=720.

Especially Google hangouts do not use the high resolution.

arnal88 commented 8 years ago

I got the same problem with Skype (low resolution 320x240 by default). It seems that some applications such as Skype or Google Hangouts use the lowest available resolution by default. I managed to overcome this issue by increasing the minimum resolution of the facetimehd module. See [SOLVED] Low resolution with Skype #52

patjak commented 8 years ago

Not sure we should cripple the capabilities to fix broken applications. Will check how other drivers handle this. I'll keep the https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie/issues/52 issue open for now if someone else needs to use the workaround.