Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 11:02:31 -0800 (PST)
didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> wrote:

> Le mercredi 30 décembre 2020 à 16:40:06 UTC+1, Celejar a écrit :
> [...]
> > 1) Why does VLC default to the lower resolution? Incidentally, I see 
> > that Cheese also opens the camera by default at a lower resolution - 
> > but a different one: 960x540. Why? Is this to save space when recording? 
> 
> to set up the default video resolution of your webcam in Cheese, install dconf editor, launch it and set up the the video-x-resolution and video-y-resolution in /org/gnome/cheese/

Thanks. Once I set it once, the setting seems to survive restarts of
the program, and I'm currently only using Cheese for testing anyway ;)

Celejar