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Wow 480 vertical pixels is not bad when you consider current generation M1 macs have merely 720 vertical pixels in its built in web cam.

• michaelt 4y ago
  Oh, 640x480 wasn't the streaming video resolution, that was the single-shot mode. Products of the era would provide 30fps at 176x144, over the parallel port [1]. [1] https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/392263252707 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/392263252707
  • asabil 4y ago
    Also known as QCIF format
  • rasz 4y ago
    v4l2 came out in 2001. At that point every TV tuner card supported full framerate capture at 768x576/720x480 for over >3 years already. Its only ~12MB/s and cards supported bus mastering, the only problem was storage and CPU power for realtime encoding. https://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Brooktree_Bt848 https://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Brooktree_Bt848 https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Bttv_devices_(bt848,_bt878) https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Bttv_devices_(bt848,_...
  • chrischen 4y ago
    Ok in that case I’m pretty sure the macbook camera is also limited to 720 for stills.