[pwc] Compression format

Andrea mariofutire at googlemail.com
Sun Jul 13 18:15:29 CEST 2008


Mirko Adari wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have successfully compiled pwc under TS-7800 armel debian and motion is
> letting me view the picture. I can set compression to 
> none-low-medium-high mode, but
> what is the codec used for compression? If I read stream from video 
> device, how can I decode it?
> Is there also automatic decoding option available?
> 
> Bests,
> Adari

I might be wrong, but the compression should be between webcam and driver, so that /dev/video0 does 
not need to worry about that.

I would seek confirmation of that though.

Andrea



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