Comment 18 for bug 93417

My skype finally gets tested and it works. (Cannot think why it shouldn't :) )

Regarding the inclusion of the patch, I don't know how to put it, but
it seems the way gspca handle the size of video has its own reason, it
tries to provide a full range of dimensions from SCIF to VGA with
every possible size in between, but usually webcams support only
limited number of sizes natively, so gspca will crop the image from
the next available (bigger) native size if the current one is not
supported by the camera.

Luc's patch simply disabled all the sizes which are not natively
supported, which I am ok with. However, I feel a compromised solution
would be to still provide the full range of picture sizes like what it
does now (cause this way makes sure the interfaces across different
cameras are unified), while give the applications that use this driver
hints whether the size they are asking for is a cropped version or a
native one. (Maybe it already has such a feature just I don't know)

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:13 PM, mister_pink <email address hidden> wrote:
> I just tested. I compiled the patch with gspca-01.00.20 from debian sid
> and it's fixed the issue as far as I can tell, although I have only
> tested with mplayer so far not skype or anything else. It probably will
> work with the source from hardy, I was doing it wrong at first I think,
> so I downloaded the newer source.
>
> Any chance of getting this included then?
>
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> Image scaling bug in gspca kernel module.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/93417
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