Support (H.264 streams on) modern webcams (with UVC 1.5)

Bug #1681330 reported by Kẏra
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Fedora
Confirmed
Undecided
Ubuntu
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Description of problem:

Modern webcams such as the Logitech 960 Brio or Logitech c930e support hardware encoding and provide H.264 streams, but they are not detected. Using v4l2 to list available formats will only show YUV and MJPEG. For the 960 Brio, full resolution is not even supported. This is a huge performance hindrance.

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Plug in camera
2. v4l2-ctl --list-formats
3. see results

Actual results:

Only YUV and MJPEG streams available, no H.264.

Expected results:

H.264 stream available.

Additional info:

https://community.logitech.com/s/search/All/Home/linux%20uvc

Changed in fedora:
importance: Unknown → Undecided
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ubuntu:
status: New → Confirmed
madbiologist (me-again)
tags: added: bionic
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