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06-07-2011, 10:49 AM	#1
lightfather LQ Newbie Registered: Jun 2011 Posts: 2 Rep:	v4l2 API for resolution of webcam I use webcam（zc301）to capture image， but I know that this webcam only support two kinds of resolution（320x240 and 640 x 480），if I want to retrieve another size（like 512*512） pixel image from it ， the driver will return the nearest available resolution（640 x 480）. so if I don't know what kind of resolution that webcam supported, how can I get the resolution list supported by the camera with the v4l2 API?

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