Hopefully, when you start Skype, your video changes will take. Locate the code block, and add the video capture height and width lines with the values you want in it, between the and the, like below, do not change anything else, then save the file, and restart your system. home/username/.Skype/your_skype_username/ config.xml Ubuntu (works for Linux Mint) Thread: Change resolution on skype? For other users, they may want to increase the camera's low video resolution from something too small to something bigger, like 640x480. If your camera is high resolution, like yours (1080), your multi-media chat and messenger programs might be sluggish, so changing your video resolution to a lower one, would resolve that. I have never tried this, so I do not speak from personal experience, but from information in the link below.
You did not say what applications you wanted to change the video for.Īctually, I just found instructions on how to change the Skype configuration file to alter the video size. z,-control_panel Start in control panel mode e,-exit_on_term exit app after video or image capture ends n,-photo_total=TOTAL total number of captured photos) t,-photo_timer=TIME_IN_SEC time (double) in sec. y,-video_timer=TIME_IN_SEC time (double) in sec. i,-image=FILENAME filename for captured image) j,-video=FILENAME filename for captured video) p,-profile=FILENAME load control profile g,-gui=GUI_API Select GUI API (e.g none gtk3) k,-audio_device=AUDIO_DEVICE Select audio device index for selected api (0.N) a,-audio=AUDIO_API Select audio API (e.g none port pulse)
m,-render_window=RENDER_WINDOW_FLAGS Set render window flags (e.g none full max)
r,-render=RENDER_API Select render API (e.g none sdl) f,-format=FOURCC Request format (e.g MJPG) x,-resolution=WIDTHxHEIGHT Request resolution (e.g 640x480) b,-disable_libv4l2 disable calls to libv4l2 d,-device=DEVICE Set device name (def: /dev/video0) w,-verbosity=LEVEL Set Verbosity level (def: 0)
It uses luvcview for video rendering and has a GTK+2 interface.Īlso, starting with version 0.9.9, the software can control the image in other apps like Cheese, MPlayer or Skype, via command-line only (guvcview –control_only)." "As you may know, Guvcview is a free, open-source software that provides a GTK+ interface for capturing and viewing video via the UVC driver. Guvcview 2.0.3 Is A Software For Capturing And Viewing Video Via UVC, February 8, 2016 For this camera, you can use either various widescreen (16:9), or more square, box like (4:3), resolutions. There might be ways to adjust the video for Skype as well, but I do not currently know how. where you can adjust the resolutions to your liking. Have you installed the "Video 4 Linux (V4L)" programs (v4l2ucp (control panel), qv4l2, etc.), and "ubuntu-restricted-extras", from the Software Manager or Synaptic Package Manager (SPM)? These might help.Ī lot of applications (Cheese, Guvcview, Kamerka, "Jitsi" (video & audio chat), "QTox" (video & audio chat), Linphone (SIp, audio & video chat), Ekiga (Sip, xmpp, audio & Video chat), Zoneminder, Motion, except skype?, etc.) that use a web camera, have setup options, configurations, etc.