Comment Re:Compressing video from the camera was bad (Score 1) 118
In practice, no one used the H.264 stream from the camera. Everyone uses the JPEG output. The H.264 stream was embedded in a weird format inside the JPEG comments... This was a spec created by Logitech+Microsoft+Skype, and as far as I know, only the old version of Skype and GStreamer could ever use it. And since the old Skype has been replaced, no one is actually using those! So they only used the JPEG content, which is more than good enough. The H.264 was never about the USB bandwidth, it was always about PCs of the era not being able to do H.264 encoding in real time.