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Camera owner asks Canon, skies: Why is it $5/month for webcam software? (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess it depends on the app, but I just checked and both Skype and Teams show me the capture card as input source, and the preview picture looks fine. So I'm pretty sure it works in an actual call, though I haven't tried it yet.

Both apps heavily compress the video signal though, even if you set the quality to 1080p, so I doubt it makes a huge difference compared to a regular webcam.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The advantage of a camera is the lens, not the resolution

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For a video call, I'm not sure that really matters a whole lot, but I guess that depends on the use case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It's easier to market based on hard numbers like resolution, so people are used to big res number = more better, but if that high res sensor is capturing a crap image, you're going to get a crap image. Garbage in, garbage out.