Increase resolution of webcam viewer

I went to the Puppy Forum to find out what else needs to be fixed before the next release of Easy; however, the site is down. So instead I sifted though notes written on pieces of paper scattered around on my desk. Found an old note to myself about the webcam viewer having low resolution.

I think that I was using GUVCView, found in the Multimedia menu. This is a webcam viewer, and from memory I think resolution was stuck on 640x480. It relies on the 'v4l2loopback-dc.ko' kernel module, and the note I made at the time was that the module accepts size parameters.

So I created /etc/modprobe.d/v4l2loopback-dc.conf, with this in it:

options v4l2loopback-dc width=800 height=600

That should be good for GUVCView, but I don't know about other webcam apps.

Droidcam turns a phone into a webcam; that is also builtin to Easy, in the Multimedia menu. I think that also uses the v4l2loopback-dc module, but from memory it is able to change the resolution.

There are also other apps that have webcam capability. I don't know if they use that kernel module.   

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