From 306578196bdd1f8cdea488d6d82ef7bf993f906b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oliver Dvorski Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 22:15:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Make the Mod+F11 camera window less laggy There used to be a 1s delay on my webcam feed. After a bit of googling and stumbling upon this article https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Webcam_setup I found out that mpv has a low latency profile that proved to be useful on my setup --- config.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/config.h b/config.h index fdd8766..de031da 100644 --- a/config.h +++ b/config.h @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ static Key keys[] = { { MODKEY, XK_F8, spawn, SHCMD("mw -Y") }, { MODKEY, XK_F9, spawn, SHCMD("dmenumount") }, { MODKEY, XK_F10, spawn, SHCMD("dmenuumount") }, - { MODKEY, XK_F11, spawn, SHCMD("mpv --no-cache --no-osc --no-input-default-bindings --input-conf=/dev/null --title=webcam $(ls /dev/video[0,2,4,6,8] | tail -n 1)") }, + { MODKEY, XK_F11, spawn, SHCMD("mpv --no-cache --no-osc --no-input-default-bindings --profile=low-latency --input-conf=/dev/null --title=webcam $(ls /dev/video[0,2,4,6,8] | tail -n 1)") }, /* { MODKEY, XK_F12, xrdb, {.v = NULL } }, */ { MODKEY, XK_space, zoom, {0} }, { MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_space, togglefloating, {0} },