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Logitech webcams
Basic Information
Release Year	2012
Product Type	Cameras
In Production	Yes
Official Website	https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/webcams/c930e-business-webcam.960-000971.html

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Revision as of 10:48, 6 February 2026

I just bought C930e. To my surprise unlike my old c920 it does not have h264 hardware encoding. Using mjpeg makes video more noisy. In the internet people are reporting that at some point logitech removed this feature from their products. So basically new C9XX can be different product than old C9XX.

Consumer-impact summary

Feature removal
False advertising

H264 encoding feature removed at some point. MJPEG has a lower quality and lots of noise. Uncompressed stream does not handle 30fps in 1920x1080.

The model numbers were not changed to reflect degradation.

The website still claims it has this capability.

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/webcams/c920e-business-webcam.960-001401.html?sp=1&searchclick=Logitech#specs

File:Screenshot 2026-02-06 at 11-37-42 Logitech C920e Business Webcam - Full HD 1080p.png

The only article from logitech was removed:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220219224240/https://www.logitech.com/en-us/video-collaboration/resources/think-tank/articles/article-logitech-and-h264-encoding.html

Testing

# To display all codecs:
v4l2-ctl --info --list-formats -d /dev/video2

...
	Type: Video Capture
	[0]: 'YUYV' (YUYV 4:2:2)
	[1]: 'MJPG' (Motion-JPEG, compressed)

# To display all resolutions/fps:
v4l2-ctl --info --list-formats-ext -d /dev/video2

References

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+}}I just bought C930e. To my surprise unlike my old c920 it does not have h264 hardware encoding. Using mjpeg makes video more noisy. In the internet people are reporting that at some point logitech removed this feature from their products. So basically new C9XX can be different product than old C9XX.
-{{Ph-C-Int}}
 ==Consumer-impact summary==
-{{Ph-C-CIS}}
-==Incidents==
+* Feature removal
-{{Ph-C-Inc}}
+* False advertising
-This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents related to this product. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{PAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]].
-===Example incident one (''date'')===
-{{Main|link to the main CR Wiki article}}
-Short summary of the incident (could be the same as the summary preceding the article).
-===Example incident two (''date'')===
-...
+H264 encoding feature removed at some point. MJPEG has a lower quality and lots of noise. Uncompressed stream does not handle 30fps in 1920x1080.
+The model numbers were not changed to reflect degradation.
+The website still claims it has this capability.
+https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/webcams/c920e-business-webcam.960-001401.html?sp=1&searchclick=Logitech#specs
+[[File:Screenshot 2026-02-06 at 11-37-42 Logitech C920e Business Webcam - Full HD 1080p.png|thumb]]
+The only article from logitech was removed:
+https://web.archive.org/web/20220219224240/https://www.logitech.com/en-us/video-collaboration/resources/think-tank/articles/article-logitech-and-h264-encoding.html
+== Testing ==
+ # To display all codecs:
+ v4l2-ctl --info --list-formats -d /dev/video2
+ ...
+ 	Type: Video Capture
+ 	[0]: 'YUYV' (YUYV 4:2:2)
+ 	[1]: 'MJPG' (Motion-JPEG, compressed)
+ # To display all resolutions/fps:
+ v4l2-ctl --info --list-formats-ext -d /dev/video2
 ==See also==
-{{Ph-C-SA}}
+<nowiki>https://en.everybodywiki.com/List_of_cameras_with_onboard_video_compression</nowiki>
+<nowiki>https://askubuntu.com/questions/1229986/wrong-webcam-driver</nowiki>
+<nowiki>https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/f2icry/psa_logitech_has_removed_hardware_h264_encoder/</nowiki>
+<nowiki>https://www.reddit.com/r/logitech/comments/14cmrbt/difference_between_three_revisions_of_c920_webcam/</nowiki>
+Article by Logitech is now removed from their website:
+<nowiki>https://web.archive.org/web/20220219224240/https://www.logitech.com/en-us/video-collaboration/resources/think-tank/articles/article-logitech-and-h264-encoding.html</nowiki>
+<nowiki>https://support.logi.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360036050333-Why-don-t-we-use-H-264</nowiki>
 ==References==