Recently obtained a Logitech C920 at work for working remotely, with Linux. When making an attempt to arrange a distant streaming answer, i shocked to search out that the newer ones not have H.264 encoder.

This is the official Logitech wbepage declaring the removing of this function from C920, C922 and BRIO fashions: SAY GOODBYE TO IN-CAMERA HARDWARE ENCODING

For comparability, under are the output from my “v4l2-ctl”, which exhibits the digicam having solely 2 pixel codecs: RAW (YCbCr four:2:2) and MJPEG

$ v4l2-ctl --info --list-formats
Driver Info (not utilizing libv4l2):
	Driver title   : uvcvideo
	Card sort     : HD Pro Webcam C920
	Bus data      : usb-0000:00:14.Zero-11
	Driver model: 5.Zero.21
	Capabilities  : 0x84A00001
		Video Capture
		Metadata Capture
		Streaming
		Extended Pix Format
		Device Capabilities
	Device Caps   : 0x04200001
		Video Capture
		Streaming
		Extended Pix Format
ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT
	Index       : Zero
	Type        : Video Capture
	Pixel Format: 'YUYV'
	Name        : YUYV four:2:2

	Index       : 1
	Type        : Video Capture
	Pixel Format: 'MJPG' (compressed)
	Name        : Motion-JPEG

From an previous web page (archive.org hyperlink simply in case), this was another person’s output with the C920 WebCam. It confirmed three codecs: RAW (YCbCr four:2:2), H.264 and MJPEG

 # v4l2-ctl --list-formats  
ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT
        Index       : Zero
        Type        : Video Capture
        Pixel Format: 'YUYV'
        Name        : YUV four:2:2 (YUYV)
  
        Index       : 1
        Type        : Video Capture
        Pixel Format: 'H264' (compressed)
        Name        : H.264
 
        Index       : 2
        Type        : Video Capture
        Pixel Format: 'MJPG' (compressed)
        Name        : MJPEG

With numerous pages, you see directions about specifying the pixel format to be “h264” for benefiting from its HW encoder for streaming. Those directions wouldn’t work with the newer variations of this WebCam.

TL;DR, should you’re searching for a WebCam with HW video encoder, the once-popular-model Logitech C920 (and C922) would not be an possibility. (particularly necessary for Raspberry Pis, routers, or no matter system with restricted sources for libx264)