VideoCapture read non blocking?

asked 2015-01-19 04:04:47 -0600

Jaman42
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I am programming in Python, Pygame from what I understand uses opencv for its webcam functions. There is a query_image() available that polls the camera so you can start fetching a frame only when there is a frame to fetch, for example:

pygame.init()
pygame.camera.init()
webcam = pygame.camera.Camera("/dev/video0",(320,240))
webcam.start()
if(webcam.query_image()):
    image = webcam.get_image()

When I use the following code with opencv:

cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
rval, frame = cap.read()

It waits until the frame is fetched which is for me undesirable, is there a way to poll the camera before trying to fetch to see if there is a frame available?

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not know at all python .. but i think if cap.open() first is needed ... any how normally the detection works in a separate thread ....

gfx ( 2017-07-18 16:06:21 -0600 )edit

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answered 2017-09-29 07:14:46 -0600

supra56

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updated 2017-09-29 07:15:25 -0600

Try this:

import pygame

import pygame.camera

from pygame.locals import *

pygame.init()
pygame.camera.init()

cam = pygame.camera.Camera("/dev/video0",(640,480))
cam.start()

image = cam.get_image()

pygame.image.save(image, 'image.jpg')

cam.stop()