VideoCapture returns empty frame in c++ but not in Python

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After successfully compiling the following code with g++ -std=c++17 -o loadcams loadcams.cpp -lopencv_videoio -lopencv_core -lopencv_highgui:

#include <opencv2/opencv.hpp>

using namespace cv;
using namespace std;

string loadcam(int sensor, int width, int height, int fps) {
return "nvcamerasrc sensor-id="+std::to_string(sensor)+" ! video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)"+std::to_string(width)+", height=(int)"+std::to_string(height)+", format=(string)I420, framerate=(fraction)"+std::to_string(fps)+"/1 ! nvvidconv flip-method=6 ! video/x-raw, format=(string)I420 ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw, format=(string)BGR ! appsink";
}

int main() {

    int WIDTH = 1920;
    int HEIGHT = 1080;
    int FPS = 60;

    string loadcam1 = loadcam(1,WIDTH,HEIGHT,FPS);

    Mat frame;
    VideoCapture cap;

    cap.open(loadcam1,CAP_GSTREAMER);

    if (!cap.isOpened()) {
        cerr << "Couldn't load cam 1\n";
        return -1;
    }

    for(;;) {
        cap >> frame;

        if (frame.empty()) {
            cerr << "ERROR! blank frame grabbed\n";
            break;
        }

        imshow("Cam 1", frame);
        if (waitKey(5) == 'q')
            break;
    }
        return 0;
}

I get an error: window.cpp:331: error: (-215) size.width>0 && size.height>0 in function imshow after executing.

However, I can display the live video with python using:

import cv2
import numpy as np
source = ("nvcamerasrc sensor-id=1 ! video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, format=(string)I420, framerate=(fraction)60/1 ! nvvidconv flip-method=6 ! video/x-raw, format=(string)I420 ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw, format=(string)BGR ! appsink")
stream=cv2.VideoCapture(source, cv2.CAP_GSTREAMER)
grabbed,frame=stream.read()
while True:
    grabbed,frame = stream.read()
    cv2.imshow('Frame',frame)
    if cv2.waitKey(1) == 27:
            break

Is there a difference between how c++ needs to load gstreamer vs. python? Thanks for any help.