Skip to main content

Simple, libv4l2 based frame grabber

Project description

A simple, libv4l2-based frames capture library.

Installation

Libv4l2

Libv4l2 is packaged by various distributions:

Debian and Ubuntu

# apt-get install libv4l-dev

Fedora

# dnf install libv4l-devel

Arch Linux

# pacman -S v4l-utils

PyV4L2

To install PyV4L2Camera make sure you have Cython installed and type:

$ pip install PyV4L2Camera

PyV4L2Camera is only compatible with Python 3.

Usage

from PyV4L2Camera.camera import Camera

camera = Camera('/dev/video0')
frame = camera.get_frame()

The returned frame is of bytes type and contains pixels packed using RGB24 format. To learn more see V4L2_PIX_FMT_RGB24 description.

Example of frames to numpy arrays conversion can be found in the examples directory.

Contributions

Contributions are always welcome!

Authors

Dominik Pieczyński and contributors.

Project details


Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

PyV4L2Camera-0.1a2.tar.gz (63.4 kB view hashes)

Uploaded Source

Built Distributions

PyV4L2Camera-0.1a2.linux-x86_64.tar.gz (186.4 kB view hashes)

Uploaded Source

PyV4L2Camera-0.1a2-py3.5-linux-x86_64.egg (190.3 kB view hashes)

Uploaded Source

Supported by

AWS AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Datadog Monitoring Fastly Fastly CDN Google Google Download Analytics Microsoft Microsoft PSF Sponsor Pingdom Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Sentry Error logging StatusPage StatusPage Status page