This code opens /dev/video0
and takes a single picture, closing the device afterwards:
import cv2 video_capture = cv2.VideoCapture(0) # Check success if not video_capture.isOpened(): raise Exception("Could not open video device") # Read picture. ret === True on success ret, frame = video_capture.read() # Close device video_capture.release()
You can also use cv2.VideoCapture("/dev/video0")
, but this approach is platform-dependent. cv2.VideoCapture(0)
will also open the first video device on non-Linux platforms.
In Jupyter you can display the picture using
import sys from matplotlib import pyplot as plt frameRGB = frame[:,:,::-1] # BGR => RGB plt.imshow(frameRGB)