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pythonwindowsopencvcameravideo-capture
offchan
offchan

Reputation: 4187

How to read OpenCV camera by name/ID instead of device index?

In python you can do

import cv2
cap = cv2.VideoCapture(index)

to open a webcam at index where index is a number ranging from 0,1,2,3...

But if I have multiple cameras and the order is arbitrary, my camera accessing code will be unreliable.

Is there a way to open a specific camera with a name or ID using OpenCV on Windows 10? How to do it?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4078

Answers (2)

offchan
offchan

Reputation: 4187

I used this library and it seems to work: https://github.com/pvys/CV-camera-finder

Might be interesting to check this too: https://github.com/econsystems/opencv

Upvotes: 1

karthikramx
karthikramx

Reputation: 1

You can start looking at udev rules for linux and the look the windows equivalent for the same.

udev rules lets you configure usb devices, as soon as they are connected to the port, using unique attributes stored on the device such as vendor ID, serial number, product ID etc.

Upvotes: 0

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