Efficient Camera Stream With Python

Let’s talk about using webcams with Python. I had a simple task of reading frames from the camera and running a neural net on each frame. With one specific webcam, I was having issues with setting up targeted fps (as I now understand — because the camera could run 30 fps with mjpeg format, but not raw), so I decided to dig into FFmpeg to see if it helps.

I ended up getting both …

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