Mastering OpenCV 4 with Python

Accessing some properties of the capture object

Finally, you can access some properties of the capture object using capture.get(property_identifier). In this case, we get some properties, such as frame width, frame height, and frames per second (fps). If we call a property that is not supported, the returned value will be 0:

# Import the required packagesimport cv2import argparse# We first create the ArgumentParser object # The created object 'parser' will have the necessary information# to parse the command-line arguments into data types.parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()# We add 'index_camera' argument using add_argument() including a help.parser.add_argument("index_camera", help="index of the camera to read from", type=int)args = parser.parse_args() ...