How to process images of a video, frame by frame, in video streaming using OpenCV and Python

Question

I am a beginner in OpenCV. I want to do some image processing on the frames of a video which is being uploaded to my server. I just want to read the available frames and wri

Answer 1

The only solution I have found is not to set the index to a previous frame and wait (then OpenCV stops reading frames, anyway), but to initialize the capture one more time. So, it looks like this:

cap = cv2.VideoCapture(camera_url)
while True:
    ret, frame = cap.read()

    if not ret:
        cap = cv.VideoCapture(camera_url)
        continue

    # do your processing here

And it works perfectly!