How to set camera FPS in OpenCV? CV_CAP_PROP_FPS is a fake

Question

How to set Camera FPS?

May be cvSetCaptureProperty(cameraCapture, CV_CAP_PROP_FPS, 30); ?

But it\'s return HIGHGUI ERROR: V4L2: Unable to get property (5) -

Answer 1

using the python wrappers for opencv, it worked for me to refer to the variable as:

cap = cv2.VideoCapture(1)
cap.set(cv2.cv.CV_CAP_PROP_FPS, 60)

I am using python 2.7.3 and opencv 2.4.8

The camera is the PS3 Eye