Python OpenCV access webcam maximum resolution

Question

I am trying to acquire images from my webcam using a python code that imports OpenCV. The code is the following:

import sys
sys.path.append(\"C:\\\\opencv\\         


        

Answer 1

For cv2 just change to this.

    cap.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH, 800)
    cap.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT, 600)