How to fetch both live video frame and timestamp from ffmpeg to python on Windows

Question

Searching for an alternative as OpenCV would not provide timestamps for live camera stream (on Windows), which are required in my computer vision a

Answer 1

You can try to specify the buffer size so you're sure the whole frame fits in it :

bufsize = w*h*3 + 100 
pipe = sp.Popen(command, bufsize=bufsize, stdout = sp.PIPE, stderr = sp.PIPE)

with this set up, you can normally read on pipe.stdout for your frames and pipe.stderr for its info