I am trying to reduce the frame/window size of my video capture to 320x180
but I can't seem to do it. I am using a Windows Kinect for Xbox One and its connected to my pc using an adapter.
I have tried setting the cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH
to 320 and cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT
to 180 but once I try and get the values it returns 1920 and 1080. I have also tried installing and reinstalling the Kinect SDK and drivers.
import cv2
import numpy as np
vid = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
vid.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH, 320)
vid.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT, 180)
vid.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FPS, 25)
print(vid.get(cv2.CAP_PROP_FPS))
print(vid.get(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH))
while True:
ret, frame = vid.read()
gray = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
# Display the resulting frame
cv2.imshow('frame', gray)
if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
break
vid.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
I would like help in knowing where the problem stems from and hopefully get a fix.
The idea is to resize the frame without having to worry about setting the default frame size. Instead of using cv2.VideoCapture().set()
, you can use cv2.resize()
to resize the original 1920x1080
frame into 320x180
. But this method does not maintain aspect ratio. If you wanted to maintain aspect ratio, you can use the imutils
library. The imutils.resize()
function resizes the frame and maintains aspect ratio. Change the width
parameter to your desired resolution
import cv2
import imutils
cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
while(cap.isOpened()):
ret, frame = cap.read()
frame = imutils.resize(frame, width=320)
gray = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
cv2.imshow('frame', gray)
if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
break
cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()