Cannot capture video using OpenCV in python in Jetson Xavier

Question

I am trying to read the camera image on Jetson Xavier (ubuntu 18). I am facing a problem. When I run the following code it gives a warning and gives a black (full) image.

[ WARN:0] global /home/nvidia/host/build_opencv/nv_opencv/modules/videoio/src/cap_gstreamer.cpp (933) open OpenCV | GStreamer warning: Cannot query video position: status=0, value=-1, duration=-1

cam=cv2.VideoCapture(0)
if cam.isOpened():
    grab,img = cam.read()
    if grab is True:
        cv2.imshow('sample image',img)
    else:
        print(f"Image not found")
else:
    print("Camera not openedd")
       

cv2.waitKey(0) # waits until a key is pressed
cv2.destroyAllWindows() # destroys the window showing image

If I use 'dev/video0' to read the image i.e.

cam=cv2.VideoCapture('dev/video0')

I get the warning and custom error message of camera not opened

[ WARN:0] global /home/nvidia/host/build_opencv/nv_opencv/modules/videoio/src/cap_gstreamer.cpp (711) open OpenCV | GStreamer warning: Error opening bin: no element "dev" [ WARN:0] global /home/nvidia/host/build_opencv/nv_opencv/modules/videoio/src/cap_gstreamer.cpp (480) isPipelinePlaying OpenCV | GStreamer warning: GStreamer: pipeline have not been created Camera not opened

Then I created gstream string and passed that to video capture as shown below. the string is as follow

gstr = 'varguscamerasrc ! video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, format=(string)NV12, framerate=(fraction)60/1 ! nvvidconv flip-method=0 ! video/x-raw, width=(int)1280, height=(int)720, format=(string)BGRx ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw, format=(string)BGR ! appsink'

cap = cv2.VideoCapture(gstr, cv2.CAP_GSTREAMER)

I get the following error

Error generated. /dvs/git/dirty/git-master_linux/multimedia/nvgstreamer/gst-nvarguscamera/gstnvarguscamerasrc.cpp, execute:645 No cameras available

(python3:15402): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: 19:08:54.835: gst_mini_object_set_qdata: assertion 'object != NULL' failed
[ WARN:0] global /home/nvidia/host/build_opencv/nv_opencv/modules/videoio/src/cap_gstreamer.cpp (933) open OpenCV | GStreamer warning: Cannot query video position: status=0, value=-1, duration=-1
Traceback (most recent call last):

I am new to jetson please guide me. Thanks

Answer 1

You can try the following code. Also make sure you have installed OpenCV from source not using pip because Jetson Nano and Xavier make some problems when you install OpenCV from pip.

import numpy as np
import cv2

cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)

while(True):
    # Capture frame-by-frame
    ret, frame = cap.read()

    # Our operations on the frame come here
    gray = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)

    # Display the resulting frame
    cv2.imshow('frame',gray)
    if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
        break

# When everything done, release the capture
cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()