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Reduce Stream Resolution #36

@Benjamin-Riedi

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@Benjamin-Riedi

On my Laptop, running Ubuntu 20.04, i only get 18.75 fps (1). However, the images streamed have resolution 3280x2464 (2)(ONLY OPTION!) which I have to downscale each frame. This significantly lowers fps to around 10 fps. While that is specific to my application even 18.75 is a significant dip compared to 25 fps.

I haven't found a way to set the camera resolution to desired values (eg 640x480)
cap.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH, target_width) returns true (3) but when checking the actual resolution it's still 3280x2464 (On linux as well as Windows)

Is this intended behaviour? If not, is there a way to configure the camera?

(1)

$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 --stream-mmap --stream-count=200 --stream-to=/dev/null

-> 18.75 fps

(2)

$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 --list-formats-ext

->  ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT
	Type: Video Capture
	[0]: 'MJPG' (Motion-JPEG, compressed)
		Size: Discrete 3280x2464
			Interval: Discrete 0.040s (25.000 fps)

(3)

Requested resolution set: 640x480, width_ok=True, height_ok=True
Requested resolution: 640x480, Actual: 3280x2464

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