How to set camera FPS in OpenCV? CV_CAP_PROP_FPS is a fake - opencv

Question

How to set Camera FPS?
May be
cvSetCaptureProperty(cameraCapture, CV_CAP_PROP_FPS, 30);
?
But it's return
HIGHGUI ERROR: V4L2: Unable to get property (5) - Invalid argument
Because there is no implementation in highgui/cap_v4l.cpp
static int icvSetPropertyCAM_V4L( CvCaptureCAM_V4L* capture,
int property_id, double value ){
static int width = 0, height = 0;
int retval;
/* initialization */
retval = 0;
/* two subsequent calls setting WIDTH and HEIGHT will change
the video size */
/* the first one will return an error, though. */
switch (property_id) {
case CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH:
width = cvRound(value);
if(width !=0 && height != 0) {
retval = icvSetVideoSize( capture, width, height);
width = height = 0;
}
break;
case CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT:
height = cvRound(value);
if(width !=0 && height != 0) {
retval = icvSetVideoSize( capture, width, height);
width = height = 0;
}
break;
case CV_CAP_PROP_BRIGHTNESS:
case CV_CAP_PROP_CONTRAST:
case CV_CAP_PROP_SATURATION:
case CV_CAP_PROP_HUE:
case CV_CAP_PROP_GAIN:
case CV_CAP_PROP_EXPOSURE:
retval = icvSetControl(capture, property_id, value);
break;
default:
fprintf(stderr,
"HIGHGUI ERROR: V4L: setting property #%d is not supported\n",
property_id);
}
/* return the the status */
return retval;
}
How to solve it?

Answer 1

using the python wrappers for opencv, it worked for me to refer to the variable as:
cap = cv2.VideoCapture(1)
cap.set(cv2.cv.CV_CAP_PROP_FPS, 60)
I am using python 2.7.3 and opencv 2.4.8
The camera is the PS3 Eye

Answer 2

I don't know if that's still valid, but some time ago, something like one year and a half, I encountered that exactly problem. I contacted with a developer of OpenCV and he told me that the access and ability to change some of the properties of a capture weren't implemented yet and some other just worked for certain kinds of camera. I finally took a look to libdc1394 (working in linux) and made some functions that converted the data retrieved by libdc1394 to IplImages from OpenCV. It wasn't a such a tough task.

Answer 3

CV_CAP_PROP_FPS is a NOT a fake. See cap_libv4l.cpp(1) in OpenCV github repo. The key is to make sure, you use libv4l over v4l while configuring OpenCV. For that, before running cmake, install libv4l-dev
sudo apt-get install libv4l-dev
Now while configuring OpenCV with cmake, enable option, WITH_LIBV4L. If all goes good, in configuration status, you will see some thing similar to below
V4L/V4L2: Using libv4l1 (ver ) / libv4l2 (ver )
And then while building your OpenCV code, you will have to link with libv4l1/libv4l2/libv4lconvert.
Arbitary FPS values at the resolutions you choose, needn't be supported by your webcam. You may check supported resolutions/fps with a graphical tools like cheese or commands like lsusb (2)

Answer 4

check opencv2.4 handbook out, the video capture thing is much better than before,
->set(CV_CAP_PROP_FPS,30);works for me most of the times.
but a little bit low efficiency.
just in case you might not like the new opencv2.4 and still want to control your camera. check the videoinput lib here. it works good and using directshow features.
http://www.aishack.in/2010/03/capturing-images-with-directx/
http://www.muonics.net/school/spring05/videoInput/