Capture single picture with opencv

Question

I have seen several things about capturing frames from a webcam stream using python and opencv, But how do you capture only one picture at a specified resolution with python and

Answer 1

Use SetCaptureProperty :

import cv
capture = cv.CaptureFromCAM(0)
cv.SetCaptureProperty(capture, cv.CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT, my_height)
cv.SetCaptureProperty(capture, cv.CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH, my_width)
cv.SetCaptureProperty(capture, cv.CV_CAP_PROP_FORMAT, cv.IPL_DEPTH_32F)

img = cv.QueryFrame(capture)

Do not know how to close the camera, though.

Example of a ipython session with the above code :

In [1]: import cv

In [2]: capture = cv.CaptureFromCAM(0)

In [7]: img = cv.QueryFrame(capture)

In [8]: print img.height, img.width
480 640

In [9]: cv.SetCaptureProperty(capture, cv.CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT, 480/2)
Out[9]: 1

In [10]: cv.SetCaptureProperty(capture, cv.CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH, 640/2)
Out[10]: 1

In [11]: img = cv.QueryFrame(capture)

In [12]: print img.height, img.width
240 320