How to disable Buffer in OpenCV Camera?

Question

I have this situation where I use OpenCV to detect faces in front of the camera and do some ML on those faces. The issue that I have is that once I do all the processing, an

Answer 1

I have the same problem but in C++. I didn't find proper solution in OpenCV but I found a workaround. This buffer accumulates a constant number of images, say n frames. So You can read n frames without analysis and read frame once more. That last frame will be live image from camera. Something like:

buffer_size = n;

for n+1
{
  // read frames to mat variable
}
// Do something on Mat with live image