OpenCv error can't open camera through video capture

Question

I was using my cam through opencv and suddenly after restarting I ran my code it shows below error:

[ WARN:0] global /io/opencv/modules/videoio/src/cap_v4l.c         


        

Answer 1

I got the same problem when I created more than one instance of the cv2.VideoCapture(0). So check if your code contains multiple initializations or sections which call cv2.VideoCapture(0) more than once. I was facing this problem while running the flask server in debug mode because it called cv2.VideoCapture(0) twice.

import cv2
cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
cap2 = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
while True:

    ret, frame = cap.read()
    cv2.imshow('frame',frame)
    if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
        break

cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()

Error:

python3 debugCamera.py 
[ WARN:0] global /io/opencv/modules/videoio/src/cap_v4l.cpp (887) open VIDEOIO(V4L2:/dev/video0): can't open camera by index