Access webcam using OpenCV (Python) in Docker?

Question

I\'m trying to use Docker for one of our projects which uses OpenCV to process webcam feed (Python). But I can\'t seem to get access to the webcam within docker, here\'s the cod

Answer 1

Try to use this:

-v /dev/video0:/dev/video0

in place of

--device=/dev/video0 

and execute:

$ xhost + 

before docker run

Answer 2

The Dockerfile in the link you provided doesn't specify how opencv was installed, can you provide the Dockerfile you used? Or how you installed opencv?

VideoCapture(0) won't work if you install opencv via pip.

You're using --device=/dev/video0:/dev/video0 correctly.