> I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts on fixing this! Not sure if this is a solution for you (unless you want to faff with creating some minimal Python bindings) but I hacked at the OpenBSD /usr/X11R6/bin/video source code to create a quick standalone C API to be used as a library.
Yes, it is probably not so portable as OpenCV but it is much lighter in terms of dependencies. openbsd_cam.h [https://pastebin.com/1rDpFMR4] openbsd_cam.c [https://pastebin.com/kuv3KhCX] (Original program: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/xenocara/app/video/video.c) I also chucked in some decoding so it basically provides you now with an array of bytes referring to RGB pixels. Best regards, Karsten
