Colorspace Manipulation for VideoCapture Gears¶

Source ColorSpace manipulation¶

All VidGear's Videocapture Gears (namely CamGear, ScreenGear, VideoGear) and some Streaming Gears (namely WebGear, WebGear_RTC) and Network Gears (Client's end) - provides exclusive internal support for Source Color Space manipulation.

There are two ways to alter source colorspace:

Using colorspace parameter¶

Primarily, the safest way is by colorspace (string) parameter of the respective VideoCapture API, that can be used to easily alter the colorspace of the input source, during initialization. But on the downside, colorspace parameter value CANNOT be changed/altered at runtime.

All possible values for this parameter are discussed below ➶

Using color_space global variable¶

Alternatively, a more direct approach is by using color_space (integer) global variable the respective VideoCapture API, can be used for directly changing the source colorspace at runtime. It can be used in conjunction with colorspace parameter easily.

Supported colorspace parameter values¶

All supported string values for colorspace parameter are as follows:

Usage examples¶

Using CamGear with Direct Colorspace Manipulation¶

The complete usage example can be found here ➶

Using PiGear with Direct Colorspace Manipulation¶

The complete usage example can be found here ➶

Using VideoGear with Colorspace Manipulation¶

The complete usage example can be found here ➶

Using ScreenGear with Direct Colorspace Manipulation¶

The complete usage example can be found here ➶