ScreenGear API References

class ScreenGear:
    """
    ScreenGear is designed exclusively for targeting rapid Screencasting Capabilities, which means it can
    grab frames from your monitor in real-time, either by defining an area on the computer screen or full-screen,
    at the expense of inconsiderable latency. ScreenGear also seamlessly support frame capturing from multiple
    monitors as well as supports multiple backends.

    ScreenGear API implements a multi-threaded wrapper around dxcam, pyscreenshot, python-mss python library,
    and also flexibly supports its internal parameter.
    """

    def __init__(
        self, monitor=None, backend=None, colorspace=None, logging=False, **options
    ):
        """
        This constructor method initializes the object state and attributes of the ScreenGear class.

        Parameters:
            monitor (int): enables `mss` backend and sets the index of the monitor screen.
            backend (str): select suitable backend for extracting frames.
            colorspace (str): selects the colorspace of the input stream.
            logging (bool): enables/disables logging.
            options (dict): provides the flexibility to easily alter backend library parameters. Such as, manually set the dimensions of capture screen area etc.
        """
        # enable logging if specified
        self.__logging = logging if isinstance(logging, bool) else False

        # print current version
        logcurr_vidgear_ver(logging=self.__logging)

        # create instances for the user-defined monitor
        self.__monitor_instance = None
        self.__backend = None

        # validate monitor instance
        assert (
            monitor is None or monitor and isinstance(monitor, (int, tuple))
        ), "[ScreenGear:ERROR] :: Invalid `monitor` value detected!"

        # initialize backend
        if backend and monitor is None:
            self.__backend = backend.lower().strip()
        else:
            # enforce `dxcam` for Windows machines if undefined (or monitor is defined)
            self.__backend = (
                "dxcam" if platform.system() == "Windows" and dxcam else None
            )

        # initiate screen dimension handler
        screen_dims = {}
        # reformat proper mss dict and assign to screen dimension handler
        screen_dims = {
            k.strip(): v
            for k, v in options.items()
            if k.strip() in ["top", "left", "width", "height"]
        }
        # check whether user-defined dimensions are provided
        if screen_dims and len(screen_dims) == 4:
            key_order = (
                ("top", "left", "width", "height")
                if self.__backend != "dxcam"
                else ("left", "top", "width", "height")
            )
            screen_dims = OrderedDict((k, screen_dims[k]) for k in key_order)
            self.__logging and logger.debug(
                "Setting Capture-Area dimensions: {}".format(json.dumps(screen_dims))
            )
        else:
            screen_dims.clear()

        # handle backends
        if self.__backend == "dxcam":
            # get target fps in case of DXcam
            self.__target_fps = options.pop("dxcam_target_fps", 0)
            if self.__target_fps and isinstance(self.__target_fps, (int, float)):
                # set values
                self.__target_fps = int(self.__target_fps)
                self.__logging and logger.debug(
                    "Setting Target FPS: {}".format(self.__target_fps)
                )
            else:
                # defaults to 0fps
                self.__target_fps = 0
            # check if platform is windows
            assert (
                platform.system() == "Windows"
            ), "`dxcam` backend is only available for Windows Machines."
            # verify monitor values if tuple
            assert (
                monitor is None
                or isinstance(monitor, int)
                or (
                    isinstance(monitor, tuple)
                    and len(monitor) == 2
                    and all(isinstance(x, int) for x in monitor)
                )
            ), "For dxcam` backend, monitor` tuple value must be format `int` or `(int, int)` only."
            # raise error(s) for critical Class imports
            import_dependency_safe("dxcam" if dxcam is None else "")
            if monitor is None:
                self.__capture_object = dxcam.create(
                    region=tuple(screen_dims.values()) if screen_dims else None
                )
            else:
                self.__capture_object = (
                    dxcam.create(
                        device_idx=monitor[0],
                        output_idx=monitor[1],
                        region=tuple(screen_dims.values()) if screen_dims else None,
                    )
                    if isinstance(monitor, tuple)
                    else dxcam.create(
                        device_idx=monitor,
                        region=tuple(screen_dims.values()) if screen_dims else None,
                    )
                )
        else:
            if monitor is None:
                # raise error(s) for critical Class imports
                import_dependency_safe("pyscreenshot" if pysct is None else "")
                # reset backend if not provided
                self.__backend = "pil" if self.__backend is None else self.__backend
                # check if valid backend
                assert (
                    self.__backend in pysct.backends()
                ), "Unsupported backend {} provided!".format(backend)
                # create capture object
                self.__capture_object = pysct
            else:
                # monitor value must be integer
                assert monitor and isinstance(
                    monitor, int
                ), "[ScreenGear:ERROR] :: Invalid `monitor` value must be integer with mss backend."
                # raise error(s) for critical Class imports
                import_dependency_safe(
                    "from mss import mss" if mss is None else "", pkg_name="mss"
                )
                # create capture object
                self.__capture_object = mss()
                self.__backend and logger.warning(
                    "Backends are disabled for Monitor Indexing(monitor>=0)!"
                )
                self.__monitor_instance = self.__capture_object.monitors[monitor]

        # log backend
        self.__backend and self.__logging and logger.debug(
            "Setting Backend: {}".format(self.__backend.upper())
        )

        # assigns special parameter to global variable and clear
        # separately handle colorspace value to int conversion
        if colorspace:
            self.color_space = capPropId(colorspace.strip())
            self.__logging and not (self.color_space is None) and logger.debug(
                "Enabling `{}` colorspace for this video stream!".format(
                    colorspace.strip()
                )
            )
        else:
            self.color_space = None

        # initialize mss capture instance
        self.__mss_capture_instance = None
        try:
            if self.__backend == "dxcam":
                # extract global frame from instance
                self.frame = self.__capture_object.grab()
            else:
                if self.__monitor_instance is None:
                    if screen_dims:
                        self.__mss_capture_instance = tuple(screen_dims.values())
                    # extract global frame from instance
                    self.frame = np.asanyarray(
                        self.__capture_object.grab(
                            bbox=self.__mss_capture_instance,
                            childprocess=False,
                            backend=self.__backend,
                        )
                    )
                else:
                    if screen_dims:
                        self.__mss_capture_instance = {
                            "top": self.__monitor_instance["top"] + screen_dims["top"],
                            "left": self.__monitor_instance["left"]
                            + screen_dims["left"],
                            "width": screen_dims["width"],
                            "height": screen_dims["height"],
                            "mon": monitor,
                        }
                    else:
                        self.__mss_capture_instance = (
                            self.__monitor_instance  # otherwise create instance from monitor
                        )
                    # extract global frame from instance
                    self.frame = np.asanyarray(
                        self.__capture_object.grab(self.__mss_capture_instance)
                    )
            # convert to bgr frame if applicable
            self.frame = (
                self.frame[:, :, ::-1]
                if self.__backend == "dxcam" or not (pysct is None)
                else self.frame
            )
            # render colorspace if defined
            if not (self.frame is None) and not (self.color_space is None):
                self.frame = cv2.cvtColor(self.frame, self.color_space)
        except Exception as e:
            if isinstance(e, ScreenShotError):
                # otherwise catch and log errors
                self.__logging and logger.exception(
                    self.__capture_object.get_error_details()
                )
                raise ValueError(
                    "[ScreenGear:ERROR] :: ScreenShotError caught, Wrong dimensions passed to python-mss, Kindly Refer Docs!"
                )
            else:
                raise SystemError(
                    "[ScreenGear:ERROR] :: Unable to grab any instance on this system, Are you running headless?"
                )
        # thread initialization
        self.__thread = None
        # initialize termination flag
        self.__terminate = Event()

    def start(self):
        """
        Launches the internal *Threaded Frames Extractor* daemon

        **Returns:** A reference to the ScreenGear class object.
        """
        self.__thread = Thread(target=self.__update, name="ScreenGear", args=())
        self.__thread.daemon = True
        self.__thread.start()
        if self.__backend == "dxcam":
            self.__capture_object.start(
                target_fps=self.__target_fps,
                video_mode=True,
            )
            self.__logging and self.__target_fps and logger.debug(
                "Targeting FPS: {}".format(self.__target_fps)
            )
        return self

    def __update(self):
        """
        A **Threaded Frames Extractor**, that keep iterating frames from `mss` API to a internal monitored deque,
        until the thread is terminated, or frames runs out.
        """
        # initialize frame variable
        frame = None
        # keep looping infinitely until the thread is terminated
        while not self.__terminate.is_set():
            try:
                if self.__backend == "dxcam":
                    # extract global frame from instance
                    frame = self.__capture_object.get_latest_frame()
                else:
                    if self.__monitor_instance:
                        frame = np.asanyarray(
                            self.__capture_object.grab(self.__mss_capture_instance)
                        )
                    else:
                        frame = np.asanyarray(
                            self.__capture_object.grab(
                                bbox=self.__mss_capture_instance,
                                childprocess=False,
                                backend=self.__backend,
                            )
                        )
                # check if valid frame
                assert not (
                    frame is None or np.shape(frame) == ()
                ), "[ScreenGear:ERROR] :: Failed to retrieve valid frame!"
                # convert to bgr frame if applicable
                frame = (
                    frame[:, :, ::-1]
                    if self.__backend == "dxcam" or not (pysct is None)
                    else frame
                )
            except Exception as e:
                if isinstance(e, ScreenShotError):
                    raise RuntimeError(self.__capture_object.get_error_details())
                else:
                    logger.exception(str(e))
                self.__terminate.set()
                continue

            if not (self.color_space is None):
                # apply colorspace to frames
                color_frame = None
                try:
                    color_frame = cv2.cvtColor(frame, self.color_space)
                except Exception as e:
                    # Catch if any error occurred
                    color_frame = None
                    self.color_space = None
                    self.__logging and logger.exception(str(e))
                    logger.warning("Assigned colorspace value is invalid. Discarding!")
                self.frame = color_frame if not (color_frame is None) else frame
            else:
                self.frame = frame

        # indicate immediate termination
        self.__terminate.set()

        # finally release mss resources
        if self.__monitor_instance:
            self.__capture_object.close()
        if self.__backend == "dxcam":
            self.__capture_object.stop()
            del self.__capture_object

    def read(self):
        """
        Extracts frames synchronously from monitored deque, while maintaining a fixed-length frame buffer in the memory,
        and blocks the thread if the deque is full.

        **Returns:** A n-dimensional numpy array.
        """
        # return the frame
        return self.frame

    def stop(self):
        """
        Safely terminates the thread, and release the resources.
        """
        self.__logging and logger.debug("Terminating ScreenGear Processes.")

        # indicate that the thread should be terminate
        self.__terminate.set()

        # wait until stream resources are released (producer thread might be still grabbing frame)
        not (self.__thread is None) and self.__thread.join()