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HELP FOR VIDEOIO Error

asked 2019-12-06 04:49:26 -0600

Cyborg
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Guys I'm using ubuntu in windows subsytem for linux, I am now working on image processing with opencv and python, The image detection and face recognition goes well for a file , but when comes to live interface with my externally connected webcam it shows an error: VIDEOIO ERROR: V4L: can't open camera by index 0 Please help me to solve this within this subsytem

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Try cap = cv2.VideoCapture(1) instead of zeros.

supra56 ( 2019-12-07 09:36:45 -0600 )edit

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answered 2019-12-06 06:59:34 -0600

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Apparently, WSL can't access camera and OpenCV can't do anything about it.

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