How can i release the camera<imutils.video.webcamvideostream.WebcamVideoStream instance at 0x7f2c40e75b00>

Question

i use this code to start the camera

from imutils.video import Videostream
vs = VideoStream(0).start()

but when i try this

vs.stop()

the camera doesn't stop and the variable vs show this value :

<imutils.video.webcamvideostream.WebcamVideoStream instance at 0x7f2c40e75b00>

Answer 1

imutils actually uses cv2.VideoCapture() to initialize stream, but didn't release it in stop.

vs.stream.release() shall work.

I've created pull request in imutils github repo :) https://github.com/jrosebr1/imutils/pull/81/files