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I have been trying to create a tkinter top level window that streams video form webcam and do a QR scan. I got this QR scan code from SO and another code that just updates images from webcam instead of streaming the video on a tkinter label.
and i tried to combine these both so that a toplevel window with a label updating image from webcam and a close button to close the toplevel window. And while it streams the images, it can scan for QR code and if a scan is successful, the webcam and the toplevel window gets closed.
here is what i tried.
import cv2
import cv2.cv as cv
import numpy
import zbar
import time
import threading
import Tkinter
from PIL import Image, ImageTk
class BarCodeScanner(threading.Thread, Tkinter.Toplevel):
def __init__(self):
# i made this as a global variable so i can access this image
# outside ie,. beyond the thread to update the image on to the tkinter window
global imgtk
imgtk = None
threading.Thread.__init__(self)
self.WINDOW_NAME = 'Camera'
self.CV_SYSTEM_CACHE_CNT = 5 # Cv has 5-frame cache
self.LOOP_INTERVAL_TIME = 0.2
cv.NamedWindow(self.WINDOW_NAME, cv.CV_WINDOW_NORMAL)
self.cam = cv2.VideoCapture(-1)
self.confirm = 0
def scan(self, aframe):
imgray = cv2.cvtColor(aframe, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
# to show coloured image, as from the other code mentioned in the other code
imgcol = cv2.cvtColor(aframe, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGBA)
imgcol_array = Image.fromarray(imgcol)
imgtk = ImageTk.PhotoImage(image=imgcol_array)
raw = str(imgray.data)
scanner = zbar.ImageScanner()
scanner.parse_config('enable')
width = int(self.cam.get(cv.CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH))
height = int(self.cam.get(cv.CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT))
imageZbar = zbar.Image(width, height,'Y800', raw)
scanner.scan(imageZbar)
for symbol in imageZbar:
print 'decoded', symbol.type, 'symbol', '"%s"' % symbol.data
return symbol.data
def run(self):
self.datalst = []
print 'BarCodeScanner run', time.time()
while True:
for i in range(0,self.CV_SYSTEM_CACHE_CNT):
self.cam.read()
img = self.cam.read()
self.data = self.scan(img[1])
cv2.imshow(self.WINDOW_NAME, img[1])
cv.WaitKey(1)
time.sleep(self.LOOP_INTERVAL_TIME)
if self.data:
self.datalst.append(self.data)
# i have added this section so that it waits for scan
# if a scan is made it and if gets same value after 2 scans
# it has to stop webcam
if len(self.datalst) == 2 and len(set(self.datalst)) <= 1:
# I want to close the webcam before closing the toplevel window
#self.cam.release()
#cv2.destroyAllWindows()
break
self.cam.release()
def Video_Window():
video_window = Tkinter.Toplevel()
video_window.title('QR Scan !!')
img_label = Tkinter.Label(video_window)
img_label.pack(side=Tkinter.TOP)
close_button = Tkinter.Button(video_window, text='close', command = video_window.destroy)
close_button.pack(side=Tkinter.TOP)
def update_frame():
global imgtk
img_label.configure(image=imgtk)
img_label.after(10,update_frame)
update_frame()
def main():
root = Tkinter.Tk()
button_scanQr = Tkinter.Button(root, text='QR Scan', command=start_scan)
button_scanQr.pack()
root.mainloop()
def start_scan():
scanner = BarCodeScanner()
scanner.start()
Video_Window()
#scanner.join()
main()
Problem is,
self.cam.release() or cv2.destroyAllWindows() my webcams lights or on even if i forcefully terminate the programs compilation).Now what i get is a separate window created by OpenCV that streams video inside. But i don’t want that window, instead i want the video to be displayed on the tkinter's toplevel window. also when there is a sucessfull read, the webcam stucks at the final image it reads.
i tried to remove the line that was responsible for OpenCV window, inside the run method of BarcodeScanner class
cv2.imshow(self.WINDOW_NAME, img[1])
it still showed up with a different window with no output, and if i try to close that window, it created another one similar and recursively.
UPDATE:
As i noticed i made some silly mistakes without understanding of some lines in cv2, i made some change on the code by adding the toplevel window code into the run method of the class(im not sure if this is a right way).
import cv2
import cv2.cv as cv
import numpy
import zbar
import time
import threading
import Tkinter
from multiprocessing import Process, Queue
from Queue import Empty
from PIL import Image, ImageTk
class BarCodeScanner(threading.Thread, Tkinter.Toplevel):
def __init__(self):
threading.Thread.__init__(self)
#self.WINDOW_NAME = 'Camera'
self.CV_SYSTEM_CACHE_CNT = 5 # Cv has 5-frame cache
self.LOOP_INTERVAL_TIME = 0.2
#cv.NamedWindow(self.WINDOW_NAME, cv.CV_WINDOW_NORMAL)
self.cam = cv2.VideoCapture(-1)
# check if webcam device is free
self.proceede = self.cam.isOpened()
if not self.proceede:
return
self.confirm = 0
def scan(self, aframe):
imgray = cv2.cvtColor(aframe, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
raw = str(imgray.data)
scanner = zbar.ImageScanner()
scanner.parse_config('enable')
width = int(self.cam.get(cv.CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH))
height = int(self.cam.get(cv.CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT))
imageZbar = zbar.Image(width, height,'Y800', raw)
scanner.scan(imageZbar)
for symbol in imageZbar:
print 'decoded', symbol.type, 'symbol', '"%s"' % symbol.data
return symbol.data
def run(self):
if not self.proceede:
return
def show_frame():
_, img = self.cam.read()
img = cv2.flip(img,1)
cv2image = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGBA)
img = Image.fromarray(cv2image)
imgtk = ImageTk.PhotoImage(image=img)
img_label.imgtk = imgtk
img_label.configure(image=imgtk)
video_window.after(250, show_frame)
def destroy_video_window():
self.cam.release()
video_window.destroy()
# Toplevel GUI
video_window = Tkinter.Toplevel()
video_window.title('QR Scan !!')
img_label = Tkinter.Label(video_window)
img_label.pack(side=Tkinter.TOP)
close_button = Tkinter.Button(video_window, text='close', command = destroy_video_window)
close_button.pack(side=Tkinter.RIGHT)
show_frame()
self.datalst = []
print 'BarCodeScanner run', time.time()
while True:
for i in range(0,self.CV_SYSTEM_CACHE_CNT):
self.cam.read()
img = self.cam.read()
self.data = self.scan(img[1])
time.sleep(self.LOOP_INTERVAL_TIME)
if self.data:
self.datalst.append(self.data)
if len(self.datalst) == 2 and len(set(self.datalst)) <= 1:
video_window.destroy()
break
self.cam.release()
def main():
root = Tkinter.Tk()
button_scanQr = Tkinter.Button(root, text='QR Scan', command=scaner)
button_scanQr.pack()
root.mainloop()
def scaner():
scanner = BarCodeScanner()
scanner.start()
main()
now, I can get the image on the Toplevel window, But i dont know how to close the webcam.
condition 1: when i show a QR code to scan, it reads it successfully and webcam quits without any error.
condition 2: when i click the close button on the toplevel window(say if user doesn't want to do any scan and just want to close the webcam) i get error saying
libv4l2: error dequeuing buf: Invalid argument
VIDIOC_DQBUF: Invalid argument
select: Bad file descriptor
VIDIOC_DQBUF: Bad file descriptor
select: Bad file descriptor
VIDIOC_DQBUF: Bad file descriptor
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
I am writing this application for Linux, Mac and Windows machine. How can i close or terminate the webcam safely.
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Your program has two threads, the main thread and the worker thread that reads frames from the camera. When the close button is clicked, it happens in the main thread. After self.cam.release() the object self.cam is probably in an unusable state, and when a method of self.cam is called by the worker thread, there may be some trouble. Maybe the implementation of cv2.VideoCapture is faulty and it should throw some exception when that happens.
Accessing tkinter widgets from other thread than the main thread may also cause problems.
For clean program termination, creating an instance of threading.Event and then checking for event.is_set() at some point in the work thread could work. For example
def destroy_video_window():
self.stop_event.set()
video_window.destroy()
and then in the worker thread
while True:
if self.stop_event.is_set():
break
for i in range(0, self.CV_SYSTEM_CACHE_CNT):
self.cam.read()
There are several things that could be done in other way, the following is a modified version of the code. It avoids calling tkinter methods from other thread than the main thread, event_generate() being the only tkinter method called by the worker thread. Explicit polling is avoided by emitting virtual events, for example <<ScannerQuit>>, that are placed in the tkinter event queue.
import cv2
import cv2.cv as cv
import zbar
import time
import threading
import Tkinter as tk
from PIL import Image, ImageTk
class Scanner(object):
def __init__(self, handler, *args, **kw):
self.thread = threading.Thread(target=self.run)
self.handler = handler
self.CV_SYSTEM_CACHE_CNT = 5 # Cv has 5-frame cache
self.LOOP_INTERVAL_TIME = 0.2
self.cam = cv2.VideoCapture(-1)
self.scanner = zbar.ImageScanner()
self.scanner.parse_config('enable')
self.cam_width = int(self.cam.get(cv.CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH))
self.cam_height = int(self.cam.get(cv.CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT))
self.last_symbol = None
def start(self):
self.thread.start()
def scan(self, aframe):
imgray = cv2.cvtColor(aframe, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
raw = str(imgray.data)
image_zbar = zbar.Image(self.cam_width, self.cam_height, 'Y800', raw)
self.scanner.scan(image_zbar)
for symbol in image_zbar:
return symbol.data
def run(self):
print 'starting scanner'
while True:
if self.handler.need_stop():
break
# explanation for this in
# http://stackoverflow.com/a/35283646/5781248
for i in range(0, self.CV_SYSTEM_CACHE_CNT):
self.cam.read()
img = self.cam.read()
self.handler.send_frame(img)
self.data = self.scan(img[1])
if self.handler.need_stop():
break
if self.data is not None and (self.last_symbol is None
or self.last_symbol <> self.data):
# print 'decoded', symbol.type, 'symbol', '"%s"' % symbol.data
self.handler.send_symbol(self.data)
self.last_symbol = self.data
time.sleep(self.LOOP_INTERVAL_TIME)
self.cam.release()
class ScanWindow(tk.Toplevel):
def __init__(self, parent, gui, *args, **kw):
tk.Toplevel.__init__(self, master=parent, *args, **kw)
self.parent = parent
self.gui = gui
self.scanner = None
self.lock = threading.Lock()
self.stop_event = threading.Event()
self.img_label = tk.Label(self)
self.img_label.pack(side=tk.TOP)
self.close_button = tk.Button(self, text='close', command=self._stop)
self.close_button.pack()
self.bind('<Escape>', self._stop)
parent.bind('<<ScannerFrame>>', self.on_frame)
parent.bind('<<ScannerEnd>>', self.quit)
parent.bind('<<ScannerSymbol>>', self.on_symbol)
def start(self):
self.frames = []
self.symbols = []
class Handler(object):
def need_stop(self_):
return self.stop_event.is_set()
def send_frame(self_, frame):
self.lock.acquire(True)
self.frames.append(frame)
self.lock.release()
self.parent.event_generate('<<ScannerFrame>>', when='tail')
def send_symbol(self_, data):
self.lock.acquire(True)
self.symbols.append(data)
self.lock.release()
self.parent.event_generate('<<ScannerSymbol>>', when='tail')
self.stop_event.clear()
self.scanner = Scanner(Handler())
self.scanner.start()
self.deiconify()
def _stop(self, *args):
self.gui.stop()
def stop(self):
if self.scanner is None:
return
self.stop_event.set()
self.frames = []
self.symbols = []
self.scanner = None
self.iconify()
def quit(self, *args):
self.parent.event_generate('<<ScannerQuit>>', when='tail')
def on_symbol(self, *args):
self.lock.acquire(True)
symbol_data = self.symbols.pop(0)
self.lock.release()
print 'symbol', '"%s"' % symbol_data
self.after(500, self.quit)
def on_frame(self, *args):
self.lock.acquire(True)
frame = self.frames.pop(0)
self.lock.release()
_, img = frame
img = cv2.flip(img, 1)
cv2image = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGBA)
img = Image.fromarray(cv2image)
imgtk = ImageTk.PhotoImage(image=img)
self.img_label.imgtk = imgtk
self.img_label.configure(image=imgtk)
class GUI(object):
def __init__(self, root):
self.root = root
self.scan_window = ScanWindow(self.root, self)
self.scan_window.iconify()
self.root.title('QR Scan !!')
self.lframe = tk.Frame(self.root)
self.lframe.pack(side=tk.TOP)
self.start_button = tk.Button(self.lframe, text='start', command=self.start)
self.start_button.pack(side=tk.LEFT)
self.stop_button = tk.Button(self.lframe, text='stop', command=self.stop)
self.stop_button.configure(state='disabled')
self.stop_button.pack(side=tk.LEFT)
self.close_button = tk.Button(self.root, text='close', command=self.quit)
self.close_button.pack(side=tk.TOP)
self.root.bind('<<ScannerQuit>>', self.stop)
self.root.bind('<Control-s>', self.start)
self.root.bind('<Control-q>', self.quit)
self.root.protocol('WM_DELETE_WINDOW', self.quit)
def start(self, *args):
self.start_button.configure(state='disabled')
self.scan_window.start()
self.stop_button.configure(state='active')
def stop(self, *args):
self.scan_window.stop()
self.start_button.configure(state='active')
self.stop_button.configure(state='disabled')
def quit(self, *args):
self.scan_window.stop()
self.root.destroy()
def main():
root = tk.Tk()
gui = GUI(root)
root.mainloop()
main()
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