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A Pure-Python Computer Vision Library That's Fast and Minimal

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VidGear is a cross-platform high‑performance Python framework that simplifies real‑time video processing and streaming.

Python Latest vidgear-0.3.5 · 17d ago Security brief →

Features

  • Unified multi-threaded & asyncio API for diverse video sources (cameras, files, URLs, screens)
  • Wraps OpenCV, FFmpeg, ZeroMQ, picamera2, Starlette, yt_dlp and more with robust error handling
  • Enables real‑time reading, writing, processing, sending and receiving of video streams efficiently

Recent releases

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Config change
vidgear-0.3.5 Breaking risk
Breaking upgrade

Deprecate enablePiCamera

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vidgear-0.3.4 Breaking risk
Dependencies Breaking upgrade

Python 3.10+ requirement & no auto OpenCV install

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