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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 framework that provides an easy‑to‑use, extensible API for real‑time video processing in Python.

Python Latest vidgear-0.3.5 · 2mo ago Security brief →

Features

  • Unified multi-threaded and asyncio API for diverse video sources
  • Supports cameras, files, URLs, screen capture, FFmpeg pipelines, and network streams
  • Built‑in error handling and performance optimizations over OpenCV, FFmpeg, etc.

Recent releases

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Config change
vidgear-0.3.5 Breaking risk
Breaking upgrade

Deprecate enablePiCamera

Review required
vidgear-0.3.4 Breaking risk
Dependencies Breaking upgrade

Python 3.10+ requirement & no auto OpenCV install

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