Using start_x=1 on Pi4 enabled the deprecated legacy camera stack.
That simply does not exist on Pi5, and is why it was deprecated in 2021 which was 2 years before the Pi5 was launched.
https://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/21653 has been open on OpenCV since Feb 2022, and has gone nowhere.
There are numerous examples of using Picamera2 to capture frames and feed them into OpenCV - just because cv::VideoCapture doesn't work doesn't mean that is the only solution.
That simply does not exist on Pi5, and is why it was deprecated in 2021 which was 2 years before the Pi5 was launched.
https://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/21653 has been open on OpenCV since Feb 2022, and has gone nowhere.
There are numerous examples of using Picamera2 to capture frames and feed them into OpenCV - just because cv::VideoCapture doesn't work doesn't mean that is the only solution.
Statistics: Posted by 6by9 — Wed Jul 02, 2025 12:19 pm