Hey, I got simmilar issue and solve it with setting format as MJPG int the 4-character code of codec. from cv2 import cv2 camera = cv2.VideoCapture(0) camera.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FOURCC, cv2.VideoWriter_fourcc('M', 'J', 'P', 'G')) status, image = camera.read() camera.release()